many rotor wing medevac services in the usa are joint ventures - several different companies or corporations or agencies can be involved
sometimes a medevac is a "sole proprietorship" - my words - one company owns and operates the entire operation - like AEL + Reach + ?NW LifeFlight? etc but many medevac services are far more complicated the underlying pieces are - program ownership - who is in charge overall and who holds the "brand" name / marketing name - who makes a "profit" helicopter ownership - many are owned by large holding corporations - maybe some are jointly owned by hospitals - maybe some are solely owned by hospitals - (need to check faa records for thst info) pilots - many / most are paid / hired / trained / directed / scheduled by aviation firms hangar / crew quarters - many are owned by holding corporations - many are rented or leased - some are owned by medevac program or hospital I imagine mechanics - hired by aviation companies usually dispatch / communications - some by large companies - some are inhouse medical staff - mostly employed by hospitals - some are employed by medevac firms - some are employed by governmental agencies (ie south florida - couple of counties have medics on private helos) billing - multi npi number - many by large holding corps - some by medevac programs - some by hospitals admin - varies - meeting state and local regulations - making all the various parts of the program play nice together - public relations / web presence - etc part 135 certificate - aka filling out the FAA paperwork for the medevac program - usually done by pilot provider - sometimes done by hospital - FAA tries to keep helos from crashing into things payroll - probably by whoever hires the staff supplies and fuel and insurance - ???? quality control - whoever does the hiring research - ??? - no one ??? =================== note - some helos probably stay on an open helipad and only move to a hangar for bad weather or maintenance or winter - mostly in the south we presume note - some dispatch operations are also joint ventures - AirCom from Air Methods does joint dispatching with at least one hospital transfer center - in recent years many large hospitals have set up 'transfer centers' to coordinate the arrival of patients from outlying hospitals - they might or might not be colocated with the medevac program dispatch office -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKbwkjjjxF0Up_io-TqW3hd-gygdr%2BXjfg37MWLcjX7D9w%40mail.gmail.com.
