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May 11. 2012 12:21AM
From left, Roland Vaillancourt and Christopher Stawasz of American Medical Response in Nashua celebrate the company's achievement of national accreditation on Thursday by showing off the formal accreditation seal on one of its ambulances. (KIMBERLY HOUGHTON)
Nashua ambulance service cited
From left, Roland Vaillancourt and Christopher Stawasz of American Medical Response in Nashua celebrate the company's achievement of national accreditation on Thursday by showing off the formal accreditation seal on one of its ambulances. (KIMBERLY HOUGHTON)
NASHUA — New Hampshire's largest emergency ambulance service celebrated the achievement of national accreditation on Thursday.
American Medical Response Inc. has obtained the gold standard in the ambulance industry by achieving three-year national accreditation from the Commission on the Accreditation of Ambulance Services.
“CAAS accreditation makes us a better organization and sets us apart from our competitors,” said Christopher Stawasz, AMR's operations manager in Nashua. “More importantly, the quality of pre-hospital medicine that AMR provides to the Nashua community is independently affirmed as being the highest quality available in our nation.”
Receiving accreditation is an in-depth, yearlong process, according to Stawasz. Nashua branch is the final AMR station in the state to receive accreditation.
“We are now complete, and we are very excited about it,” he said. The AMR Nashua location houses eight ambulances and has about 50 emergency workers.
In addition to Nashua, the company also has locations in three other communities, providing transportation to all major hospitals in the state.
On average, the Nashua site responds to about 8,000 emergency calls each year, according to Stawasz.
AMR currently operates 20 CAAS-accredited sites in the nation, more than any other ambulance company, according to a release. Nationally, less than 1 percent of all ambulance services are CAAS accredited, and AMR is the only commercial ambulance service in New Hampshire that has successfully achieved accreditation, the company said.
Accreditation includes a comprehensive self-assessment and an independent external review of the emergency medical services organization.
Mayor Donnalee Lozeau participated in the event Thursday, placing the first CAAS seal on a city AMR ambulance. A seal was also placed on a vintage 1978 medical-services truck.
AMR is a subsidiary of Emergency Medical Services Corp., with about 18,500 paramedics, emergency medical technicians and other professionals who transport more than 3 million patients nationwide each year in critical, emergency and non-emergency situations.
AMR is headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colo.
American Medical Response Inc. has obtained the gold standard in the ambulance industry by achieving three-year national accreditation from the Commission on the Accreditation of Ambulance Services.
“CAAS accreditation makes us a better organization and sets us apart from our competitors,” said Christopher Stawasz, AMR's operations manager in Nashua. “More importantly, the quality of pre-hospital medicine that AMR provides to the Nashua community is independently affirmed as being the highest quality available in our nation.”
Receiving accreditation is an in-depth, yearlong process, according to Stawasz. Nashua branch is the final AMR station in the state to receive accreditation.
“We are now complete, and we are very excited about it,” he said. The AMR Nashua location houses eight ambulances and has about 50 emergency workers.
In addition to Nashua, the company also has locations in three other communities, providing transportation to all major hospitals in the state.
On average, the Nashua site responds to about 8,000 emergency calls each year, according to Stawasz.
AMR currently operates 20 CAAS-accredited sites in the nation, more than any other ambulance company, according to a release. Nationally, less than 1 percent of all ambulance services are CAAS accredited, and AMR is the only commercial ambulance service in New Hampshire that has successfully achieved accreditation, the company said.
Accreditation includes a comprehensive self-assessment and an independent external review of the emergency medical services organization.
Mayor Donnalee Lozeau participated in the event Thursday, placing the first CAAS seal on a city AMR ambulance. A seal was also placed on a vintage 1978 medical-services truck.
AMR is a subsidiary of Emergency Medical Services Corp., with about 18,500 paramedics, emergency medical technicians and other professionals who transport more than 3 million patients nationwide each year in critical, emergency and non-emergency situations.
AMR is headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colo.
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