Medical Transportation

Medical Ground Transportation  | Medical Air Transportation | Executive Aircraft Charter Service

Acadian began operations in 1971 with two ambulances and eight medics covering 279 square miles of rural Louisiana. Our service area features a diverse geography of rich swamps, bayous and marshlands, making quick response by ground a difficult task. As a result, Acadian launched a medical air division in 1981. 

Today, our ambulance division provides highly skilled medical care to more than 25 million residents over 57,000 square miles in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Tennessee. Acadian’s medical air fleet flies more first-response air missions than any other air medical service in the United States. Our fleet of more than 650 ambulances, EC-135 and 145 helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, Beechcraft King Air turboprops and our Bombardier Learjet 45 aircraft are all equipped with advanced life-saving equipment and staffed by expert flight paramedics, nurses, drivers and pilots. Acadian transports approximately 700,000 patients and travels 30 million miles each year, enough to circumnavigate the earth 41 times each day. 

Acadian’s ground operations are accredited by CAAS and our rotor-wing air operations are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS), signifying that Acadian sets the gold standard determined by the medical transport industry. Acadian Companies is proud to be one of the very few ambulance services in the nation to hold both CAAS and CAMTS accreditations. 

Acadian has been recognized as one of the nation’s best emergency medical service providers. The use of innovative technology, stringent medical protocols, and exceptional high standards has earned the company numerous honors and led us to become one of the most respected and largest employee-owned medical providers in the nation.