For more than 30 years, the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay has operated TransCare Medical Transportation Services. TransCare helps support the agency’s other vital services for over 160,000 people a year in Hillsborough County by providing BLS ambulance services and full service medical transportation. TransCare provides primary 9-1-1 Basic Life Support (BLS) services in the City of Tampa; BLS emergen
cy and non-emergency ambulance service throughout Hillsborough County; countywide psychiatric transports to/from all area hospitals; transportation to state psychiatric facilities; and stand-by service for special events. TransCare is accredited by the Commission on the Accreditation of Ambulance Services (CAAS). It is one of only ten CAAS-accredited agencies in the State of Florida and the only CAAS-accredited organization in Hillsborough County. Less than 1% of ambulance services in the nation hold this accreditation.
