Hartford HealthCare has developed a new partnership with Springfield’s Baystate Health. This agreement will extend air ambulance service to western Massachusetts. This will be the third Life Star helicopter for Hartford HealthCare. The other two helicopters are based at Norwich’s Backus Hospital and Meriden’s MidState Medical Center.
Strategic Base Chosen for the New Helicopter
According to the agreement, the new helicopter will be based at the Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport located in Westfield, Massachusetts. This location has been chosen strategically, so that flight crews can easily reach the base. Life Star will be in charge of providing the medical flight crew for the helicopter. It will also be providing communication support from Hartford Hospital.
In addition to this, the job of managing hangar space and flight operations will be taken care of by Air Methods, an emergency transportation company. The air ambulance service will transport patients to Baystate, which is a level 1 trauma center.
20,000+ Patients Transported by Life Star’s Air Ambulance Service
Life Star was founded in 1985 and is based in Connecticut. Since its inception, the service has carried out almost 32,000 flights. They have also managed to transport more than 20,000 patients, helping save thousands of lives in the process.
Jeffrey Flaks, Hartford HealthCare’s COO & President, has stated that Life Star has reached a new milestone with this new partnership. According to Jeffrey, the company takes pride in the knowledge that the dedicated crew of Life Star has managed to save countless lives using their extraordinary capabilities.
With this new agreement, it will be easier for the Life Star emergency crew to reach patients in western Massachusetts. As a result, they will have a better chance of saving more lives by providing timely emergency medical care and quick transportation.
