EMA is a new Assistance Partner in Finland

After a successful year, International Assistance Group (IAG) keeps extending its network of Partners and Preferred Providers on a geographical but also functional scale. With this strengthened coverage International Assistance Group Core Partners and their customers benefit from the best operational solutions.

The new Partnership Model has been successfully launched one year ago, and the alliance with 36 Partners on early 2012, counts now with 54 Partners in the world. Providers have been added to the whole Partnership network in order to cover the complete value chain of the assistance activity. Therefore International Assistance Group comprises now assistance companies, roadside companies, medical correspondents, air ambulance companies, medical facilities, funeral companies as well as medical escorts companies. All of them agree on the business opportunities offered by their partnership. In addition they recognize the power of knowledge sharing events that International Assistance Group organizes for them three times a year. A strong operational solution in Finland is now provided by EMA (Emergency & Medical Assistance), who joined the network as Assistance Partner in January 2013.

Cécile Hermetz, General Manager of International Assistance Group declared “We are happy to integrate into the IAG the long established medical experience and know-how of EMA. Our company visited EMA on August 2012 and could measure the professionalism of the enterprise, started by Doctors in 1989 and strongly dedicated to medical assistance.”

As “IAG Assistance Partner”, this specialized company will supply the Medical & Travel assistance services in Finland on behalf of the International Assistance Group Partners. “The oldest and largest medical assistance organization in Finland” EMA Group was founded in 1989 and it is the oldest and largest medical assistance organization in Finland.

The operations started with medical assistance and consultation services. From there on, the activities expanded to emergency medical services (EMS), consulting and training. In 2011, Medivida and Via Healthcare merged to form a bigger group, EMA Group, which also includes staffing of health care professionals and health care outsourcing services. The company staff is composed of physicians from different fields of medical specialties, nurses and other professionals. EMA offices and medical equipment storage are located in Helsinki, Finland as well as ground ambulance garage. This is where EMA’s medical escorts depart. EMA and its partners have a ground and air ambulance network covering the whole country.

Aki Kamppinen, Managing Director of EMA said “EMA is really happy to join the International Assistance Group network. We are looking forward to working together with other IAG Partners to deliver a comprehensive service to our customers. Knowledge sharing and networking were additional important factors for EMA to join IAG. EMA brings to the group a long history and vast know-how in the medical case management and assistance areas. ”

On behalf of the International Assistance Group Partners, EMA multilingual team can provide travelers medical assistance and air ambulance repatriations in addition to the medical consultation service for flight and marine crew, medical clearances for flight companies, emergency medicine and travel related training, which they already provide in Finland.

“The Assistance Partnership opted by EMA is a first step to the IAG Partnership as the insurance portfolio developed by EMA is covering increasing numbers of Finnish citizens travelling abroad. During the last months EMA has won important contracts with Finnish insurance companies which means that EMA delivers services to all the major Finnish insurance companies”, expressed Cecile Hermetz.

About EMA

EMA has treated more than 17 000 patients abroad in 150 countries since 1989. In one third of the cases they have arranged repatriation with a doctor, nurse or intensive care team. Annually about 1,000 cases are handled by EMA multilingual team. Over 90% of the cases are heavy medical cases where the patient is hospitalized. EMA provides Aviation Medical Service and Medical Clearances (medifs) for flight companies.

EMA also offers Medical Consultations for flight crew and marine crew. As medical consultant, EMA holds resuscitation lectures and hands-on training every year. Lectures can be also related to traveling and travel health.

http://www.ema.fi