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Advanced Medical Transport (AMT) is the premier provider of emergency and scheduled ambulance services in Central, Western, and Eastern Illinois, as well as parts of Iowa. AMT is a private, not-for-profit organization operated for community benefit and governed by a Board of Directors.

  • Mission

  • "To deliver consistently outstanding, value-based health and community care."
  • Vision

  • "To be the regional provider of choice for emergency medical and healthcare transportation services."
  • Values

  • Compassionate, Accountable, Respectful, Ethical, Sustainable

just a few

stats

500+ AMT Employees
67,000 ambulance calls a year
90+ communities covered
100% commitment to our Patients

Quick Facts

Coverage Area

AMT serves various roles in the communities it serves, providing many types of emergency and non-emergency transportation. AMT serves over 90 communities in Peoria and Tazewell Counties and portions of Livingston County as well as Champaign-Urbana, Danville, and Rantoul in Eastern Illinois. AMT also serves the Illinois Quad Cities of Rock Island, Moline, and Bettendorf and Iowa City, Iowa. AMT also provides regional medical transportation service to clients across Illinois needing transportation between medical centers and from their local, community hospitals.

Employment

We employ over 500 dedicated employees, whose combined talents provide emergency and scheduled medical services to more than 850,000 residents. Our 80 licensed paramedic ambulances respond to 66,554 calls across all markets including 44,926 Emergency Care Calls with patient contact, 11,645 Interfacility Transfers, and 8 live births in our ambulances. AMT also runs 2,400 critical care transports with our critical care ambulances staffed with specially trained paramedics and RN’s. In addition, AMT offers Med-Valet, a service providing para-transit services and routine transportation when ambulance service is not medically necessary, Illinois Patient Transport, Mobile Integrated Healthcare, and Special Event Standby services.

Communication Center

Advanced Medical Transport’s Call Center is a technological marvel providing the coordination of the company’s caregivers and assets across two states. Housed in an “F5” rated tornado-hardened bunker our Call Center processes over 67,000 ambulance calls annually using advanced technologies, a Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system and a complex fleet location and routing technology to improve on-time services.

Nationally Accredited

Advanced Medical Transport is the only Illinois ambulance provider to become nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services (CAAS). Accreditation means that AMT is committed to providing the communities we serve the highest level of service excellence and clinically effective care. CAAS awarded to AMT during our first application and review a “Perfect Score” in 2002, followed by successful reaccreditation in 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020 (and currently working on 2023).

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Advanced Medical Transport of Central Illinois logo AMT ambulance in front of Airforce One

meet our

AMT, Inc. Board

Dr. George Hevesy

Doug Stewart

Rich Kriegsman

Don White

Andrew Rand

Dr. Michael Cruz

Will Williams

Rusty Dunn

Dr. Sharon Kheral

Christine Schwartz

Dr. Samer Sader

Robert Klaus

meet our

PHMMS Board

John Stenson

Jeanine Spain

Bill Fleming

David Stenerson

Dr. James Adams

Sally Snyder

Sherri Greenwood

Andrew Rand

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