Why Choose Us?
The Transport Team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center provides specialized critical care and advanced life support services focused on the pediatric and neonatal patient in the mobile intensive care and stable acute environment. The team is uniquely prepared with both skills and equipment to meet the needs of the pediatric and neonatal patient during transport:
- We have more than 20 years' experience transporting children.
- Our unique dispatch center is staffed by transport RNs, and paramedics who are prepared to immediately mobilize the team and assist in coordinating your referral from beginning to end.
- The equipment we use is designed specifically for children, not adapted to them.
- Our child-friendly ambulances help ease the tension for kids, who can choose to watch a video, listen to music or rest in a soothing, child-oriented environment.
- We use specially configured turbo-jet and Lear jet aircraft.
- We practice family-centered care and encourage a parent to accompany his or her child during transport.
- The team is made up of transport nurses, respiratory therapists, emergency medical technicians, and paramedics who are trained extensively in the critical care and stable acute management of pediatric and neonatal patients.
- Our team stages an ambulance at Liberty Campus to better serve our customers north of Cincinnati.
The Transport Team at Cincinnati Children's is the only transport team in Greater Cincinnati dedicated exclusively to children. We can administer care from the most basic to the highly advanced both on the ground and in fixed-wing aircraft.
The team provides critical care and stable acute transportation services to over 2,800 patients per year.
For more information contact the Transport Team at Cincinnati Children's, 513-636-7126 (non-emergency calls only). To schedule a transport, contact the Transport Team dispatch center, 1-877-258-6416, 513-636-7525.
