Our initial plan included the deployment of a comprehensive Air Ambulance and Charter service for the Pan-Caribbean region.  This program would involve facilities such as the Fort Lauderdale Executive and International airports, respectively, partnered with local hospitals.

Ongoing feasibility and cost studies have determined establishing a full stand-alone air ambulance program would neither be conducive nor efficient.  The costs associated with launching such a program from the ground up, while initiating other programs would drain resources and be detrimental to the overall mission objectives of The Alfred Family Foundation.

It would be more efficient and cost saving to instead directly support existing air ambulance programs in South Florida local airports and partner with local hospitals.  This approach respects and utilizes existing economies of scale to expand services and use the expertise of organizations that clearly have experience delivering best practices for air ambulance and relief services.  It is the intention of The Alfred Family Foundation to fund through partnerships selected service providers in Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach Counties to better serve clients and patients throughout the Caribbean.

The Alfred Family Foundation will be able to better use distributed funds to area hospitals to expand air medical response teams.  Through the process of studying cost effectiveness, the Foundation has determined the development of Ocean-Going Medical and Disaster Relief to be a greater priority need then launching an independent air ambulance service.  To this end, the Foundation has identified a unique platform to acquire for the delivery of both emergency disaster relief and comprehensive mobile hospital and surgical services to the region.  An Ocean-Going ferry, capable of 45 knots on the open sea is considered to be a great means for accomplishing this intent.  Originally designed to ferry passengers and their cars from one island to another, designed and built in Auckland, Australia this ship would be retrofitted to provide rapid response, high speed delivery of supplies and services.  Specifically, this type of vessel could serve islands in the region adversely impacted by hurricanes or other disasters to deliver food, supplies, fuel and medical personnel.  When not being utilized in direct disaster relief missions, this type of craft could cruise the region with scheduled stops to various remote locales to provide surgical and medical support services; such as cleft palette surgeries and alike for underserved communities.  Foundation funding would permit organized medical and surgical teams from aforementioned local hospitals and organizations; such as “Doctors Without Borders” for such service programs.

Another exciting component which is under study is the retrofitting of this craft with a “Dynamic Electromagnetic Proposal System.”  This would utilize modifying another project of the Foundation’s Alternative Energy program using a series of powerful magnets to provide energy from a fly-wheel configuration.  This would permit the ship to travel without burning fuel in the existing proposal system.  Such a modification would allow the ship to arrive on station with a virtually untapped fuel bay so it could provide fuel to a disaster stricken area or to other ships responding to a crisis in need of fuel.

Further, The Alfred Family Foundation intends to provide financial support for medical missions through the special Mass Civilian Evacuation program devised by the US State Department.  Through this program the US Air Force provides planes and pilots for Mass Civilian disaster relief and evacuation; The Alfred Family Foundation wishes to finance expansion of disaster relief resources, mobile medical bays and medical personnel.