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We are honored The International Travel and Health Journal wrote a profile about AirCARE1, featured in the AirMed&Rescue Provider Profile section. We are always excited to share our unique approach to aeromedical care and grateful we’ve been able to continue to safely transport patients during the pandemic. Read our featured article below. Published October 2, 2020 on www.airmedandrescue.org Doing aeromedical care differently Critical care flight nurse Denise Waye envisioned an aeromedical company that would incorporate holistic approaches and put the patient first. Now, 16 years later, AirCARE1 is continuously growing [...]

Amron NIV Hood May 17, 2021 Update AirCARE1 now offers an additional way to transport patients with infectious diseases, including COVID-19, H5N1, SARS, and even Ebola. In addition to the ISO VAC patient isolation module that AirCARE1 purchased in the summer of 2020 to safely transport COVID patients, we now transport patients utilizing a Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment Hood for respiratory droplet isolation. Both medical equipment options are FDA approved and the safest ways to transport patients while protecting crew members onboard as well as preventing the spread of COVID-19 in [...]

Combining her love of nursing with aviation, 15 years ago Denise Waye, WAI 78982, was determined to start her own air ambulance provider with a foundation built on safe operations. Denise is dedicated to providing patient care with empathy and compassion. She draws on her experiences as a mother of five children and a driven entrepreneur who established AirCARE1, a 100% woman-owned company. What prompted you to start AirCARE1 in 2004? I am the mother of five children. After the birth of my fifth child, I had an unpleasant experience [...]

AirCARE1 maintains the highest standards for in-flight critical care during our air medical transports. Our priorities are: Quality Patient Care Safety Risk Mitigation Reliable Customer Service Fair Price Quality Patient Care All AirCARE1 long-range jet aircraft are fully equipped Airborne Critical Care Units. The patient travels on a custom-designed Transport Stretcher System furnished with critical care monitoring and therapeutic systems. Our highly qualified and experienced medical team continuously monitors the patient’s condition and takes any required action to ensure their comfort and medical well-being. The flight crew, medical team, equipment, [...]

AirCARE1 President & Founder, Denise Waye, was featured in the recent publication of Southwest Magazine's The A-List. Take a look and see what Southwest had to say about Ms. Waye and her travels with Southwest airlines:

AirCARE1 was honored to be featured in a recent article in the International Travel & Health Insurance Journal (ITIJ). The article was a piece focused on the importance of flight debriefs between pilots and medical crew. ITIJ says: Post-transport debriefs form an important part of an air ambulance company’s efforts to continually learn and improve the service they are offering. Air ambulance transport missions require team members from both the aviation and medical professions to all work in concert to make them successful. While they may well be communicating throughout the [...]

AirCARE1 is proud to announce that we have been featured in the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Newsletter "No Plane No Gain". Read on below to see what they had to say about AirCARE1: Published July 30, 2019 on www.noplanenogain.org General aviation, including business aviation, offers a range of air medical services throughout the U.S. and around the world. Short-range, emergency medical services typically provided by rotor-wing aircraft is perhaps the most familiar form of this service, but long-range air medical services make up a significant if lesser known part, [...]

We are proud to share with you our recent story featured in the March 2019 issue of ITIJ’s (International Travel & Health Insurance Journal) Air Ambulance Review. AirCARE1’s President and Founder, Denise Waye, reports on a logistically challenging flight that required complex co-ordination of flight crew to ensure adherence to duty times. […]

With our fifth jet Learjet purchase, we are excited to share with you our recent story featured in Albuquerque Journal this past month. Here is what the Albuquerque Journal had to say: […]

The Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems will conduct an accreditation site visit of AirCARE1 on December 11th and 12th. The purpose of the site visit will be to evaluate the program’s compliance with nationally established medical transport standards. The site visit results will be used to determine whether, and the conditions under which accreditation should be awarded to the program. CAMTS accreditation standards deal with issues of patient care and safety of the transport environment. Anyone believing that he or she has pertinent or valid information about such [...]