Published: December 14, 2011
REACH Air Medical Services and Methodist Healthcare Launch Second Emergency Helicopter Base in Pearsall, Texas
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - REACH Air Medical Services (REACH) and Methodist Healthcare (Methodist)
announce the expansion of their partnership providing emergency
helicopter service to include a second base in Pearsall, Texas, called
Methodist AirCare 2. Service began on December 12, 2011. AirCare 2 will
provide life-saving 24/7 emergency medical helicopter service from a
base located 50 miles southwest of San Antonio where AirCare 1 is
located. AirCare 2 will help meet the increasing air ambulance demands
of this large region and will better serve and support the community.
"Our partnership with Methodist has been extraordinarily successful,"
said Jim Adams, CEO of REACH. "It became apparent that a second base in
the region would provide enhanced patient care and customer satisfaction
through the mutual support these two bases allow."
REACH also announces new hospital partnerships within the southwest
Texas region. These include Frio Regional Hospital in Pearsall, Val
Verde Regional Medical Center in Del Rio, as well as La Salle and Frio
County pre-hospital providers. The aircraft and highly-trained teams
will serve the region with hospital-to-hospital transports as well as
responding to 9-1-1 emergency calls.
"We are very excited about the opportunity to increase our services and
availability for this region and these customers," stated Adams. "For
nearly 25 years, REACH has enjoyed tremendous success in providing safe
and efficient emergency patient transport, and we are pleased to grow
with Methodist Healthcare as our partner," said Adams.
AirCare 2 will be staffed with critical care paramedics and nurses,
pilots and aviation maintenance technicians. A Bell 407 helicopter
equipped with night vision goggles (NVGs) to enhance safety of nighttime
operations, as well as helicopter-specific terrain awareness equipment,
will be placed in service.
About REACH Air Medical Services
REACH Air Medical Services, headquartered in Santa Rosa, California,
supports operations in Concord, Imperial, Lakeport, Marysville, Redding,
Sacramento, Santa Rosa, Stockton, Thermal, and Upland, California as
well as Corvallis, Oregon and San Antonio and Houston, Texas. REACH
provides air medical transport services utilizing rotor- (helicopter)
and fixed-wing (airplane) aircraft regionally and nationally and has
performed more than 55,000 air ambulance missions since its inception in
1987. REACH offers a membership program, REACH for Life; a primary
benefit of which is no out-of-pocket expenses when members are
transported by REACH within the areas served. REACH has been accredited
by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Services (CAMTS)
since 1998. www.REACHair.com
About Methodist Healthcare
Methodist Healthcare is the largest and most preferred health system in
South Texas with 24 facilities. Eight facilities are acute care
hospitals: Methodist Hospital; Methodist Heart Hospital; Methodist
Children's Hospital; Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital;
Northeast Methodist Hospital; Metropolitan Methodist Hospital; Methodist
Stone Oak Hospital and Methodist Ambulatory Surgery Hospital. www.sahealth.com
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REACH Air Medical Services
Rhoann Ponseti, 707-324-2405
Director
of Marketing
Rhoann_Ponseti@REACHair.com
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