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Emergency Medical Services Announces Strategic Relationships With EA Health and Blue Jay Consulting

Posted on: Thursday, 6 November 2008, 18:00 CST

Emergency Medical Services Corporation (NYSE: EMS) (the "Company") today announced that its EmCare subsidiary has entered into two new relationships to expand its healthcare services offerings to hospitals. EmCare has entered into agreements with EA Health Corporation, a California-based company, and Blue Jay Consulting, a Florida-based firm. EA Health provides on-call specialty coverage and related management services for hospital emergency departments. Blue Jay Consulting provides emergency department consulting services including process improvement and operations assessments, and interim nurse leader staffing and recruiting services.

The new agreements provide for co-marketing of complementary services and programs to facilitate a more complete offering of service solutions to meet increasing requests from hospital clients.

William A. Sanger, EMSC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, "Our hospital clients continue to be challenged on a number of fronts, including physician and nurse leader staffing, process improvement and on-call specialist coverage. With our new partners, we all can offer a more complete suite of solutions to our clients to meet their needs."

Mark Feinberg, Blue Jay Consulting Managing Partner said, "From our perspective, we are thrilled with our new strategic partnership with EmCare. The phenomenal synergy of our two leading companies will deliver greater value to both our Blue Jay and EmCare clients while improving the quality care throughout the country."

Arthur L. Gruen, MD, FACEP, President and Chief Executive Officer of EA Health said, "This powerful alliance between EmCare and EA Health is truly a win-win-win. A win for the patient in the continuum of healthcare - a win for the hospital for both emergency department physician and on-call specialty physician coverage - a win for the physicians as they focus on delivering the highest quality of healthcare for the patients."

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.(R) (AMR), the Company's healthcare transportation services segment, and EmCare Holdings, Inc.(R) (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 EmCare, Inc.

EmCare, Inc., (www.emcare.com) and the physician groups operating under the EmCare(R) brand are leading providers of outsourced emergency department and hospital-based physician services to healthcare facilities in the United States. EmCare has more than 400 exclusive contracts with hospitals and independent physician groups to provide emergency department, anesthesiology, hospitalist and radiology staffing, management and other administrative services.

About Blue Jay Consulting

Blue Jay Consulting is a specialized consulting firm that is nationally recognized for their expertise in process improvement and interim leadership specifically in the emergency department. As Emergency Department experts, they implement solutions to improve the performance and throughput of emergency departments as well as offering Enhanced Interim Leadership solutions to meet the unique needs of emergency departments. Blue Jay's experienced team educates and mentors hospital managers and uses a hands-on approach to deliver positive changes for hospital emergency departments. By working day-to-day with hospital administration and management from other hospital departments they implement changes in the emergency department that benefit the hospital as a whole.

About EA Health

EA Health provides on-call specialty physician coverage and related management services for hospital emergency departments. Since 1992, EA Health has designed and implemented custom solutions for specialty physician coverage and management services. EA Health's consulting services include financial projections for hospitals interested in budgeting the cost of a physician compensation program, including FFS, encounter fee, stipend and hybrid programs; strategic assessments for hospitals requiring assistance in understanding their emergency department call environment and formulating a compensation solution to respond to their situation; and design development for hospitals needing to refine and make operational a conceptual compensation model. EA Health manages on-call compensation programs using their proprietary web-based system that allows for efficient organization and tracking of physician contracts, patients and physician services. EA's system coordinates physician enrollment, credentialing; patient designation, tracking and other critical data elements.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements and information herein may be deemed to be "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Federal Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements relating to our objectives, plans and strategies, and all statements (other than statements of historical facts) that address activities, events or developments that we intend, expect, project, believe or anticipate will or may occur in the future. Any forward-looking statements herein are made as of the date of this press release, and EMSC undertakes no duty to update or revise any such statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results, developments and business decisions to differ materially from forward-looking statements are described in EMSC's filings with the SEC from time to time, including in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recent Form 10-K. Among the factors that could cause future results to differ materially from those provided in this press release are: the impact on our revenue of changes in transport volume, mix of insured and uninsured patients, and third party reimbursement rates; potential penalties or changes to our operations if we fail to comply with extensive and complex government regulation of our industry; and the loss of existing contracts and the accuracy of our assessment of costs under new contracts.

Source: Business Wire

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