Ambulance Services

 911 Emergency Ambulance Services:  Rural/Metro's certified paramedics and emergency medical technicians arrive on the scene with the skills and expertise to rapidly administer care, coordinate with on-scene first responders, communicate with emergency department physicians and transport patients to the most appropriate facilities.

Interfacility Ambulance Services: From large hospital networks and healthcare systems to skilled nursing facilities dotted throughout our service areas, we are the trusted ambulance provider that healthcare professionals turn to for their patient transportation needs. With a high number patients requiring interfacility transportation on a non-emergency basis, we are experts at ensuring our customers’ needs are met. 

 We respond to all emergency and non-emergency transports with experience and efficiency, including:

Advanced Life Support (ALS)

• CCU and ICU - Critical Care Transfers
• ER discharges to acute care facilities
• Pediatric and neonatal tranports
• Multi-trauma and burn patients

Basic Life Support (BLS)

• Interfacility transfers
• Dialysis, chemotherapy and other scheduled treatments
• Hospice transports
• Psychiatric patient transports
• Bariatric transports

 Wheelchair Van Services

 Vans equipped with oxygen and wheelchair lifts for ambulatory patients needing extra assistance to doctor's appointments, hospital dismissals, adult day care, dialysis treatment and other local or long-distance transports.

Special Event Ambulance Services: Rural/Metro Ambulance also provides ambulance standby services at a variety of special events throughout the area from day-care and school show-and-tell events to large scale sporting events like Youngstown State University home football and basketball games, and numerous festivals and celebrations such as the Greater Youngstown Italian Festival and several running and biking events.

With Rural/Metro, you can expect clinical excellence and standardized best practices, response time reliability, industry-leading safety and compliance standards, superior technology, expert customer care and cost-saving business models.