The Emergency Air Ambulance crew and medical staff were friendly and knowledgeable about all aspects of medical transportation charters and the medical condition of my mother.
We maintain a complete inventory of equipment and supplies to manage Angel Flight case manager patients.A partial list of supplies and equipment includes oxygen, ventilator, cardiac monitor/defibrillator, suction equipment, full ACLS drug complement, IV supplies, resuscitation equipment, FAA approved stretchers, AC inverters and much more.
For continuity of care, it is vital that our medical team starts and finishes the entire journey with your patient. Therefore, our medical transportation team arrives at your patient's bedside at the start of the transfer. At the start, we are able to assess the patient before she ever leaves her bed. We also comfort her so that she is less anxious about the trip. At the end of the trip, we also travel with her by ground transportation to her bedside. At this time, we discuss the trip process with the receiving nurse so that she is aware of any issues the patient may have. In this way, your patient is assured the utmost in care.
There is a Pilot and a Co-Pilot on all our Sky Flight air ambulance. On the props, there is just one Pilot, typically, but a second pilot can be added at your request.
Our medical director in consultation with the patient's doctor will recommend various medically appropriate options for the patient. The major difference between our aircraft is flight speed. All are equipped with the same advanced life support equipment and skilled medical teams. Some critical patients require the fastest form of transport available, the jets. Others can withstand a little longer flight for substantial cost savings. Factors in choosing the planes companies aircraft include the patient's medical condition, the number of passengers traveling with the patient, and the length of the flight.
Unfortunately charities are fairly limited in what they can do for patients that truly need air ambulance. One charity is Angel Wings; you should be able to find the information about them and air ambulance services on the internet. Their focus is on patients that can sit in a corporate plane with minimal assistance and they fly them to medical appointments for free. If your patient is in need of highly reduced rates let us try to help facilitate that through some of our less expensive options.
We accept payments such as money orders, bank wire drafts, cashiers checks, personal checks, cash and all major credit cards.Many insurance companies pay the cost of medical transportation businesses. Please provide the flight coordinator with your insurance information and we will work with your insurance provider to obtain payment authorization for your patient.
We have extensive experience in patient transportation flight. We can arrange for our medical team to transport the patient on a long-range aircraft or as a more cost effective solution, arrange for a stretcher to be placed on a commercial aircraft. Commercial medical escorts can be less than half the cost of a private jet. We have evacuated patients from Singapore, Guam, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, and Central and South America and many other countries throughout the world.
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 Care Flight planes.
Bedside to bedside is a service that we provide and it includes the ground ambulance transport with Care Flight planes. What happens is that ambulance will come and they will pick up our flight crew.