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Air Methods prides itself upon exceeding many of the established benchmarks in the air medical industry.
The Ground Air Medical Quality Transport (GAMUT) Improvement Collaborative is a database for transport teams to track, report, and analyze their performance on transport-specific quality metrics by comparing it to other programs. According to the GAMUT benchmark, Air Methods’ clinicians outperform the industry in 11 key metrics, including first-attempt intubation success.
*Data from 2024
Placing a tracheal tube is the most complex procedure performed in air medical practice. After identifying the factors that contributed to unsuccessful intubation, we created the HEAVEN criteria in 2015. A lifesaving trauma care prediction tool, HEAVEN is now established as the gold standard process for airway management.
As the leader in advanced airway management, our first-attempt tracheal tube placement rate consistently exceeds 93.3%– nearly 20% above the average pre-hospital rates. Our overall success rate is 98.7%.
Air Methods contributions are numerous to industry best practices of airway management, including:
In 2024, a third-party comparative analysis of payer claims was completed by Optum to see if there was differentiation in outcomes for patients transported by different air medical providers. This analysis was done on aggregate claims data over a two-year period (2021-2022). The study found that there were, in fact, two key areas of differentiation that were statistically significant.
Air Methods teams treat a higher proportion of patients with certainsevere, time-sensitive conditions such as stroke, trauma, and headinjury than our competitors.
Patients transported by Air Methods are associated with lower post-event healthcare costs, including 65 percent lower for trauma patientsand 24 percent lower for all patients.
We are involved in a voluntary audit every three years to establish that we meet and exceed industry-wide standards. These standards address not only the quality of patient care, education of medical personnel, and medical equipment, but also operational and safety concerns. Achieving CAMTS accreditation is a mark of excellence for a critical care transport program. The Air Methods’ goal is for all CBS programs to earn CAMTS after one year of service.
Air Methods continues to make a financial commitment to providing the best prehospital air medical care possible. We have established partnerships with 10 strategic blood centers across the country including American Red Cross to make this possible. We have uniquely worked through the logistics of moving near expiration packed red blood cells back to high-use centers to prevent waste of this valuable product.
Over 150 aircraft are carrying blood products in flight and our clinicians perform over 2,500 blood transfusions annually.
Air Methods mitigates clinical risk through a variety of monitoring and reporting tools.
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