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'title' => 'Our History | A Believers EMS',
'description' => 'Fourteen years of A Believers EMS from a Houston garage to a trusted private ambulance service.',
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'heading' => 'Our History',
'intro' => 'A timeline of the moments that shaped A Believers EMS from a single ambulance to today.',
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$milestones = [
['year' => '2006', 'title' => 'NPI enumerated', 'body' => 'Rodney Baker registers A Believers EMS LLC with CMS — National Provider Identifier #' . CRED_NPI . ' issued October 24, 2006. The Texas DSHS ambulance license #' . CRED_TX_LICENSE . ' follows.'],
['year' => '2008', 'title' => 'First transports', 'body' => 'Operations begin in earnest from the Bammel North Houston headquarters. Texas Medicaid enrollment confirmed (#' . CRED_TX_MEDICAID . '). The first Houston families and skilled nursing facilities become repeat clients.'],
['year' => '2010s', 'title' => 'Family business takes shape', 'body' => 'Rodney\'s son Rod joins the operation. The two run dispatch, billing and the rigs as a true family business — the model the company has kept ever since.'],
['year' => 'Recent', 'title' => 'Recognition', 'body' => 'Featured on MyBestHouston\'s "20 Best Private Ambulance Services in Houston" list. 5-star aggregate rating across Yelp and YellowPages from patients, families and discharge teams.'],
['year' => '2026', 'title' => 'Permit renewed', 'body' => 'Houston Health Department ambulance provider permit reaffirmed through March 2026. Still Black-owned, still family-run, still answering the phone ourselves.'],
['year' => date('Y'), 'title' => 'Today', 'body' => 'Two decades into the work, A Believers EMS is the Houston transport service patients ask for by name. We move dialysis patients, lab visits, hospital discharges and inter-facility transfers every week across the Greater Houston metro.'],
];
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Our History
Fourteen years. One mission.
A timeline of the moments that shaped us — from one ambulance in a Houston garage
to one of Texas's most trusted private EMS providers.