EmCare
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| EmCare Holdings Inc. | |
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| Type | Public |
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| Founded | 1980 |
| Headquarters | Dallas, Texas |
| Key people | William A. Sanger, CEO |
| Industry | Health care |
| Products | Health care management |
| Revenue | $480.6 million USD (2003) |
| Employees | 17,800 |
| Website | www.emcare.com |
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 assistants. They staff about 350 hospital emergency rooms and treat over 5 million patients annually.
EmCare was founded in 1972 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..
