Flight Personnel

The Airmed Flight Nurse is a highly qualified critical care specialist well experienced in both the Pre-Hospital and Critical Care Unit environments. Partnered with the AirMed Flight Medic, our nurses play a crucial role in performing both emergent pre-hospital transports and the most complex of inter-facility critical care transports. Often, the patients are simply too ill or severely injured to survive ground transport, and require interventions outside the scope of practice for a typical ground transport team.

Each Flight Nurse must meet specific requirements that include Georgia RN Licensure, and is encouraged to obtain their certifications as Critical Care Registered Nurse( CCRN) Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) and optional Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN). The Flight Nurse also must maintain their status and currency in courses of Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and either Pre-Hospital or Basic Trauma Life Support (PHTLS or BTLS), Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) with additional training in Burn Management. AirMed transports approximately 500 burn patients a year to the Joseph M. Stills Burn Center, which is the largest burn center in the country.

Whether caring for patients with serious traumatic injuries, patients on pumps, ventricular assist devices, and thrombolytics or those patients with severe burns Our flight team, at AirMed is there to provide the right care for the right patient at the right time – when seconds count.

AirMed Flight Nurses:

Amanda Cornell, BSN, CFRN, CCEMTP, Medical Manager
Mandi Purcell,RN, Chief Flight Nurse
Todd Garrett, RN, CFRN
Mary Andrews, RN, CFRN
Tina Nuckols, RN
Kent Wolfe, RN
Tracy Salemi, BSN, CEN

The Airmed Flight Medic is a highly qualified critical care specialist well experienced in both the Pre-Hospital and Critical Care Unit environments. Partnered with the AirMed Flight Nurse, our paramedics play a crucial role in performing both emergent pre-hospital transports and the most complex of inter-facility critical care transports. Often, the patients are simply too ill or severely injured to survive ground transport, and require interventions outside the scope of practice for a typical ground transport team.

Each Flight Medic must meet specific requirements that include Georgia Paramedic licensure, and is encouraged to obtain their certifications as CCEMT-P (Critical Care Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic), FP-C (Flight Paramedic Certified). The Flight Medic also must maintain their status and currency in courses of Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and either Pre-Hospital or Basic Trauma Life Support (PHTLS or BTLS), Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) with additional training in Burn Management. AirMed transports approximately 500 burn patients a year to the Joseph M. Stills Burn Center, which is the largest burn center in the country.

Whether caring for patients with serious traumatic injuries, patients on pumps, ventricular assist devices, and thrombolytics or those patients with severe burns Our flight team, at AirMed is there to provide the right care for the right patient at the right time – when seconds count.

 AirMed Flight Medics:

Dan Gates, CCEMT-P, FP-C, Program Director
Todd Purcell, CCEMT-P
Jeremy Keller, FP-C, CCEMT-P
Tony Jordan, CCEMT-P
Scott Dillon, CCEMT-P
Carol Palmer, CCEMT-P

Airmed Flight EMT’s:

Airmed Staffs EMT’s on the critical care crew that maintain the critical care ground unit’s logistics and fly with the critical care Nurse and Paramedic when needed.  They receive specialized training in addition to their EMT training and are an invaluable resource to Airmed.

Airmed Flight EMT’s:

Philip Brigham, EMT-I
Tina Bedichek, EMT-I
Jamie Champion, EMT-I
Rory Hanson, EMT-I
Ryan Goodson, EMT-I
Mark Aloan, EMT-I
Todd Lamb, EMT-I
Ben Hill, EMT-I