Air Ambulances in the United States

Air Ambulances in the United States
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* 1 List of air ambulances
o 1.1 A
o 1.2 B
o 1.3 C
o 1.4 D
o 1.5 E
o 1.6 F
o 1.7 G
o 1.8 H
o 1.9 I
o 1.10 J
o 1.11 K
o 1.12 L
o 1.13 M
o 1.14 N
o 1.15 O
o 1.16 P
o 1.17 Q
o 1.18 R
o 1.19 S
o 1.20 T
o 1.21 U
o 1.22 V
* 2 Incidents
* 3 References
* 4 See also
* 5 External links

List of air ambulances

The following is a list of Air Ambulances and Air Ambulance Brokers (indicated with a {b}) in the United States and the area they cover where that is not obvious from the title:

A

* Acadian Ambulance & Air Med Services - Headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana,covers most of the state of Louisiana and parts of western Mississippi, Acadian Ambulance maintains a fleet of more than 200 ground ambulances, as well as eight medical transport helicopters and five fixed-wing aircraft that provide aerial transport to medical facilities.
* Advanced Air Ambulance(broker) - South Florida
* AeroCare - worldwide, based in Aurora Municipal Airport, Sugar Grove, IL 60554
* Aero Med Express Air Ambulance Service -Rogers, Arkansas

* Aeromed - Tampa General Hospital, Florida
* Aeromedevac, Inc. - San Diego, California
* Air Angels [1] - Clow International Airport, Bolingbrook, Illinois and Dupage Airport in West Chicago, Illinois - Ceased operations as of Feb. 2009.
* Air Ambulance America LLC(broker) - Based in Miami, Florida,
* Air Ambulance Professionals(broker) - Fort Lauderdale, Florida
* Air Ambulance Service - Providing Worldwide Professional air ambulance service. South Florida Based
* Air Ambulance Worldwide Worldwide Emergency Air Ambulance Service
* AirCare - The aeromedical critical care transport service of the North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, MN, a Level 1 Trauma Center located in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Operates five flight bases throughout the state.
* AirCare - The aeromedical critical care transport service of the University of Mississippi Medical Center
* Air Care Lifeflight Systems Air Ambulance Service - Banner Elk, North Carolina
* Air Charity Network - Comprising all of the independent charity organizations that arrange free air ambulance flights for those patients and families in need.
* AirMed El Paso - Long Distance Critical Care - Flying Only Jets - Long Distance Transport Service, Headquartered in El Paso Texas, Covers the entire Western Hemisphere. [2]
* Air Evac provides services across Arizona. Mainly a helicopter user, Air Evac also uses a handful of small airplanes for emergencies
* Air-Evac Lifeteam [3] - operated by Air Evac EMS, Inc., is the largest independently owned and operated membership-supported air medical service in the United States, conducting its operations through more than 89 mutually-supporting air medical bases across 14 states such as Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, and Oklahoma. Air-Evac Lifeteam operates more than 100 medically-equipped Bell 206 Long Ranger helicopters and is headquartered in West Plains, MO.
* Air Life of Oregon

An Airlift Northwest Crew receives a patient transfer from the United States Coast Guard

* Airlift Northwest - Based in Seattle, WA.
* Air Methods - Largest US air ambulance operator. The Community Air Ambulance Division with 100 helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft based at hospitals, fire stations or airports, and the Hospital Air Ambulance division provides air medical transportation services to nearly 80 hospitals in 33 states and operates a fleet of more than 200 hospital-based aircraft. Generally the hospital owns the program and provides the medical personnel and communications functions, while Air Methods provides aircraft operation and maintenance.[1] Rocky Mountain Holdings, LLC (RMH), Mercy Air Service, Inc. (Mercy Air), LifeNet, Inc. (LifeNet) and CJ Systems Aviation Group operate as wholly-owned subsidiaries of Air Methods.[2]
o ARCH Air Medical Service Missouri, Illinois, and the surrounding regions. Service area is 150 miles around each base; Downtown, St. Louis, Chesterfield, Cape Girardeau, Warrenton, and Sullivan, Missouri; Sparta, Litchfield, and Effingham, Illinois. Plus AirLife in Urbana, Illinois, and MedFlight I in Joplin, Missouri, and MedFlight II in Parsons, Kansas.
o San Antonio AirLIFE, serves a 150 mile radius of San Antonio in South Texas.
* AirMD - Provides critical care transport services, worldwide medical air escort, and aircraft charters. Includes details of costs and services. Florida.
* Air Trek Air Ambulance - www.medjets.com - Based in Florida.
* American Care Air Ambulance - Fixed-wing, worldwide medical transportation services. Based in San Diego, California.
* American Jets air ambulance - is the leader in worldwide air ambulance service. With over 20 years of experience, American Jets continues to set the emergency medical transport standards for the 21st century. Our flying intensive care units respond to emergencies around the globe, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Based in Fort Pierce, Florida.
* Angel Flight - A nonprofit charity air medical transportation organization serving needy people and their families. Provides access to specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation.
* Angel MedFlight - Worldwide Air Medical Transportation Organization with its' corporate headquarters located in Scottsdale Arizona at the Scottsdale Airport. Angel MedFlight's expertise extends beyond air medical transportation. Angel MedFlight has "In-House" legal counsel in order to ensure that every client receives the medical benefits of their insurance plan.

B

* Bayflite - Bayfront Medical Center, also associated with St. Joseph's Hospital and All Children's Hospital. St. Petersburg Florida.
* Boston MedFlight Critical Care Transport Helicopter

C
An MD Helicopters MD Explorer operated by CALSTAR

* Cal-Ore Life Flights - California, Oregon and Washington.
* CALSTAR - based in McClellan Park in Sacramento California , CALSTAR operates BO105, Bell 222, Agusta 109, and MD 902 Explorer helicopters (CALSTARs 1-10) and two Cessna 421 light aircraft.
* CareFlite - based in Grand Prairie, TX operates within a 150 mile radius of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex with four Agusta 109 helicopters, two Bell 222 helicopters, and a fixed wing King Air 90. A fifth Agusta 109 is scheduled for delivery in 2010. CareFlite
* Care Flight - based in Dayton, Ohio at Miami Valley Hospital and operates three air abulances. Care Flight Team
* Critical Air Medicine - Doing business as Critical Air, is based in San Diego, California and provides both fixed wing and helicopter air ambulance service nationwide. The Texas-based rotor-wing operations division, Texas LifeStar, was sold to Air Evac Lifeteam.

D

* Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team - northern New England. Based in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

E

* Emergency Airlift - Air ambulance service headquartered at the Florence, Oregon Municipal airport.

F

* Flight for Life - many bases of operation across the United States

G

* Guardian LifeFlight

H
Hermann Life Flight

* HALO-Flight - Based in Corpus Christi covers 26 counties, 28,000 square miles and a population of over one-million in South Texas.
* Hermann Life Flight (aka Memorial Hermann Life Flight) - Hospital based in Houston Tx

I

J

* Jet I.C.U - A dedicated, FAA licensed, international air ambulance operator. Specifically dedicated to air medical transport of critical care patients, JET I.C.U. has its own fleet of ICU equipped Learjets, in-house flight and medical crews. JET I.C.U. is not a broker and does not outsource.Tampa, Florida

K

L
Lifestar (EC-145)

* Life Air Rescue, the only CAMTS certified program in Louisiana, based in Shreveport, Louisiana.
* Life Flight (US)
* Life Force - 4-state region surrounding Erlanger Medical Center, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
* Lifeguard Aeromed, Inc. - Providing air ambulance service to North America. Based in Fort Worth, TX.
* LifeNet, Inc - Based in Texarkana, Texas with operations also out of Hot Springs, Arkansas, LifeNet, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation providing ground and air ambulance services throughout Northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas. The ground ambulance program serves the residents of Bowie , Cass and Red River counties in Texas , as well as Texarkana. In Arkansas, ambulance coverage is provided in Garland, Miller, and Little River counties. LifeNet’s air program started in 1983 as St. Michael's AirLife, its aircraft have flown more than 9,000 accident-free medical missions. The flight program employs a Bell 407 helicopter, which has the potential to travel at speeds up to 165 miles per hour in its primary service area of Texarkana ( Southwest Arkansas and Northeast Texas ) and the surrounding counties.
* LifeNet in the Heartland - Provides services in Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas.
* LifeNet Key West operates a Eurocopter EC-135 P2+ and serves the Conch Republic.
* Life Net of New York (LNNY) - bases in Albany, Fultonville, Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, Wallkill, and Harris New Tork.
* LifeStar Air Medical Services of Emergycare - operates one LifeStar (Eurocopter EC 145) helicopter, out of Harborcreek Township, Pennsylvania
* Lifeteam - Based in Newton, KS and operates two fixed wing aircraft, three helicopters and two ambulances throughout Kansas with bases in Wichita, Emporia, Hutchinson, Great Bend, Dodge City and Liberal.

M

* Medcenter Air- The largest air ambulance in North Carolina. Medcenter Air has been operating since 1996. Providing helicopter transports regionally and fixed-wing flights in North America, Central America and South America. CAMTS certified. ARGUS Platinum rated. Currently operating 4 bell helicopters, 2 Citations C560's and 2 King Air BE200's. www.medcenterair.com

Mercy Air 2

* Maryland State Police - MPS Aviation Command operates a large aviation division focusing on medevac operations. Aviation also supports ground units of the state and local police. Funding comes from vehicle registration fees. [3] The Command operates 3 types of Aircraft[4]: 12 Eurocopter Dauphin (nine SA.365N-1 Dauphin, two AS 365N-2 Dauphin and one AS 365N-3) and two light aircraft (one Beechcraft B300 King Air 350 and one Cessna P210N Pressurised Centurion). The aviation command was instrumental in the support of the first trauma center in the USA, the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore[5]. Trooper 2 based at Andrews Air Force Base was the busiest medevac helicopter in the nation before its crash.
* Medflight International - Provides fixed wing, international and domestic, critical care and medical air transport services. Based in Houston, Texas.
* Medway Air Ambulance - global
* Mercy Flights - Mercy Flights was established in 1949 by George Milligan, a Medford, Oregon Air Traffic Controller who founded the service after losing a friend to polio. Mercy Flights has grown from grass root beginnings to a leader in medical transportation. Mercy Flights has flown more than 15,000 patients throughout the western United States. Mercy Flights' ground ambulance service currently serves more than 18,000 patients each year.

N

* National Air Ambulance - Medevac flights, ACLS certified, complete bed to bed services to North and South America, Caribbean, Canada, Europe. Located at Ft. Lauderdale's International Airport.

O

* OSF Aviation (Life Flight) - Operates 2 Bell 230 aircraft based in Peoria, IL.

P

* PennSTAR
* LifeMed Alaska - Anchorage, Alaska.

Q

R

* REACH Mediplane Air Ambulance Service - Santa Rosa, CA
* Rescue 7 - operated by the Southeast Mississippi Air Ambulance District and based at Forrest General Hospital.

S

* Sanford-University of South Dakota (USD) Medical Center - Operates 1 Bell 230 EMS helicopter based in Sioux Falls, SD along with two Beechcraft airplanes.
* Schaefer Air Service of Schaefer Ambulance Service California
* Summit Aviation - Medical Transport Div based in Van Nuys, CA
* Survival Flight - operated by the University of Michigan Health System, based in Ann Arbor, MI. Operates 3 rotary-wing and 1 fixed-wing craft, serving Michigan and states/provinces within a 200-nautical mile radius (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and the Canadian province of Ontario).
* Stat Medevac - based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and operates 18 helicopters callsigns MedEvac 1 thru 18. STAT MedEvac is a Direct Air Carrier E3MA774L and arranges and coordinates the operation of air ambulance services. All flights are operated by STAT MedEvac.

T
Traumahawk 3

* Traumahawk Palm Beach County Florida
* Travel Care International, Inc. - Specializes in emergency and non-emergency air ambulance services worldwide. based in Wisconsin.
* Texas LifeStar

U

* UMASS LifeFlight Critical Care Transport Helicopter operated by the University of Massachusetts Hospital in Worcester, MA

V

* Valley Flight For Life - Helicopter ambulance service to areas in Nevada, Utah, California, and Arizona.

Incidents

Air Methods had, after the 2006 Mercy Air helicopter accident, a total of 19 accidents leading to the deaths of 21 people nationwide according to the National Transportation Safety Board's records.[6] Air Methods companies had three other fatal accidents, in a 10 year period. On September 7, 2002, three crew members died when a Mercy Air helicopter based in Nevada crashed in Nipton, California after the main rotor blades separated while maneuvering in flight after dark.[6] In January 2005, an Air Methods helicopter crashed in Washington, D.C. with two dead and one injured, and another crashed in Mississippi killing one.[7] Craig Yale, the vice president of corporate development for Air Methods, stated in a news conference shortly after the accident that, "We fly over 100,000 hours a year, 85,000 missions a year, and in doing so have had very few fatal accidents over a 10-year period."[6]

On June 29, 2008, a Bell 407 medical helicopter operated by Air Methods collided with another medical helicopter in Arizona, killing six of the seven aboard both aircraft. Another Air Methods helicopter crashed in May in Wisconsin soon after taking off; three people were killed in that accident: the pilot, flight doctor and flight nurse.[8]

On September 28, 2008, at approximately 12:30am, Maryland State Police Trooper 2 (Eurocopter AS 365N1 Dauphin, N92MD) disappeared from radar and crashed with five people aboard in Walker Mill Regional Park in Prince George's County.[9] There were four confirmed fatalities, which included Pilot Stephen Bunker, TFC Mickey Lippy, EMT Tonya Mallard (Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department), and one of the two patients on board. This resulted in the grounding of all aircraft, until the cause is determined, with allied agencies covering the state.[10] This is the fourth fatal crash in the history of the MSP Aviation Division. The most recent crash prior to this occurred on January 19, 1986.

References

1. ^ Air Methods website
2. ^ "Who We Are - Air Methods". http://www.airmethods.com/content/index.cfm?fuseaction=showContent&contentID=2&navID=2. Retrieved 2007-06-19.
3. ^ Maryland State Police Aviation Command
4. ^ US civil aircraft register searches using "Maryland State Police" and "Maryland Department of State Police" as the Owner Name search parameters. Searches conducted 2007-10-31.
5. ^ History of Shock Trauma at the UMM
6. ^ a b c Garcia, Ana (2006-12-21). "Fatal Crash Raises Air Ambulance Safety Concerns". KNBC-TV News (Los Angeles). http://www.knbc.com/news/10581778/detail.html. "The Air Methods companies have had 19 crashes leading to the deaths of 21 people nationwide according to the National Transportation Safety Board."
7. ^ Gang, Duane W.; Lisa O'Neill-Hill and Paul LaRocco (2006-12-12). "Helicopters grounded : The number of crashes has increased in recent years, a federal study finds.". Press-Enterprise. http://www.pe.com/localnews/rialto/stories/PE_News_Local_D_mercy12.3a9de9c.html#pop. "The pilot, nurse and paramedic of an air ambulance that crashed Sunday night in a foggy, hilly area near the summit of the Cajon Pass were an experienced crew, company officials and colleagues said Monday."
8. ^ "Air Methods stock down after crash". Denver Business Journal. 2008-06-30. http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2008/06/30/daily1.html?ana=from_rss. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
9. ^ Four Fatalities in State Police Medevac crash in Prince Georges County
10. ^ Helicopter accident kills 4. The Daily Times Retrieved September 28, 2008.

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See also

* Medical escort
* Police Aviation in United States
* International SOS, Provider of air ambulance evacuation & repatriation services
* Air Ambulances in the United Kingdom
* UK Emergency Aviation
* Medical evacuation