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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]
This was the origin of the Rural Fire Department, later renamed Rural Metro Fire Department. In the 1980s, the company expanded into ambulance service. Rural Metro Fire began listing shares in 1993 on the NASDAQ exchange under the stock symbol RURL. In 2011 investment fund Warburg Pincus purchased Rural Metro in a $438 million cash deal.
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 ...
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Acadian Ambulance is an employee-owned private ambulance service that covers most of the state of Louisiana, a large portion of Texas, two counties in Tennessee, and one county in Mississippi. In 1995 it was recognized as the largest privately owned ambulance service in the United States.
Philadelphia Hatzolah provides first responder aid to the Northeast, Overbrook, and Wynnewood areas. For transport services, either 9-1-1 or private ambulance partners are utilized. Philadelphia Hatzolah has nineteen state-certified responders, including several full-time professional EMTs and Paramedics. [63] [64]
Camero, the son of veteran Miami-Dade firefighter Francisco Camero, was not a member of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, but he was a certified emergency medical technician for a private ambulance company.
Illinois's FIPS state code is 17 and its postal abbreviation is IL. What is now Illinois was claimed as part of Illinois County, Virginia, between 1778 and 1782. Modern-day county formation dates to 1790 when the area was part of the Northwest Territory; two counties—St. Clair and Knox—were created at that time.