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About PFAA
The Patient First Air Ambulance Alliance
(PFAA) is a grassroots organization of medical and
aviation providers committed to ensuring that critically
ill and injured patients have access to the safest and
highest quality air medical system possible. PFAA is
comprised of air-medical providers, community and
business leaders, professional medical organizations,
state EMS and Health Agencies, hospitals, and FAA part
135 certificate holders that are committed to improving
the safety of air medical transport. We have come
together to provide our communities, our hospitals and
EMS partners in care, aviation regulators, and policy
makers with a path toward a safer and more trustworthy
air medical system.
Goals of PFAA
PFAA is working to clarify the interface between state
and federal oversight of air medicine. Our legislative
effort centers on the
Helicopter Medical Service
Patient Safety, Protection, and Coordination Act.
We believe that while the oversight of aviation is
contained within the federal purview, oversight of the
practice of medicine, emergency medical services and
health planning and protection is within the purview of
the states. Helicopter medical transport services
bridges these two regulatory arenas. PFAA is concerned
that the appropriate line between state and federal
oversight has been undermined by wide use of the federal
preemption provision of the Airline Deregulation Act
which was never intended to apply to medical
helicopters. Improved clarity regarding the balance
between federal and state regulatory oversight is
essential to a safe, effective, and quality air medical
system. The PFAA believes there is an important role for
State health planning and oversight of air medicine that
should not be trumped by Federal law unrelated to health
planning and regulation.
PFAA works to protect the interests of air ambulance
providers as necessary to ensure their continued
viability and capacity to provide the highest quality of
patient care services to critically ill and injured
patients requiring helicopter medical transport. We are
not mandating action by States, just recognizing their
long standing role in overseeing the practice of
medicine within their borders and to assure a level
playing field for all providers.
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