Partnership Brings UAB Travelers Home for Care on UAB Air Ambulance
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (February 10, 2009) – UAB Critical Care Transport (CCT) is partnering with Birmingham-based Air Ambulance Card, LLC to offer discounted air evacuation memberships to UAB faculty, staff and students. 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. CCT will be the provider of choice for members who join under the partnership.
“UAB people want to be treated by UAB experts,” said CCT Medical Director Dr. Kevin Barlotta. “When we can send our jet 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.”
Air Ambulance Card has set up a special website for UAB community at AirAmbulanceCard.com/uab where they can sign in with a valid UAB email address to enroll at special rates or find more information. “Membership in Air Ambulance Card eliminates concerns about the high cost of a medical flight. They can come home to UAB aboard a UAB jet and the member patient never receives a bill,” said Stan Bradley, managing director of Air Ambulance Card.
UAB Critical Care Transport is a hospital based, inter-facility transport program for patients in the United States and worldwide that require transport from one medical facility to another. Critical Care Transport has been providing medical transports for over 26 years and has transported over 34,000 patients. Jet aircraft intensive care units provide top notch support during long distance patient transports.
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’s special UAB memberships are available to residents of the U.S. and Canada and cost $130 per year for individuals and $200 per year for families, a discount of more than 30 percent. For more information visit www.AirAmbulanceCard.com/uab.
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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.