When Sim Shain was seven years old, his father had just become an emergency medical technician, volunteering for a local New York ambulance squad, Hatzolah EMS. “I used to watch him run out of our home and his business to go and save lives,” said Shain. “I said, ‘When I get older, I want to save lives too.’” As he turned 20, he took an EMT course and joined Howell First Aid and Rescue, then in 1996, joined the unit that his father helped to start—Hatzolah.
Medical Flight Missions Expand, Adjust through 2021
Key Takeaways:
- Inspired by his EMT father and mentor, Sim Shain founded ParaFlight EMS and its OrganFlights division to provide critical air medical transport and an "Uber-style" real-time service for organ logistics.
- OrganFlights was developed based on Shain's firsthand experiences with challenging patient transfers and the complexities of finding specialty care and organ transplants.
- The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted organ transport due to resource shortages and restrictions, although ParaFlight adapted by increasing its corporate and international patient repatriation flights.
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