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The ambulance was rear-ended in a three-vehicle pileup after an aggressive van driver pulled in front and braked, forcing the AMR driver to slam their own brakes.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Multnomah County will allow ambulance provider AMR to staff some of its ambulances with one paramedic and one EMT, loosening the county's long-standing 2-paramedic requirement ...
AMR says ambulance service in Portland, Gresham is getting more reliable By Amelia Templeton (OPB) Nov. 1, 2024 5:11 p.m.
The current agreement with AMR is a five-year agreement that was established in May 2024. In May 2025, AMR sent a formal request to renegotiate its subsidy from $3 million to $5.2 million for next ...
An American Medical Response ambulance in Portland, Jan. 11, 2024. In November 2023, Multnomah County fined ambulance service provider more than $500,000 for delayed response times to 911 calls.
On Thursday, Sept. 12, a San Bernardino Superior Court judge put the county’s plan to switch to a new ambulance provider on hold while AMR’s legal challenge goes forward.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — American Medical Response (AMR) told Knox County officials that they are seeing improved ambulance response across times across the area following the county’s ...
From July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024, Frost wrote, the average response time of an AMR ambulance to a life-threatening emergency in Buffalo was 9 minutes and 21 seconds.
AMR credits its improved response to two new initiatives it started this year. Nurse Navigation gets patients help for primary care when an ambulance might not be the best option.
FRIDAY - AUGUST 19, 2011 - NAPA, CA - AMR general manager Bruce Lee, right, addresses the Napa County Board of Supervisors during the hearing held on Friday to award the local ambulance contract.
The DOH announced that AMR has also been awarded the contract for ambulance services on the island of Kaui for the same length of time for $38,011,404.00, according to the award.