Exhibits Throughout the Hospital: The Medical Museum: University of Iowa Health Care:

Patient Transportation 1920-1984

18. Transportation system 1928
University Hospital, Iowa City

20. UIHC Ambulance 1973

Hospital
cars

21. Hospital cars 1970s
University Hospital, Iowa City

22. Special vans, outfitted to transport as many as seven passengers, are currently a part of University Patient Transportation Service, University Hospital, Iowa City
1984

Mobile Critical
Care Unit

23. Mobile Critical Care Unit 1980, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City
September 1985 - New Mobile Critical Care Unit provides emergency transportation of critically ill neonates and adults. Funded by the Volunteer Program. Allen Erenberg (center) MD, Prof. of Pediatrics, Director of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Volunteers Irene Gueder and Evalyn Filer.

Electric
Ambulance

24. Electrically powered ambulance
1920
Used to transport patients from New Children's Hospital on the west campus
to GH (East Hall) on the east campus, Iowa City

Ambulance
fleet

25. Ambulance fleet 1945, University Hospital, Iowa City

Ambulance
services

26. Ambulance services 1933, University Hospital, Iowa City

DeSoto ambulance
fleet

27. DeSoto Ambulance Fleet 1940s
University Hospital, Iowa City

28. Air-Care Emergency Helicopter 1984
(operating since 1979)

29. Air-Care Emergency Helicopter 1988
(operating since 1979)

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