American Medical Response Provides Largest EMS Deployment in U.S. History
02 Ottobre 2008 - 5:15PM
Business Wire
American Medical Response (AMR), a subsidiary of Emergency Medical
Services Corporation (NYSE: EMS) (�EMSC�), is completing an
historic deployment to provide patient evacuations and disaster
relief efforts in three Gulf Coast states for Hurricanes Gustav and
Ike. Under AMR�s national contract with FEMA, AMR and its
subcontracted network providers sent an unprecedented number of
ground and air ambulances and patient transport vehicles to assist
hurricane victims. The combined deployments, comprising resources
from AMR, Air Ambulance Specialists, Inc. (a subsidiary of AMR) and
dozens of subcontracted ambulance and transportation providers sent
more than 600 ground ambulances, 50 air ambulances (fixed-wing and
rotor) and over 1,000 paramedics and EMTs to aid hurricane victims.
William A. Sanger, EMSC Chairman and CEO, said, �Within hours of
being called upon by FEMA, employees from across the nation were on
site and enroute, leaving family and loved ones behind so they
could provide medical care and evacuation for patients and
communities in need. This unprecedented response speaks volumes
about our caregivers and our ability to respond to communities
across the country whenever and wherever we are needed.� Steve
Delahousey, AMR Vice President for Emergency Preparedness, said,
�Our deployments for these back-to-back natural disasters has
established a new benchmark in EMS disaster response. AMR, along
with its network of disaster response partners, provided care and
transport to thousands of patients in the hurricane ravaged areas
of the Gulf Coast, both before the storms made landfall, and in the
weeks afterward.� After nearly four weeks on duty, hundreds of AMR
and network provider paramedics, EMTs and support staff began to
wind down emergency operations late last week and return home.
Background Following the catastrophic 2005 hurricane season, FEMA
sought to implement a plan to establish a comprehensive emergency
medical service (EMS) response to federally declared disasters. In
2007, the agency awarded AMR with a national contract to provide a
full array of ground and air ambulance service along with
wheelchair transport vehicles to supplement federal and military
responses to disasters, acts of terrorism and other public health
emergencies. The contract is the first of its kind and covers the
21 states along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts and can be expanded by
FEMA to the 48 contiguous states if necessary. AMR established a
network of subcontractors, including private, public and volunteer
EMS agencies, to form the disaster response team. Since the
contract was awarded to AMR in 2007, the company has built a
disaster response infrastructure that stands ready to respond to a
disaster. Now in its second year of a national agreement with FEMA,
AMR has responded to three FEMA requests in connection with natural
disasters. About Emergency Medical Services Corporation Emergency
Medical Services Corporation (EMSC) is a leading provider of
emergency medical services in the United States. EMSC operates two
business segments: American Medical Response, Inc. (AMR), the
Company�s healthcare transportation services segment, and EmCare
Holdings, Inc. (EmCare), the Company�s emergency department and
hospital-based management services segment. AMR is the leading
provider of ambulance services in the United States. EmCare is the
nation�s leading provider of outsourced emergency department
staffing and related management services. In 2007, EMSC provided
services to 10.6 million patients in more than 2,000 communities
nationwide. EMSC is headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
About American Medical Response American Medical Response Inc.
(www.amr.net), America�s leading provider of medical
transportation, is locally operated in 40 states and the District
of Columbia. AMR�s 18,500 paramedics, EMTs and other professionals
transport more than four million patients nationwide each year in
critical, emergency and non-emergency situations. Operating a fleet
of approximately 4,500 vehicles, AMR, a subsidiary of Emergency
Medical Services Corporation, is headquartered in Greenwood
Village, CO.
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