COMMERCIAL MEDICAL ESCORTS, INC.
POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA

Connect with us online to get the latest News about CME. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Flickr, LinkedIn and YouTube so you can always get the latest updates from Commercial Medical Escorts through the social media experience that you like best. About Commercial Medical Escorts (CME) Commercial Medical Escorts was founded in 2006 when Blake Yturralde, owner and president, discovered a need for a specialized company, focusing on airline medical transportation. Blake recognized a need for a special niche within aeromedical transport and saw an opportunity to provide better patient care and to increase efficiency while being most cost effective. CME is a privately owned company located in Boca Raton, Florida that is currently staffed with nurses and physicians across the country. CME is able to provide cost effective air medical transport because of its large network of nurses that it employs throughout the United States. Commercial Medical Escorts, Inc. (CME) is fully capable of solving all of your medical escort and repatriation needs in a fast, courteous and dependable manner. CME has transported hundreds of patients. As a cost effective alternative to air ambulance, we are a proven leader in this highly specialized field. Our medical director and operations manager are industry professionals who have years of aeromedical experience and extensive knowledge of the medical escort services field, including critical care air ambulance. Commercial Medical Escorts utilizes a network of caring professionals whose primary concern is patient care and comfort. Medical Transport Company Choosing a medical transport company to bring your family member or client home is the right decision. Medical repatriation can be very overwhelming to an individual, a family member making the arrangements, or even a case manager at a hospital. This is why you choose a medical transport company, more importantly; this is why you should contact Commercial Medical Escorts. CME is a medical transport company that provides medical repatriation for clients each and every day to all different parts of the world. We relieve the burden off the patient and family member and take care of all of the arrangements. If you try to make all the arrangements yourself you will experience challenges and difficulties, but when you contact CME, our experienced and long lasting relationships with the airlines, hospitals, trains, and ground transportation, will bring unparalleled service and comfort to you and your family. As a medical escort company we have our nurses and doctors equipped with the necessary medical equipment to complete each medical escort assignment. We have clearance with TSA to carry special medical supplies need to address each patient. If the patient requires oxygen for the flight, the flight coordinator will arrange that need with the airline during the ticketing process OR provide the medical personnel with an InogenOne or Respironic EverGo, a portable oxygen concentrator (POC) that is allowed on commercial aircrafts. Both of these POC’s require medical clearance through the airline, and CME will handle this. , our medical transport company is able to make changes and anticipate any of those disruptions and act accordingly. We monitor each and every flight that our nurses are flying on, all transport flights, and even those transports that go by train. We always look for the best itinerary for the patient while being cost effective. Arranging Hospital/Rehabilitation/Nursing Home Admission Many patients express their concern in regards to experiencing difficulties in securing hospital, rehabilitation, nursing home admission or even an accepting physician. CME’s strong network throughout the country and experience in the health care industry with proven success can assist you in acquiring admission even in some of the most remote facilities around the world. Today’s large urban health care facilities can be confusing and somewhat frightening for someone not familiar with how they work and that is why you let CME, the medical transport company assist you with this. Upon requesting a quote,CME will inquire where the patient is going and if assistance is needed in arranging facility admission, CME can provide further support to the family or assistance company. Commercial Medical Escorts Team The Commercial Medical Escorts Team is comprised of 24/7 in-house operations staff, registered nurses, physicians, and critical care paramedics. All of our medical team members exceed the medical escort industry standards. They are required to have a minimum of 3-5 years critical care experience, ACLS, trauma course, PALS, flight physiology certificate, and many are much more qualified. All of our staff is required to complete a variety of training within our continuing education program. The Commercial Medical Escorts Team values patient care, patient safely, and overall well-being of individuals we transport around the world. Our distinguished Commercial Medical Escorts Team brings passion for delivering the highest level of quality care to each and every patient that we transport. Meet some of our medical staff: Relax and allow CME staff to handle your entire medical and transport needs. I believe in the saying “to treat others as I want to be treated". I strive to provide the knowledgeable medical, compassionate, sympathetic and caring care that I want my love ones to have I am here to work for you and with you, and will do whatever it takes to get you home safely. "If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep walking"—Buddhist Saying Commercial Medical Escorts In The News The Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems will conduct an re-accreditation site visit of: Commercial Medical Escorts September 12, 2017-September 13, 2017 CAMTS accreditation standards deal with issues of patient care and safety of the transport environment. Anyone believing that he or she has pertinent or valid information about such matters may request a public information interview with the CAMTS site surveyors at the time of the site visit. Information presented at the interview will be carefully evaluated for relevance to the accreditation process. Requests for public information interviews must be made in writing and sent to CAMTS no later than 5 business days before the site survey begins. The request should also indicate the nature of the information to be provided during the interview. Such request should be addressed to: