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Heartland EMS | 5

we got bigger.”

The three counties to which Heartland

provides 911 service boast a combined pop-

ulation of 30,000, and Cheek says the annual

call volume to which the company responds

is near 10,000. Thirty-five percent of those

calls are 911 situations, while the remainder

are transports and other non-emergencies,

including moving VA patients to such far-

flung places as the Atlanta suburb of Decatur

and Charleston, S.C.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina nine

years ago, it also worked with patients as far

away as Louisiana.

“That’s the business we’re in,” Cheek says.

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AT A GLANCE

WHO:

Heartland EMS

WHAT:

Private medical ambulance company

providing services from emergency

care to non-urgent transportation

WHERE:

Headquarters in Cochran, Ga.; dis-

patch centers in seven locations

WEBSITE:

www.HemsGa.com