CHARLESTON, W.Va. — HealthNet Aeromedical Services is partnering with four other non-profit critical care transport programs to share resources to better overall service.
HealthNet, Advocate Health, Flight For Life Wisconsin, HealthNet Aeromedical Services, Intermountain Health, and MedFlight of Ohio have created a utility known as AeroTerra Health.
“We’re finding ways to better align for improved safety, better align for sustainability and better to improve quality delivery,” said President and CEO of HealthNet Clinton Burley.
The partnership does not change how each non-profit goes about its helicopter services in their area. The collaboration will be behind the scenes, as the five programs will share their resources to try to solve systemic problems and reduce costs.
“These are very high-quality programs and each program will remain its own identity, however, we’ll be working together as one in the background to make sure that the service offered to our patients is absolutely top shelf,” he said.
The newly formed AeroTerra Health footprint will stretch across the country, as the five programs provide services in West Virginia (HealthNet), Ohio (MedFlight of Ohio), Wisconsin (Flight For Life Wisconsin), the Carolinas, and western states like Utah and Arizona (Intermountain Health).
“It represents in excess of 100 separate helicopter bases and helicopters and in excess of 300 ground ambulances. This is a major alliance of these programs to improve service,” Burley said.
Burley says this partnership will ensure West Virginians are getting the right care when they need it.
“If we can collaborate with like non-profit programs across the country and seize best practices that we see with them and share our best practices with them, we’re assuring that the patients that we care for here in West Virginia continue to receive what they expect from us,” he said.