Boston MedFlight
Michael Frakes is a seasoned healthcare leader with extensive experience in clinical care and quality management. Currently serving as Chief Quality Officer and Director of Clinical Care at Boston MedFlight, Frakes oversees clinical systems for a critical care transport system, significantly enhancing service delivery for high-acuity patients. Additional roles include participation in the Implementation Task Force for Statewide Maternal Levels of Care at The Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and serving as an instructor for the Medical Transport Leadership Institute. Past positions encompass leadership roles across organizations such as Hartford Hospital, the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and the Association of Air Medical Services. Frakes's educational background includes degrees in nursing and certificates in healthcare improvement and patient safety from esteemed institutions like The Johns Hopkins University.
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Boston MedFlight
Boston MedFlight (BMF) is a CAMTS accredited Critical Care Transport service. Boston MedFlight commits to excellence in critical care transport by providing the highest quality regional critical care transport system. For more than 35 years, Boston MedFlight has played an integral role as part of the Massachusetts EMS system and the community hospitals of New England. Boston MedFight transports emergent patients regardless of their ability to pay. We receive no state or federal funding and as a 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization we must rely on third party reimbursement, support from our consortium hospitals, and our fundraising efforts to cover the substantial costs associated with delivering our services. Our consortium hospitals include: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital,Tufts Medical Center and Lahey Hospital & Medical Center.