Acadian Ambulance

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name = Acadian Ambulance Service, Inc.

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foundation = Lafayette, Louisiana, 1971
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location_city = Lafayette, Louisiana
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area_served = Louisiana and Jackson County, Mississippi and parts of Texas
key_people = Richard Zuschlag (CEO, Chairman of the Board)
industry = Ambulance service
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homepage = http://www.acadian.com
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Acadian Ambulance is an ambulance service [ [http://finance.google.com/finance?cid=12995634 Acadian Ambulance Service, Inc.] ] that covers most of the state of Louisiana.

Headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana, Acadian Ambulance maintains a fleet of more than 200 ground ambulances, as well as eight medical transport helicopters and five fixed-wing aircraft that provide aerial transport to medical facilities.

Acadian began operations in 1971 when funeral homes stopped providing ambulance service because of new, financially burdensome federal guidelines.

In addition to emergency medical services, Acadian offers an aircraft charter service, a personal medical alarm service, fire and burglar alarm service, industrial medical personnel, fire and safety technicians, and medical and industrial training, as well as billing software.

Acadian Ambulance played a role, with many other ambulance services throughout the country, in coordinating the response to various healthcare emergencies caused by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in 2005.

In the summer of 2006, Acadian expanded into southeast Texas and began providing emergency medical services in Orange County, Texas. In October 2006, Acadian acquired the assets of MetroCare EMS and began providing emergency and non-emergency transports in Travis County, Texas.

Notes

Acadian Ambulance Service also provides ALS Ambulance Service to Jackson County, Mississippi.

In October 2007, Acadian took over the service area from MetroCare in Travis and Jefferson county, in the Austin area.

External links

* [http://www.acadian.com/ Acadian Ambulance]
* [http://www.acadianambulance.com/aboutus-companyoverviewandstatistics.html Company overview and statistics]
* [http://www.yourstudioa.com/ Acadian ambulance podcasts]