Designed as airborne critical care units with a cruising speed of 140 miles per hour, the helicopters are on 24-hour standby to lift critically ill and injured patients from a 150-mile radius around these communities to the closest appropriate hospital. Each helicopter is staffed by a pilot, nurse, and paramedic and linked through advanced communications to specialists in the receiving hospital or facility.

"The beauty of EmoryFlight is that, thanks to our highly trained crew and on-board technology, we can begin care the moment the helicopter sets down in the place from which the patient is being moved," says EmoryFlight medical director Alexander Isakov, an experienced flight physician and assistant professor of emergency medicine.

Emory's partnership with Rocky Mountain Helicopter links the country's oldest, most experienced helicopter medical transport service with Emory's extensive emergency medicine and related health care training programs.

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