Air Care & Mobile Care’s services range from mass casualty evacuation to transport to a patient's residence. There is more to our services, however than meets the eye. Here are some fun facts:
Air Care & Mobile Care is the first program east of the Mississippi to be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Transport Services (CAMTS) in four levels of care: Basic Life Support, Advanced Life Support, Mobile Intensive Care and Air Medical Transport
Average years of experience:
In the air: Flight physicians – 3; flight nurses – 18; pilots – 25; maintenance team – 20
On the ground: Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) – 17; paramedics – 14; nurses - 23
Our staff represents 24 different Fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Departments from the City of Cincinnati to Blanchester Ohio.
Mobile Care staff volunteer more than 2,000 hours of medical services each year to University of Cincinnati sporting and special events.
The Mobile Care team drove 527,657 miles in 2005 .
Air Care used more than 70,000 gallons of fuel in 2005.
Our outstanding pilots have flown in 60 different countries and served our country in four theatres of war including Vietnam, Granada, Desert Storm and Bosnia. They have an average of 5,100 flight hours.
Mobile Care's most commonly transported diagnosis is chest pain. Air Care's is multiple trauma.
Air Care & Mobile Care's dedicated medical transport billing clerks enter more than 275,000 data fields into the billing system each year.
Air Care has two twin-engine helicopters. Both are BK 117s. They cruise at 150 miles an hour for 330 miles without refueling. The aircraft are equipped to carry two patients in addition to its crew of three: pilot, flight nurse and flight physician.
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