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Air Methods provides safe and reliable lifesaving treatment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Our highly-trained clinicians are held to the highest standards in critical care transport.
Their knowledge, expertise, and compassion helps give patients a real chance at another tomorrow.
As the leader in the air medical industry, Air Methods’ hiring requirements and education delivery are unmatched.
Flight Nurses
*If required by state and/or county
Flight Paramedics
Air Methods provides our newly-hired clinicians with a comprehensive training program. All clinicians receive ongoing training. Air Methods utilizes both simulation and didactic education in development of its medical teams.
New Hire – All Clinicians
Ongoing – All Clinicians
Air Methods Centers of Excellence are sophisticated facilities equipped with simulation and video technology called LearningSpace.
Air Methods crew members are able to:
Air Methods uses human cadaver labs for training on procedural skills and anatomical knowledge. The goal is to empower the flight crews with the confidence needed to perform medical procedures in high-intensity situations, supervised by our medical directors.
Air Methods is raising the bar for clinical research. Our research is not only impacting lives in air medical, but has been widely accepted in prehospital emergency care and emergency medicine. We have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into safety technologies, tools, and training, and we have benchmarked the standards in emergency medicine.
We are proud to be the only air medical company in a Community-Based System (CBS) to have Institutional Review Board Accreditation and Federal Wide Assurance.
Placing a tracheal tube is the most complex procedure performed in air medical practice. After Air Methods identified the factors that contributed to unsuccessful intubation, it created the HEAVEN criteria in 2015. A life-saving trauma care prediction tool, HEAVEN is now established as the gold standard process for airway management.
The Ground Air Medical Quality Transport (GAMUT) Quality Improvement Collaborative is a database for transport teams to track, report, and analyze their performance on transport-specific quality metrics by comparing it to other programs. According to the GAMUT Benchmarking, Air Methods’ clinicians outperform the industry in six key metrics, including first-attempt tracheal tube placement success.
Air Methods mitigates clinical risk through a variety of monitoring and reporting tools.
Protean
Physician Involvement
Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS) includes a voluntary audit every three years to establish that we meet and exceed industry-wide standards. These standards address not only the quality of patient care, education of medical personnel, and medical equipment, but also operational and safety concerns. Achieving CAMTS accreditation is a mark of excellence for a critical care transport program. The Air Methods’ standard is for all CBS programs to earn CAMTS after one year of service.
Designed internally by the company and modeled similarly to the FAA voluntary safety programs.
Studies have shown patients who have suffered significant trauma stand a better chance of survival after receiving blood immediately. Air Methods has over 100 bases now carrying blood in flight, and growing.
Wildfires continue to devastate the western United States and the harsh reality is that they are becoming a year-round issue, as opposed to what was once a seasonal occurrence. As the need for aerial firefighting helicopters grows, United Rotorcraft, a division of Air Methods Corporation, has awarded Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, a contract for […]
Our podcast, AMPED (Air Methods Prehospital EDucation) has returned with another episode this month! The podcast, which launched earlier this year, is designed for prehospital and in-hospital care providers and sheds light on the unique and challenging clinical scenarios faced by our emergency medical crews. It is a first-of-its-kind platform in which air medical and […]
To achieve the best patient care and outcomes, healthcare providers continually seek innovative approaches to improve training for current and future healthcare workers. However, the constantly changing needs and expectations of learners and educators driven by advances in technology have created new challenges to delivering high-fidelity, immersive training on a wide-scale and digital platform. The […]
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