Request critical care transport services – 317-338-5000
When you choose Ascension St. Vincent Critical Care Transport, your patient has access to a Level 1 Trauma Center, adult and pediatric emergency, Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital pediatric specialty care, advanced heart and brain care, and more, including but not limited to:
- Brain and spine care
- Burn Center for children and adults
- Heart and Vascular Center (including heart transplant)
- Heart and lung failure with ECMO
- Multidisciplinary surgical care
For additional pediatric one-call transfer information to a Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital in Indiana, click here.
Ascension Transfer Center coordinates critical care transport in Indiana
Request critical care transport 317-338-5000
The Ascension St. Vincent Critical Care Transport team serves all patient populations and demographics in Indiana. Our Ascension Transfer Center is open 24/7 to coordinate requests for critical care transport by ground or air. Our critical care transport program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS) for Critical Care, ALS, and BLS services for:
Neonatal – A newborn or patient less than 28 days of age
Pediatric – A patient more than 28 days of age up to 17 years of age, or 15 years of age for a trauma patient
Maternal-Fetal – A pregnant patient with a gestational age of 23 weeks or greater
Adult – A patient 18 years and older except for trauma, which is a patient 16 years of age and older
Learn more about Ascension St. Vincent Ascension Transfer Center services, including interfacility transfers.
Information needed about your patient before air or ground transport
Our Critical Care Transport team needs the following information in preparation for the transport team’s arrival:
- Copy of complete patient chart
- Hospital - patient face sheets - two copies
- Physician transport summary
- Copy of X-ray or other imaging on CD or duplicates, if not available on cloud
- One full page of patient labels
- Copy of EMTALA form
- Additional newborn documents and information, including maternal prenatal, antepartum, and labor and delivery records
Advanced critical care transport services
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Critical care transport ground and flight capabilities
At Ascension St. Vincent in Indiana, we provide an experienced critical care transport teamfor your patient’s healthcare needs.
- Neonatal
- Neonatal ICU-trainedclinicians
- High-frequency ventilation
- Nitric oxide
- Therapeutic hypothermia — ground only
- Pediatric
- Pediatric ICU and Emergency Department-trained clinicians
- Burn and trauma specialty-trained clinicians
- Nitric oxide — ground only
- Maternal-Fetal
- Continuous fetal monitoring capabilities
- Critical Care Paramedics and high-risk obstetrical nurses specializing in transport of the high-risk obstetric patient in collaboration with maternal-fetal medicine physicians
- Adult
- Adult ICU and Emergency Department-trained clinicians
- ECMO — ground only
- Ventricular assist devices (VAD)
- Impella® heart pump
- Intra-aortic balloon pump
- Heated high-flow oxygen — ground only
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Recognitions and accreditations
Ascension St. Vincent Critical Care Transport in Indianapolis, Indiana, is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS) for Critical Care, ALS, and BLS services.
- CAMTS accreditation is the highest accreditation in the medical transport industry.
- CAMTS requires clinicians to obtain and maintain advanced certifications pertinent to transport and specific patient care demographics.
- Our Critical Care Transport team reports operational and clinical metrics to a national database for continuous quality improvement.
“The Commission [on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems] believes that the two highest priorities of an air medical or ground inter-facility transport service are patient care and safety of the transport environment. The CAMTS Quality Management (QM) process oversees the reporting and quality improvement activity in the organization and is dedicated to improving process and implementing efficiencies that will contribute to the mission of the organization. In order to obtain accreditation, a medical transport service must be in substantial compliance with the Accreditation Standards.” – (https://www.camts.org/about/)
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Critical care transport triage guidelines
The Ascension St. Vincent Critical Care Transport Team has developed Transport Triage guidelines to help dispatch the most appropriate critical care team to your patient.