Critical Care Transport Adds Planes, Membership Plan

The Critical Care Transport (CCT) team has recently added two new fixed-wing airplanes to its fleet of three ground mobile ICUs and two helicopters. The fixed-wing capabilities of the team have put an end to patient boundaries in terms of access to the Cleveland Clinic.  No patient is too sick or too far away to be transported to Cleveland Clinic by these specially-equipped aircraft. The CCT team consists of physicians, nurse practioners, critical care nurses, paramedics and other allied health personnel. After a request is made for transport, the medical team is tailored to meet the needs of the patient, including infants, children and adults being transported. Last year, the CCT team completed over 3,400 pediatric and adult critical care transports from 17 states and eight countries — including Kuwait, Italy and Uruguay. CCT has also launched a new GlobalCARE membership program. GlobalCARE assures members (including students studying out of town) that if they are ever hospitalized while traveling more than 150 miles from home, CCT will provide air transport back to Cleveland Clinic — with Cleveland Clinic care beginning the moment CCT arrives.