American Medical Response, Inc.
Type	Public
Founded	1992
Location	Denver, Colorado
Key people	William A. Sanger, CEO
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Products	Ambulance services
Revenue	{{{revenue}}}
Website	www.amr.net

American Medical Response, Inc. or AMR is the largest ambulance provider in the United States (public or private). It is a wholly owned subsidiary of EmCare, an emergency management company held by the investment firm Onex. AMR is based out of Denver, Colorado. American Medical Response logo This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Foundation This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Colorado State Capitol Building Denver is the largest city and capital of the state of Colorado, United States of America. ... Ambulance An ambulance is a vehicle designated for the transport of sick or injured people. ... In business, revenue is the amount of money that a company actually receives from its activities, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ... Ambulance An ambulance is a vehicle designated for the transport of sick or injured people. ... EmCare is one of the United Staes largest contract emergency room stafiing agencies. ... This article refers to the state capital of Colorado. ... This is the article on the state. ...

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AMR operates in three regions and has over 250 community-based operations in 34 states. Its 17,000 employees, consisting of doctors, nurses, paramedics and EMTs plus support staff provide both emergency and non-emergency ambulance and rescue services. AMR operates over 4,000 ambulances and patient transfer vehicles and conducts over four million patient transfers a year. A nurse comforting a patient A nurse is a health care professional, who is engaged in the practice of nursing. ... Typical view of the defibrillator operator. ... An emergency medical technician (EMT) is an emergency responder trained to provide emergency medical services (EMS) to the critically ill and injured. ...

Outside the urban cores of the largest cities, AMR often has a de facto monopoly in many suburban and rural areas (e.g., Silicon Valley). The colorful and distinctive livery of its vehicles is synonymous in those regions with "ambulance." De facto is a Latin expression that means in fact or in practice. It is commonly used as opposed to de jure (meaning by law) when referring to matters of law or governance or technique (such as standards), that are found in the common experience as created or developed without... Silicon Valley is a commonly used nickname for the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California, USA, originally referring to the concentration of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually becoming a metaphor for the entire concentration of high tech businesses. ... A livery is a uniform, worn by a person. ...

See Also

• EMS
• rescue

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External links

• AMR Corporate (http://www.amr.net)