Medflight Wins American Eurocopter Vision Zero Safety Award

MedFlight of Ohio is the winner of the 2012 American Eurocopter Vision Zero Safety Award. The award recognizes an entity that has demonstrated a commitment to safety, spotlights its specific safety initiatives and shares them with the industry to encourage their proliferation.

MedFlight was the first nonprofit hospital-sponsored AMS program in the U.S to out-base a helicopter from an urban hospital helipad to a rural community, reducing response times. That base recently celebrated 25 years of safe service, during which it transported more than 15,000 patients. MedFlight contracts with Metro Aviation for helicopter services and is transitioning to a fleet of eight Eurocopter EC130s equipped with HTaws, synthetic vision system, autopilot, NVGs, Tcas, wire strike protection system, voice video flight data recorder, and SAT real-time weather.

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