Air Ambulance Card Flies Heart Patient Home from Mexican ICU
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (September 1, 2009) – Air Ambulance Card flew a California man home for treatment after he experienced heart trouble while vacationing in Mexico. The member and his wife were vacationing in Cancun when he went to the hospital with what doctors termed a “cardiac event.” The member’s wife contacted Air Ambulance Card, which began the process of transporting him to Hoag Memorial Presbyterian Hospital in Newport Beach, California. A medical crew picked him up from the Mexican hospital at 10:00am and he was in a bed at Hoag Memorial by 6:40pm that evening.
“He was being treated in public ICU in Mexico. We wanted to be home, he wanted to be treated by his own doctors,” said the member’s wife.
“When a patient is in a foreign hospital, they simply want to come home,” said Sam Jackson, Managing Director of Air Ambulance Card. “Not only do we provide them that comfort, our members enjoy a significant financial protection. This flight from Mexico would have cost $31,000 thousand of dollars if Mr. Soliman had to pay for it out of pocket.”
Air Ambulance Card® flies sick or injured members home to the US or Canadian hospital of their choice when they are hospitalized 150 miles or more from home, domestically or internationally. The membership program offers services for a period of one year to families or individuals, and corporate accounts. Air Ambulance Card memberships are available to residents of the U.S. and Canada and cost $195 per year for individuals and $295 per year for families. For more information visit www.AirAmbulanceCard.com.
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Mr. Jackson has a B.S. degree from Auburn University and a J.D. degree from Jones Law School. He is CPA and member of the Alabama Bar and the American Bar Association. Mr. Jackson was the Chief Executive of the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, a 750 physician multi-specialty group practice at the University of Alabama at Birmingham for 8 years. He also served for three years as the Vice President of Finance and Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He was directly responsible for the financial management of both the university, the group practice, as well a 900-bed tertiary care hospital, with a combined budget of $1.9 billion. Mr. Jackson has 20 years experience in healthcare management and 30 years total experience in financial management. In 1992 he was directly responsible for creating the first large group covered by a subscription-based, prepaid air medical transportation program. He has served with Air Ambulance Card, LLC since its incorporation in 2002.
Mr. Bradley has a B.A. degree from the University of Alabama. For 20 years he held marketing executive positions and general sales manager positions with local Birmingham television stations. For 9 years he was President of Illustrated Care, Inc. a company which he founded that produced and marketed patient and physician educational videos nationwide, produced custom medical education and marketing videos, provided marketing and advertising services to medical groups nationwide. In 1992, he became associated with MEDjet International and since then he has been directly involved with air ambulance operations and operations of the subscription-based, prepaid air medical transportation program. He has served with Air Ambulance Card, LLC since its incorporation in 2002.