ENROLLED
2021 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 145
BY REPRESENTATIVE COUSSAN
A RESOLUTION
To commend Acadian Ambulance on the occasion of the company's fiftieth anniversary.
WHEREAS, founded in 1971, Acadian Companies is an employee-owned,
multifaceted company with six divisions, a global reach, and a mission of improving the
lives of patients, customers, and employees through its innovative spirit and dedicated team
of professionals; and
WHEREAS, Acadian is the largest employee-owned ambulance service in the nation
and has earned a reputation as one of the nation's most respected and accomplished medical
transportation companies; and
WHEREAS, Acadian Ambulance Service began operations on September 1, 1971,
with three co-founders, two ambulances, and eight medics covering two hundred seventy-
nine square miles of Lafayette Parish; and
WHEREAS, since then, Acadian Ambulance has been in continuous operation
through hurricanes, floods, ice storms, and even a pandemic; and
WHEREAS, over the past five decades, Acadian Ambulance's service area has grown
to include thirty-five parishes in Louisiana, thirty-five counties in Texas, one county in
Mississippi, and one county in Tennessee; their fleet includes six hundred twenty-eight
ambulances, twelve helicopters, and five fixed-wing aircraft staffed by two thousand seven
hundred medics who transport more than six hundred thirty-five thousand patients annually;
and
WHEREAS, Acadian Ambulance is one of the only companies in the nation to be
accredited by both the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services and the
Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems; and
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WHEREAS, in the 1980s, Acadian began providing medics to work on oil
installations in the Gulf of Mexico in the form of Safety Management Systems; in 2003,
Acadian launched the National EMS Academy, which has a fully accredited partnership with
South Louisiana Community College and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service
to educate EMTs and paramedics for agencies across the United States; and
WHEREAS, Acadian partnered with the NAACP and local inclusion and diversity
groups to provide a scholarship program for young men and women interested in a career
in emergency medical services; and
WHEREAS, Acadian Companies has garnered international acclaim and recognition
as a result of the dedication of its employee-owners; it has been recognized by the American
Ambulance Association, the United States Senate, Bill Gates, Inc. Magazine, and even the
Smithsonian Institution; and
WHEREAS, Acadian Ambulance Service is most deserving of the highest
recognition for its dedicated service to the people of Louisiana and beyond for the last fifty
years.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend Acadian Ambulance on the occasion of the
company's fiftieth anniversary; does hereby recognize that immense pride that Acadian has
brought to the great state of Louisiana; and does hereby extend sincere wishes for their
continued success over the next fifty years.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
chief executive officer of Acadian Companies.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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