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American Medical Response, Inc. (AMR) is a private ambulance company in the United States that provides and manages emergency medical services, non-emergency and managed transportation, rotary and fixed-wing air ambulance services, and disaster response across the United States. [2]
In the U.S., private ambulance companies provide emergency medical services in large cities and rural areas by contracting with local governments. In areas where the local county or city provide their own emergency services, private companies provide discharges and transfers from hospitals and to/from other health related facilities and homes.
During World War I, air transport was used to provide medical evacuation – either from frontline areas or the battlefield itself.. In 1928, in Australia, John Flynn founded the Flying Doctor Service (later the Royal Flying Doctor Service), to provide a wide range of medical services to civilians in remote areas; these included from routine consultations with travelling general practitioners ...
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Air ambulances in the United States are operated by a variety of hospitals, local government agencies, and for-profit companies. Medical evacuations by air are also performed by the United States Armed Forces (for example in combat areas, training accidents, and United States Coast Guard rescues) and United States National Guard (typically while responding to natural disasters).
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, more than 200 private ambulance companies in the U.S. were gradually merged into large regional companies, some of which continue to operate today. [13] As this trend continued, the result was a few remaining private companies, a handful of regional companies, and two very large multinational companies ...
Oct. 30—Members of the Effingham County Ambulance Oversight Committee this week continued their review of three ambulance services that want to provide 911 ambulance service for the county.
Ambulance versions of the M113 have existed for nearly as long as the vehicle has been in production, and fielded by many different countries. During the Vietnam War the U.S. Army introduced the M113 medevac vehicle to function as an armored ambulance for the treatment and evacuation of wounded personnel from the battlefield.