Ferno-Washington, Inc.

Why choose FERNO? You’re dedicated and devoted to the work you do. It’s your calling, and one that’s not always easy or uncomplicated. Day in and day out, you need high-quality, reliable, and streamlined solutions that increase your efficiency and keep both you and your patients safe in any situation. At FERNO, we’ve been creating those solutions since 1955, improving today’s go-to EMS equipment and uncovering new, better ideas for tomorrow.

As the leading global provider of emergency care solutions, we’ve put our decades of experience to work for you, innovating products to transform the delivery of emergency care. FERNO’s POWER X1 Ambulance Cot, iNX Integrated Patient Transport & Loading System, and iNTRAXX Integrated Vehicle Component System are proof of our history of innovation. Through it all, we’ve maintained a focus on safety and a commitment to helping medics and EMS agencies deliver the very best emergency care.

To date, we’ve partnered with EMS professionals and innovators from all over the world to develop and deliver a family of solutions that collectively focuses on Medics, Vehicles, and Intelligence to enhance protection and performance for all your EMS operations. Working together, we’ve transformed the delivery of emergency and patient care. Working together, we’re dedicated to improving the EMS industry, and your work, even more.

Our Vision 

• We insist on a standard of excellence in every product and solution we deliver, and in the services we provide.

Our Mission 

• We pursue innovation in our products because we are passionate about advancing the standard of care while preserving the dignity of life.

Our Values

• We partner with and care for the people we serve with great integrity.

FERNO is a family-owned company based in the Midwest, so it should come as no surprise that community is important to us. Our FERNO Family includes global employees that care about our customers, their patients, and the products we produce.

FERNO is a professionally managed, family-owned business. The strength of FERNO is our people. Our team is made up of product experts, service crew members, and sales professionals who are passionate about what they do. We’re dedicated to being the best and delivering EMS equipment with integrity, compassion, and honesty, using teamwork, cooperation, creativity, and innovation.

FERNO is committed to creating safe, quality, customer-inspired EMS products that exceed your expectations. Our products are backed by our team’s promise to deliver the highest level of service and support.

Our team is committed to building a quality relationship with you by listening to your issues and needs, and by providing the best, most complete patient care solutions. We will always conduct ourselves with integrity, humility, and fairness, treating you just as we want to be treated ourselves.

Ours is a History of Innovation.
From pioneering use of aluminum tubing to creating the revolutionary Model 30 X-Frame Cot to innovating the transformative technology of iNTRAXX, FERNO has led the way to better, safer, and more efficient care. Any EMT or Paramedic who has transported a patient has encountered a product derived from FERNO's innovations, which date back to 1945. Watch the video below to learn more about our founders, Elroy Bourgraf and Dick Ferneau.