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to skilled nursing facility contracts, which, of course,
then encompassed wheelchair transports. And then,
the state of Maine changed the way they were han-
dling non-emergency medical transportation. They
went to a broker system.
“Once that broker system started to operate, we saw
a need to help the brokers with the ambulatory or car
service transport. So it really was a nice gradual in-
crease based on needs of our clients and the area that
we serve.”
Thanks, in fact, to the expansion in the car service and
wheelchair functions, North East’s workforce recently
crossed the 300-employee threshold and now sits at
306, according to CEO Butch Russell.
That number stood at just more than 200 as recently
