{"id":249605,"date":"2015-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/guest-editorial-happy-holidays-from-amr-san-diegos-new-emergency-medical-provider\/"},"modified":"2015-12-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T08:00:00","slug":"guest-editorial-happy-holidays-from-amr-san-diegos-new-emergency-medical-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/guest-editorial-happy-holidays-from-amr-san-diegos-new-emergency-medical-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial invitado: Felices fiestas de parte de AMR, el nuevo proveedor m\u00e9dico de emergencia de San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mike Murphy<\/p>\n

As you may know, American Medical Response (AMR) recently purchased Rural\/Metro, the city of San Diego\u2019s 911 emergency medical responder.\u00a0With the acquisition, AMR has now become the city\u2019s official 911 responder.<\/p>\n

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Mike Murphy (Photo by Chris Schwab)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We at AMR could not be more excited to be serving the people of San Diego and delivering the highest quality of emergency care to communities throughout the city, including those that comprise the Uptown area.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re certainly not new to San Diego.\u00a0In fact, AMR has very deep roots here.\u00a0We\u2019ve been serving communities in the north, south and east county for more than 65 years.<\/p>\n

AMR is now pleased to bring to the city of San Diego and its 1.3 million residents the resources of one of the nation\u2019s most respected emergency medical responders, with more than 19,000 paramedics, EMTs, registered nurses and other professionals who transport more than 3 million patients every year.<\/p>\n

Since taking ownership of Rural\/Metro, we have been working closely with the San Diego Fire Department, moving quickly to improve service and address some of the response time issues that occurred under the previous provider.<\/p>\n

We immediately brought in additional ambulances and paramedics, as well as a strike team of experts to design a citywide deployment plan aimed at reducing response times in both the urban core and outlying communities.\u00a0To date, these efforts have been successful.<\/p>\n

For AMR, though, serving the community means more than responding to life-threatening emergencies \u2014 it means preventing them as well.\u00a0We will be working across the city to create a healthier and safer San Diego through community-based programs that range from improving one\u2019s heart health, to helping people avoid household accidents, to training San Diegans in the life-saving skill of CPR.<\/p>\n

Whether it’s responding to emergencies or preventing them, saving lives is what we’re all about \u2014 24 hours a day, seven days a week.<\/p>\n

On behalf of the women and men of AMR here in San Diego, I want to wish you and your family a healthy and happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year.<\/p>\n

\u2014Murphy is the general manager of AMR in San Diego.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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