Meritorious Service Medal

• Awarded on: April 5, 2016
• Invested on: November 25, 2016

In the late 1990s, long-serving Emergency Medical Services officer Richard Armstrong saw the need for an organization that would give Ontario’s ambulance service providers a common voice during the transfer of responsibility for ambulance services from the province to municipalities. Thanks to his leadership and vision as founding president of the Ontario Association of Paramedic Chiefs, 175 Ontario ambulance service providers have been successfully united and can now share best practices and save more lives.