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The author and scholar William Arthur Ward once noted that greatness
isn’t found in power, position or prestige; it is discovered rather in “good-
ness, humility, service and character.” And in Maine, those same attri-
butes are so reflected in the operational practices of one enterprise,
positioning it with certain greatness as the state’s largest and arguably
most respected, prestigious providers of emergency medical transport
and mobile health services.
As the largest paramedic service operation in the state of Maine, North East
Mobile Health Services (NEMHS) was dispatched more than 55,000 times
last year to fulfill crucial emergency response as well as non-emergency trans-
port services. Beyond responding to urgencies prompted from 9-1-1 calls and
critical inter-facility transports involving the most frail and fragile of neona-
tal patients, NEMHS provides basic transport services for wheelchair-bound
patients, and is even specially equipped to effectively respond to bariatric
demands associated with the needs of those diagnosed as medically obese.
NEMHSmaintains a state-of-the-art fleet and the most sophisticated of tech-
nical tools which help empower excellence in their industry. But at the core of
