June 2013
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alliances with communities that included
Hobart, Sayre and Clinton which ultimately
became the operational headquarters. Sinor
EMS would go on to earn acclaim as one of
Oklahoma’s most dynamic, dependable and
distinguished providers of emergency medi-
cal treatment and transportation services,
and it still continues to build upon that leg-
acy today.
With a service area that encompasses
more than 2,300 square-miles, Sinor EMS
has stations strategically located throughout
Western Oklahoma which are staffed full-
time by some of the most highly-trained and
dedicated professionals ever to be encoun-
tered in the field of paramedics. Sinor EMS
has not only garnered acclaim for achieving
the fastest (per capita) emergency response
times in the state, but its accounting efficien-
cies have been analyzed by other forces in
healthcare with marvel as to how they do it,
yet beyond all that, this is an organization
whose services have made a critical differ-
ence between life and death in what have
been very desperate situations. As it serves
rural communities, the transport time to ma-
jor health centers can take more than a hour.
In many cases, the medical emergency is so
great that patients simply cannot wait, and
without the care provided by a professional
paramedic, the situation would be hopeless.
After years of service to thousands of resi-
dents and numerous lives saved through his
efforts, Tim Sinor tragically died in 2009
following a motorcycle accident in Rapid
City, South Dakota, during the famed Stur-
gis Bike Rally weekend. Sinor had also been a
dedicated husband and father. His wife, Lin-
da, and daughter, Anne, not only worked at
Sinor EMS, but also helped drive the fact that
this was a family business and all personnel
were part of that family. Anne, who had been
working for the company since the age of 13,
