Transcare EMS
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Motto: "The Driving Force In Health Care" | |
| Established | 1994 |
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| Headquarters | Brooklyn, New York |
| Jurisdiction | Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania & Washington DC |
| Employees | 2,100 Full Time |
| BLS or ALS | ALS |
| Ambulances | 415 |
| Responses | 50,000/year |
| Website | http://www.TransCare.com |
Transcare EMS (Transcare) provides Advanced Life Support (ALS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) ambulance transportation services in the areas of New York City, the Hudson Valley, Long Island, the state of Delaware, the Baltimore-Washington DC corridor and in numerous locations in Pennsylvania. It is the largest privately owned ambulance service in the Mid-Atlantic States[1]. TransCare operates ambulances staffed by emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics. TransCare holds Emergency Response 911 contracts in New York City, Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess Counties in New York. TransCare also operates a non-emergency medical transport system utilizing ambulettes, has a staffed 'Special Events' operations Division and also employs flight crews for emergency medical air transport.
History
Transcare currently consists of several former medical transportation companies that have merged into one company. Those companies include AA Ambulance, MetroCare, Metropolitan Ambulance, Metro North Ambulance, United Ambulance, UniMet, Alamo EMS and Abbey Richmond Ambulance.
Operations
New York
TransCare has extensive operations in New York State, with a large concentration in the New York City area. Operations are headquartered out of Brooklyn with secondary offices in Mount Vernon and Wappinger. In Westchester County Transcare holds numerous 911 contracts for municipalities such as New Rochelle, White Plains, and Mount Pleasant as well Westchester County's Grasslands campus. In October 2008 TransCare was awarded a 1.2 million dollar per year ALS contract for Putnam County[2], which provides four paramedics to the county 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The contract also provides BLS ambulances to assist area volunteers.
In Dutchess County the Town of Wappinger has utilized TransCare for two ALS ambulances around the clock since 2005. On January 1, 2009, TransCare successfully won the ALS bids for the towns of Beekman, Pawling and Union Vale. On May 15, 2009 the town of Washington announced that they named TransCare the new ALS provider for the town which includes the village of Millbrook. On June 4, 2009 Transcare officially announced that they had begun the process of purchasing Alamo EMS. Once completed, the acquisition will give them 911 contracts in the City of Poughkeepsie, Fairview, Roosevelt & Pleasant Valley as well as numerous transportation contracts throughout the region and will expand Transcare's coverage into Ulster County. The Alamo deal was completed on September 19, 2009.
References
- ^ Transcare Service Area
- ^ "Pay Your ALS Bill" (HTML). Mid-Hudson News. Retrieved 2008-11-08.