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Life Flight is the UMass Memorial Medical Center air ambulance service that facilitates the rapid transfer of critically injured or ill patients to the Medical Center for highly specialized care. Life Flight is recognized for the excellence of its safety, quality management and employee education programs by the Board of the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems. Our air ambulance program is an important component of the UMass Memorial emergency services network, which provides responsive, high-quality care to patients throughout the region.
Based at UMass Memorial Medical Center, the helicopter's crew consists of a pilot, specially trained flight nurse and an emergency medicine physician. Life Flight is the only air ambulance in New England that flies with an emergency medicine physician on board. To care for patients while in flight, the specially outfitted helicopter includes oxygen, suction, heart monitors, intravenous pumps and other lifesaving devices.
Life Flight was New England's first hospital-based air ambulance, and is currently one of only about 200 services in the country. Since its founding in 1982, Life Flight has transferred more than 25,000 patients in a geographic area that extends from Southern Connecticut to New Hampshire and from Boston, Massachusetts to Albany, New York.
In 2006, Life Flight took delivery of a new air ambulance, an American Eurocopter EC145. This helicopter is the leading model in medical air transport and has a top speed of 160 miles per hour with a range of more than 400 miles.
Contact Information To contact Life Flight, call 508-421-5700.
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