Expert vascular access. Right where your patients are.
Lifeline brings experienced vascular access clinicians directly to healthcare facilities throughout Northern New England, helping patients receive the access they need without unnecessary transfers or delays in care.
PICC • Midline • Ultrasound-Guided IV • Vascular Access Consultation & Support
No sales department. No call center. Tell us what your facility needs and you'll hear directly from the clinicians behind Lifeline.
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70+ Years
Combined Vascular Access Experience
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Clinician-Owned and Operated
Led by Vascular Access Specialists with uncompromising quality standards. Your patients are our patients.
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Community-Focused
Built for the communities throughout Northern New England
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Evidence-Based
Gold-standard clinical guidelines and protocols.
Why contact Lifeline?
Fewer transfers. Fewer delays. Better access to the care patients need.
When specialized vascular access is not available onsite, the impact can extend far beyond waiting for a line.
Patients may experience delays in starting prescribed therapy, interruptions in their plan of care, unnecessary transfers to another facility, or delays in discharge when appropriate vascular access is needed before they can safely transition to the next level of care.
Lifeline brings the expertise to them.
Our mobile clinicians work alongside existing healthcare teams to provide timely, appropriate vascular access at the patient's bedside, helping facilities maintain continuity of care within their own communities, reduce avoidable delays, and keep care moving forward.
Without mobile vascular access
- Patient requires specialized vascular access
- Appropriate expertise is not available onsite
- Treatment, care progression, or discharge may be delayed
- Transfer may be required; Patient leaves the local care team and home community
- Patient may remain hospitalized longer than clinically necessary or leave the local care team for a procedure that could potentially be provided at the bedside
With Lifeline
- Patient requires specialized vascular access
- Lifeline clinician comes to the facility
- Appropriate vascular access is provided at the bedside
- Prescribed therapy can proceed, and discharge planning can continue
- Care keeps moving forward, with fewer avoidable barriers to discharge and continuity of care, and the patient stays within their home community
Potentially reduce costs, risks, and operational burdens associated with:
- Unnecessary interfacility transfers
- Delayed discharge related to vascular access needs
- Additional inpatient time associated with avoidable procedural delays
- Maintaining specialized in-house vascular access coverage
- After-hours and overtime procedures
- Delays in prescribed therapy
- Transportation and coordination associated with outside procedures
The right line for the right patient, at the right time and place.
Services
Specialized vascular access. Flexible support.
Whether a facility needs procedural support, difficult-access expertise, device troubleshooting, education, or assistance developing its vascular access program, Lifeline works alongside existing clinical teams to provide the level of support they need.
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Category 1
Vascular Access Procedures
PICC Placement
PICC insertion performed by experienced vascular access clinicians within clinician scope and facility privileges.
Midline Placement
Appropriate midline placement for patients whose prescribed therapy and vascular assessment support midline access.
Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral IV
Ultrasound-guided peripheral access for patients with difficult or limited vascular access.
Additional Vascular Access Procedures
Additional procedures may be provided according to clinician scope, facility privileges, patient need, and applicable standards.
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Category 2
Device Management & Clinical Support
- Comprehensive vascular access assessment
- Device selection consultation
- Difficult-access consultation
- Device troubleshooting
- Sterile dressing changes
- Port access and de-access
- Laboratory specimen collection
- Device repair or replacement when clinically appropriate
- Consultation with the patient's existing healthcare team
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Category 3
Education & Program Support
- Staff education
- Vascular access competency development
- Clinical consultation
- Vascular access policy and program development
- Quality-improvement support
- Evidence-based practice support
Don't see what your facility needs?
Lifeline develops vascular access solutions around the needs, workflows, and capabilities of our healthcare partners.
How Lifeline works
Bring specialized vascular access expertise to your facility, without the cost and complexity of building, staffing, equipping, and maintaining a new department.
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Step 1: Your team identifies a need.
A patient requires vascular access expertise, difficult-access assistance, device assessment, or another Lifeline service.
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Step 2: Your team contacts Lifeline.
Use our secure web portal to learn more and submit a contact form. Once we receive your request, our clinical team will follow up directly and coordinate the next steps.
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Step 3: Lifeline comes to you.
An experienced vascular access clinician travels to your facility and works collaboratively with the patient's existing healthcare team. When you need us, where you need us.
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Step 4: Care stays local.
The patient receives appropriate vascular access while your team maintains continuity of care whenever clinically appropriate.
Facilities we serve
Built for community healthcare.
Lifeline's mobile model gives healthcare organizations access to specialized vascular access expertise without requiring every facility to maintain full-time specialty coverage.
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Critical Access & Community Hospitals
Support specialized vascular access needs while helping patients continue receiving care within their local hospital and community.
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Acute Rehabilitation
Provide bedside vascular access support to minimize interruptions to rehabilitation and prescribed therapy, reduce transfers to higher levels of care, and address ongoing acute care and discharge needs, including long-term IV antibiotics.
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Hospice & Complex Care
Provide thoughtful vascular access assessment and services aligned with the patient's clinical needs, prescribed therapy, and a strong focus on prioritizing individualized goals of care.
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Post-Acute Care and Skilled Nursing Facilities
Bring vascular access expertise directly to patients and residents while helping reduce costly readmissions, unnecessary transportation, and disruptions in care.
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Other Healthcare Partners
We welcome conversations with healthcare organizations seeking reliable vascular access expertise and collaborative clinical support.
Meet the clinicians behind Lifeline
Built by Vascular Access Specialists. Designed to work as an extension of your team.
Lifeline Vascular Access LLC was founded by experienced vascular access clinicians who believe patients should not have to leave their communities simply because specialized IV access is unavailable locally. We bring that expertise to the bedside as an extension of each facility’s own clinical team, working together to achieve the best possible outcome for every patient.
We understand the realities of healthcare in rural Northern New England: the distances, limited specialty resources, staffing challenges, and the importance of keeping patients connected to the healthcare teams and communities they know. That understanding shapes how we collaborate: we listen, adapt to each facility’s needs and workflows, and strengthen the care already being delivered rather than imposing a one-size-fits-all model.
Lifeline is clinician-owned and operated by the specialists who deliver the care. When a healthcare partner reaches out, they connect directly (not with a national call center or traditional sales department) with experienced vascular access clinicians who understand bedside care and the people, distances, and community healthcare systems that make Northern New England home. We work as an extension of your team, share your commitment to your patients, and measure our success by the outcomes we achieve together.
Who we are
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Arianah “Ari” Blanchard
BSN, RN, CCRN, CRNI, VA-BC
Co-Founder | Vascular Access Specialist | CEO/COO
Ari Blanchard brings 25 years of acute care nursing experience to Lifeline Vascular Access, with a career built from the bedside up. Beginning as a nursing assistant and advancing step-by-step through her nursing education, she earned her BSN and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in nursing. She maintains advanced certifications in critical care (CCRN), infusion nursing (CRNI), and vascular access (VA-BC).
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Jeffrey Knisely
BSN, RN
Co-Founder | Vascular Access Specialist | CFO/CTO
Jeffrey Knisely brings more than 17 years of healthcare experience to Lifeline Vascular Access, with a career rooted in service, community, and rural healthcare. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Messiah College, where diverse clinical experiences throughout Pennsylvania and abroad shaped his understanding of healthcare across a wide range of populations and settings.
Core values
Patient-Centered Care & Advocacy
The right line for the right patient, at the right time and place. We consider the individual patient, prescribed therapy, vascular assessment, clinical circumstances, and goals of care.
Collaborative Partnerships
We work alongside your team, not around it. Lifeline is designed to complement existing healthcare teams and workflows. Collaboration is key.
Uncompromising Quality
Clinical excellence without shortcuts. Quality, safety, infection prevention, and evidence-based practice guide the care we provide.
Transparency & Communication
Clear. Honest. Timely. Strong partnerships depend on communication healthcare teams can rely on.
Clinician-Focused Excellence
Expert clinicians provide better care when we value their expertise, skill and experience. Lifeline supports clinical autonomy, professional development, accountability, and a clinician-led culture.
Clinical standards
Consistent care. Evidence-based practice.
Our clinical practice is guided by current evidence, professional standards, infection-prevention principles, and standardized Lifeline protocols designed to promote consistent, high-quality vascular access care.
Every patient and clinical situation is different. Lifeline clinicians combine standardized practice with individualized vascular assessment to help identify the most appropriate access for the patient and prescribed therapy.
For more information on current clinical practice standards, refer to the following selected resources:
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Infusion Nurses Society (INS) (opens in a new tab)
The INS is considered the global authority in infusion care, establishing standards used to author institutional protocols and evaluate medical-legal compliance. A key document this organization publishes is the Infusion Therapy and Vascular Access Standards of Practice, which is updated every 3 years.
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Association for Vascular Access (AVA) (opens in a new tab)
AVA promotes the clinical specialty of vascular access through specialized research, expert guidelines, and multidisciplinary certification resources. Publications include the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Adults, which is a comprehensive, evidence-based guidance outlining clinical benchmarks for adult vascular access insertion and line maintenance, as well as resources for specific situations, such as neonate and pediatric care, and Official Position Papers addressing Difficult IV Access (DIVA) strategies and special access techniques.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (opens in a new tab)
The federal benchmark for infection reduction, outlining maximal sterile barrier precautions, skin antisepsis, and catheter care protocols.
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Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) (opens in a new tab)
APIC focuses strictly on the surveillance, tracking, and elimination of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) secondary to device utilization. Published documents include The Guide to Preventing Catheter-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CABSI) in Adults: A landmark guidance document shift that expands surveillance protocols beyond traditional central lines (CLABSI) to monitor and eliminate infection risks associated with all vascular access devices, including peripheral IVs. APIC is involved in a great many areas of the Vascular Access industry.
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The Michigan Appropriateness Guide for Intravenous Catheters (MAGIC) (opens in a new tab)
An essential, evidence-based clinical decision framework used to determine the most appropriate device selection (PICC, Midline, or PIV) based on patient vectors and infusate properties.
Service area
Serving Northern New England communities.
Lifeline currently serves healthcare facilities throughout Northern New England, with planned expansion into Maine as our clinical network grows.
Our mobile model was designed specifically around the geography and healthcare needs of rural Northern New England.
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A Lifeline When Access Matters.
Your patients shouldn't have to leave their community simply because specialized vascular access expertise isn't available onsite. Let's talk about how Lifeline can support your patients, clinicians, and organization.
Reliable access. Enhanced outcomes. Stronger communities and healthier tomorrows.
Start a conversation with our clinical team.
No traditional sales department. No call center.
Tell us about your facility and what you need. Your inquiry goes directly to the Lifeline team.
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