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[44] and is headquartered in Jefferson, North Carolina, where it has been based for over 30 years. [45] Leader Emergency Vehicles company develops ambulance vehicles, including all-electric vehicles, [46] [47] the first of their kind in the United States. [48] REV Ambulance Group Orlando [49] encompasses Wheeled Coach and Road Rescue. [50]
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]
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).
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Until the professionalization of emergency medical services in the early 1970s, one of the most common providers of ambulance service in the United States was a community's local funeral home. [9] This occurred essentially by default, as hearses were the only vehicles at the time capable of transporting a person lying down.
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.
A road-rage incident that injured a 4-year-old child Monday in Orange County may have started when one car rear-ended another on N.C. 86 north of Hillsborough, 911 calls suggest.
The Cedar Grove man was identified through fingerprints at the NC State Medical Examiner’s Office. 3rd Orange County crash victim identified. Highway Patrol named wrong person at first.