A Practical Path From Discharge to Destination
Your patient is ready to leave, but getting them home or to the next level of care is not straightforward. The family needs a plan, distance complicates the discharge, and an air ambulance may be unnecessary or financially impractical.
Air Nurses provides a clinically appropriate, cost-conscious alternative for medically stable patients who need professional nursing support. We coordinate travel from bedside pickup through the final handoff, allowing the case management team to move the discharge forward without having to manage every travel detail.
Why Coordinate with Air Nurses?
Board Certified Flight Nurses
Air Nurses exclusively use the same board certified flight nurses as on air ambulances for medical repatriation. Our nurses all have air ambulance experience and understand the complex process of medical transport.
Physician Medical Direction
Every mission operates under the medical direction of board certified emergency medicine physician Dr. Christopher Wolcott, MD. Unlike non-emergent medical transport (NEMT) services, Air Nurses carry a full ACLS kit and standing medical protocols on every flight.
Medical Transport &
Logistics Services
Air Nurses arranges every detail of the transport door to door — the aircraft, ground transportation on both ends, equipment, and timing coordinated around your discharge plan. Your team has a single point of contact from bedside to destination.
The Care Onboard, Coordinated for Every Discharge
Our patients are accompanied exclusively by CFRN-certified flight nurses with critical care and air medical experience. Every mission is supported by physician medical direction, established clinical protocols, and comprehensive ACLS-level equipment, medications, oxygen, airway supplies, IV capabilities, and patient monitoring.
For the referring nurse or case manager, that means the patient is not simply being escorted. They are traveling with a clinician who can:
Carry out ordered medications and treatments
Manage postoperative needs, wounds, drains, or catheters
Monitor for changes in condition
Assist with mobility, positioning, and transfers
Provide oxygen and respiratory support
Respond within established emergency protocols
We Make the Discharge Easier to Execute
Air Nurses can coordinate with physicians, nursing teams, families, aircraft providers, ground transportation, and receiving facilities. We help determine what documentation, equipment, medications, and travel arrangements are required and keep the case manager appropriately informed.
The result is a smoother discharge, fewer coordination burdens, and a level of care aligned with the patient’s needs—without defaulting to the cost and complexity of an ICU air ambulance when one is not clinically necessary.
