At UC Health, we lead the region in scientific discoveries and embrace a spirit of purpose – offering our patients and their families something beyond everyday healthcare. At UC Health, we offer hope.
Region’s First Critical Life Support Helicopter
We are the first health system-affiliated air transport program in Greater Cincinnati to provide emergency transport of critically ill adult patients who are receiving ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) treatment.
When UC Health Can Help
Air Care & Mobile Care has provided the Greater Cincinnati area with specialized transport medicine services for patients in our community for more than 35 years. We are the first and only comprehensive adult ECMO ground and air transport service in the region. Our critical care life support helicopter is able to transport patients within a 200-mile radius from University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
Our Unique Approach To Patient Care
In Faster Response Lives Better Outcomes
The use of ECMO by Air Care helps expedite transport and critical, life-saving treatment for patients, improving the speed and quality of care. Our state-of-the-art helicopters, operated by Metro Aviation, allow our team to respond to patients faster and more efficiently. UC Health’s Air ECMO program provides a rapid response and keeps patients from ever having to leave the region to receive the fast, cardiopulmonary care they need.
24/7 in-house critical care coverage, 365 days a year.
Fastest response times in Greater Cincinnati.
1st and only comprehensive adult ECMO transport program in the region.
Decades of flight and cardiac experience among the Air ECMO team.
Delivering World-Class Care in Only Minutes
The Most Experienced Flight Team in the Region
Our state-of-the-art aircraft, operated by Metro Aviation, is the only one in the region that features a physician or nurse practitioner (NP) and a flight nurse on board every flight.
ECMO (pronounced “eck-moe”)
A New (Fast) Source of Hope for the Community
What is ECMO?
ECMO is a therapy that replaces the function of the heart and lungs for patients, allowing physicians time to treat patients suffering the most critical conditions. It provides short-term life support for patients with a failing heart, lungs or both.
Providing More Time and More Options
ECMO has improved survival for many critically ill patients and is especially useful when patients are not responding to typical life support equipment. It provides the critical care team time so they can deliver the necessary treatment to help save lives.
A Highly-Skilled, Specialized Team
The use of ECMO aboard a helicopter requires a high level of training and expertise. At UC Health, we provide an ECMO-trained physician in addition to the most experienced flight care team in the region aboard all ECMO flights to ensure patients receive the highest level of care.
Air Care News
UC Health Is First in Southern Ohio to Offer Adult ECMO Transport by Helicopter
UC Health Air Care & Mobile Care program became the first health system in Ohio to transport ECMO patients by ambulance. Now, with the debut of ECMO transport by helicopter, UC Health is continuing its tradition of leading the region in innovative, specialized transport medicine only available from UC Health.
