Meducare celebrates 20 years of
service
Since 1987,
Meducare has provided South Carolina residents with the highest level
of emergency critical care available around the state. 
ED physicians and
Meducare staff celebrate 20 years of service Nov. 28 around the
Lowcountry and beyond.The program grew along with MUSC’s need to establish a critical care services program in 1997. When MUSC was accredited as the Lowcountry’s only Level 1 Trauma Center to treat the most critically ill or seriously injured patients, Meducare was there to provide emergency transportation using both air and ground ambulance services.
Meducare's ground program features a multidisciplinary team of 56 critical care paramedics, dispatchers, transport specialists and support staff. Meducare’s Air Transport team consists of trained flight nurses and flight paramedics along with support crews to provide quick responses when seconds count during an emergency.
Becky Nunnally,
Meducare communications specialist, dispatches a helicopter to a
designated location. Nunnally is one of nine full-time communications
specialist.In 2007, Meducare won approval to pilot intra-aortic balloon pump patient transports using critical care paramedics. Currently, Meducare is the only transport system in the state with this ability. The Meducare ground critical care team has successfully completed more than 10 solo transports.
Meducare
expanded its services to include management of the medical center’s
fleet of patient-family shuttles. The programs fleet consists of nine ambulances, including a new critical care ambulance built with the latest technology and comfort for patients and crew, during long-distance transports.
Friday, Dec. 14, 2007
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