The Children’s Hospital gives designation to North Colorado Med Evac
GREELEY, Colo. (Oct. 29, 2010) — North Colorado Med Evac has received the designation of “Preferred Critical Care Transport Provider” from The Children’s Hospital.
This designation was awarded after an extensive review process conducted by the Children’s Hospital, which recognized North Colorado Med Evac as being dedicated to the provision of expert care and transport of infants and young children. North Colorado Med Evac is the only medical air transport service based in the northeastern Colorado/southwestern Nebraska region to be awarded this prestigious designation.
“The staff at North Colorado Med Evac is very pleased that The Children’s Hospital has recognized its commitment and level of dedication to providing pediatric critical care in the Rocky Mountain region,” said Dan Beckle, senior flight services manager for North Colorado Med Evac. “Through our active medical director, our highly dedicated flight team and the cooperation of our agencies, it all combines to provide an outstanding level of service to our customers when they need it the most.”
Dr. Tim Hutchison, medical director of North Colorado Med Evac added, “This designation is the result of extensive focused critical care training and collaboration with The Children’s Hospital. It is the combined objective of our organizations to see that critical pediatric patients receive state-of the-art care from the field to community hospitals to The Children’s Hospital. North Colorado Med Evac and The Children’s Hospital both recognize the crucial role that well trained flight crews have in optimizing patient’s outcomes and are committed to ensuring this common goal.”
“The Children’s Hospital has been fortunate to work so closely with North Colorado Med Evac,” said Stephanie Haley-Andrews, co-director of The Children’s Hospital’s EMS Outreach and Education Program. “Our collaborative efforts to provide the highest quality prehospital or out-of-hospital pediatric care contribute to the best possible outcomes for critically ill or injured infants and children. It is our privilege and pleasure to endorse North Colorado Med Evac, and have our Balloon Boy flying on their helicopters.”
As part of this designation, the familiar Children’s Hospital “Balloon Boy” logo will appear on the side of North Colorado Med Evac helicopters. This logo means that North Colorado Med Evac is a full-service medical air transport service for pediatric patients. In addition, North Colorado Med Evac is ready to serve all other medical air transport needs through its High Risk Obstetrical transport services, the Code STEMI program, specialized trauma and burn transport, and its newly opened Greeley-based dispatch center.
ABOUT NORTH COLORADO MED EVAC
North Colorado Med Evac serves a 300-mile radius in northern Colorado, southern Wyoming and western Nebraska with two Bell 407 helicopters. The staff includes 16 flight paramedics, 14 flight nurses and eight pilots serving the region. The accredited critical care air transport service is based at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley with a second aircraft at the Erie Municipal Airpark. It is operated by Med-Trans Corporation of Lewisville, Texas.
ABOUT NORTH COLORADO MEDICAL CENTER
NCMC is a fully accredited, private, nonprofit facility licensed to operate 398 beds. It serves as a regional medical center with community-based and specialty services in a service area including southern Wyoming, western Nebraska, western Kansas and northeastern Colorado. A family-centered obstetrics unit, cardiovascular, oncology, ortho/neuro, Level II trauma, Western States Burn Center and acute inpatient rehabilitation are among the many services offered through the medical center. Nearly 400,000 square feet of new patient care space was added to the northern Colorado region when the NCMC opened an expanded facility in December 2005. Included is the CardioVascular Institute of North Colorado featuring state-of-the-art heart services; expanded birthing center and neonatal care unit, new intensive care units and new surgical suites.
ABOUT BANNER HEALTH
Based in Phoenix, Banner Health is one of the largest, nonprofit health care systems in the country and in June was recognized by Thomson Reuters as one of the top 10 health systems in the nation. Banner has 23 facilities that offer an array of services including hospital care, home care, hospice care, nursing registries, surgery centers, laboratories, rehabilitation services. These facilities are located in seven states – Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, and Wyoming.
ABOUT THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
The Children’s Hospital was founded in 1908 in Denver and set out to be a leader in providing the best healthcare outcomes for children. That calling has consistently made it one of the top 10 children’s hospitals in the nation and a place parents across the Rocky Mountain region have come to trust. As a private, not-for-profit pediatric healthcare network, The Children’s Hospital is 100-percent dedicated to caring for kids at all ages and stages of growth. Children’s has more than 1,000 pediatric specialists and more than 3,000 full-time employees. The Children’s Hospital is also currently the only American College of Surgeons verified Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center in the state of Colorado and serves a seven-state region in that capacity.
For more information, visit www.BannerHealth.com.
