American Medical Response Inc. (AMR) will take over emergency medical transport services in Daviess County at 7 p.m. on June 30.
The transition, officials say, from Louisville-based Procarent-owned Yellow Ambulance to AMR, is ongoing, and residents should expect to begin seeing signs of the new service over the coming weeks. Owensboro and Daviess Fiscal Court approved an agreement with the new medical transport company last month, after Yellow Ambulance announced their abrupt departure in early January.
According to Owensboro Fire Department Chief Steve Mitchell, AMR has hired 32 full-time and roughly 24 part-time employees, most of whom were former Yellow Ambulance personnel. The new company has also purchased all nine ambulances and all of the office equipment and technology Yellow used at its Alsop Lane dispatch and headquarters station. AMR will lease that space for at least two years, but it is expected to move dispatch operations to it Evansville station over the coming months.