Air Methods acquires LifeFlight

Colorado-based Air Methods Corporation, an air medical transportation firm, announced June 24 it has acquired Baptist Health Care Pensacola, Fla.’s four bases of operations and aircraft for its aeromedical LifeFlight ambulance service. The change is effective immediately with continued service across three Gulf Coast states from southern Mississippi and Alabama, the Florida panhandle and north to Montgomery, Ala. The four operating bases are at Pensacola; Semmes, Ala., Greenville, Ala.; and Hattiesburg, Miss. As part of the acquisition, 43 clinical Baptist employees will join the Air Methods team. (Source: Global Newswire, 06/24/14) Central Mississippi note: Each of the operating sites have an EC-130 medevac aircraft built by Airbus Helicopters in Columbus, Miss. AMC-Baptist LifeFlight will continue to fly adult and pediatric critically-ill and injured patients to Pensacola’s Baptist and Sacred Heart hospitals; Baptist South in Montgomery; University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile; and Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg.