University MedEvac is pleased to announce the establishment of a new base of operations centrally located in Lancaster County at the Lancaster Airport. This University MedEvac helicopter, designated MedEvac 8, provides more rapid availability of helicopter air medical transportation to Lancaster County’s Emergency Medical Services system. We are fully operational 24 hours per day seven days per week at Lancaster as of January 15, 2008.
The University MedEvac flight team consists of a pilot, a flight nurse and a flight paramedic, each specially trained and equipped to transport and care for patients with a wide range of serious illnesses or injuries.
The primary purpose for using a helicopter for medical transport to hospital or medical facility is to save time while maintaining appropriate, often life-saving care, for a patient. Special communications and computer technology combined with an ongoing preparedness enables our teams to respond quickly to urgent medical transport situations while maintaining a safe operating environment.
University MedEvac is affiliated with Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. Flight operations began in April 1987. University MedEvac was the first helicopter air medical service in the Philadelphia area and in southern New Jersey. Operating Eurocopter and Sikorsky helicopters, our services include operations directly from the scene of injury as well as emergency inter-hospital transports. The University MedEvac service area includes eastern Pennsylvania, southeastern New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and northeastern Maryland.
Hahnemann University Hospital is a 541-bed academic medical center at Broad and Vine Streets in Philadelphia, Pa. The hospital is a tertiary care institution that specializes in cardiac services, heart failure and transplantation, OB/GYN, orthopedics, medical, surgical and radiation oncology, bone marrow transplantation, renal dialysis and kidney/pancreas/liver transplantation. Hahnemann has been named by U.S. News and World Report as one of the nation’s top fifty hospitals for heart care and is also recognized by the American Heart Association as a leader in coronary artery disease and heart failure treatments. The hospital performed one of the city’s first kidney transplants in 1963 and one of the first bone marrow transplants in 1976. Hahnemann became Philadelphia’s first Level I Regional Resource Trauma Center for adults in 1986, and since then has been served by University MedEvac, an aeromedical transport program for critically ill patients. Hahnemann is proud to be the first hospital in Philadelphia to join with The Wellness Community of Philadelphia to offer onsite support and education services to cancer patients and their families. Hahnemann is fully accredited by The Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency.
An affiliate of Drexel University College of Medicine, Hahnemann University Hospital is part of Tenet Pennsylvania, which also includes St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. To learn more about Hahnemann, visit www.hahnemannhospital.com