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Acadian Ambulance history
Acadian Ambulance company history timeline
Acadian Ambulance began operations on September 1, 1971, with three young cofounders, two ambulances and eight medics covering 279 square miles of Lafayette Parish.
Acadian Ambulance & Air Med Services has been committed to providing the highest level of emergency and non-emergency medical care and transportation since 1971.
1971-75: Getting Started and Quickly Expanding
Since 1971, Acadian Ambulance has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s most respected and largest privately held medical transportation companies.
In 1972, it established an in-house maintenance program, expanded its fleet of ambulances to eight and its membership to almost 26,000 households, up from 8,400 the previous year.
In was also in 1973 that Acadian Ambulance had the largest growth year in its early history, beginning operations in St Martin, Acadia, Terrebonne, and Jeff Davis Parishes as well as the town of Eunice in St Landry Parish.
To accommodate its growth, in 1974 Acadian completed a new headquarters building, featuring an advanced Emergency Medical Dispatch Center as its centerpiece.
The company continued to develop a very efficient network of stations in the various parishes it served, so that by 1975, with just 33 ambulances, it was able to provide the coverage previously provided by over 100 funeral-home ambulances.
In 1976, assured that its expansion would continue, Acadian Ambulance began focusing more of its attention on other parts of its mission.
In 1978, such recognition, plus its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico, earned the company a role in a pioneering project using NASA satellites to communicate from offshore petroleum rigs to hospital emergency rooms.
Notably, in 1980, it expanded its telemetry system, allowing the transmission of the EKGs of heart-attack victims to hospital emergency rooms from virtually any point within the
Acadian Air Med began in 1981 as the first aero-medical provider in the Gulf of Mexico.
1981: Company begins offering airborne EMS in conjunction with Petroleum Helicopters, Inc.
Next, in 1989, Acadian added its first fixed-wing, medically-configured airplane to its Air Med fleet.
1990: Company logs its millionth patient transport.
In 1992 Acadian added its second fixed-wing aircraft to its Air Med fleet: a twin-engine, prop jet capable of carrying two patients and up to four medical attendants in addition to its flight crew.
By August 1996, Acadian Ambulance could boast a work force of 1,021 and a fleet of 143 ambulances, four helicopters, and two fixed-wing aircraft.
In 2000, the small, Vermilion Parish city of Abbeville permitted another company, Med Express, to offer ambulance services in its jurisdiction.
At the end of 2000, after entering new parishes and withdrawing from others, it had a 32-parish service area accounting for about 2.3 million people, over half of Louisiana's population.
In 2019, Acadian Ambulance celebrates our 48th anniversary, Acadian Air Med celebrates 38 years and Acadian’s Texas operations mark 13 years.
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