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06-01-2005: Trinity Health passes another milestone with 7,000 completed transports!
06-01-2005: Due to continued growth, Trinity has current openings for Firefighter/Paramedics and EMTs. See Oklahoma State Firefighters Association website for more details.
9-27-2005: Trinity reviewed in a Technology Update in the Business Section of The OKLAHOMAN:
Oklahoma City's Medical Emergency Response Center transported more than 100 Hurricane Rita evacuees Thursday and Friday from Will Rogers World Airport to area hospitals, an EMSA spokeswoman said.
The effort involved nine area ambulance or tansportation services that took the patients who fled South Texas to 11 area hospitals.
Among the responders was a relatively new Oklahoma City-based company called Trinity Health Transit.
Founded little more than a year ago, Trinity Health Transit, 1106 SE 59, specializes in providing what spokeswoman Linda Haynes called non-emergency transport for sick and elderly Oklahomans.
The company, which charges as little as $35 to transport a wheelchair patient, employs 45 people, many of them area firefighters who work part-time for Trinity, Haynes said. The company was co-founded by Haynes and her husband, Terry and Ed Fowler.
Terry Haynes serves as Chief Executive Officer, and Fowler, a Del City firefighter, is Director of Operations. Trinity Health has grown from three trucks to seven, Linda Haynes said.
10-10-05 Trinity profiled in The OKALHOMAN. Article by Business Writer Julie Bisbee.
Made in Oklahoma: Trinity Health Transit
* Location: 1106 SE 59, Oklahoma City.
* Web Site: www.trinityhealthtransit.com
* Employees: 55
* Key Personnel: Terry Haynes, executive director; Linda Haynes, administrtator; Edward Fowler, director of operations.
*Services: Trinity Health Transit provides rides for people who need nonemergency transportation to doctor's appointments, kidney dialysis or other trips. The company has vans and ambulance-type trucks equipped for passengers with special needs.
The company started after its owners, a Del City fire fighter, a business owner and the former director of a radiology group, realized that there was no transportation service for nonemergency patients.
Trinity employees, most of them off-duty firefighters, have taken patients home from the hospital and to sporting events and weddings.
` "We took one patient to a concert as part of the Make-A-Wish program," Haynes said.
When hurricanes in Louisiana and Texas forced nursing homes to evacuate, patients who came to Okalhoma City were transported by Trinity Health Transit.
" We were the first ones there to greet them," Haynes said.
Trinity Health Transit allows patients to get from medical appointments to their homes at a fraction of what it would cost to take an ambulance.
An average round trip in a Trinity van is about $75, Linda Haynes said. An ambulance ride would be about twice as much, depending on the destination.
Medicare and most health insurance companies pay for ambulance rides but don't help with the cost of a nonemergency transport, Haynes said.
That's something the company is trying to educate workers about.
*Background: Trinity's owners opened the business in August 2004 after seeing a need in medical transportation go unfilled.
The taxpayer-supported EMSA was the only form of round-the-clock medical tranportation when Trinity began. "Their main focus was emergency, and that's their first priority." Haynes said.
Since Trinity began, it has transported 11,000 people. All of the company's drivers are CPR certified, and when tranporting patients in wheelchairs or on stretchers, an emergency medical technician is in the van.
Trinity also is working with nursing homes to develop disaster plans for evacuating residents. A dispatcher is at the office and takes calls 24 hours a day, seven days a week. "We're trying to make sure that we can increase the awareness," Haynes said. "Particularly since so many more of our citizens are getting older."
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