Ground Transport

For the sickest of the sick: ICU-level care on wheels

Hear “Boston MedFlight” and most people immediately think of our helicopters. But many of our transports—in fact around 52%—are in our critical-care ground vehicles.

Sending hospitals with very sick patients call us when their patients require further technology or personnel. Our ICU-level ground transport is their lifeline to higher-level, specialized care available at the sending facility. 

Up to the North Shore to pick up a patient in respiratory failure. Down to the Cape for a newborn clinging to life. Out to Worcester to pick up a cardiac patient on a heart-lung machine who is in need of a transplant. In all conditions, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, Boston MedFlight is there.

• Three critical care ground vehicles are strategically located for rapid deployment and Boston MedFlight has the ability to staff six in total if patient need requires.
• All of our critical care ambulances are configured with Stryker Power Load Systems, which are electric-hydraulic, stretcher-loading systems that increase safety for patients and our teams when loading patients and medical equipment. The stretcher systems have a capacity of 700 pounds.
• In 2021, our busiest year ever, we transported and cared for more than 5,600 patients, an average of over 15 patients every 24 hours.
• We serve sending hospitals throughout Massachusetts, southern Maine and New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.