Fewer patient transfers
Designed to keep the patient on the full-size medical stretcher throughout movement between levels.
Launching in 2027 Patent pending
Elevating Transportation Safety.
StairX is reimagining stretcher transportation with a portable, foldable platform designed to move stretcher-bound patients up and down a set of steps with ease.
Patent pending StairX platform concept
Designed for the mission
The first step in safe stretcher transportation
Less manual lifting
Creates a supported route intended to reduce the carrying and balancing demands placed on transport personnel.
Portable deployment
A foldable concept intended for rapid placement at a staircase* and storage in ambulance or transport vehicles.
Built around real workflows
Developed for the stretchers, teams, vehicles, and environments used by EMS, fire rescue, and NEMT providers.
What StairX does
It temporarily converts a staircase* into a stretcher-accessible route.
StairX spans the stair treads* with a supported platform so a full-size medical stretcher can travel between levels on a controlled pathway.
The patient remains on the stretcher throughout the process, reducing transfers and the lifting required from EMS, fire rescue, and medical transportation teams.
How the platform works
Deploy. Guide. Continue transport.
The system creates a temporary connection between floors while working with the stretcher already in use.
Creates a temporary pathway
The portable platform unfolds over an existing staircase* to create a level route for stretcher movement between levels.
Keeps the patient on the stretcher
The system is designed around a full-size medical stretcher, avoiding a separate transfer to a stair chair.
Reduces manual lifting
The guided platform supports controlled movement on stairs* while reducing the need to carry and balance a loaded stretcher.
The transport sequence
The stretcher stays with the patient from start to finish.
- 01
Position
The folded unit is brought to the staircase*, opened, and secured over the steps.
- 02
Load and guide
The stretcher rolls onto the platform at its elevated height and is guided between levels.
- 03
Exit and continue
At the destination floor, the stretcher rolls off the platform and resumes normal transport.
Preliminary targets
Designed for the equipment already in motion.
These development targets communicate the intended direction of StairX. Final specifications will be established through engineering, testing, and validation.
- Target combined load
- Up to 700 lb
- Stretcher compatibility
- Manual, powered, and bariatric systems
- Configuration
- Portable and foldable
- Deployment goal
- Rapid staircase* setup
- Storage goal
- Ambulance and NEMT vehicle capable
- Operation
- Single-operator capability under evaluation
INDEVELOPMENT
Testing and validation
Built carefully. Evaluated in real transport environments.
StairX is progressing through engineering, prototype development, operational testing, and safety validation. Product configuration and performance targets may change as that work advances.
Inside the concept
Engineering the pathway between floors.
Patent drawings illustrate the platform structure, stretcher interface, and adjustable stair-support system* under development.
Patent pending. Drawings depict a product concept in development and may not represent the final commercial configuration.
Meet the founders
Built by operators. Driven by the problem.
StairX combines proven business-building experience with more than three decades of hands-on medical transportation knowledge.
Founder & CEO
Steven Bailey
Steven Bailey is an entrepreneur with a proven track record of building, growing, and scaling businesses.
A graduate of the University of Florida, Steven founded Apollo Medical Transport and grew it from the ground up into one of Florida's leading non-emergency medical transportation providers, completing hundreds of thousands of patient transports and serving healthcare organizations throughout the state.
After years of turning ideas into successful operations, Steven brings the entrepreneurial experience behind StairX—transforming an innovative solution into a company capable of manufacturing, marketing, and delivering it to medical transportation professionals across the country.
Co-Founder
Donnie Rosier
With more than 30 years of experience in medical transportation, Donnie Rosier has spent his career on nearly every side of the industry—from working on the road to dispatch, supervision, operations, and management.
Few people understand the real-world challenges of moving patients as deeply as Donnie. After decades of watching crews struggle with one of medical transportation's most difficult obstacles—safely moving stretcher patients where stairs* stand in the way—he envisioned a better solution.
That solution: StairX.
Donnie's decades of hands-on industry knowledge are at the heart of StairX, a product born not in a boardroom, but from a lifetime spent solving problems in the field.
EMS and transport partners
Help shape what comes next.
We want to hear from EMS agencies, fire rescue teams, NEMT providers, clinicians, and patient-transport leaders interested in product updates, future demonstrations, and evaluation opportunities.
Portable patient transport technology
The next step in transportation arrives in 2027.
StairX is being developed for EMS, fire rescue, and non-emergency medical transportation teams that move patients through buildings with stairs*.
Patent pending · Launching in 2027