Does anyone know what frequency Careflight(Children's Hospital) in Bham Medical helicopter is using for dispatch etc. Also where is it based at? Im assuming at teh helipad on teh roof of Children's possibly or at the Bham Airport?
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I know its not based at the BHM Airport and thats about it.
Wonder if anyone has info on base location for Lifesaver?
Wonder if anyone has info on base location for Lifesaver?
Update: I did some checking around. CareFlight is the Children's helicopter but it is owned by the company that owns LifeSaver. It is based at the LifeSaver base at Carraway and dispatched just like LifeSaver. So, basically, it's a LifeSaver helo that is leased to Children's. The pilot is a LifeSaver pilot, too.
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Were you referring to this??
Helicopter will serve Children's Hospital
Chopper dedicated for youngsters, babies
Friday, January 18, 2008
ANNA VELASCO
News staff writer
Children's Hospital expects today to start using a helicopter dedicated solely to the transportation of its patients, the only air ambulance in the state equipped and reserved strictly for children and babies.
Until this week, Children's shared an Omniflight helicopter used to pick up trauma patients around the Birmingham area. Hospital leaders say they have wanted their own helicopter for several years, but the increasing volume has made it essential.
Last year, Children's transported about 300 children by helicopter out of its 1,000 critical care transportation patients and could have carried many more by chopper if one had been available, said Jason Peterson, coordinator for Children's critical care transportation. In its first year, the dedicated helicopter should carry 50 percent to 75 percent more children than in 2007, he said.
Children's helicopter is for bringing critically ill or injured children from other hospitals around the state to the pediatric facility in Birmingham. Omniflight will continue to pick up area trauma patients - both children and adults - at the scene of an accident and take them to the appropriate hospital. Omniflight will own, fly and maintain the Children's Hospital Care Flight helicopter, but it will be on call exclusively for the hospital.
"By adding another aircraft, we can provide better service not only to Children's Hospital but to the other hospitals in the community as well," said Lynda LaRue, Omniflight's regional manager.
Omniflight also this month added another helicopter to its service and stationed it in Sylacauga. In addition to the Children's helicopter, the company has four helicopters for emergency rescue in central Alabama, stationed in Birmingham, Anniston, Sylacauga and Auburn.
Children's has tailored Care Flight to children and babies, with an incubator and other pediatric supplies and equipment. The helicopter will fly to outlying hospitals within 175 miles to get patients who are not stable and must receive specialty care quickly. The hospital sends a registered nurse and respiratory therapist trained in critical care on each flight, and they start treatment as soon as they reach the patient.
"We take the ICU from Children's to these other hospitals," Peterson said.
Dr. Margaret Winkler, medical director of critical care transportation, said getting to parts of Alabama by ambulance on rural roads would put many patients at risk. She gave the example of a toddler the team picked up by helicopter earlier this month who had gone into a hospital emergency room in northern Alabama with sepsis, a severe blood infection.
"We got there and saw she was dying," Winkler said. "I'm convinced she would have died if the helicopter hadn't gotten to her or if our team hadn't gone to get her."
For patients outside the 175-mile radius, Children's will continue to use a jet that UAB Health System operates. Ambulances will be used when aircraft can't fly.
"There will still be ground trips because of weather," Winkler said.
Omniflight started in October the certificate of need application process for the new helicopters at Children's and Sylacauga. But a recent ruling by a judge in Montgomery Circuit Court in another case established that the state does not have regulatory authority over air ambulances.
Omniflight got letters Thursday about both projects from the State Health Planning and Development Agency saying they were exempt from the approval process.
Helicopter will serve Children's Hospital
Chopper dedicated for youngsters, babies
Friday, January 18, 2008
ANNA VELASCO
News staff writer
Children's Hospital expects today to start using a helicopter dedicated solely to the transportation of its patients, the only air ambulance in the state equipped and reserved strictly for children and babies.
Until this week, Children's shared an Omniflight helicopter used to pick up trauma patients around the Birmingham area. Hospital leaders say they have wanted their own helicopter for several years, but the increasing volume has made it essential.
Last year, Children's transported about 300 children by helicopter out of its 1,000 critical care transportation patients and could have carried many more by chopper if one had been available, said Jason Peterson, coordinator for Children's critical care transportation. In its first year, the dedicated helicopter should carry 50 percent to 75 percent more children than in 2007, he said.
Children's helicopter is for bringing critically ill or injured children from other hospitals around the state to the pediatric facility in Birmingham. Omniflight will continue to pick up area trauma patients - both children and adults - at the scene of an accident and take them to the appropriate hospital. Omniflight will own, fly and maintain the Children's Hospital Care Flight helicopter, but it will be on call exclusively for the hospital.
"By adding another aircraft, we can provide better service not only to Children's Hospital but to the other hospitals in the community as well," said Lynda LaRue, Omniflight's regional manager.
Omniflight also this month added another helicopter to its service and stationed it in Sylacauga. In addition to the Children's helicopter, the company has four helicopters for emergency rescue in central Alabama, stationed in Birmingham, Anniston, Sylacauga and Auburn.
Children's has tailored Care Flight to children and babies, with an incubator and other pediatric supplies and equipment. The helicopter will fly to outlying hospitals within 175 miles to get patients who are not stable and must receive specialty care quickly. The hospital sends a registered nurse and respiratory therapist trained in critical care on each flight, and they start treatment as soon as they reach the patient.
"We take the ICU from Children's to these other hospitals," Peterson said.
Dr. Margaret Winkler, medical director of critical care transportation, said getting to parts of Alabama by ambulance on rural roads would put many patients at risk. She gave the example of a toddler the team picked up by helicopter earlier this month who had gone into a hospital emergency room in northern Alabama with sepsis, a severe blood infection.
"We got there and saw she was dying," Winkler said. "I'm convinced she would have died if the helicopter hadn't gotten to her or if our team hadn't gone to get her."
For patients outside the 175-mile radius, Children's will continue to use a jet that UAB Health System operates. Ambulances will be used when aircraft can't fly.
"There will still be ground trips because of weather," Winkler said.
Omniflight started in October the certificate of need application process for the new helicopters at Children's and Sylacauga. But a recent ruling by a judge in Montgomery Circuit Court in another case established that the state does not have regulatory authority over air ambulances.
Omniflight got letters Thursday about both projects from the State Health Planning and Development Agency saying they were exempt from the approval process.
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Yes Its The New Transport For Children's Hospital In Birmingham.
Yes Its The New Transport For Children's Hospital In Birmingham.
I posted pictures and a story about it over the weekend if you want to see them. The ribbon cutting ceremony was Wednesday.
http://www.dave911.com/2008/02/careflight-birmingham.html
http://www.dave911.com/2008/02/careflight-birmingham.html
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You can still catch them occasionally on 155.3550 (they call it "company") along with Lifesaver. Guess they use it when the LINC doesn't work for whatever reason.
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