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AMR takes skilled nursing facility residents on Las Vegas holiday light show tour

Accessible bus is used to transport wheelchair and ambulatory residents on a nightly tour of the Glittering Lights display at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway

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By EMS1 Staff

LAS VEGAS — AMR Las Vegas personnel used a company bus to take residents of skilled nursing facilities to see a holiday light show at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

The Glittering Lights tour is an off-shoot of Home for the Holidays, which is an annual program to transport carefully chosen skilled nursing facility patients to and from a relative’s home at no charge.

“The clients had a wonderful time being able to get out and see a beautiful light display,” Zack Ratner-Miller, AMR Las Vegas Non-Medical Transport Supervisor, said. “When the clients saw the different light arrangements, their eyes lit up with joy.”

Personnel from AMR Las Vegas transported six to eight clients, including ambulatory and wheelchair patients, from a different skilled nursing facility each night of the “Glittering Lights” display.

The drive through the light show is about 30 minutes long and features more than 500 animated, full-color displays of Santa, snowmen, reindeer, race cars, candy canes, butterflies and religion themes. The light show is an annual event that is seen by nearly 200,000 visitors and features more than 3 million lights.