By David Fenker
david@nmpaper.com
NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. – After more than three decades of service, on Oct. 1 LifeMed EMS will become Parkview EMS.
The acquisition was announced at the North Manchester Public Safety Building on Wednesday, Sept. 28.
“I feel blessed that we have a service like Parkview that can take over caring for those we provide service to,” Brown said.
He thanked his employees for their hard work and dedication over the last 30 years.
Brown said that he chose Parkview because of the wide range of services they provide, and their years of experience in the field.
Dan Garman, senior vice president of prehospital and emergency services for Parkview Health, met with Chris Brown, the owner of LifeMed EMS, shortly after Parkview’s purchase of Wabash County Hospital to discuss how the two companies could best work together to serve the county.
It was then that Brown mentioned an interest in selling LifeMed.
“We started changing our focus,” Garman said.
“Over the last several months we’ve been working with Chris to purchase the ambulance service with the understanding and commitment from Parkview to continue to operate LifeMed in the same manner Chris has been for many years.”
Brown founded LifeMed EMS in 1985, and became Wabash County’s first paramedic EMS provider in 1993. It remained the only paramedic EMS provider until 2000, when Wabash Fire Department added that service.
Since then, LifeMed has also added wheelchair and ambulatory transportation services. It also provides hospital-to-hospital transfers for several area medical facilities.
For more, see the Oct. 5 issue of The Paper of Wabash County.