New Ohio base is 107th for Air Evac Lifeteam

New Ohio base is 107th for Air Evac Lifeteam

11-Apr-2012 Source: Air Evac Lifeteam

Air Evac Lifeteam, an independently-owned air ambulance provider serving rural America, has opened a new base in Licking County. Air Evac Lifeteam crews provide on-the-scene medical care and rapid medical transport, as well as transfers between medical facilities, and the new base will serve the community of Cambridge.

The base opened on March 15 and is located at the Newton Township Fire Department in St. Louisville. It is one of 107 bases in Air Evac Lifeteam’s network of air ambulance services and the sixth in Ohio, with others located in Portsmouth, Chillicothe, Lancaster, Brown County, and East Liverpool. The base also will provide employment for 12 to 15 individuals and serve communities within a 70-mile radius of St. Louisville.

An Air Evac Lifeteam crew, which includes a registered nurse, paramedic and pilot, is on call at each base 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Crew members are trained in advanced pre-hospital care, allowing them to continue medical care at the scene and en route to the hospital. This same training also allows for critical care hospital-to-hospital transfers. The Licking County helicopter is equipped with state-of-the-art medical equipment, including the use of Night Vision Goggles (NVGs). NVGs are particularly useful on nights with little illumination in identifying emergency scene landing zones in difficult terrain, such as mountains and hills, by raising night-time vision to 20/20.

Air Evac Lifeteam, headquartered in West Plains, Mo., is the largest independently-owned air ambulance service in the country, serving as the critical link to improved response time and immediate access to medical care facilities across 15 states.

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