REVA receives NAAMTA nod
REVA Air Ambulance has announced that following a comprehensive audit of its medical techniques and facilities, the National Accreditation Alliance of Medical Transport Applications (NAAMTA) has awarded REVA with the organisation’s full medical transport accreditation. As a result, REVA is now considered a NAAMTA Alliance member.
REVA Air Ambulance has announced that following a comprehensive audit of its medical techniques and facilities, the National Accreditation Alliance of Medical Transport Applications (NAAMTA) has awarded REVA with the organisation’s full medical transport accreditation. As a result, REVA is now considered a NAAMTA Alliance member. NAAMTA accreditation confirms REVA's best-practices standards, its culture of safety and continuing education, and its commitment to the wellbeing of both its clients and its flight teams, said REVA chief executive officer Stuart Hayman at a joint conference announcing the achievement.
REVA programme director Lesa Armstrong said: “Earning NAAMTA accreditation has been a top priority since the first day of our merger 18 months ago [between] Aero Jet International, Inc., and Air Ambulance Professionals. Since then, every staff member, every medical associate and every management, training, and safety action at REVA has been aimed at ensuring that we meet or exceed NAAMTA's high standards.” Armstrong explained that by applying the Alliance’s best practices standards and implementation protocols to all aspects of air ambulance transportation, REVA integrates medical, technical, and management standards. “In simple terms, we now practise a unified standard, across the board. This reflects the highest and best quality measures in each of the fields that make up air-ambulance services,” she said.
In welcoming REVA to NAAMTA, executive director Roylen Griffin said his auditors found overwhelming evidence of REVA’s commitment to quality management and safety practices at every level of its organisation. “We are very impressed,” Griffin said. “The accreditation process demonstrates REVA’s dedication to the individual patient before, during, and after transport.” He added: “Each provider, individually and as a group under the NAAMTA umbrella, demonstrates a corporate value system in which quality standards are not just enforced, but are continually monitored, developed and defined as medical transportation systems and expectations advance alongside the progress of medicine, patient care, and allied technologies.”
Accreditation by NAAMTA is awarded for three years, during which time members are encouraged to participate in on-going professional, technical and medical development, both online and in the seminars and workshops offered by NAAMTA.