MedFlight911 is committed to providing the highest level of medical care to our patients. That's why we only utilize the most qualified, professional and experienced medical staff the industry has to offer. Each crew member has to meet rigorous training standards including initial orientation and continuing education. We closely monitor medical personnel operations to ensure we continue to provide the highest level of service.
Our mission is to provide the highest quality air and ground medical care and transportation. To this end, we conduct ongoing and systematic quality assurance and quality improvement programs including post-transfer customer satisfaction surveys. Our program efforts focus on direct patient care delivery and promote optimal patient outcomes and effective financial practices.
Core certifications for Registered Nurses and Paramedics
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
Advanced transport certification for Registered Nurses and Paramedics
- Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
- Critical Care Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic (CCEMTP)
- Certified Critical Care Registered (CCRN)
- Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN)
- Certified Flight Paramedic (FP-C)
- Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN)
- Transport Nurse Advance Trauma Course (TNATC)
Initial orientation for medical staff includes
- Advanced and alternative airway management
- Altitude physiology/flight stressors
- Anatomy, physiology and assessment for adult, pediatric & neonatal patients
- Burn emergencies
- Cardiac emergencies & advanced cardiac critical care
- Environmental emergencies
- Equipment education including hemodynamic monitoring, pacemakers, AICD, central lines, IABP, pulmonary artery & arterial catheters, ventricular assist devices and ECMO
- High risk obstetric emergencies
- Mechanical ventilation and respiratory physiology for adult, pediatric and neonatal patients
- Metabolic endocrine emergencies
- Multi-trauma
- Neonatal emergencies
- Oxygen therapy in medical transport environment
- Pediatric medical emergencies
- Pediatric trauma
- Pharmacology
- Respiratory emergencies
- Stress recognition & management
- Survival training
- Toxicology
Continuing education for medical staff consists of:
- 100 hours continuing education per year
- Hazardous materials recognition & response
- Infection control
- Stress recognition & management
- Survival training
- Critical care for adult, pediatric and neonatal patients
- Emergency/trauma care
- Invasive procedure labs including a minimum of 5 intubations per year
- Labor and delivery
