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:
- Sim Shain, inspired by his EMT father and mentor Steve Zakheim, founded ParaFlight EMS to provide air ambulance services and later launched OrganFlights, an "Uber-style" app for real-time organ transport.
- OrganFlights streamlines the logistics of organ transportation by enabling direct communication between transplant centers and aircraft operators.
- The COVID-19 pandemic presented significant challenges for medical transport, particularly for organ transplants due to resource shortages and restrictions, though ParaFlight adapted by assisting with corporate flights and international patient repatriation.
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