EmCare
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EmCare Holdings Inc., or EmCare, is one of the United States largest contract emergency room staffing agencies. EmCare is based in Dallas, Texas and employs over 4,500 doctors and several hundred nurse practitioners and physician's assistants. They staff about 350 hospital emergency rooms and treat over 5 million patients annually. EmCare also owns AMR, the country's largest private ambulance service.EmCare was founded in 1980 by emergency physician Leonard M. Riggs, Jr. and became a public company in 1994. In 2005, the investment firm Onex purchased EmCare from transportation giant Laidlaw International, Inc..
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