Sunstar Paramedics Revenue and Competitors

St. Louis, MO – The National Association of Air Medical Services will present the Critical Care Ground Program of the Year Award to Sunstar Paramedics, Pinellas County’s only critical care ambulance service, at it’s annual conference in St. Louis on October 17th. The award recognizes an emergency medical transport program that has demonstrated a superior level of patient care, management prowess, quality leadership through visionary and innovative approaches, safety consciousness, customer service, marketing ingenuity, community service and most importantly a commitment to the medical community as a whole. Mark Postma, Sunstar Paramedics COO and Paramedics Plus VP stated, “We are proud of our Critical Care Team for winning this award from AAMS. This team has kept Sunstar on the leading edge of patient-centered care while remaining focused on continuous improvement of the critical care infrastructure across the county. Our team works hard to deliver the highest quality critical care services in Pinellas County. On behalf of my 550 co-workers, we congratulate our Critical Care Team”. Sunstar Paramedics and its affiliate Critical Care Ground Team, is Pinellas County’s sole emergency and critical care provider with administrative headquarters in Largo. The mission is to deliver rapid-response critical care services anywhere in Pinellas County, linking patients in need with the resources of specialty medical and trauma centers in Pinellas County and beyond. The Critical Care service continues to provide lifesaving rapid transport for patients requiring transport from one hospital to another or direct from scene to trauma centers. In remarks made acknowledging the receipt of the award, Sunstar’s Specialty Services Manager Andrew Turcotte said, “We are deeply honored and humbled to have received this award from our peers across the US, Canada, and beyond. What we do collectively in the emergency medical system is important. The promise we make to provide the best patient care possible is profound, and we make that promise each and every day to the citizens and guests of Pinellas County. We strive to be worthy of our patients entrusted to our care, and to be worthy of the public’s trust in all that we do day in and day out”. Since its inception in 1992, Sunstar Paramedics Critical Care Team has grown from serving a few hundred patients annually, to more than 1125 in 2010. Since October 2004, the beginning of the most recent contract period, the Sunstar Critical Care Team has safely transported nearly 8,000 critically ill or injured patients. According to Debbie Vass, Director of Clinical Services, “Our dedicated team of outstanding people is the reason for Sunstar’s well deserved national recognition. We are very proud to be a founder of this exemplary county and statewide service. The Sunstar paramedics, EMTs, Nurses and support staff renew their commitment to provide excellent patient care and to maintain the highest level of safety each and every day. "Sunstar’s Critical Care Team is one of only a few programs nationally that are accredited by both CAMT’s and CAAS. The specialized critical care ambulance has increased mission performance capability that includes full body access to the patient, with a capacity to carry five medical attendants and specialized medical equipment including transport isolettes, ventilators, multi-channel IV pumps and intra-aortic balloon pumps. In addition, the Critical Care Team are staffed with nearly 25 critical care nurses and specially trained paramedics and EMT’s bringing tertiary-level intensive care unit to each patient served, all in support of local emergency providers and hospitals throughout Pinellas County and the Tampa Bay Region.