Non-emergency Ambulances in Vogue

• Date: April 06, 2010
• Source: Admin

A new fleet of ambulances are now transporting metro-east passengers in wheelchairs and on stretchers -- seniors, the disabled, special-needs children and others in non-emergency situations.

"We're kind of a step between a cab ride and an ambulance ride," said Steve McGoff, president of Metro East EMT.

McGoff and his father launched the venture last month in Collinsville, becoming the metro-east's franchise of the St. Louis-based Express Medical Transporters. The nonprofit business began in St. Louis in 1996. Founder Bernie Squitieri had been the general manager of one of the largest taxi cab companies in the Bronx when he moved to St. Louis 17 years ago to be closer to his wife's family. He established his own taxi service, Arnold Taxi, with just a 1989 Chevy Caprice in November 1995.