Relocating a loved one with ongoing health needs shouldn’t be a stressful ordeal.

At Air Ambulance Worldwide, we specialize in long-distance non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) for patients who are medically stable but require professional assistance to travel safely.

Whether you are moving an elderly parent across the country, transferring a patient to a specialized facility, or returning home after a medical procedure abroad, our highly trained flight nurses provide comprehensive, bed-to-bed care.

We handle all flight logistics, medical clearances, and ground transportation, ensuring a smooth and comfortable journey at a fraction of the cost of a private air ambulance.

What is Non-Emergency Medical Transportation?

Non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT), when applied to long-distance or international travel, is a specialized service designed for patients who do not require immediate, life-saving intensive care, but are unable to travel conventionally due to mobility issues, medical requirements, or cognitive decline.

Unlike an emergency MedEvac, which utilizes a fully equipped private flying ICU, our NEMT services are planned, coordinated, and medically supervised. This service bridges the gap between traveling alone and chartering a private jet. By leveraging commercial airlines combined with our expert medical staff, we provide a safe, dignified, and highly cost-effective solution for planned medical travel. Every transfer includes our signature bed-to-bed service, meaning our team takes over from the discharging facility and stays by the patient’s side until they are safely tucked into bed at their final destination.

Who needs Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Services?

For instance, a patient may live in Tampa, Florida, but need to see a specialist in Jacksonville, Florida. The drive may be too long for the patient and a commercial flight may be too stressful, so we offer an alternative means of transportation – long-distance non-emergency medical transport services.

Another example is an elderly mother living in a nursing home in New York may decide she wants to visit her family in North Carolina, but driving or flying commercially are not an option for her, so we offer this type of transportation for elderly people.

Our Global NEMT Flight Options

Our non-emergency medical transportation services are the solution in similar cases. In order to serve as many patients as possible, we have a transportation assistance program with various options for this type of transfer. Depending on the patient’s specific medical condition and destination, we offer two primary modes of non-emergency patient transport:

• Fixed-wing air ambulance service
• Commercial medical escort service
• International commercial medical stretchers

Non-Emergency Medical Flights

If you, a loved one, or someone in your care is stable enough to travel by air but still needs medical assistance on a flight, Air Ambulance Worldwide is here to help. When you call Air Ambulance Worldwide, our specialty flight coordinators will help you evaluate all of your options and tailor a solution to the specific medical needs of the person traveling. We offer private flights on our specially equipped medical jets as well as medical escorts and stretcher service on commercial flights.

Whatever your needs, Air Ambulance Worldwide is standing by to arrange the most efficient, cost-effective way to get the patient to their destination safely and comfortably. Our flight coordinators are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to help you find the medical flight solution that suits your needs and your budget.

Commercial Medical Escort Services

A medical escort traveling with a patient on a commercial flight is an ideal solution for relocating seniors, wheelchair patients, or patients who need to be moved to a facility that offers essential care.

For patients who can sit up during takeoff and landing but require medical monitoring, our commercial medical escort service is the ideal solution. A highly trained flight nurse or paramedic accompanies the patient in first class or business class (or economy, depending on budget and needs).

Our medical escorts handle everything:

• Administering medications and managing pain.
• Assisting with basic hygiene and mobility.
• Navigating airport security and bypassing long lines with wheelchair assistance.
• Coordinating in-flight medical oxygen using FAA-approved portable oxygen concentrators (like the Inogen One).

Moving Elderly Parents long-distance

There are many times you need to move elderly parents long-distance, and when they’re not able to take a standard medical flight, Air Ambulance Worldwide can help. Depending on the level of care they need, Air Ambulance Worldwide can assist with facilitating a medical flight or a commercial flight medical escort.

International Commercial Stretcher Flights

When a patient must remain entirely flat during the flight but is otherwise medically stable, an international commercial stretcher flight is a highly economical alternative to a private air ambulance.

Available on select international airlines, this service involves retrofitting a section of a commercial wide-body aircraft with a medical stretcher and a privacy curtain. Our medical team travels alongside the stretcher to provide continuous care. We coordinate the complex airline medical clearances, ticketing, and ground ambulance transfers on both ends of the journey.

Non-emergency medical flights on Private Medical Aircraft

If a private flight on a medical jet is desired, Air Ambulance owns and maintains our own fleet of specially equipped medical aircraft to provide, safe, efficient medical air transportation.

In addition, Air Ambulance Worldwide is networked with strategic partners across the globe, and can often find, “empty legs” that our partners have available on connecting flights. This can help save money on non-emergency medical air transportation by combining your needs with an existing flight.

Non-Emergency Medical Air Transport Flight Coordinators

Air Ambulance Worldwide knows how stressful it can be to arrange travel for a loved one in a compromised condition. But rest assured: you will be in extremely capable hands from start to finish. Our specialty flight coordinators are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to help find the best and most cost-effective solution to suit your needs. A flight coordinator will handle every detail of the journey, including:

• Bed to bed service, meaning a medical team member provides assistance patient every step of the way
• Ticketing and travel logistics
• Working with officials to accommodate wheelchairs, oxygen, stretchers, and other medical equipment
• Helping the patient with boarding and de-planing
• Managing ground transportation

Non-Emergency Medical Transport Costs

Every non-emergency medical flight is individually quoted, and costs depend on several factors. Rest assured that we will work hard to find the most efficient and cost-effective solution for your needs. Our dedicated non-emergency medical flight specialists will search to find the private, commercial, connecting or transfer flight solution that best fits your situation and generate a flight quote that is as competitive as possible.

Air Ambulance Worldwide has representatives available 24/7, 7 days a week. Call today for your custom non-emergency medical flight quote.

Who Needs Non-Emergency Patient Transport?

Long-distance medical transport isn’t just for hospital patients. Our NEMT services cater to a wide variety of families and individuals facing complex travel logistics:

• Elderly Relocation: Moving an aging parent or grandparent to another state to be closer to family, or relocating them to an assisted living facility. Our flight nurses provide the patience, specialized geriatric care, and comfort needed for seniors to travel without anxiety.

• Rehabilitation Transfers: Moving a patient from an acute-care hospital to a specialized spinal cord, brain injury, or physical rehabilitation center in another city or country.

• Traveling with a Chronic Illness: Individuals managing chronic conditions (such as advanced COPD, cancer, or neurological disorders) who want to travel for vacations, family events, or seasonal relocations (“snowbirds”) but cannot safely fly alone.

• Post-Surgery Repatriation: Patients who have undergone orthopedic or elective surgeries away from home and need a comfortable, medically supervised flight back to their primary residence to recover.

Frequently Asked Questions About NEMT