Hospital / healthcare provider

Metropolitan Ambulance Service of DeRidder

Metropolitan Ambulance Service of DeRidder was a Louisiana ambulance provider recorded in historical state and local resource directories. Its geographic identity is DeRidder in Beauregard Parish. The state’s 1996 oil-spill contingency plan included the service in its emergency medical resources, while the local directory described round-the-clock ambulance availability.

Organization profile

Organization type: Hospital / healthcare provider
Headquarters / base: DeRidder, Louisiana, United States
Geographic scope: Historical ambulance services in DeRidder and Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

Former / alternate names

Metropolitian Ambulance Service of DeRidder, Inc.
Metropolitian Ambulance Service/DeRidder
Metropolitian Emergency
Metropolitan Ambulance, DeRidder

Medical focus

Emergency medical servicesMedical transportationCommunity health services

Activities

Ambulance servicesEmergency medical response

Population served

People requiring ambulance transportBeauregard Parish residents

An emergency resource in Beauregard Parish

The state plan dated 20 September 1996 lists a DeRidder service under the spelling Metropolitian Emergency. Its entry appears in the emergency medical services table for Beauregard Parish, with day and night contact information. This places the organization within the area’s documented emergency support resources at that time.

The listing is a resource inventory in a broader emergency response plan. It does not identify the company as a government agency, establish an exclusive parish contract or describe the qualifications of individual ambulance crews.

Sources: [1].

Local service and historical identity

The historical southwest Louisiana referral directory gives the fuller name Metropolitian Ambulance Service of DeRidder, Inc. It describes a DeRidder base and 24-hour ambulance services for Beauregard Parish. The local and state entries share the same telephone number apart from the area code used in their respective records.

A 2017 funeral-provider notice also refers to past employment with Metropolitan Ambulance in DeRidder. Together, the records support a historical local provider identity. They do not establish a current operator, a transfer to another ambulance company or an organization-controlled website; no such succession is asserted here.

Sources: [2], [3].

Further health reading

Stroke

Rapid assessment and ambulance transport can matter in stroke care. This overview provides clinical context for the service’s historical emergency-transport role.

Heart attack (myocardial infarction)

A heart attack is a medical emergency requiring immediate assessment. This article explains one condition relevant to the historical ambulance-service context.