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The Critical Care Division supports medical transport with helicopter, jet, and ground ambulance service for critically ill patients based on patient acuity, location and weather.   Children's CCT team currently offers transport of critically ill patients by the means of a specially trained group of nurses and respiratory therapists. All of our vehicles provide the team with special equipment designed specifically for transport allowing us to provide top of the line care to our patients.

A transport team is available 24 hours a day for referral of critically ill patients to Children’s of Alabama. Our PICU serves as a referral unit for Alabama, eastern Mississippi, western Georgia, south central Tennessee, and the Florida panhandle.

The Children's Critical Care Transport team originated in 1983 to meet the specific needs for transporting critically ill and injured children. Since Birmingham offered such high levels of care and treatment regimens, the demand for a means of getting these patients here was on the rise as well as the concerns of transporting critically ill children. Critical Care Transport came through with the ability to take the knowledge and technology that was based here in Birmingham, and carry it out to the critically ill all while incorporating the ability to transport these patients back to Birmingham in an efficient and controlled environment. 

In 2008, after years of sharing one helicopter with Alabama LifeSaver, we launched our first ever dedicated helicopter solely for the transport of pediatric and neonatal patients.  Easily identified with the Children's Hospital's red and white branding, our Bell 407 flies inter-facility transports within a 250 mile radius of Birmingham.