18 | Business World Magazine |
December 2013
Standards evolved to address patient care
and safety in both fixed-and-rotary wing
services, along with the ground inter-fa-
cility services that provide critical care
transports, CAAMS was ultimately re-
branded into CAMTS.
In 1991, Eileen Frazer helped de-
velop the industry’s first site surveyor
training program integral to the accredi-
tation process, a process that has evolved
right along with industry, but so too has
Frazer’s role in that today she serves as
CAMTS Executive Director. In speaking
of her own early experiences as a flight
nurse in the 1980s, Frazer offers insight
as to the relevance of CAMTS. She re-
calls her first experience in assisting with
a patient who was being prepared for a
transport to a trauma center. In those days,
medical transports by helicopter were still
a relatively new service and only a hand-
ful of hospitals across the country had
such capabilities. For Frazer, the pending
flight was not only a first in her experi-
