Guardian Flight, a Global Medical Response (GMR) critical\ncare air transport company, will open its first rotor wing base in Alaska at\nKenai Municipal Airport this spring. The Airbus H125 helicopter will serve\nAlaska’s Kenai Peninsula’s hospitals including South Peninsula Hospital in\nHomer, Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna and Providence Seward Medical\nCenter in Seward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“GMR and Guardian Flight Alaska are pleased to expand\nour services to now include helicopter support for emergency patient airlifts\nin addition to interfacility transfers,” said GMR Vice President of\nNorthwest Operations Jared Sherman. “We greatly appreciate the warm\nwelcome our helicopter team has received from the communities we serve and the\nmedical community.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Guardian Flight Kenai base will operate 24\/7 with a crew\nof four pilots, four clinicians and two mechanics. The dedicated medically\nequipped Airbus H125 helicopter has a range of more than 300 nautical miles and\na top speed of 140 knots. Configured for vital life-saving and emergency\ntransportation, Guardian Flight’s enhanced cabin H125 helicopter can carry a\npilot, patient, nurse and paramedic, plus life-saving medical equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guardian Flight’s first helicopter air medical base in the\nstate will join 11 fixed wing medically equipped aircraft that provide life-\nand limb-saving flights across Alaska. Bombardier Learjet 45s fly from Guardian\nFlight bases in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau and Ketchikan. Dead Horse,\nKotzebue, Fairbanks and Juneau operate a Beechcraft King Air B200 and Anchorage\nflies two B200s. A Cessna Caravan is based in Dillingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guardian Flight is a participating provider in the\nAirMedCare Network (AMCN), the nation’s largest air medical transport\nmembership program with more than 320 air medical locations across 38 states.\nMembers flown for a life- or limb-threatening injury or illness by an AMCN\nparticipating provider have no out-of-pocket costs for the flight. Whatever the\nmember’s insurance – or third-party insurance – pays is considered payment in\nfull. Annual memberships start at $65. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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