The CareFlight Team

Since 1983, the CareFlight team has served more than 150 hospitals, more than 150 fire and police departments, and completed more than 90,000 patient flights.

The CareFlight Air and Mobile team is made up of more than 100 highly trained professionals, including:

• A medical director
• Pilots with extensive and ongoing training including a minimum of 2000 flight hours
• Certified flight nurses
• Experienced critical care paramedics
• EMT drivers
• Mechanics
• Communications specialists

Each CareFlight helicopter staff includes:

• Dual flight nurses or a flight nurse and a flight paramedic
• A pilot with a minimum of 2,000 flight hours

Each mobile intensive care unit team includes:

• A flight nurse and a critical care paramedic or a critical care transport nurse and a critical care paramedic
• EMT driver
• A paramedic with a minimum of three years of full-time 911 experience

All CareFlight nurses are also dually certified as paramedics.  All crew members maintain certifications in Trauma, ACLS, PALS, NRP, and obtain a specialty transport certification.