Standards evolved to address patient care
and safety in both fixed-and-rotary wing
services, along with the ground inter-
facility services that provide critical care
transports, CAAMS was ultimately
rebranded into CAMTS. In 1991, Eileen
Frazer helped develop 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 asCAMTSExecutiveDirector.
In speaking of her own early experiences as a
flight nurse in the 1980s, Frazer offers
insight as to the relevance of CAMTS. She
recalls 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 handful of
hospitals across the country had such
capabilities. For Frazer, the pending flight
was not only a first in her experience, but it
was also a first for the hospital with which
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