Professional non-emergency ground transportation with documented custody, computer-aided dispatch timestamps, and a defined release-to-receipt process.
Guardian EMS provides professional non-emergency ground transportation for appropriately packaged and released organs, tissues, transplant-related specimens, blood products, and approved transplant materials when the requested movement can be completed without emergency vehicle operation.
Guardian EMS does not currently provide emergency organ transportation, lights-and-siren response, or emergency traffic exemptions.
Acceptance is subject to the shipment being appropriately packaged, labeled, sealed, and released by the responsible healthcare or recovery organization.
Guardian EMS may consider kidneys, livers, pancreata, corneal/ocular tissue, donor tissue, transplant-related specimens, recovery materials, and other approved transplant-related shipments on a case-by-case basis when they arrive properly packaged, sealed, and fully self-contained for transport. Guardian EMS does not provide vehicle-supplied temperature control, electrical inverter power, medical air, or oxygen for these shipments.
Hearts; any shipment requiring active temperature control supplied by the vehicle; any shipment requiring inverter or other vehicle electrical power; medical air; oxygen; emergency vehicle operation; lights-and-siren transport; police-escort emergency movement; aviation transport directly operated by Guardian EMS; organ recovery; clinical preservation; packaging; transplantation; or other clinical transplant functions.
We collect pickup, destination, timing, shipment type, contacts, and transportation-specific instructions.
The accepted assignment is entered into our computer-aided dispatch workflow with operational timestamps.
The releasing transfer is documented and the shipment enters Guardian EMS custody.
The shipment is moved according to the accepted non-emergency transport instructions with dispatch oversight.
Transfer to the authorized receiving party is documented to complete custody.
Dispatch and custody records create a documented operational history of the assignment.
Know who had it. Know when it moved. Know when it arrived.
Documented chain of custody and computer-aided dispatch timestamps help create accountability from release through receipt.
Guardian EMS welcomes relationships with hospitals, transplant centers, organ procurement organizations, tissue and eye banks, laboratories, surgical centers, recovery organizations, and qualified healthcare partners requiring dependable non-emergency transport.
Discuss a Healthcare AccountNo. Guardian EMS currently provides non-emergency ground transportation only and does not provide lights-and-siren emergency organ transport.
Guardian EMS may consider appropriately packaged and released kidneys, livers, pancreata, ocular tissue, donor tissue, transplant-related specimens, and other approved materials on a case-by-case basis. We do not transport hearts, and we do not accept shipments that require Guardian EMS to provide active temperature control, inverter power, medical air, or oxygen.
Guardian EMS provides transportation and custody documentation only. We do not provide clinical packaging or preservation, active temperature-control equipment, inverter power, medical air, or oxygen. The releasing organization must provide an appropriately packaged, sealed, labeled, and self-contained shipment that remains within its required conditions without vehicle-supplied clinical support.
No. Guardian EMS does not currently transport hearts.
Yes. Applicable transports use documented custody transfers supported by computer-aided dispatch operational timestamps.
Organ and transplant logistics begin at $549 per transport leg, plus applicable mileage, standby, and other agreed charges.
Yes. Healthcare organizations with recurring needs can contact Guardian EMS to discuss workflows and account-specific arrangements.
Use our Trip Calculator for an estimate, then call (904) 362-9003 to request service or discuss a healthcare partnership.