April 12, 2024

Bob Bacheler is the owner and managing director of Flying Angels, Inc. based out of Philadelphia, PA where he manages a team of medical escorts comprised of highly skilled nurses and doctors.

In addition to being a Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN), Bob is a Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN), a Transport Practitioner Advanced Trauma Provider (TPATC), has is certification in Travel Health (CTH) from the International Society of Travel Medicine and is a Certified Dementia Practitioner (CDP). For several years, Bob had the privilege to serve on the board of directors for Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association (ASTNA), where he had the opportunity to directly impact issues relating to the transportation of patients through the means of helicopters, fixed wing planes, and medical escorts.

November 11, 2019

The mission of Knowledgeable Aging (KA) is to provide webinars, blogs, podcasts, and a newsletter with a unique perspective or unique point of view on a particular topic or set of topics in some direct way associated with the aging process.

Jul 13, 2020

You will probably learn something new in this episode, I definitely did.
Here’s the situation: Imagine grandma is in Florida and you want to move her closer to you in Boston. She has medical needs and is currently in a nursing home.
How do you move her? She can’t just get on a plane by herself, and you could help but she has medical needs.
Plus, there’s air ambulance services, but the cost is way too high.
Today’s guest Bob Bacheler runs FlyingAngels, which is a non-emergency medical transport service, and they could help.
Bob will answer all the basic questions, including how it works and the ballpark costs, in today’s short episode.

December 17, 2019

This week on Growing Greater we learn about a team of trained medical professionals who provide non-emergency medical transport anywhere in the world on commercial airlines. Bob Bacheler is the Managing Director of the company known as Flying Angels, a more cost-effective and practical alternative to what is known as “air ambulance” services. Bob sat down with Matt Cabrey, Executive Director of Select Greater Philadelphia, a council of the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, and explained how he transversed his career as a flight nurse and the future of Flying Angels. 

September 12, 2019

I’m Trisha Torrey, and since 2004 when I first became immersed in the American healthcare system, its possibilities, and its dysfunction, I have called myself Every Patient’s Advocate.

That was a long time ago!  And I’ll admit that for the 54 years of my life before then, it never occurred to me I would become an expert on helping people get the great healthcare they deserve.
But then life happened, my world came crashing down – and here I am to tell the tale. I have spent these last many years using that world-crashing experience as my impetus to help you.