While Red Alert began predominantly in the field of emergency medical services, it has since expanded to include general medical insurance, acute care, surgery, and other programs that effectively cover the full range of medical services in some shape or form. If Red Alert doesn't provide certain services itself within a region, it usually has some form of contract with another agency that does. On its face, Red Alert prides itself on helping people with efficient, high quality services. Naturally, 'people' extends specifically to 'insurance holders in good standing' and otherwise anyone with the money to cover services. The fine line between someone receiving care and someone being left to bleed out on the doorstep is whether that someone can verifiably afford the cost. Red Alert goes to no uncertain lengths to protect it's customers (and charge them accordingly). While it may cooperate with law enforcement in appropriate cases, it's policy is to aggressively defend customer privacy. Red Alert doesn't discriminate much and rarely does a background check apart from do they have money. From there, the customer can access Red Alert's services or receive care appropriate to the level of their insurance. Red Alert will not cross extraterritorial bounds without permission, and will generally consult with law enforcement if performing an extraction in the middle of a firefight.
Where Red Alert is different is the service it
provides in extracting their clients from hostile Landing Zones and then evacuating them to an
emergency care facility. Red Alert is a bonded and licensed paramedical franchise operating throughout
the US, Canada, and parts of Europe. These crack air ambulance units are designed to
get to the scene of a fatality within minutes. The teams normally travel
in a heavily armed AV-4. Crews include a driver, two paramedics, and two heavily
armed security officers. Red Alert teams can be summoned one of three ways. You can make
an emergency phone call, have
a card that when broken contacts Red Alert, or get an implant that
automatically makes the call if your life signs go critical. When they arrive on
the scene, they use the security officers and the autocannons on the AV if
necessary to secure the area. Then the medics get the subject onto the AV and
off to the hospital. Trauma Team does not have its own medical facilities. Its
sole purpose is to keep you away from that light at the end of the tunnel long
enough to get you to a hospital.
Red Alert was founded in 2010 in New York to provide premium emergency on-site
care by responding to emergencies faster and better than its competitors. It
kept ahead of its competition by adding new, innovative, and more comprehensive
medical services, the first of which was the High Threat Response.
Using armed and armoured vehicles and adding security personnel to their
paramedic teams, the HTR was able to go into dangerous areas that no other
paramedic service dared to go. Following that innovation, they introduced a "get
medical aid within ten minutes, or your on-site care is free" guarantee. Later,
they introduced the idea of "subscription contract service". For an annual fee,
a client can get guaranteed and extended services, along with discounts on
health care payments.
In 2013, Red Alert expanded from just armoured paramedic service to owning its
first small private clinic. This was the first in a long string of Red Alert
Acute Care Clinics that popped up all over the country. Through careful selection of franchises and
astute business acumen, Red Alert managed to maintain a high standard of quality
which quickly outstripped its local competitors. Although the restrictions on
owning a franchise were tight, and the cost was prohibitively expensive, by the
end of 2014, Red Alert sold at least one franchise in every major US city.
In 2015, Red Alert went international, selling franchises to other corporations
within cities across the world. Today, Red Alert is a major megacorporation, a
specialist in a business that never sleeps and never stops bringing in the money.
Red Alert offers four levels of service contracts, each with
extending benefits for the amount of money spent. A tissue sample is
required upon signing of a contract, and each client receives a wrist telephone
that dials directly to Red Alert. Higher level contracts also may add the
equivalent of a biomonitor, which provides an auto-dial service in case of
emergency.
■Basic Service gives the client pay-per-service access to Red Alert services. It
costs an annual fee of $5,000, and fees for Red Alert services can range from
$5,000 for HTR to $8,000 for on-site resuscitation. Acute care coverage ranges
from $500 to $1000 per day, depending on the level of care. Note that these
costs are significantly less than the average hospital stay and even basic transimplant surgery costs.
■Silver Service gives one free resuscitation per year, plus a 10 percent discount
on clinic/hospital stays Base cost for HTR is halved, although death
compensation, expenses, and other costs remain the same. Gold contracts cost
$25,000 per year.
■Gold Service gives free HTR service, four free resuscitations per year, a
half discount on clinic/hospital stays and death compensations are only for
employees and innocent victims. Platinum service costs $50,000 a year.
■Platinum Service is top-of-the-line, and costs $100,000 a year. The
benefits are similar to the Gold service, except that the client does not
have to cover death benefits, and gets five free resuscitations per year. The
Platinum contract also gives the client a life-signs biomonitor. Certain
corporate contracts also give the equivalent of Platinum service
to its security guards at a reduced group price, paid for by the corporate
bankroll.
 Vehicle Type Design The pilot and co-pilot/gunner operate in a
"glass cockpit", which boasts 5 Multi-Functional Displays and an independent HUD
for each crew-member. Flight controls are very similar to that of a
conventional helicopter, and consist of a cyclic "joy stick" and a
collective lever (to the left.) Additionally, the Target Acquisition Designation
System/Pilots Night Vision System is coupled to the helmets of both the pilot
and copilot, with output visible via either neural jack or flip-down visual reticle.
Additionally, the copilot's helmet is equipped with "look down, shoot down" IR
position indicators, such that the weapons turret points where the copilot looks. A
cross-hair image is provided for the copilot via helmet reticle (+1 to hit.) The system provides both cockpit crew-members
with the equivalent of Low Light, Thermograph, and TeleOptic vision, for all
views external to the vehicle.
The cockpit is equipped with 3 independent 2-way radio systems: 2 FM commo suites (one for city frequencies, the other for county
frequencies), and Frequency-Agile, Dual Encryption Security
Tactical Communication System. The latter system is used exclusively for
communicating either with the local Red Alert base, or with other Red Alert vehicles. The
"med-bay" (aft compartment) is equipped with a Body Weight Med-Line voice/vision/fax/data Transceiver set. This unit is connected directly to the cryo-tank (below), which allows direct transmission of patient vitals to
Red Alert
Medical Control. It can also accept a wide variety of data disks and chips to
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