Partnership Brings Carolina Travelers Home for Care on MedCenter Air Jets
Charlotte, N.C. (March 5, 2009) – MedCenter Air is partnering with Birmingham-based Air Ambulance Card, LLC to provide air ambulance transports for members who enroll through MedCenter Air. Under the partnership, members who are sick or injured 150 miles or more from home, domestically or internationally, will be flown home to the hospital of their choice. MedCenter Air will be the provider of choice for members who join under the partnership.
“Patients in the Carolinas Medical Center want be treated by CMC experts, no matter where they get sick or injured,” said (who should we quote here? Jason?). “When we can send our jet and our staff to pick them up and fly them home for treatment, it’s a win for us, a win for the hospital and a win for the patient.” Members can enroll in the MedCenter Air partnership online at www.AirAmbulanceCard.com by entering medcenterair in the group code field.
“Membership in Air Ambulance Card eliminates concerns about the high cost of a medical flight. They can come home to CMC aboard a MedCenter Air jet and the member patient never receives a bill,” said Stan Bradley, managing director of Air Ambulance Card.
MedCenter Air offers comprehensive critical care transport services through a growing fleet of fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and ground ambulances. All are custom-equipped and staffed with highly trained medical and aviation specialists to serve as airborne and mobile critical care units. MedCenter Air is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS).
Air Ambulance Card provides travelers with prepaid hospital-to-hospital air ambulance service, domestically and abroad. 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. More information at 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.