Referral Directory

Phone numbers:

888-730-DOCS
800-262-0988
Fax 214-456-6195

Description of services:

• Transfer center
  • Staffed with an in-house team available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
  • Arranges consultation with the Children's medical staff.
  • Provides administrative approval of memorandum of transfer.
  • Coordinates transfers from beginning to end.
  • NAACS certified
• Levels of Clinical Service:
  • Pediatric Critical Care Transport Teams: R.N., R.C.P., paramedic and physician based on need.
• Mode of Transport:
  • Ground ambulance: 0-100 patient loaded miles.
  • Jet: 100 and more patient loaded miles and world-wide.
  • Helicopter: 20-120 patient loaded miles, if patient's condition and traffic or environmental conditions warrant.
  • Parent may accompany a patient on all modes of transport.
  • Click here to download the landing presentation (PowerPoint, 3.2 MB)
  • Click here to download the transport brochure (PDF, 8.5 MB)
• Outreach:
• Lecture series provided to hospitals and physician offices on a comprehensive list of clinical topics

Rotor-wing service owned and operated by Helinet Aviation. Fixed-wing service owned and operated by Seven Bar Air.

Patient transport also provides third-party transfers locally, regionally and internationally.

Procedures performed or problems diagnosed and treated:

The Neonatal/Pediatric transport program serves as the primary inter-facility transport service for the infants and children from the North Central Texas region. The program also serves as a national/international specialty transport service. A wide spectrum of transport medical modalities employing the most highly advanced technologies are provided.

Information for referral sources:

Transport necessary when patient requires services or equipment not available at the referring source. Physician and administrative approval first must be given prior to transfer to Children's.

Click here to access information on packaging the pediatric patient for transfer (PowerPoint, 214 KB).

Why Children's Medical Center?

• The Children's Transport team was one of the first pediatric transport teams to receive CAMTS accreditation in all three modes of transport (ground, helicopter and fixed wing). The transport team was re-accredited in 2005 for three years.
• One call to the children's transfer center is all that is needed to coordinate transfers from beginning to end.
• Team includes critical care nurses, respiratory therapists and paramedics specially trained for neonatal and pediatric critical care transport.
• In 2007, the Children's transport team completed more than 3,000 critical care transports.
• All team members have emergency room, neonatal and pediatric transport and intensive care experience. Our teams also are experienced in advanced airway management techniques.

Related Listings:

Trauma
Emergency and First Care
Critical Care Services/General, Cardiac & Trauma/Subacute ICU

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