Prime Nursing Care, Inc.

Prime Nursing Care, Inc. is a commercial medical escort company based in Hollywood, Florida, providing medical transport services worldwide. Founded in 2004 by flight nurse Franziska Hollenstein, the company specializes in assisting patients who need qualified medical staff to accompany them on commercial airline flights. Prime Nursing Care does not operate its own aircraft but arranges travel on commercial flights, including stretcher flights for patients who cannot fly in regular airline seating.

The company offers bedside-to-bedside medical escort services, meaning a nurse accompanies the patient throughout the entire journey. Their medical teams have extensive experience in critical care and air ambulance transport. They also assist with unexpected medical or travel issues during the trip. The company serves patients and families from various regions and provides multilingual support.

Prime Nursing Care provides several key services. These include commercial medical escort flights, stretcher flights, assistance in arranging air ambulance flights with referred providers, ground ambulance or limousine transfers, and help arranging receiving medical facilities in Florida. They also offer repatriation from cruise ships and provide cruise ship companions if needed.

The company assists clients with necessary travel paperwork. This includes help with the US ESTA visa waiver, airline medical information forms (MEDIF), and obtaining fit-to-fly clearance from the treating physician. Their staff carries portable medical equipment like oxygen concentrators approved for airline use and satellite phones for remote areas.

In 2020, Prime Nursing Care expanded with a European branch near Zurich. This branch adapts services for European clients, working with local medical teams for language and cultural considerations. The company emphasizes reliability, professionalism, international reach, multilingual staff, and ethics, as reflected in their PRIME values. They hold EURAMI accreditation and are members of ASTNA, AACN, AAMS, and CPI.

Prime Nursing Care’s offices in the USA and Europe enable worldwide patient transports. Their service areas include North America, Europe, and other global regions. The company provides commercial medical escort services for patients who require medical supervision in transit but do not need the exclusive use of an air ambulance aircraft.

This company focuses on safe, competent patient transport via commercial airlines with nursing care, serving medical needs for various patient conditions from stable to needing stretcher accommodations.

Services

• Commercial medical escort flights
• Stretcher flights
• Air ambulance flight arrangement
• Ground ambulance transfers
• Limousine transfers
• Repatriation from cruise ships
• Cruise ship companion referrals
• Travel paperwork assistance (ESTA, MEDIF, fit to fly clearance)
• Admission to receiving facilities
• Multilingual patient support