The Indiana University School of Medicine has nine campuses throughout Indiana; the principal research and medical center is located on the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis campus in Indianapolis. With 1,409 M.D. Program students and 158 Ph.D. students in 2017, IU is one of the largest allopathic medical schools in the United States. The school offers several joint-degree programs, including an MD/MBA, MD/MA, MD/MPH, and a MD-PhD Medical Scientist Training Program.
ARCH Air Medical Service is an emergency medical service (EMS) that provides critical care air ambulance service in Missouri, Illinois, and the surrounding regions. Air ambulance programs offer transport by helicopter (rotor-wing) or fixed-wing aircraft. ARCH Air was the twelfth program in the U.S. to offer such services when it began operating in March 1979. Transporting approximately 4,200 patients per year by helicopter, ARCH aircraft are staffed by a pilot, nurse and paramedic. Flights are 80% inter-facility and 20% scene.
Memorial Hermann Life Flight is the only hospital-based air medical transport service in Houston, Texas. Life Flight flies into 12th floor of the John S. Dunn Heli-Stop atop Memorial Hermann Hospital-Texas Medical Center. It was founded in 1976.
The Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service (STARS) is a Canadian non-profit helicopter air ambulance organization funded by individual donors, service groups, corporate donors and government contributions. STARS provides rapid and specialized emergency care and transportation for critically ill and injured patients. STARS operates from bases in Calgary, Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and formerly Halifax.
Flight for Life is a prehospital care service with many bases of operation across the United States. Flight for Life is primarily known for its emergency medical helicopter transport, but also operates a fleet of land vehicles and fixed-wing aircraft for the transport of critically ill patients to specialized medical care. Helicopter transport is normally reserved for the most critically injured patients or patients who cannot be reached by traditional means of Emergency medical services. Helicopter transport is also especially useful for the transport of critically wounded patients to specialty medical facilities, such as burn, pediatric, or advanced trauma centers, that may be further away from the location of injury. Many rural communities rely on the speed of the helicopter to reach and evacuate their most serious patients to an available medical center. The helicopter may also be used for search and rescue operations in conjunction with ground units or alone.
Boston MedFlight (BMF) is a non-profit organization that provides emergency scene response and emergency interfacility transfer in Eastern Massachusetts at the Critical Care level, which is higher than a paramedic-level ambulance crew's certification, using both aircraft and ground ambulances.
STAT MedEvac is a service of the Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The primary function of STAT MedEvac is to provide air medical transport and as of July 2017 two ground ambulances for patients with an injury or critical illness. STAT MedEvac is directed by a consortium of hospitals of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) that include UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, UPMC Altoona, UPMC Hamot, UPMC Mercy and UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside. STAT MedEvac's base of operations is in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, at the Allegheny County Airport. With 18 helicopter base sites across Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, Ohio, and the District of Columbia, it is one of the largest single operated and dispatched air-medical transport system in the United States.
Air Methods Corporation is an American privately owned helicopter operator. The air medical division provides emergency medical services to 70,000 - 100,000 patients every year, and operates in 48 states and Haiti, and air medical continues to be its primary business focus. Its corporate headquarters are located in the Denver Technological Center, Greenwood Village, Colorado, in the Denver metropolitan area.
A flight nurse is a registered nurse who specialises in the field of providing comprehensive pre-hospital, emergency critical care, and hospital care to a vast scope of patients. The care of these patients is generally during aeromedical evacuation or rescue operations aboard helicopters, propeller aircraft or jet aircraft. On board a rescue aircraft you would find a flight nurse accompanied by flight medics and respiratory practitioners, as well as the option of a flight physician for comprehensive emergency and critical transport teams. The inclusion of a flight physician is more commonly seen in pediatric and neonatal transport teams.
Indiana University Health, formerly known as Clarian Health Partners, is a nonprofit healthcare system located in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the largest and most comprehensive healthcare system in Indiana, with 17 hospitals under its IU Health brand and almost 30,000 employees. It has a partnership with Indiana University School of Medicine. The IU Health system has a total capacity of 2,696 beds.
Air ambulances in the United States are operated by a variety of hospitals, local government agencies, and for-profit companies. Medical evacuations by air are also performed by the United States Armed Forces and United States National Guard.
The Omniflight-Charleston Aeromedical Program provided air ambulance services for South Carolina and portions of Georgia. The OmniFlight-Charleston base was founded in 1987 in Charleston, South Carolina. The service originally utilized a BK 117 helicopter to provide air ambulance services. The base is no longer operational.
Air Evac EMS, Inc., operating as Air Evac Lifeteam, is the largest company within AMGH. Air Evac is still the largest independently owned and operated HEMS, or air ambulance provider. Air Evac currently operates helicopters at 131 bases, covering most of the central and southern states; Service Area. While primarily a HEMS provider, they do operate 2 fixed-wing aircraft in Missouri and Kentucky. Originally based in West Plains, Missouri, the headquarters, dispatch (CenComm), and a few other departments were moved to a new facility in O'Fallon, Missouri in 2013.
Air medical services is a comprehensive term covering the use of air transportation, aeroplane or helicopter, to move patients to and from healthcare facilities and accident scenes. Personnel provide comprehensive prehospital and emergency and critical care to all types of patients during aeromedical evacuation or rescue operations aboard helicopter and propeller aircraft or jet aircraft.
Airlift Northwest, a program of the University of Washington School of Medicine and Harborview Medical Center, provides flight transport via helicopter and fixed wing aircraft for patients needing intensive medical care in Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska.
Metro Life Flight is an air ambulance service serving the Cleveland, Ohio area, and is part of the MetroHealth system. The system is fully CAMTS certified, and provides transport between local hospitals, as well as emergency transport to MetroHealth Medical Center, a Level 1 Trauma Center.
CareFlite is a nonprofit ambulance service based in Grand Prairie, Texas which operates throughout North Texas. CareFlite's original namesake service is helicopter air ambulance, though today it also performs fixed-wing and ground transport.
Indiana University Health Arnett Hospital is a leading, full-service, private, nonprofit hospital, located in Lafayette, Indiana, part of the Indiana University Health system. The hospital is an ACS verified Level III Trauma Center, and was Indiana's first level three trauma center. IU Health Arnett Hospital is a Level III intensive care NICU with 12 beds staffed by four neonatologists with 24 hour coverage by Neonatal Nurse Practitioners.
