St. Alphonsus Lifeflight and TriState CareFlight to Implement 365 Safety AMRM™

ThinkThroughTools recently added two new customers to its growing list of air medical transport providers focused on enhancing their programs' overall safety and AMRM (Air Medical Resource Management.)

Earlier this month, Boise-based St. Alphonsus Lifeflight and Arizona-based TriState CareFlight inked agreements to begin deploying ThinkThroughTools' 365 Safety AMRM™ on-demand software at their sites next month.

365 Safety AMRM™ covers the essentials of Safety AMRM for air medical transport and is customized for each mode of critical care transport. The main objective is to enable flight crew members to become knowledgeable in identifying existing and potential threats and develop, communicate, and implement plans and actions to mitigate perceived threats.

The on-demand software provides innovative programs, like St. Alphonsus LifeFlight and TriState CareFlight, short daily Safety AMRM training and testing that's included with each shift brief. Each day, crew members are provided learning lessons, scenarios and quizzes related to their duties. The process takes 8 to 10 minutes and is integrated into each shift brief to assure daily consistency and to make it part of the daily culture and operations. This tool serves as a key recurrent training process for staff.

In a ThinkThroughTools' online Safety AMRM survey last month, designed to gather information from providers to learn their overall beliefs and experiences regarding AMRM training and implementation, nearly 72 percent indicated that the Air Medical Transport industry is doing far too little AMRM training. Another 53 percent indicated that their program does not have a strict policy to include AMRM training as part of each shift briefing.

This prompted ThinkThroughTools to intensify their efforts and continue devoting its resources to rapidly get its 365 Safety AMRM™ on-demand software deployed nationwide. With the addition of Alphonsus LifeFlight and TriState CareFlight, ThinkThroughTools' CEO Rich Obertots is pleased to see more programs coming on board.

Obertots states, "TriState CareFlight and Saint Alphonsus LifeFlight are now part of a community of leading air medical transport providers implementing 'Best Practitioner' technologies that focus on human factors and human behaviors daily. We are honored that they made the decision to join several leading programs working with ThinkThroughTools to set new standards – not only for air medical transport – but for all of aviation."
Obertots adds that ThinkThroughTools will follow up and will continue to engage, monitor and make transparent progress with AMRM training and technology.

In the upcoming weeks, look for detailed profiles of St. Alphonsus Lifeflight and TriState CareFlight and their implementation of 365 Safety AMRM™.