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6 | Alstar EMS
Medix Specialty Vehicles, Inc. is a full line
ambulance manufacturer located in Elkhart,
Indiana. Founded in January 2001, we
manufacture a world class ambulance
exceeding customer expectations at home
and in the international market.
Medix Specialty Vehicles, Inc. is Ford QVM
certiied and an authorized inal stage body
modiier by General Motors, General Motors
International Product Center, Daimler
Chrysler and Mercedes Benz/Freightliner.
This allows us to offer a wide array of vehicles
that meet the demands of many different
EMS providers. Our products are tested and
certiied by an independent third party to
meet or exceed current KKK-1822-F
certiication standards.
Our people are what set Medix Specialty
Vehicles, Inc. apart. Our management staff
brings over 100 years of EMS and
manufacturing experience to our factory
everyday. We understand the EMS industry
and work continuously to deliver the most
cost effective, high quality ambulances to the
market place. We are extremely focused on
customer service and understand that for us
to be successful our customers must be
successful. We have built our business on the
philosophy that if we do the right thing and
take care of our customers, we will succeed.
lance annually responds tomore than 17,000
calls. Those calls have included scenarios
such as that involving a teenager whose arm
accidently became snared in a farm’s thrasher
(the device used to separate seeds and grains
from husks and straw). Though he lost a
limb, Alstar saw to it that his life was saved
and staff would later be at his side during a
ceremony where the young man earned his
Eagle Scout Badge. There’s also the case in-
volving a man who suffered a stroke, but was
sustained throughout the medevac service
that saw him delivered to a stroke specialist
in Buffalo. Executive Director Dave Thomas
Business World Magazine | February 2019