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Phone
  
+1 781-863-2213

Founded
  
1985

Boston MedFlight

Address
  
1727 Robins, Bedford, MA 01730, USA

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Profiles

Boston MedFlight (BMF) (incorporated as New England Life Flight) a non-profit organization that provides emergency scene response and emergency interfacility transfer in Eastern Massachusetts. BMF is headquartered at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts with a second base at Plymouth Airport in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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Overview

BMF operates one BK 117 C1, one EC-145 helicopter with another on order, one Sikorsky S-76 C++ twin engine helicopter, three critical care ambulances, with two spare ambulances, and a Beechcraft King Air 200.
BMF transports emergency patients regardless of their ability to pay and is financially supported in part by a six hospital consortium of the following:

  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Boston Medical Center
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Children's Hospital Boston
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Tufts Medical Center
  • BMF is a Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS) accredited critical care transport service. BMF was a founding member along with UMass LifeFlight and Hartford LifeStar of the New England Air Alliance, now known as the North East Air Alliance.

    History

  • 1980- American College of Surgeons recommends development of a helicopter transport system for Massachusetts
  • 1984- Boston MedFlight is created and a hospital consortium formed to develop helicopter service
  • 1985- June 26 Boston MedFlight transports its first patient
  • 1992- Second aircraft added to fleet and stationed at Plymouth, Massachusetts airport to expand service to southeastern Massachusetts, the Cape and the Islands.
  • 1993- 5,000th patient transported
  • 1995- North aircraft moved from South Boston to Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford.
  • 1998- Ground critical care transport service developed in partnership with Armstrong Ambulance
  • 1999- Fixed wing service developed in partnership with Eastern Air Charter
  • 2002- 20,000th patient transported
  • 2003- Independent licensure for ground critical care transport obtained and third helicopter added to fleet
  • 2004- Second ground critical care transport vehicle added to Plymouth Base to work in conjunction with the helicopter
  • 2006- Night vision goggle (NVG) capability in all helicopters
  • 2008- State of the art medical simulation center begins at Bedford Base
  • 2009- 40,000th patient transported
  • 2010– 25 years of operation celebrated
  • February 23, 2011- Boston Medflight Nurses and Paramedics successfully organize with the Massachusetts Nursing Association.
  • References

    Boston MedFlight Wikipedia