Services
For many of our patients, a few minutes can make all the difference between life and death. Care provided in the first hour after a stroke, car accident, heart attack or other medical emergency often determines the end result. Whether we are called in by a first responder who is on the scene or a hospital, we are ready to deliver life-saving care.
Our strategically-placed bases allow us to serve large portions of Ohio and Michigan, serving as a critical support system to EMTs and first responders throughout these areas. We are proud to be accredited through the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS). As a CAMTS-accredited organization, we adhere to the highest standards in medical transport, ensuring every patient receives exceptional care during transport. Learn more about the standards we must uphold for continued CAMTS accreditation.
Life Flight Air Transport
Life Flight Ground Transport
Life Flight MICU
Air Medical Transport: Advanced Care, Rapid Response
Our life flight rotor-wing helicopters are based in Toledo, Wauseon and Clyde, Ohio. This allows us to serve a 200-mile flight pattern encompassing southwest Ohio, northwest Ohio, northeast Ohio and southeast Michigan. Air medical transport is designed to provide life-saving transportation for critical emergent patients directly from emergency medical & trauma scenes and between hospitals.
Providing Critical Care at the Speed of Life
Mercy Health Life Flight Network offers both air and ground medical transport, along with several specialized care teams that can be deployed based on patient needs. We operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All of our care teams, air units and ground units are equipped to deliver ICU-level care.
Ground Medical Transport
Our mobile intensive care unit (MICU) provides ground transportation services based in Toledo, Ohio, to meet the needs of local requesting facilities. Started in 1994, this service provides interhospital transfers of patients requiring high acuity care when time en route is not critical. This includes the interhospital transfer of patients receiving ventilatory support, invasive monitoring, high risk OB, patients receiving vasopressors, surgical emergencies, hemodynamic instability, and high-risk cardiac patients on assist devices (balloon pumps, impella, LVAD).
Expert Medical Teams
Critical Care: Life Flight two-person critical care teams can include a flight physician, flight nurse and/or flight paramedic. These teams transfer patients from emergency scenes and provide interhospital transports for critical emergent patients. Our critical care nurses all hold Certified Registered Flight Nurse certifications, and our paramedics all hold Certified Flight Paramedics certifications.
Neonatal Team: Hospitals that need to transfer newborns can utilize our neonatal rapid response team, which includes a neonatologist, RN and respiratory therapist. This team provides advanced life support care and stabilization for pre-term and critically ill newborns. Neonatal transportation is available by air and ground and includes its own specially designed transport isolette.
MICU Team: Our mobile intensive care units are staffed by a critical care nurse, paramedic and EMT.
Field Amputation Team: In case of severe entrapment of limbs, Life Flight has the ability to initiate the response of a trained field amputation orthopedic surgeon to the accident scene.
State-of-the-Art Equipment for ICU-Level Care
| Our Aircraft Are Equipped To Provide Advanced Medical Care | |
|---|---|
| ICU-grade Ventilators & Respiratory Support | Advanced Cardiac Monitoring & External Pacing |
| Intravenous Infusion Systems For Precise Medication Delivery | Intravenous Infusion Systems For Precise Medication Delivery |
