New services on offer in Garden City
LifeTeam, a critical care ground and air transport company, has announced a new partnership with St Catherine Hospital in Kansas to begin operations of a new air medical transport base, wherein LifeTeam will provide a King Air C90 turboprop based at the nearby Garden City Airport
LifeTeam, a critical care ground and air transport company, has announced a new partnership with St Catherine Hospital in Kansas to begin operations of a new air medical transport base, wherein LifeTeam will provide a King Air C90 turboprop based at the nearby Garden City Airport. LifeTeam’s medical and flight crews will transport patients with a medical or surgical emergency that may require the advanced care only offered by a trauma centre, cardiac cath lab or stroke team.
Dr Martin Sellberg, medical director and CEO of LifeTeam, commented: “From its inception, LIfeTeam was designed to serve as a healthcare provider, utilising air and ground vehicles in its practice of transport medicine. This patient focus is present in every aspect of safely transporting patients to speciality care and we look forward to bringing our resources to the region.”
Missy Knott, chief operating officer of LifeTeam, explained more about the service’s operations: “Our flight service is a very different model from most of the flight services across the country. The owners of our company are both emergency medicine physicians and pilots, which give them a unique understanding of every aspect of the mission. We see ourselves first and foremost as a medical service, secondly as an aviation service.”
The King Air C90 turboprop plane will be based at Garden City Regional Airport, with the crew housed nearby and on ready alert 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The ground ambulance will also be located at the airport to provide transportation of patients from the hospital to the airport. A Bell 206 Longranger helicopter is scheduled to join the service at the beginning of next year, and when it does so, it will be based at the hospital.
Scott Taylor, president and CEO of St Catherine Hospital, said: “We are excited about our new relationship with LifeTeam. They bring western Kansas a total solution: ground, fixed-wing and rotor-wing medical transport.”