{"id":332721,"date":"2026-06-11T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/332721\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:24:07","slug":"phi-air-medical-cedar-creek-adds-advanced-care-no-out-of-pocket-pickups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/332721\/","title":{"rendered":"PHI Air Medical Cedar Creek adds advanced care, no out-of-pocket pickups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPHI Air Medical\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/phicares.com\/Bastrop-County-TX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cedar Creek base<\/a> expanded its advanced emergency transport services in 2025, adding several respiratory, cardiac and trauma-care capabilities\u2014some for the first time in Central Texas.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s happening<\/p>\n<p>Company spokesperson Georgia Harris announced April 14 that the Cedar Creek base added new in-flight care services for critically ill patients, including those experiencing severe respiratory distress, pulmonary hypertension or organ failure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PHI Air Medical\u2019s Cedar Creek base expanded its advanced patient transport capabilities in 2025. Courtesy PHI Air Medical)\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.communityimpact.com\/uploads\/images\/2026\/06\/11\/428238.jpg\" class=\"include_body\" onerror=\"this.src=\" width=\"2000\"\/>PHI Air Medical\u2019s Cedar Creek base expanded its advanced patient transport capabilities in 2025. (Courtesy PHI Air Medical)The details<\/p>\n<p>The Cedar Creek base became the first air medical service in Central Texas to provide routine, independent transports involving inhaled epoprostenol, which can help patients with severe respiratory failure.<\/p>\n<p>The base also added high-flow nasal cannula, inhaled nitric oxide and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation transport services for patients with respiratory or organ failure\u2014the first known to be offered by any service in the Austin area, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>One more thing<\/p>\n<p>Bastrop County residents pay no out-of-pocket flight costs when picked up and transported within a seven-county service area through an agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/bastrop-cedar-creek\/government\/2026\/03\/27\/bastrop-county-esd-3-ahead-of-schedule-for-district-operated-ems\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bastrop County Emergency Services District No. 3.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An option to upgrade the benefit to no out-of-pocket costs nationwide for $40 annually can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/phicares.com\/Bastrop-County-TX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>What they\u2019re saying<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crew at this base provides a service that goes above and beyond in every facet of their role, and these accomplishments reflect a crew that has the tools to elevate emergency medical care,\u201d CEO Christopher Hardman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHI Air Medical\u2019s Cedar Creek base expanded its advanced emergency transport services in 2025, adding several respiratory, cardiac&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[118930,132,134,133,118941,118935,51272,2143,118939,118931,118937,118932,118936,118938,118940,118929,118933,118934],"class_list":["post-332721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-air-medical-services","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-area-medical-services","tag-cardiac-care","tag-cedar-creek","tag-central-texas","tag-ecmo-transport","tag-emergency-transport","tag-high-flow-nasal-cannula","tag-in-flight-care","tag-inhaled-epoprostenol","tag-inhaled-nitric-oxide","tag-organ-failure","tag-phi-air-medical","tag-respiratory-failure","tag-trauma-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}