Pafford EMS

Pafford Medical Services, Inc., operating as Pafford EMS, is a private ambulance and mobile healthcare provider founded in 1967 and headquartered in Hope, Arkansas. The company supplies emergency and non-emergency pre- and post-hospital medical transportation across five states - Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Pennsylvania - and employs more than 1,400 full- and part-time staff. It describes itself as one of the oldest and largest private ambulance services in the country.

The ground operation runs a fleet of more than 200 ambulances covering Basic Life Support, Advanced Life Support and Critical Care Transport for high-acuity patients. Air work is handled by Pafford Air One, the company's clinical air division, which flies three helicopters, alongside fixed-wing air ambulance services for longer-distance transfers. Between them, these services span ground ambulance operations, critical care transport and air medical transportation.

Pafford began as a small family operation and states a mission of delivering high-quality, compassionate care, with an emphasis on rural and regional communities. It has traded continuously since 1967.