Life Net of New York is opening a new HEMS base in at the Hornell Airport.

STARS (AB) recently received funding to provide standardized education and training to air medical providers throughout the province.

Starting May 1, 2010, Denmark will be trialing it's first HEMS program. The program will be evaluated over the next 18 months and will be expanded or discontinued depending on the results.

On April 9, an ORNGE helicopter (Ontario) nearly collided with a small airplane near the Ottowa airport.

Air ambulance, plane just missed colliding

EagleMed (KS) has announced plans to open a fixed-wing base in Liberal, KS at the end of May, 2010.

On Saturday, April 17, a boy in St. Cloud, MN was nearly struck by a computer that had fallen from the skids of a Life Link (MN) medical helicopter.

Laptop Falls From Helicopter, Nearly Hits Minn Boy
Laptop Falls From Helicopter, Just Misses Boy

The NTSB has released a preliminary report regarding the recent Hospital Wing helicopter crash.

NTSB: Pilot tried to beat storm
NTSB Identification: ERA10MA188

A coroner's inquest in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut (Canada), has concluded that the death of a psychiatric patient who jumped from a MEDEVAC King-Air airplane in mid-flight one year ago Thursday, was a suicide. The inquest panel also issued five recommendations on how to prevent similar deaths in the future — aimed mostly at government and health-care officials.

Fatal jump from plane ruled a suicide

Plans for CALSTAR to open a permanent HEMS base in Hollister, CA are on hold until Monterrey County officials make a final decision regarding air ambulance coverage throughout the county.

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