New Health Care Utility Set to Transform Transport Medicine

Murray, Utah — Nov. 18, 2025 — Five leading nonprofit organizations are joining forces to improve medical transport in the respective areas they serve across the country.

Advocate Health, Flight For Life Wisconsin, HealthNet Aeromedical Services, Intermountain Health, and MedFlight of Ohio, all collaborating with the Mindshare Institute, have created a new, nonprofit transport medicine Health Care Utility known as Aeroterra Health. The utility will leverage its collective size and strength to share resources aimed at solving longstanding, systemic problems in the medical transport industry, while reducing the cost of related products and services.

This alliance will enhance united action among nonprofit medical transport providers, resulting in greater safety, financial sustainability for the market, continued access, and the health and advancement of transport medicine. As a member-governed business, Aeroterra Health will empower participating organizations to shape the future of medical transport through shared authority, transparency, and complementary values.

“Collaboration across the medical transport industry is essential,” said Clinton V. Burley, President and CEO of HealthNet Aeromedical Services. “By joining forces with like-minded programs, we can maximize safety, reduce operating costs, maintain access, and further advance our field. We are excited to work together as partner organizations to build a stronger, more sustainable future for medical transport.”

The Mindshare Institute, a recently launched nonprofit focused on creating Health Care Utilities (HCUs) to structurally transform healthcare, is guiding the formation of Aeroterra Health, the first of many Mindshare-initiated utilities.

Aeroterra Health will invite other aligned medical transport programs, health systems, and strategic partners to join in the mission of advancing safety and sustainability in transport medicine, a critical part of the U.S. healthcare ecosystem.

Contact:

Jonathan Collier

Executive Chairman – Aeroterra Health

Email: jonathan.collier@advocatehealth.org  

Participating Organizations

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. Advocate Health is nationally recognized for its expertise in heart and vascular, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs more than 160,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to redefining care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.

Flight For Life Wisconsin is a non-profit critical care air medical transport program that has operated in Wisconsin since 1984. The program provides safe and efficient transport for patients with critical illness or injury with the goal of connecting individuals to the resources that support the best possible medical outcomes. Flight For Life Wisconsin is dedicated to safety, quality, education, providing an environment that supports staff education and development, and providing evidence-based medicine to the communities and patients in Wisconsin. The organization is headquartered in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

HealthNet Aeromedical Services, headquartered in Charleston, West Virginia, is a not-for-profit critical care transport system cooperatively owned and operated by Marshall Health Network, Vandalia Health, and WVU Medicine. The organization serves Central Appalachia from eight helicopter bases across West Virginia. Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026, the program has safely transported more than 120,000 patients.

Intermountain Health, headquartered in Utah with locations in six states and additional operations across the western U.S., is a nonprofit system of 34 hospitals, approximately 400 clinics, medical groups with some 4,600 employed physicians and advanced care providers, a health plans division called Select Health with more than one million members, and other health services. Helping people live the healthiest lives possible, Intermountain is committed to improving community health and is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare by using evidence-based best practices to consistently deliver high-quality outcomes at sustainable costs.

MedFlight of Ohio is a not-for-profit, CAMTS-accredited air and ground critical care transportation company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, that completes thousands of patient transports each year. MedFlight is governed by our owner healthcare networks: OhioHealth and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, with additional support from affiliate-member Kettering Health Network. MedFlight also has affiliate partnerships with hospital systems and pre-hospital agencies statewide.

The Mindshare Institute brings together leading healthcare organizations and industry thought leaders to solve some of the most complex challenges facing our healthcare system by building national-scale Health Care Utilities—nonprofit businesses that create lasting value and positive change.