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jpmedic21

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I just passed the FB-C exam. It had many questions about LZ's at nursing homes and dialysis clinics.
 

chaz90

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I just passed the FB-C exam. It had many questions about LZ's at nursing homes and dialysis clinics.
That's surprising. I can't imagine there are too many flights out of healthcare facilities like those. Not that there isn't a conceivable reason to do it, but I don't see why it would be different than any other scene flight.

On a somewhat related note, 25 years ago the state police helicopter were the only paramedics available in my state. People who remember this tell me they used to routinely shut down a major road through a local town right by the nursing home for nursing home calls, land the helicopter, and the trooper paramedic would transport the patient in the local ground ambulance. Crazy times.
 

akflightmedic

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Chaz...methinks you missed the sarcasm
 

triemal04

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What? When I told my private EMS employer that I wanted to quit, he said that I couldn't. He said that "slaves don't quit, they are sold. now get back in your truck, we have calls pending"
You get a truck? Your master...er...supervisor is most kind...

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PotatoMedic

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I think the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution has already made it illegal to buy people...
I thought you knew that EMT's (and paramedics) are not considered people.
 

ERDoc

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I'm sure you will need a new medical director with all of that growth and an agency of that size will probably want to pay him several million per year?
 

Mufasa556

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Ugh...once again Orange County gets no love and is just skipped over for LA and SD. Story of my life.

To take this thread seriously, Just for kicks, buying out companies to grow and expand could work, it has before in LA, but I can't imagine being able to bring in a HEMS business into SoCal with so many hospitals littered about. Interfacility flights are reserved for super critical patients and are few and far between and 911 PT flights are rare also. The only place it could work is East LA County where they do tend to fly PTs out fairly often, but LACFD has an air squad stationed at Brackett in La Verne specifically for that reason, Life flight also keeps a helicopter just a few miles away at Cable airport, and LA Sheriff's Air Rescue 5 is available out of their San Gabriel Mountain station.

It would be weird for a IFT company to have helicopters, even the big 911 players haven't ventured into that. Though, weird things do happen. There is a company out here that has their own fire engines, but I digress.

If you're really into the whole flight thing, look into fixed wing transport. I'd really do a lot of research into the SoCal EMS market as a whole. You could ghost run a company as it stands with very little input, but you're not going to pull off any kind of substantial growth on 20hrs a week. If there's any validity to this at all, it sounds like a bunch of clueless Dialysis EMTs are going to lose their jobs due to grandiose ideas and mismanagement.

If you do all the research and still think HEMS is a good move, buy some Black Hawks. Show everybody who the new HEMS King in town is.
 

TransportJockey

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Doesn't Hall have their own rotor fleet?
 

RocketMedic

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They do, but that is a joint venture (the helos are leased) and they are more central.
 

robertnash90

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You need to buy at least 60% of the helicopters in the Western Hemisphere to get saturation. I reckon you can buy Air Evac Lifeteam and Eagle med for only a few tens of millions of dollars, but the news stations might hold onto theirs. You'll also need green cards for your EMT. Although flight basic sounds interesting....HEMS dialysis derby?
Hey you leave AE retired news choppers alone. LOL
 

ViolynEMT

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Lol you guys are funny. OK I was thinking an EC135 as seen below. I just wanted to find some information on what type of aircraft you might allready have worked in that might be better for the EMT than others.
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Uh.......EMT's aren't "allowed" on those............unless we're patients, that is.
 

CALEMT

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I think the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution has already made it illegal to buy people...

Tell that to my supervisor...
 
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