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12 Health Care Resource Guide | 2020-2021 Private ambulance services Private ambulance services Ordered by number of vehicles Ambulance service No. of vehicles/ local employees License/ profit or nonprofit? No. of locations/ areas served Description Head of company/ year founded MedStar Ambulance 60C Solferino St., Worcester 01604 508-799-0004 • www.medstarma.com 85 325 Paramedic profit 11 Central and Western Mass. Emergency basic life support and advanced life support as well as non-emergency transportation Nick Melehov Greg Melehov co-owners 2000 Vital EMS & Medical Transport 1013 Main St., Worcester 01603 508-757-9111 • www.vitalems.com 43 (a) DND Paramedic profit 3 Central Mass. with pre-scheduled ambulance and wheelchair van services available statewide and beyond Ambulance service with advanced and basic life support, medical transportation, dedicated bariatric transport unit Don Charest operations manager 2000 EasCare Ambulance Service 140 Prescott St., Worcester 01605 (b) 508-421-3999 • www.eascare.com 28 (c) 75 Paramedic profit 3 (d) Greater areas of Boston, Dartmouth, Hopedale, Plymouth and Worcester Emergent and non-emergent transportation with advanced/basic life support and chair car; Mobile Integrated Health Program (e) Mark Brewster president & CEO 1998 Wood's Ambulance Inc. 457 Main St., Gardner 01440 978-632-1530 • www.woodsambulance.com 20 (f) 90 Paramedic profit 1 Greater Gardner and Athol Emergent and non-emergent medical transportation; fleet includes ambulances, chair vans and a wheelchair bus James Wood president & CEO 1954 Community EMS Inc. 401 Cedar Hill St., Marlborough 01752 508-485-4544 19 (g) DND Paramedic profit 3 Marlborough, Milford and MetroWest Ambulance service with advanced and basic life support, medical transportation Don Charest operations manager 1965 UMass Memorial EMS 55 Lake Ave. North, Worcester 01655 508-421-5705 • www.umassmemorialems.com 18 DND Paramedic nonprofit 4 Shrewsbury and Worcester 911 provider, advanced life support and transport service; 15 Class I ambulances, three Class V ambulances Norman Soucie chief, EMS 1977 (h) K's Personal Transport Inc. 94 Main St., Oxford 01540 508-987-2254 6 12 Basic profit 1 Central Mass. and Northeastern Conn., within a 30-mile radius of Worcester Basic life support ambulance and wheelchair van services David Krevosky president 1986 West Brookfield Rescue Squad 18R W. Main St., West Brookfield 01585 508-637-1778 • www.westbrookfieldrescuesquad.com 4 28 Basic nonprofit 1 West Brookfield and surrounding communities New state-of-the-art ambulances and latest technology in equipment Dan McCall president & chief of EMS 1952 Webster EMS 67 Thompson Road, Webster 01570 508-943-2218 • www.websterpublicsafety.com 4 DND Paramedic nonprofit 1 Webster with mutual aide to Oxford, Dudley, Douglas, Thompson (Conn.), Southbridge, Auburn and Charlton 911 emergency care to area residents and primary provider for Harrington Memorial Hospital Gary Milliard Jr. EMS chief 1923 Spencer EMS 6 Bixby Road, Spencer 01562 508-885-4476 • www.spencerrescue.org 3 45 Paramedic nonprofit 1 Spencer Emergent response and event coverage J. Dominic Singh chief of operations 1959 North Brookfield Emergency Squad Inc. 56 School St., North Brookfield 01535 508-867-6308 1 20 Basic nonprofit 1 North Brookfield 911 provider for the town of North Brookfield Patrick Kiritsy director 1956 UMass Memorial LifeFlight 55 Lake Ave. North, Worcester 01655 508-421-5700 • www.umassmemorialems.com 1 DND Critical care nonprofit 1 All of New England Air medical transport Cameron Spanfelner NE area manager Norman Soucie chief, EMS 1982 Sources: Massachusetts Office of Emergency Medical Services, each provider via survey and their websites. Notes: Due to the current health care crisis, organizations were asked to report staffing numbers as if business as usual, prior to COVID-19. Ambulance service licensure is available at the basic, intermediate, paramedic and critical care service levels. DND = did not disclose. (a) Represents five vehicles dedicated to EMS and 38 vehicles dedicated to medical transport, per Massachusetts Office of Emergency Medical Services, as of July 31, 2020. (b) Headquartered in Weymouth (c) Represents number vehicles for three local sites; company has 57 vehicles total. (d) Represents Central Mass. locations in Hopedale, Southborough and Worcester; company has 30 garages statewide. (e) Since 2014, operating Mobile Integrated Health Program in partnership with Commonwealth Care Alliance; services patients in-home for non-emergent care as alternative to emergency room visit. (f) Represents nine ambulances and 11 chair vans/wheelchair buses (g) Per Massachusetts Office of Emergency Medical Services, as of July 31, 2020 (h) Transferred to UMass in 1991, and to UMass Memorial in 1998 - Compiled by: Heide Martin, hmartin@nebusinessmedia.com