American Medical Response
American Medical Response, Inc. (AMR) is a medical transportation company in the United States that provides and manages community-based medical transportation services, including emergency (911), non-emergency and managed transportation, fixed-wing air ambulance and disaster response.
| Type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Healthcare |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Headquarters | Greenwood Village, Colorado |
Key people | Ted Van Horne, CEO |
| Products | Ambulance services |
Number of employees | 29,000 |
| Parent | Global Medical Response |
| Website | www |
Corporate history
In 1991, Paul Verrochi created a business plan to consolidate the fragmented ambulance industry, following a similar "rollup" strategy used by Waste Management. The company was formed with the merger of Regional Ambulance (Alameda and Contra Costa counties, CA), Vanguard Ambulance (Santa Clara County, CA), and Buck Ambulance (Portland, OR). Laidlaw acquired American Medical Response in 1997, after previously acquiring MedTrans, a San Diego-based high quality EMS provider operating in California, Washington, Nevada, and Texas. Laidlaw continued acquiring 138 more companies, growing to over $1B in revenue before acquiring AMR.[1] In 2004, Laidlaw sold EmCare and American Medical Response to Onex.[2] Onex formed Emergency Medical Services Corporation as the parent of its two acquisitions. EMSC went public in December of that year.[3] In 2011, EMSC was acquired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.[4] On June 12, 2013, EMSC changed names to Envision Healthcare Corporation.[5] On September 8, 2017, Envision Healthcare Corp. announced that American Medical Response would be sold to KKR & Co. LP in an all-cash deal worth US$2.4 billion.[6] In March 2018, American Medical Response became a subsidiary of Global Medical Response.
Type II AMR ambulance at the 2014 Balloon Fest in Las Cruces, NM
AMR responding during Hurricane Sandy in New York City
AMR handling event medical at AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX
AMR NASCAR Safety Team at Daytona 500, February 2017
References
- Two U.S. Deals Set by Laidlaw
- Onex will buy two health care units from Laidlaw
- EMS completes IPO of 8.1M shares
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Completes $3.2 Billion Acquisition of Emergency Medical Services Corporation
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-09. Retrieved 2013-07-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Eric Snyder; Mark Harden (8 September 2017). "Colorado's American Medical Response ambulance business to be sold in $2.4 billion deal". DenverBusinessJournal.com. 1660 Lincoln Street Suite 2300 Denver, CO 80264: Denver Business Journal American City Business Journals. Retrieved 15 September 2017.CS1 maint: location (link)