Air Medical Today Episode 13 - News & Information, Hospital Wing Crash Update, and an Interview of Steven Sweeney, Board Chair of the Air Medical Memorial
http://www.airmedtoday.com

LifeLine Critical Care Transport (IN) announced recently that it was establishing helicopter bases in Muncie and Lafayette, IN.

A new exhibit focused on flight nurses during World War II opened at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The Winged Angels: U.S. Army Air Forces Flight Nurses in World War II exhibit, located in the museum’s Air Power Gallery, tells the story of the 500 Army nurses who served as members of 31 medical air evacuation transport squadrons during the war.

World War II flight nurses exhibit now open

Due to decreasing tax revenues and decreased utilization, officials are considering the discontinuation of funding for a helicopter air ambulance that serves the island of Maui, HI.

A public memorial will be held on Wednesday, March 31 at 10 a.m. at Bellevue Baptist Church, 2000 Appling Road for the three crew members who died in last Thursday’s Hospital Wing helicopter accident.

The public is invited and asked to arrive early to ensure everyone gets seated by 10 a.m.

“These individuals served the entire Mid-South area and there has been a huge outpouring of support,” said Jamie Carter, CEO of Crittenden Regional Hospital and Hospital Wing Board member.

In lieu of flowers, any who wish to make a donation are asked to send it to Hospital Wing, 1080 Eastmoreland, Memphis, Tenn. 38104.

Media Contact:
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare,
Ruth Ann Hale, APR
901-619-1678

• Family, colleagues mourn lost nurses
• Funerals For Helicopter Victims Held Today
• Funerals set for medical helicopter crash victims
• Brownsville medical helicopter crash is nation's fourth in six months
• Crash site combed for clues

Air Medical Today Episode 12 - News & Information, Hospital Wing Crash, an Interview of David Kearns, the Coordinator of the CONCERN Network. I also check in with Tim Pickering, Vice President of the Association of Air Medical Services, regarding the AAMS Spring Conference in the First Response section - March 26, 2010

Air Medical Today

• Medical Helicopters Need Better Safety Standards—Now
• EMS Helicopter Pilot Worries: 'If They Knew What I Knew, Even the Nurse and Paramedic Wouldn't get on Board'
• Thunderstorms hazardous for helicopters
• 'Hard on us all'
• NTSB has recovered recording equipment from Brownsville crash site

• Crash claimed the lives of experienced nurses, pilot
• Three Killed in Helicopter Crash
• FAA: 3 dead in medical helicopter crash
• 3 crew killed in medical chopper crash in Tenn.
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20100325/us-helicopter-down
• EMS director: Medical helicopter crew dedicated to their jobs
• 3 killed in Brownsville medical helicopter crash
• Victims Mourned in Medical Helicopter Crash
• Another medical transport company says it likely turned down fatal flight because of weather
• Determining when to fly complex, veterans of medical air transportation say
• Three Killed in Medical Helicopter Crash

On Thursday, March 25, 2010, three Hospital Wing crew members were killed in a helicopter crash nears Brownsville, TN. On board were Pilot Doug Phillips and flight nurses Misty Brogdon and Cindy Parker. This site has been blacked out as a tribute to our fallen colleagues.

Condolence Book - Please add your message of support and sympathy for the family and team members.