Greenwood Village, CO, and Lewisville, TX – Air Medical Group Holdings (AMGH), a KKR portfolio company, and American Medical Response (AMR) today announced the completion of a previously announced combination of the two companies to create a new industry leading medical transportation company. Upon the transaction close, both AMGH and AMR will now operate under the parent company, Global Medical Response.
Team members from both companies have been working together alongside other emergency medical service partners during devastating natural disasters, even well before their merger. In 2017 alone, AMR and AMGH both responded to hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria as well as the California wildfires.
As part of today's announcement, Global Medical Response has named Michael Preissler as the company's Chief Financial Officer and Thomas Cook as General Counsel. The leadership teams for both AMR and AMGH will remain intact under Global Medical Response: Edward Van Horne remains as President and CEO of AMR and Fred Buttrell remains as President and CEO of AMGH. Local and regional leadership of AMR and AMGH will remain substantially unchanged.