Davis, Allemand receive Acadian regional awards

Paramedic Von Davis and emergency medical technician Whitley Allemand have won Acadian Ambulance awards for the private ambulance company’s Bayou Region, which includes St. Mary.

Davis, named the region’s Paramedic of the Year, began his career with Acadian Ambulance in 2015 as an EMT. He received his training at the National EMS Academy in Houma.

In 2019, he enrolled in the paramedic program. In 2022, he successfully completed the Critical Care Transport program and became a CCT paramedic.
Davis’ kind and compassionate demeanor has made him one of the most respected medics in the Bayou Region, the company said. He plans to continue his career with Acadian and hopes to take on a leadership role in the future.

“In a region full of proficient and skilled medics, it is a great honor to be nominated and to represent my region,” Davis said.

Allemand, the EMT of the Year for the Bayou Region, started with Acadian Ambulance in 2018 after completing the EMT program at National EMS Academy. She serves as a field training officer and conducts new employee driver training and local orientation to ensure each new employee receives needed information and has an opportunity to ask questions.

She works closely with the local operations coordinator and quality improvement coordinator to help ensure new team members are continuing to have positive progression.

During this process, she has become an unofficial mentor to many new employees, the company said. “Her passion for teaching and helping others recently inspired her to complete her EMT instructor certification and she has been assisting in teaching current EMT courses in the Bayou Region.”

Acadian Ambulance has operated in the Bayou Region since 1973, when it began serving in Terrebonne Parish. The company has nearly 200 employees in the region, which encompasses Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, Assumption, St. James, and St. John the Baptist parishes.