JeffSTAT (Jefferson Health)

JeffSTAT is the medical transport service of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a hospital programme that runs critical care ambulances and air medical helicopters for Jefferson Health.

Services

JeffSTAT gives advanced life support and critical care transport. Critical care nurses, paramedics and EMTs are ready to respond all day and night. The service moves patients for Jefferson hospitals and for other facilities. It answers both hospital transfer requests and scene calls.

Aircraft and bases

The site says JeffSTAT works with Air Methods to provide helicopter transport. It names IFR, twin engine EC135 helicopters that can carry two patients. The helicopters are dispatched and tracked by a communications centre in Omaha, Nebraska. The helipad at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital sits above the Emergency Department.

Coverage area

The vehicles respond to hospitals in southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The helicopters fly interfacility and scene requests in those three states.

Medical direction and partners

Crews follow set treatment protocols. Attending doctors in the Emergency Department and the Division of Acute Care Surgery give medical direction. The site says the service completes about 13,500 transports a year. It also works with Philadelphia Fire Rescue and Philadelphia Police for care before the hospital.

Transfers and scene calls

The site lists four air medical helicopters, plus advanced life support and critical care ambulances. Patients sent to Jefferson usually arrive with JeffSTAT, while scene patients mostly arrive with Philadelphia Fire Rescue or Philadelphia Police. The transfer line handles urgent and planned transfers to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience.

Facts

• Owned and operated by Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, part of Jefferson Health.
• The site says it is accredited by CAMTS.
• Licensed by the health departments of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, per the site.
• Medical direction comes from physicians in the Emergency Department and the Division of Acute Care Surgery.