AMR's LifeCom Center Begins Dispatching Emergency Calls for the Joint Radio User Group; Local Fire Chief Hails the Multiple Benefits of the State-of-the-Art Emergency Dispatch System.GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. -- Emergency Medical Services An Emergency medical service (abbreviated to initialism "EMS" in many countries) is a service providing out-of-hospital acute care and transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient believes constitutes a medical emergency. Corporation's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :EMS) American Medical Response American Medical Response, Inc. (AMR) is the largest private ambulance provider in the United States. AMR and EmCare are wholly owned subsidiaries of EMSC L.P., an emergency management company held by the investment firm Onex. AMR is based out of Greenwood Village, Colorado. (AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. ) subsidiary announced today that the Joint Radio User Group (JRUG), a collection of 13 San Joaquin San Joaquin (săn wäkēn`), river, c.320 mi (510 km) long, rising in the Sierra Nevada, E Calif., and flowing W then N through the S Central Valley to form a large delta with the Sacramento River near Suisun Bay, an arm of San Francisco Bay. County (CA) fire districts, has transferred all its emergency medical and fire dispatching services to AMR's new LifeCom communications facility in Salida, Calif. The LifeCom facility is one of only two privately operated emergency EMS and Fire dispatching centers operated in Northern California, the second being AMR's RedCom Center in Sonoma County, Calif. "AMR is pleased that JRUG has chosen LifeCom to provide all of their dispatching needs and we look forward to working with our EMS partners long into the future," said Brad White, AMR Regional Vice President of Operations. The facility now provides dispatch services for 21 agencies, including AMR, JRUG and seven other private ambulance providers throughout San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties. Managing thousands of emergency calls each month, LifeCom is considered by many in the emergency medical services industry as one of the most advanced emergency dispatch centers in California. The center has 40 employees, each of whom is accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. in emergency medical and fire dispatch. The LifeCom facility is accredited by the National Academies of Emergency Medical Dispatch, the industry's "gold standard" for dispatch services. "We have been looking forward to this day since AMR took over dispatching services for San Joaquin County," said Woodbridge Fire Chief Michael Kirkle. "With LifeCom, we get simultaneous dispatching and access to the most highly trained dispatchers and technical personnel in the industry, resulting in faster response times for the citizens we serve," Kirkle concluded. American Medical Response Inc. (www.amr.net), America's leading provider of medical transportation, is locally operated in 36 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . More than 18,000 AMR paramedics, EMTs and other professionals transport nearly four million patients nationwide each year in emergency, critical and non-emergency situations. Operating a fleet of approximately 4,400 vehicles, AMR is headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colo. |
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