Cathy Lake
“I don’t have any memories from Pen Bay or the ICU at Maine Medical Center, but I do have a memory of a helicopter noise.” – Cathy Lake
“I don’t have any memories from Pen Bay or the ICU at Maine Medical Center, but I do have a memory of a helicopter noise.” – Cathy Lake
“We got a call from Boston Children’s that they had a liver for me, and I needed to go immediately.” – Phoebe Root
“We’re doing really well now. It’s easy to forget what everybody on that helicopter flight had to do.” – Chris Lirakis
Don Miller was at his camp 40 miles west of Ashland when he developed a brain bleed. LifeFlight flew Don from Presque Isle to Bangor for emergency surgery.
“Sometimes we’re called for the unique medical capabilities that we bring and sometimes we’re called for speed.” – Veronica Marzonie, LifeFlight nurse
“In EMS, we make a promise,” says LifeFlight of Maine CEO Joe Kellner. “When you call us, we will come.”
“This is a patient-centric medical enterprise…Our medical direction is daily, it is real, and it is unremitting.” – Norm Dinerman, MD, LifeFlight Founding Medical Director
When the terrible events unfolded in Lewiston in October 2023, LifeFlight immediately mobilized to help treat victims.
At LifeFlight of Maine, the gift we bring is an ICU when and where it is needed, every day and night of the year. In 25 years, we have cared for more than 37,000 people from every community in Maine. It takes a team — our compassionate and highly skilled paramedics, nurses, pilots, maintenance technicians, […]
On November 4, 2023, we hosted our Patient Reunion to celebrate our 25th anniversary. More than 440 people joined us at our hangar in Bangor. Families traveled from every corner of the state and beyond — from Fort Kent, Easton, Machias, Monhegan, Yarmouth, Bethel, and even from out of state. They saw inside a LifeFlight helicopter and […]