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Acadian Ambulance is an ambulance service〔(Acadian Ambulance Service, Inc. )〕 that covers most of the state of Louisiana, parts of Texas, and one county in Mississippi. In 1995 it was recognized as the largest privately owned ambulance service in the United States. Today the company responds to emergency and non-emergency calls in Louisiana, Southeast Texas, Central Texas, North Texas and parts of Mississippi. Headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana, Acadian Ambulance maintains a fleet of more than 400 ground ambulances, as well as eight medical transport helicopters and five fixed-wing aircraft that provide aerial transport to medical facilities. In addition to emergency medical services, Acadian offers an aircraft charter service, a personal medical alarm service, fire and burglar alarm service, industrial medical personnel, fire and safety technicians, and medical and industrial training, as well as billing software. ==History== Test Acadian was founded by Roland Dugas, Richard Zuschlag, and Richard Sturlese in response to funeral homes cessation of providing ambulance services because of new, financially burdensome federal guidelines. They decided it was time to create a private ambulance company and took their idea to the Lafayette Police Jury. Without the needed funds to get started, they decided to hire former Vietnam War medics to staff their new company, and raise funds through membership subscriptions. On July 21, 1971, the Police Jury authorized Acadian Ambulance Service, Inc. to be the emergency provider for Lafayette Parish. To this day, Acadian uses memberships drives to aid funding of the company. When Acadian first started, they had just 2 ambulances and 8 medics. Roland Dugas was the first president. At 12:01 AM on September 1, 1971 when funeral homes ceased services, Acadian Ambulance Service went live with a membership of 8,400 households. Over the next year, Acadian grew to a fleet of 8 ambulances, and moved into about 26,000 households. In 1972, Acadian expanded service into St. Mary and Vermilion Parishes. They soon put in a model dispatch system, of which other companies would follow. In 1973, Acadian moved into Acadia, Jefferson Davis, St. Martin, and Terrebonne Parishes, along with the city of Eunice. Membership levels skyrocketed to 70,648. In 1974, Acadian built a new headquarters in Lafayette with a state of the art Emergency Medical Dispatch Center. The company now had 100 employees, including 75 EMTs as it moved into Evangeline and Iberia Parishes. By 1975, they had 33 ambulances, and 80,216 households covered. In 1976, Acadian expanded their EMT training, formalizing it and fully certifying employees through the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians and the state of Louisiana. In 1979, membership reached 100,000 households. This year brought the expansion into Assumption Parish, and an expansion to their telemetry system, now including transmissions of EKGs to hospital rooms from almost anywhere in the service area. Over the past four decades, Acadian Ambulance continued to grow its service area and now encompasses the majority of parishes in Louisiana, 33 counties in Texas and one county in Mississippi. The company also expanded into six distinct divisions, with patients, clients and customers around the globe. 〔http://www.Acadian.com〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Acadian Ambulance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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