Emergency medical helicopter service coming to Eugene
Monday, March 17, 2008
The business of saving lives often involves a race against time.
And beginning this summer, critically ill and injured patients in Lane County will be able to depend on quick responses from emergency medical helicopters stationed around the clock in Eugene.
Springfield officials — who administer the local FireMed ambulance membership program — have signed an agreement with Life Flight Network of Aurora to begin offering emergency air transport from the Eugene Airport in June.
For the past two years, FireMed has contracted with REACH Air Medical of Santa Rosa, Calif. for emergency air service. The main drawback of that arrangement is that REACH’s closest helicopters operate out of Corvallis.
Officials say once Life Flight touches down in Eugene, local response times should be cut by about 15 minutes.
Read more in Tuesday’s Register-Guard.
