{"id":8295,"date":"2017-03-07T03:45:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T03:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2017-03-07T03:47:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T03:47:28","slug":"med-trans-air-medical-transitions-tahlequah-okla-base-to-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/oklahoma\/med-trans-air-medical-transitions-tahlequah-okla-base-to-first-flight\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Med-Trans Air Medical Transitions Tahlequah, Okla. Base to First Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8296\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/First-Flight-OKedit-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"First Flight OKedit\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/First-Flight-OKedit-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/First-Flight-OKedit.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The former EagleMed air medical transport base in Tahlequah has been renamed First Flight and is now being operated by national air medical transport leader Med-Trans Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although we have a new name, the same amazing medical and flight crews based in Tahlequah remain on the job and committed to providing the very best in patient care,&#8221; said Patrick Barkley, Med-Trans\u00c2\u00a0 program manager in Tahlequah. &#8220;This base is staffed with dedicated crew members that care deeply about their patients and take great pride in representing Tahlequah and Cherokee County.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Med-Trans service in the area stems from a joint venture to serve Northeastern Health Systems and the Cherokee Nation. The base is staffed by flight crews including pilots and a mechanic along with a nursing staff and paramedic staff both backed by physician oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Med-Trans bases a medically equipped Bell 407GXP helicopter at Northeastern Health System that serves the citizens of north, mid and southeast Oklahoma as well as north and mid-south Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former EagleMed air medical transport base in Tahlequah has been renamed First Flight and is now being operated by national air medical transport leader Med-Trans Corporation. &#8220;Although we have a new name, the same amazing medical and flight crews based in Tahlequah remain on the job and committed to providing the very best in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-slider","category-oklahoma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/First-Flight-OK.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8297,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions\/8297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}