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Find Urgent Care launches its new website to make searching for walk-in clinics easy. Its new features include searching by zip code and types of services offered, this type of functionality ensures the user finds the clinic that fits their needs. (PRWEB) May 23, 2013 FindUrgentCare.com launched updates to its website to include an advanced urgent care search option for patients. The new advanced feature allows patients to search for clinics using advanced criteria including payment...

Rivers Quibodeaux survived a cardiac arrest thanks to the quick thinking of his parents and the swift work of Acadian medics. (PRWEB) May 24, 2013 This week is National EMS Week, which recognizes and honors emergency professionals and their efforts to provide the best emergency care and to improve health communications in communities. The mission of this week is also to educate the public that all can play a role in the chain of survival. Citizens are the first link, and a very important...

AASNE expands market with big win in key area SOMERSWORTH, N.H., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- American Ambulance Service-New England (AASNE), the premier New England-based provider of emergent and non-emergent ambulance services at both the basic and advanced life support levels, has made a major statement in New England with the recent win of a three year contract in a very pivotal area. American Ambulance gained a new foothold in the region when city officials decided to switch...

ORLANDO, Fla., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Specialty Vehicles (ASV), a leading $1 billion sales producer of specialty vehicles to the Fire & Emergency, Commercial & Industrial and Recreational Vehicles markets worldwide, today announced that it has purchased ambulance manufacturer SJC Industries from Thor Industries in an asset transaction. SJC Industries manufactures a full line of ambulances distributed under the McCoy-Miller and Marque brands. "I am pleased to...

ELKHART, Ind., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Thor Industries, Inc. (NYSE: THO) today announced the sale of substantially all of the assets of SJC Industries Corp., a subsidiary that manufactures ambulances, to Wheeled Coach Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of Allied Specialty Vehicles, Inc., a privately held company based in Orlando, Florida. Bob Martin, Thor President and Chief Operating Officer, commented, "The sale provides the opportunity to streamline our bus operations and...

BELOEIL, QC, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Demers Ambulances is proud to announce it has signed RedStorm Fire & Rescue Apparatus Inc. as their new dealer for the states of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. "The sales team at RedStorm is one of the best in the industry," said Ahren Taszreak, the US Dealer Development Manager for Demers Ambulances "They not only understand the products, but can also relate to the end-user because their employees have all worked in the emergency...

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have for the first time determined how often emergency medical helicopters need to help save the lives of seriously injured people to be considered cost-effective compared with ground ambulances. The researchers found that if an additional 1.6 percent of seriously injured patients survive after being transported by helicopter from the scene of injury to a level-1 or level-2 trauma center, then such transport should be considered...

Climate change likely to prompt further extremes of weather and add to pressures Every one degree fall in outside air temperature during the winter corresponds to a drop in ambulance response time of more than 1 per cent, reveals research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. Increased demand and treacherous road conditions during the winter months combine to stretch ambulance services in England, which have a target of reaching 75% of immediately life-threatening (category A)...

DALLAS, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Town of Westlake announced today that it has hired Emergicon, a Dallas-based ambulance billing services company, to increase reimbursements for emergency services it provides to North Texas residents. Westlake Fire Department expects that its new contract with Emergicon will result in a 20 percent increase in revenues targeted for the city's general fund. Westlake has generated approximately $100,000 annually from ambulance billing in...

Acadian Ambulance’s Baton Rouge operations moved from Florida Boulevard to their new home on Interline Avenue last week. (PRWEB) February 09, 2013 Acadian Ambulance’s Baton Rouge, La., operations moved from Florida Boulevard to their new home on Interline Avenue last week. Called “Baton Rouge Central,” the new facility will serve as the main location for their ground ambulance operations and crews in the Capital area. It will also be home to their Baton Rouge administration...