Services Provided

American Ambulance Service, Inc. provides livery, chair car also known as invalid coach, and ambulance transportation. It is our intention to provide the patient with the best possible experience while in our care. Each of our vehicles is specifically designed with the safety of the patient and crew in mind. Our hours of operation are twenty-four (24) hours a day seven (7) days a week three hundred and sixty-five (365) days a year.
 

Ambulance Transportation:
We provide multiple levels of transportation including Bariatric and Specialty Care. It is important to understand that ambulance transportation is medically necessary only if other means of transport are contraindicated or would be potentially harmful to the patient.

Basic Life Support (BLS) – These ambulances are fully equipped with the latest medical equipment and are staffed by two professional, well trained Emergency Medical Technicians. Typical transports include “Interfacility” meaning between healthcare facilities for reasons such as; diagnostic testing and treatment, dialysis, and basic hospital discharges to patients’ residences. These transports can be local in nature or long distant.

Advanced Life Support (ALS) – These ambulances are also fully equipped with the latest medical equipment. Our professional staff in these ambulances consists of at least one highly trained Paramedic and a well trained Emergency Medical Technician. The “Advanced” nature of these ambulances has to do with the training level of the Paramedic and the acuity level of the patient. A Paramedic has a skill set that allows them to practice a higher level of medicine which includes a more in depth patient assessment, ECG interpretation and intervention, obtain IV access, and medication administration to name a few. ALS ambulances also perform both “Interfacility” transports and 911 emergencies. 
Both ALS and BLS ambulances are dispatched to emergencies based on the information the 911 dispatcher obtains during the interrogation of the 911 caller. As the dispatcher receives this information he/she inputs it into science based software that aides them in determining the acuity of the patient and what level ambulance should be dispatched.

Specialty Care Transport (SCT) – These ambulances are equipped to the same level as an ALS ambulance. The difference in this level of care versus ALS is again related to training. Paramedics with additional training perform these “Interfacility” transports. The training could include specific types of equipment and or medications.

Bariatric – We have two ambulances in our fleet to accommodate larger patients that require ambulance transportation. This is done very discretely with specially designed equipment such as wider stretchers that allow the patient a more comfortable ride. 

Chair Car Transportation:
Our chair cars are staffed by a professional, courteous uniformed driver that has gone through Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training. These employees also go through an Emergency Vehicle Operators Course even though chair cars are not considered emergency vehicles. The course provides our employees with a better understanding of how to drive a vehicle of this size. Our chair cars all have side wheelchair lifts and can safely transport multiple wheelchairs. A patient being transported at this level must be transported in a wheelchair.

Livery Transportation:
This level of service is provided by the same staff that provides our chair car transportation. It is also done in the same vehicle. Livery patients are ambulatory but require transportation to and from medical appointments.