{"id":174613,"date":"2025-08-25T15:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174613\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:11:10","slug":"private-company-falck-starts-ems-services-in-fort-worth-plans-to-expand-in-dfw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174613\/","title":{"rendered":"Private company Falck starts EMS services in Fort Worth, plans to expand in DFW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.falck.us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Falck<\/a>, a private emergency medical services company from Denmark, started EMS services in Fort Worth, according to a June press release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s happening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The agreement with Falck comes after Fort Worth officials <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/keller-roanoke-northeast-fort-worth\/health-care\/2024\/07\/03\/fort-worth-changes-ems-delivery-model\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">voted<\/a> May 21, 2024, to move on from Medstar and transition EMS services to the Fort Worth Fire Department. That transition went into effect July 1, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/keller-roanoke-northeast-fort-worth\/health-care\/2025\/06\/04\/fort-worth-city-council-prepares-for-ambulance-usage-change-after-ems-transfer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Falck is working with the city of Fort Worth to alleviate non-life threatening emergency calls from the Fort Worth Fire Department, David Phillips, managing director of Falck Southwest, told Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gap in service created by the change from MedStar to FWFD meant many community-based patients and facilities would struggle to meet ambulance transport needs,\u201d Phillips said.<\/p>\n<p>Falck provides 911 backup to FWFD, as well, since the company follows the same protocols as Fort Worth, he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diving deeper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Falck services can be requested specifically if the cases are non-life threatening, Phillips said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the EMS requests Falck responds to includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced life support services<\/li>\n<li>Basic life support<\/li>\n<li>Critical care transport<\/li>\n<li>Standby services for events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phillips added that the company plans to expand operations across the Dallas-Fort Worth area and throughout the state over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFalck recognizes the market potential of the healthcare sector in the DFW region, which continues to grow,\u201d he said. \u201cWe see Texas as a great place to do business, and DFW to be a natural home for our services.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Services started June 17<\/li>\n<li>24-hour dispatch number: 833-850-6622<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.falck.us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.falck.us<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Falck, a private emergency medical services company from Denmark, started EMS services in Fort Worth, according to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":174614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[99351,99350,5229,99349,7371,7372,99352,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-174613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-ambluance-services-i-can-call","9":"tag-ambulance-services-in-fort-worth","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-falck","12":"tag-fort-worth","13":"tag-fortworth","14":"tag-non-life-threatening-hotline-in-fort-worth","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115090049269894962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}