Dispatches, June 2024

July 2, 2024

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Dispatches shares stories from the patients, supporters, crew, and communities that make LifeFlight of Maine one of the premier air ambulance services in the nation. It is published three times each year by The LifeFlight Foundation.

Read all the stories from our June 2024 issue of Dispatches.

Stories in this issue of Dispatches

Updates from the Flightdeck: Our Fleet, Our Team, Our Partners, and Our Infrastructure

Dear Friends, In our previous issue of Dispatches, we committed to three resolutions for 2024. The first one, which is the core of the LifeFlight mission, is to continue to expand access to critical care and medical transport for patients across the state of Maine. We are delighted to report that five months in we have several […]

Bass Harbor Head Light Station; photo by Mark Tegethoff on Unsplash.

Trusting the Strangers in the Helicopter

Sunny Dilley was two days old when she flew in a helicopter from Bar Harbor to Bangor. Angela, her mother, remembers watching from the passenger seat of a car in the hospital parking lot as the aircraft lifted off. The helicopter quickly disappeared into the distance, and the car pulled out onto the street heading […]

A LifeFlight crew transfers a patient from an ambulance to a LifeFlight helicopter

Forging Stronger Partnerships in EMS

This past winter, LifeFlight of Maine launched a significant new initiative to bolster its relationships with hospitals, first responders, emergency medical services (EMS) agencies, 911 centers, and other stakeholders that rely on LifeFlight to deliver critical care quickly and reliably for patients facing a life-threatening medical emergency. This initiative is already making an impact and […]

A LifeFlight helicopter sits on the helipad at Houlton Regional Hospital during the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.

Emergency Medicine Along the Path of Totality: How LifeFlight Provides a Critical Safety Net for Explorers of the Maine Outdoors

The Maine Turnpike Authority reported that approximately 30,000 motorists passed through the York toll plaza in a single day: Sunday, April 7, 2024, the day before the solar eclipse. That merely counts cars on Interstate 95 northbound, which is the largest but hardly the only road into Maine. So many private planes landed at Greenville […]

David Humm with his wife, Mary Humphrey, and a LifeFlight crew member at an event at their home in Pemaquid, July 2023.

Leadership Spotlight: David Humm

David Humm is a member of the Board of Trustees of The LifeFlight Foundation and the LifeFlight of Maine Steering Committee. How a recently retired management consultant from New Zealand came to serve in key leadership positions at both The LifeFlight Foundation and LifeFlight of Maine is not immediately intuitive, but the more you get […]

Clinical Education at LifeFlight

LifeFlight of Maine recently promoted three of its medical crew members to the position of Clinical Educator. These more senior clinicians still regularly practice medicine on LifeFlight transports. They also now spend much of their time training newer crew members and sharing their expertise with EMS clinicians across Maine. To say that LifeFlight of Maine’s […]