Ambulance provider closes Indianapolis operation

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A medical transportation firm introduced Friday it’s closed its facility on the town’s northwest aspect.

A media spokesperson for American Medical Response informed Information 8 by e mail that it “scaled again operations in Central Indiana” on Wednesday.

The spokesperson for the ambulance supplier cited lowered demand for nonemergency transports, extreme inflation, low authorities reimbursement, and
different components making the native enterprise unsustainable. The e-mail additionally famous a scarcity of paramedics and emergency medical technicians in america.

Native workers of the ambulance supplier are receiving assist to switch to jobs within the firm, together with operations in Evansville, the e-mail says. Full-time workers additionally have been supplied severance packages.

As well as, the spokesperson wrote, “Full- and part-time workers have been supplied the chance to use to work upcoming particular occasions, together with monitor and racing occasions.”

The e-mail didn’t say what number of workers are concerned.

Information reviews present the corporate additionally closed AMR amenities in Youngstown, Ohio, and Los Angeles County, California, earlier this 12 months.