The Air Medical Operators Association (AMOA) is a diverse group of aviation operators working together to set the industry standard for safe air medical transportation.

We are committed to providing the highest level of safety for transporting patients and the medical crews that care for those patients, and implementing technology, procedures, and operating systems that will help ensure the continued safe and effective operation of air medical services.

• Every 90 seconds, in communities across the United States, the air medical industry responds to people whose lives are changed in an instant – an automobile accident, a stroke, a heart attack.
•  Air medical services transport 400,000 people a year safely.
• The air medical industry [also referred to as HEMS for Helicopter Emergency Medical Services] is the sole provider of access to a trauma center within an hour for 81.4 million Americans; further, 46.7 million Americans, living mostly in rural areas, still lack access to a Level I or II trauma center within an hour, representing a further need for our service.
• Because of patient need and the important role medical helicopters play in the healthcare system, air medical transports have steadily increased since the 1980’s, growing 13% per year from 1980 to 2002, and 4% per year since the 2002 introduction of the national Medicare fee schedule.
• Greater numbers of available aircraft across the U.S. have improved patient response times, directly resulting in improved recovery times and reductions in mortality rates, especially in the case of cardiac arrest, stroke and traumatic brain injury.