About Us - Mission

Life Air, Inc. acknowledges the need for a critical care transport provider that is committed to the delivery of compassionate and clinically superior patient care during transport. Our mission is to provide our community’s with professional caring and cost-effective ground, and Helicopter transports while maintaining high standards that are compliant with regulatory agencies. We strive to meet this by never compromising the safety of our patients or our staff members.

Our corporate office is located in Portsmouth, Ohio with bases of operation in several locations in southern Ohio where there are limited resources within the community, diverse populations and a significant need for rapid critical care transport to tertiary care facilities located in larger metropolitan areas. The bases are staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with critical care and emergency experienced registered nurses and paramedics that utilize standing critical care medical treatment protocols.

Our Medical Crews are ready to respond within minutes to any non-critical or critical patient, including cardiac, respiratory, trauma, burn, neurological, surgical, medical, and pediatric emergencies. Our scope of care includes inter-facility and EMS transport of the patients in the communities we serve, longer distance inter-facility transports, and medical standby for special events.

We utilize a fleet of multi-engine, climate-controlled non-pressurized Helicopter specifically configured for providing critical care and advanced life support, including state of the art transport ventilators, infusion pumps, cardiac monitors, noninvasive monitoring, and an expanded drug inventory. As well as a fleet of Type I ambulances licensed as mobile intensive care units capable of transporting the critically ill in the event that the patient cannot be transported by the air medical team.

Constant changes in medicine and technology require Medical Flight Crewmembers to maintain competency. We provide initial ground school training, including flight physiology, crew resource management, safety, and annual continual education to assure superior patient care. In addition, annual educational opportunities for the Pilots, Mechanics, and Communication Center staff are provided and supported. Transportation of critical newly born, high-risk obstetrics, and critical patients with cardiac-assist devices are referred to Specialty Transport Teams.

In summary, we take pride in being committed to excellence by staying informed in the current trends of transport medicine, software, and maintaining proficiency in clinical skills, being active in the communities, and promoting the safety of our patients and crewmembers. Life Air, Inc. will and has always strived to be the best and safest at the services we provide.