Acadian Ambulance



Acadian Ambulance is an ambulance service that covers most of the state of Louisiana.

Founded in 1971, its main office is located in Lafayette, Louisiana. Acadian Ambulance maintains a fleet of more than 200 regular ambulances, seven medical transport helicopters, called Air Med, and four fixed-wing aircraft.

Air Med provides fast and sometimes lifesaving aerial transport to medical facilities.

In addition to emergency medical services, Acadian Ambulance offers an executive aircraft charter service, either for business or pleasure.

The company is the largest private rural ambulance service in the United States, with over 2,400 employees and more than 200 ground ambulances.

Richard Zuschlag is the company's CEO and Chairman of the Board.



Acadian Ambulance operates a podcast system, which can viewed on a PC, Mac or iPod. It operates this PodCast from the website yourstudioa.com.

Acadian Ambulance played a leading role in coordinating responses to various healthcare emergencies caused by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in 2005.

In the summer of 2006 Acadian Ambulance Service exapanded into Southeast Texas; Acadian Ambulance began providing EMS service to the citizens of Orange County, Texas. Several months later, in October 2006, Acadian Ambulance Service acquired the assests of MetroCare EMS (Jefferson County operations) and began providing emergency and non emergency transports to the citizens of Jefferson County, Texas.