Ambulance Services

911 Emergency Ambulance Services: We are the exclusive provider of 911 emergency ambulance services to the City of Poplar Bluff.  Rural/Metro's certified paramedics and emergency medical technicians arrive on the scene with the skills and expertise to rapidly administer care, coordinate with on-scene first responders, communicate with emergency department physicians and transport patients to the most appropriate facilities.

Interfacility Ambulance Services: From large hospital networks and healthcare systems to skilled nursing facilities dotted throughout our service areas, we are the trusted ambulance provider that healthcare professionals turn to for their patient transportation needs. With more than half of our patients requiring interfacility transportation on a non-emergency basis, we are experts at ensuring our customers’ needs are met.

Special Event Ambulance Services:  Rural/Metro Ambulance also provides ambulance standby services at a variety of speical events throughout the area, including Black River Coliseum, Poplar Bluff Lifeguard Boot Camp, the Poplar Bluff 4th of July Celebration, and the Miss Missouri Pageant.

 

We respond to all emergency and non-emergency transports with experience and efficiency, including:

Advanced Life Support (ALS)

• CCU and ICU - Critical Care Transfers
• ER dischargest to acute care facilities
• Pediatric and neonatal tranports
• Multi-trauma and burn patients

Basic Life Support (BLS)

• Interfacility transfers
• Dialysis, chemotherapy and other scheduled treatments
• Hospice transports
• Psychiatric patient transports
• Bariatric transports

With Rural/Metro, you can expect clinical excellence and standardized best practices, response time reliability, industry-leading safety and compliance standards, superior technology, expert customer care and cost-saving business models.  Because that's what you want in your trusted ambulance service provider.