Bedside to bedside is a service that we provide and it includes the ground ambulance transport with Aircare Carolina. What happens is that ambulance will come and they will pick up our flight crew.

For continuity of care, it is vital that our medical team starts and finishes the entire journey with your patient. Therefore, our medical team arrives at your patient's bedside at the start of the transfer.

Our primary concern is for the welfare of the patient so we typically find the closest airport to the facility that has ample runway length for us to be able to get into and then we coordinate to go into that facility so that we can reduce the Essex Air businesses travel time for the patient. In some cases, if the patient is stable and an airport that adds 5 minutes to the travel time, also saves $500 in cost due to fuel prices, as an example, we will let the family be aware and ask them for their decision on airports.

The price we typically quote is one way. However, we can customize your medical transportation air ambulances trip to fit your needs. In some cases, the cost of a round trip may not be significantly more than the cost of a one way tripfor instance, if we’re taking the patient to a doctor’s appointment and they’re only going to be there for an hour or so, our plane and crew can stand by and wait for that to be finished and they can bring the patient back to where they started from for significantly less than twice the cost of one way.

You can give us as many credit cards as you like in order for the trip to take place. Many times, families come together to share in the cost. We havetaken as many as 24 cards before. After you tell how to split up the patient escort companies costs, we will authorize the cards prior to the trip and will charge the cards after the trip has been successfully completed.

Stable patients may qualify for a less costly form of transport than air ambulance. Call us today to determine if your patient might use a nurse escort trip by airline, long distance ground transport, or Amtrak. Escort trips can offer the patient as much as a 50% savings over the cost of long distance air ambulances.

Many factors determine the final cost of an air ambulance transport. The primary factors being the distance flown, the type of aircraft utilized, and the medical needs of the patient in flight. A Domestic transport of modest distance in a twin engine aircraft could cost as little as $3,000 to $5,000. On the other hand, the cost of a cross country transport of a very critically ill patient in a long range jet would increase significantly. Fortunately, we can minimize Aircare Carolina costs. Through efficient scheduling and special one-way pricing arrangements many clients can see final costs on the lower end of the ranges.

We will honor any DNR that is filled out by your physician and that contains the required information for Care Flight escorts transport. We will send a copy of your DNR to our Medical Director for review to ensure that it meets the requirements for transport. If necessary, our Medical Director can fill out a DNR for you that meets all the requirements. We just need to be diligent about managing this for you prior to the trip so that your wishes can be honored.

Our Medical Director insures that your patient receives proper treatment during the transport. Our Insurance Specialist helps manage the paper work for you after your trip is completed. Our business companies team makes your transport as peaceful as possible.

Depending on the distance of the medical transportation carrier flight, we are able to go nonstop.

Our nurses and paramedics have at least five years of experience either in ER or first response to traumas before hiring with us. Then they also go through training to become air certified prior to flying Life Flight company. In addition, they fly with a preceptor prior to managing patient care. We have ongoing training in protocols and patient care as well as quality review of each trip that is performed.

Our case managers will call you during Aircare Carolina. We typically update you when we land prior to arriving at the sending hospital and prior to arriving at the receiving hospital as well. But my case manager will keep in constant contact with you throughout the whole trip. If you want, we can coordinate calls with you if you are going to meet the patient either at the hospital or the airport.