HCA Holdings,
Inc., one of the nation's leading health care services companies, has selected
AirMed International to provide global air medical transport services for the
healthcare system's more than 300,000 employees and dependents covered by HCA
health insurance.
HCA Healthcare
is comprised of locally managed facilities that include more than 250 hospitals
and freestanding surgery centers located in 20 U.S. states and in the United
Kingdom. It performs 26 million patient encounters annually.
When HCA's
insured workforce and dependents are hospitalized anywhere in the world, AirMed
International will provide bedside to bedside medical transportation back to an
HCA facility for continued hospital care. With a global reach, AirMed
International has flown more than 20,000 missions in all 50 states and over 150
countries on six continents.
"AirMed
International is grateful that HCA, one of the world's most impressive medical
institutions, has entrusted our company with the transportation and health care
of its insured employees and their families," said AirMed President
Denise Treadwell.
"It is also a further demonstration of HCA's confidence in the professionalism
of our experienced medical and flight personnel."
Membership in
AirMed International offers a 24/7 Logistics Center for worldwide medical
referrals, consultations, and prescription assistance, foreign travel
advisories, threat assessments and emergency message services. Chosen as a
preferred operator for many other top hospitals around the globe, as well as a
contracted carrier for the U.S. Department of Defense, and Wheels UP private
flight club, AirMed operates its own fleet of fully customized and permanently
configured jets.
AirMed offers
unparalleled medical care and bedside-to-bedside transportation on a worldwide
basis and has some of the most experienced air medical crews in the industry.
With state-of-the-art medical jets and experienced and respected medical teams,
AirMed is able to deliver an uncompromising standard of care. AirMed owns and
operates all aircraft, as well as employing its own dispatch, fight, and medical
teams. |