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Regional Air Medical Services Working Cooperatively for Patient Care

University Hospitals’ air medical service, UH AirMed, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) STAT MedEvac program have formalized a cooperative to facilitate launching the closest medical helicopter to scene run requests in the eastern Ohio/western Pennsylvania region.

STAT MedEvac has staffed helicopter bases in Crawford, Erie, and Mercer counties in Pennsylvania, as well as Jefferson and Mahoning counties in Ohio. UH AirMed has staffed helicopter bases in Geauga and Medina counties.  Both agencies receive requests from first responders in the Ohio-Pennsylvania bordering counties.

UH AirMed and STAT MedEvac are committed to providing patients requiring air medical services from a scene with the closest available medical helicopter. Regardless of which air medical dispatch center receives the flight request, the closest available resource will be launched. This formalized agreement is a natural succession and reinforcement of what has already been occurring between […]