AMR is committed to making a difference in the communities that we serve. AMR puts patients at the center of everything we do, which includes building relationships in the health care community. We have become the industry leader by serving others. In fact, AMR serves more communities and health systems than any other ambulance service provider in the nation. Highlighted below are two national community outreach programs sponsored by AMR: Sentimental Journey and Home for the Holidays. Along with these national programs, several regional and local operations sponsor programs that directly impact the communities in which our team members live and work.

Sentimental Journey:

AMR has received the 2010 International Stevie® Award for Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year in North America for its Sentimental Journey program, its fourth Stevie since 2008. Sentimental Journey was created by caregivers at AMR El Paso County in Colorado Springs, Colo. and has spread too many other locations throughout the United States. The program works with local hospice providers to take terminally ill patients and their family members on day trips to locations chosen by the patient. All costs associated with the program are donated by AMR.

Home for the Holidays:

AMR’s Home for the Holidays program transports skilled nursing facility residents to their family homes to spend time and share a meal with loved ones over the holiday season. AMR provides the service free of charge. The program allows ambulance crews to bring some holiday cheer to nursing home residents and their families.

In some of our local programs:

• Medics in the Vancouver, Wash., area hand out bicycle helmets to kids – right from the back of an ambulance!


• In southern California, more than 58,000 students have graduated from our award-winning Jr. Paramedic program, which teaches kids 9-1-1 awareness and basic first aid.


• In Seattle, our Hot-Shot van presents seatbelt, booster seat, bicycle and gun safety to elementary age students, and provides our elderly neighbors with flu shots.


• In Mississippi, team members make sure Santa visits the children at the Jackson-area’s largest orphanage.


• For more than 10 years in Connecticut, AMR team members have collected and distributed more than 10,000 toys each year for underserved children over the holidays.


• In Alameda County, Calif., “Project Lucy” helps nursing home patients with the visit, compassion, respect and love of a Yorkshire terrier.


• From New England to the New South, AMR supports Mothers against Drunk Driving.


• Communities nationwide look to us for CPR training.


• Even developing nations, like Panama and the Children of Chernobyl in the Ukraine, are supported by AMR with donations of used ambulances.