Mohawk Ambulance Service

Mohawk Ambulance Service is the largest privately owned ambulance service in upstate New York.[1] The service operates Schenectady Ambulance Service, Capital District Ambulance Service, and Doctor's Ambulance Service.[2]

Mohawk Ambulance Service
Company typePrivate
IndustryPrivate Ambulance Service
FoundedSchenectady, New York, 1978
Headquarters,
Number of locations
8 Primary 911 EMS Contracted Municipalities
6 Station Locations
Area served
Capital District, New York
ServicesEmergency and Non-Emergency Medical Services
OwnerParkland Ambulance Service, Inc.
Number of employees
~300
ParentParkland Ambulance Service, Inc.
Websitemohawkambulance.com

Company history edit

Mohawk Ambulance & Oxygen Service, Inc. was founded on July 22, 1965, by then-police officer Edward J. O'Connor.[3][4] It was dissolved by proclamation and annulment of authority by the New York State Department of State on March 31, 1982.[5]

Parkland Ambulance Service, Inc., a company which is unrelated to Mohawk Ambulance & Oxygen Service, Inc., was incorporated in the State of New York on March 2, 1978.[6] Parkland Ambulance Service, Inc. operates its ambulance service under the authority of the New York State Department of Health under the name Mohawk Ambulance Service.[7] Mohawk Ambulance Service began providing paramedic level service in 1982,[8] one of the first ambulance services in the area to do so. In 1984, Schenectady Ambulance Service was purchased by the owners of Parkland Ambulance Service, Inc., and is now operated alongside (but independently[9]) and staffed by Mohawk Ambulance Service. In 1985, Mohawk Ambulance Service opened a station in the city of Troy, New York, and followed with a third station in Albany, New York, in 1986. In 1989, Mohawk Ambulance Service began to operate a specialty neonate/pediatric transport unit in conjunction with Albany Medical Center. In 2002, Mohawk Ambulance Service opened a fourth station in the town of Brunswick, New York, and began to provide primary 911 response to the town and surrounding municipalities. Station 5, the second in the city of Albany, was opened in 2008. In 2012, a sixth station was opened in the town of Glenville, New York.

In 2017, Parkland Ambulance Service, Inc. acquired the assets of Capital District Ambulance Service, Inc. and Physician's Ambulance Service, Inc. d/b/a Doctor's Ambulance Service.[10] and began additional operations under the names Capital District Ambulance Service and Doctors Ambulance Service.[11]

References edit

  1. ^ "Mohawk Ambulance Service Partners with Schenectady SEAT to Enroll Eight Students to EMT Training Program". JEMS. 2017-12-05. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  2. ^ "Capital District Ambulance employees shocked over Mohawk Ambulance buyout". NEWS10 ABC. 2017-07-21. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  3. ^ "Edward J. O'Connor's Obituary on The Daily Gazette Co". The Daily Gazette Co. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  4. ^ "Entity Information". NYS Department of Corporations. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  5. ^ "Entity Information". NYS Department of State. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  6. ^ "Entity Information". NYS Department of State. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  7. ^ New York State Department of Health Ambulance Operating Certificate No. 32230
  8. ^ Bill., Buell (2009). Historic Schenectady County : a bicentennial history. Schenectady County Historical Society. (1st ed.). San Antonio, Tex.: Historical Pub. Network. ISBN 978-1935377078. OCLC 539072558.
  9. ^ "Entity Information". NYS Department of State. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  10. ^ Yonkunas, Rachel (2017-07-21). "Capital District Ambulance employees shocked over Mohawk Ambulance buyout". NEWS10 ABC. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  11. ^ New York State Department of Health Ambulance Service Certificate Nos. 34255 and 34256

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