St.Vincent StatFlight

St.Vincent StatFlight, an emergency medical helicopter service, provides high-level critical care and rapid transportation. A helicopter can be in flight within minutes of the dispatch call, 24 hours a day, every day.

StatFlight flies within a 150-mile radius of its bases. Stretching from border to border, StatFlight serves the entire state of Indiana as well as many surrounding states.

Because of the quick response times, rapid transport, and availability, thousands of lives can be saved by the utilization of air medical services. While trauma and motor vehicle crashes that require helicopter transport capture headlines, a large number of patients are moved from rural hospitals to major medical centers for high-level medical care. StatFlight transports patients between medical centers, regardless of the referring or receiving location.

Patients at the scene of a trauma are transported to the nearest appropriate Trauma Center. Patients at the scene of specific medical emergencies will be transported to the nearest appropriate hospital specializing in their condition. This may include Stroke Centers, Hand Centers or Cardiac Catheterization Labs.

About 40 percent of StatFlight transports are trauma patients, 50 percent are cardiac patients, five percent are pediatric, and the rest have various medical conditions.

When To Call

Call for medical transport when medical professionals trained in critical-care medicine and critical-care equipment are needed to adequately care for the patient. Clearly, cardiac patients requiring invasive procedures will benefit from rapid transport to a tertiary care center.

Other medical patients may require invasive monitoring, thrombolytics, vasopressors, blood administration, advanced airway management, a ventilator or other critical-care procedures.

Guidelines for When to Call

These are the guidelines from the American College of Surgeons for when to call for rapid transport: 

• Ground transport to an appropriate facility poses a threat to the patient's recovery or ground transport is delayed due to weather or geography
• Extrication time or road conditions will seriously delay the patient's access to advanced life support
• Motor vehicle accidents have occurred at 20 mph or more and the occupants are not wearing seat belts
• The passenger area of the motor vehicle is compressed to 18 inches
• The occupant is thrown from the vehicle
• A motor vehicle rolls over
• Another occupant in the vehicle dies
• A pedestrian is hit by a motor vehicle traveling 20 mph or more
• A person falls from 20 feet or more
• Burns to chest, neck, face or perineal area
• Any traumatic injury which requires significant fluid replacement or neurological impairment

How to Request St.Vincent StatFlight

Local law enforcement officials, fire fighters, first responders, emergency medical providers, 911 dispatchers and healthcare professionals can contact the StatFlight Emergency Communications Center to request a critical-care transport from the scene of any injury, significant cardiac or neurological emergency or between healthcare facilities.

Hotline Number: 1-866-574-4633 

Mission, Vision, Values

Our mission is to provide the highest quality, compassionate patient care during cost-effective, appropriate, safe and rapid transportation by a committed and expert team of professionals.

Our vision is to be recognized as the provider of choice for critical care transport. We will differentiate ourselves by providing our service to the entire health care community, while supporting and fostering excellence in adult and pediatric critical care.

Our values are:

• Above all, safety
• A mindset of abundance over scarcity
• Collaboration above competition
• Customer satisfaction
• Trust through respect and accountability
• Teamwork through learning and sharing knowledge/experience
• Personal fulfillment and mastery through participation and innovation; and economic responsibility without loss of excellence or commitment

Our Flight Team

Quality Individuals Make the Difference 

StatFlight air transports are staffed by a critical care nurse and a critical care paramedic. Each professional has extensive experience in their profession prior to joining the flight team for StatFlight. During employment with StatFlight, each professional receives extensive orientation and ongoing education. StatFlight crew members complete hundreds of hours of continuing education each year to insure that a high level of patient care is provided to our customers.

Each StatFlight professional must be certified in ACLS, PALS, TNCC or ATLS, BTLS, NRP or its equivalents, CFRN and or FPC to maintain employment with StatFlight. In addition, many of the flight professionals maintain national certifications such as CEN, CCRN, and CCEMTP

The flight team is supported by emergency medical specialists who are available for patient consultations and crew direction 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.

Medical Director

The StatFlight medical directors and their team of physicians work with the paramedics and nurses to implement patient care protocols, monitor continuous quality improvement, conduct and complete medical research, and organize emergency medical service educational events. StatFlight medical direction team is one of the most experienced in the nation.

Medical Equipment

The medical equipment and medications on board make a StatFlight aircraft a mobile emergency room equipped to handle any patient who has been critically injured or ill. Sophisticated onboard equipment allows the flight team to monitor a patient’s heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, temperature and carbon dioxide levels. The flight team uses external defibrillators, external and internal pacemakers, advanced ventilatory and airway management equipment, intra-aortic balloon pump equipment and fetal monitors when required for high risk obstetrical patients. The team also has available an extensive pharmacological capability.

Contact Us

Administrative Numbers 
3500 DePauw Boulevard, Ste 1042
Pyramids Building One, Forth Floor
Indianapolis, Indiana 46268
Phone (317) 347-8081
Fax (317) 347-0524 

Communications Center 
St.Vincent North Building
10330 North Meridian Street, Suite 100
Indianapolis, Indiana 46290
Fax (877) 777-0939