Our Patients and Families

Survival Flight is the University of Michigan's air medical transport program extending the reach of University of Michigan Health System's care. Our highly skilled critical care transport specialists use the most up-to-date medical aviation equipment and are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Critical Care Transport provides the following services:

• Transports critically ill and injured patients from local or regional hospitals to specialized treatment facilities within the University of Michigan Health System or other tertiary care centers.
• Evacuates critically injured adults and children quickly and safely from accident sites to trauma treatment facilities.
• Transfers neonates and newborns needing specialized intensive care services.
• Transports organs and organ transplant teams from hospital to hospital.
• Provides back-up to public safety agencies for aerial searchs, comprehensive triage and disaster management.
  
  

Philosophy of Care

Survival Flight's original mission statement proposed to rapidly transport critically ill and injured patients to definitive care while providing the highest measurable quality of care to those patients, Survival Flight has never wavered in this mission. For almost 20 years our transport system has retained its position as a benchmark program by which others have been able to measure their own progress. Survival Flight was not born of a template but rather has been a collaboration of leaders---physicians, nurses, pilots, communication specialists, mechanics, managers, and administrators---all in near total cooperation with one view and one plan: quality patient care.

Our Nursing Team

SWAT nursing is the in-house transport service staffed separately from the flight nurses. Continuing with the mission of quality patient care the SWAT nurses pilot program began with "road-tripping" in the adult ICU's and has now expanded to a service which crosses all the barriers of nursing and patient care. The role they provide to the institution is invaluable.