Louisiana-based ambulance company hopes to offer solution to EMS labor crisis: ‘Could mean life or death’

Acadian Ambulance, one of the nation’s largest ambulance services, is no longer waiting for new EMTs to come to it from technical schools. En lugar de, the company has created its own fast-track course that will get new EMTs on an ambulance in less than two months.

“No one has ever seen this,” said Justin Cox, the operations manager with Acadian Ambulance. “The amount of people leaving EMS in general is something that is unprecedented.”

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Acadian Ambulance says its in dire need of more EMTs and paramedics.

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