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GMR Sent Super Pumas to Bahamas After Hurricane Dorian

Global Medical Response (GMR, ex Air Medical Group Holdings) established an emergency communications center and sent an EC225 and a AS332L1 Super Pumas helicopters with much-needed medical supplies to Bahamas





GMR Sent Super Pumas to Bahamas After Hurricane Dorian
Global Medical Response, September 09, 2019 - Dallas, Texas — Global Medical Response (GMR) has pledged to provide $1 million in relief aid to support the Bahamas’ emergency medical needs and infrastructure after Category 5 Hurricane Dorian devastated much of the country this week.

The company will immediately send $250,000 to the Red Cross for Bahamian aid and is sending ambulances and equipment that will be donated to local authorities.

GMR also established a communications and coordination center for air medical operations in Nassau and has positioned two Airbus Super Pumas (H225 and AS 332L1), which are heavy lift air ambulances, and logistics support in South Florida for sustained EMS support operations.

“With widespread reports of flooding in hospitals and clinics, access to medical care is a considerable challenge for Bahamians,” said Ted Van Horne, Chief Operating Officer of GMR. “Because of our experience planning for and providing responses to natural disasters, we know it is critical to get medical supplies and establish a system for emergency communications technology.”

GMR’s primary ground medical transportation company, American Medical Response (AMR), provides emergency and non-emergency ambulance service in Miami-Dade County and has a 60-year history of service to the community. With GMR’s significant air and ground medical transportation operations in nearby Florida, the company was able to deliver medical resources immediately.

GMR Relief Logistics:
- GMR is donating one-half ton of emergency medical supplies on the first flight today
- The Airbus H225 Puma helicopter takes off for Freeport Bahamas with emergency medical relief supplies today at approximately 12:30 local time
- Carlos A. Gimenez, Mayor of Miami-Dade, Florida, and several local government officials, will travel with the Puma crew so he can meet Miami-Dade search and rescue teams already onsite

GMR CEO Randy Owen said the company’s leadership team made the decision to send aid quickly after seeing the heartbreaking devastation in the country. “We take our everyday mission of providing care to the world at a moment’s notice seriously. The people in the Bahamas are dealing with an unprecedented catastrophe and they need help now.” He added that GMR teams continue to work with local officials, relief agencies and international organizations.

Owen also said that GMR has been responding to the government’s request for Hurricane Dorian support in the United States. On August 30, GMR activated its AMR National Command Center (NATCOM) in Dallas and deployed nearly 1,800 ground and air paramedics, nurses and EMTs, hundreds of ambulances, 10 fixed wing and rotor aircraft and dozens of paratransit teams and vehicles. This was in response to FEMA’s request to AMR for EMS deployment for Hurricane Dorian. GMR still has air and ground assets positioned in South Carolina.

Throughout the deployment, NATCOM staff remotely monitored crews sent to the region, dispatched onsite crews to respond to hurricane-related emergencies and evacuations, and closely monitored crews in the affected disaster areas 24/7.

As the nation’s largest provider of ground medical transportation and FEMA’s prime emergency medical service response provider, AMR has a national agreement with FEMA to provide ground ambulance, air ambulance, paratransit services and non-ambulance EMS personnel to supplement the Federal and Military response to a disaster, an act of terrorism or any other public health emergency.

About Global Medical Response (GMR): With more than 38,000 employees, Global Medical Response teams deliver compassionate, quality medical care, primarily in the areas of emergency and patient relocation services in the United States, the District of Columbia and around the world.

GMR was formed by combining the industry leaders in air, ground, managed medical transportation and community, industrial/specialty and wildland fire services. Each of our companies have long histories of proudly serving the communities where we live: American Medical Response (AMR), Rural Metro Fire, Air Evac Lifeteam, REACH Air Medical Services, Med-Trans Corporation and AirMed International.

About American Medical Response (AMR): American Medical Response, Inc., America's leading provider of medical transportation, provides services in 40 states and the District of Columbia. More than 28,000 AMR paramedics, EMTs, RNs and other professionals work together to transport more than 4.8 million patients nationwide each year in critical, emergency and non-emergency situations. AMR also provides fire services through Rural Metro Fire Department, www.ruralmetrofire.com.

AMR is part of the Global Medical Response family of companies. Global Medical Response, Inc. is the industry-leading air, ground, specialty and residential fire services and managed medical transportation organization. With more than 38,000 employees, we deliver compassionate, quality medical care, primarily in the areas of emergency and patient relocation services, in the United States, the District of Columbia and around the world.

GMR Sent Super Pumas to Bahamas After Hurricane Dorian





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Aircraft mentioned in this article :
AS332L1 Super Puma N830AC EC225LP N576AC     ( Air Center Helicopters )

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So great to see those amazing machines fly again.


  See also


US Global Medical Response
MDFR US Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department State of Florida
EC225 in Bahamas After Hurricane Dorian video
Royal Cayman Police in Bahamas After Hurricane Dorian





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