A new Vermont-based air ambulance service is now flying patients.
At 9:45 Thursday morning, the helicopter-ambulance based at the Burlington International Airport in South Burlington was called to fly a patient from Copley Hospital in Morrisville to the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. It was then sent to Rutland, where it was to carry a patient to Burlington.
Previously, Vermont relied on helicopter ambulances from other states. This is the first to be based in the state.
The University of Vermont Health Net Transport is a collaboration between UVM and Dartmouth-Hitchcock, which provides the aircraft. UVM provides the medical crew.
Initially, the UVM helicopter will only fly patients between hospitals, but in the future it could carry patients from accident scenes.
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