Mayo Clinic's Air Medical Programs Reapply for National Accreditation

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

ROCHESTER, Minn. — The Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS) will conduct an accreditation site visit of Mayo Medical Transport, a not-for-profit subsidiary of Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

The purpose of the site visit on Thursday, Sept. 30 and Friday, Oct. 1, 2004, will be to evaluate the program's compliance with nationally established medical transport standards. The site visit results will be used to determine whether, and the conditions under which accreditation should be awarded for another three years to Mayo Medical Transport.

Application for CAMTS accreditation is voluntary, with Mayo Medical Transport's Mayo One emergency helicopter and Mayo MedAir fixed-wing air ambulance being the only service in Minnesota and one of three in Wisconsin awarded the designation. Accreditation standards are concerned with issues of patient care and safety of the medical transport environment.

The general public is eligible to ask pertinent questions of site surveyors while they are conducting a review. Anyone believing that he or she has pertinent or valid information about such matters may request a public information interview with the CAMTS site surveyors at the time of the site visit. Information presented at the interview will be carefully evaluated for relevance to the accreditation process. Requests for public information interviews must be made in writing and sent to CAMTS no later than five business days before the site survey begins. The request also should indicate the nature of the information to be provided during the interview. Such request should be addressed to:

Office of the Executive Director
Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems
P.O. Box 1305
Anderson, SC 29622

The Commission will acknowledge such written requests in writing or by telephone and will inform the program of the request for an interview. The program will, in turn, notify the interviewee of the date, time and place of the meeting.

Mayo Medical Transport is a comprehensive system of medical transport services including: Mayo One emergency helicopter, Mayo MedAir air ambulance, Gold Cross ambulance and Emergency Communication Center dispatch. ###

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