Transcare EMS

Founding

TransCare consisted of several former medical transportation companies that merged into one company. Those companies included AA Ambulance, MetroCare, Metropolitan Ambulance, Metro North Ambulance, United Ambulance, UniMet, Alamo EMS and Abbey Richmond Ambulance.

Operations

TransCare had extensive operations in New York State, with a large concentration of operations in the New York City area, Mid-Atlantic region, Northeast, West Coast and East Coast of major U.S. cities. Central operations were headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, Atlanta, GA, and Los Angeles, CA, with secondary offices in Mount Vernon and Wappinger. In Westchester County,TransCare holds numerous 911 contracts for municipalities such as New Rochelle, Mount Vernon, White Plains, and Mount Pleasant. TransCare is also a 911 participating member of the New York City Fire Department Bureau of EMS|(DNY EMS) system and is contracted by several hospitals in NYC to run their 911 ambulances. These hospitals Included Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, St Barnabas Hospital, Lenox Hill Hospital, Brooklyn Hospital, New York Presbyterian Columbia Hospital.

In October 2008, TransCare was awarded a 1.2 million dollar per year ALS contract for Putnam County,^[1] which provided four paramedics to the county 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The contract also provided BLS ambulances to assist area volunteers.

TransCare Medic 347 parked outside their station in the Town of Beekman

In Dutchess County, the town of Wappinger has utilized TransCare for two ALS ambulances around the clock since 2005. On January 1, 2009, TransCare won the ALS bids for the towns of Beekman, Pawling and Union Vale. On May 15, 2009, the town of Washington announced that they named TransCare the new ALS provider for the town which includes the village of Millbrook. On June 4, 2009, Transcare officially announced that they had begun the process of purchasing Alamo EMS. Once completed, the acquisition would give them 911 contracts in the City of Poughkeepsie, Fairview and Roosevelt Fire Districts, as well as numerous transportation contracts throughout the region and would expand Transcare's coverage into Ulster County. The Alamo deal was completed on September 19, 2009.

In 2010, TransCare had also expanded into Orange County, by becoming the sole ALS provider for Cornwall Volunteer Ambulance, the contracted transport company for Keller Army Hospital in West Point and the backup ALS provider for the Town of Highlands.

Bankruptcy and Acquisition

In February 2016, TransCare EMS declared Chapter 7 Bankruptcy and was acquired along with 421 other Transcare EMS and Ambulance operations by Statcom-Citywide MARTA P.B.C.

Transcare continued its operations under the various names of TransCare and Statcom - Citywide MARTA Bureau of Mission Critical StateFlight / REACH Air Medical entities. Transcare, Mid-Atlantic Region Operations which include New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Upstate NY Hudson Valley Region, and Westchester County, NY continued operations in New York City under Statcom-Citywide with a coverage of all 50 states in the United States, Canada as well as parts of Mexico. In kept exclusive control of Westchester County, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland and attempted to spare the Hudson Valley division and its paratransit operation.^[2]

On February 21, 2016, officials from TransCare EMS and the city of New Rochelle terminated their contracts for New Rochelle in order for the new contract to be reissued to Statcom-Citywide. On February 20, 2016, a trustee appointed by the bankruptcy court ordered the Hudson Valley division and all 421 other TransCare operations to cease operations in a last-minute decision on February 21, 2016, at 5:00 pm EST. All canceled contracts resumed operations on February 27, 2016, at midnight under the new control of Statcom-Citywide. Some but not all Transcare employees were notified and left the municipalities and abandoned other contracts, causing many municipalities to enter into emergency contracts with several other ambulance services.

On February 22, 2016, the trustee appointed by the bankruptcy court and Statcom-Citywide Marta Co. officials agreed to immediately allow local providers to provide service until February 27, 2016. To ensure a minimal lapse in coverage until 12:00 midnight on February 27, 2016, Darryl Terry-Locklary announced on February 22, 2016, that an emergency 5-year term and a 20-year renewable Mutual Aid Continuous Service Agreement would be immediately put in place with several ambulance services that covered the canceled contracts for Statcom-Citywide until it could take over all of TransCare Corporation, Transcare EMS, Trans-Care Ambulance, Transcare Solutions, and Transcare Billing Service contracts on February 27, 2016, at midnight.

Under the terms of the contract all several mutual aid ambulance service mutual aid agreement, it will continue to provide mutual aid backup support to Statcom-Citywide during the transition of TransCare's takeover acquisition and merger. All seven ambulances companies will continue to provide EMS and non-emergency ambulance service along with Statcom-Citywide on February 27, 2016.

A permanent emergency backup mutual aid support Over the next 20 years with automatic contract renewal every 5 years. Which became immediate cost savings to municipalities and residents through its contract service areas according to regional and local officials. On November 17, 2017, Terry-Locklary announced the sale of the company to KKR Investment Group alongside the sale of American Medical Response Ambulance and all cash purchase. On November 17, 2017, he had also announced that he will officially be retiring from the company that he had built with effect from November 30, 2017.^[3]