Tom Judge, founding Executive Director of LifeFlight of Maine, was appointed to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Advisory Committee on Air Ambulance Quality and Patient Safety. The Committee was created by Congress as part of the No Surprises Act to prevent patients from balance billing disputes. The thirteen member committee comprised of insurance regulators, patient […]

While for most Mainers the 4th of July consisted of family, food, and fireworks, LifeFlight of Maine crews had a full day of helping the state’s most critically ill and injured. Crews made 13 transports on Independence Day alone, setting the pace for the rest of the month—and summer—to follow. “July started off with a […]

Each year, The LifeFlight Foundation asks for support from towns across the State of Maine, and each year it moves closer to its goal of having every municipality in the state participate. Since 2006, 278 communities have contributed a total of $976,000 dollars. This includes the Town of Wells, which supported LifeFlight for the first […]

At its June 2024 meeting, the Board of Trustees of The LifeFlight Foundation welcomed two new members, Chris Fife and Brian Elowe. Brian is the CEO of the Boys & Girls Club of Southern Maine, as well as the parent of a LifeFlight patient. Chris is the Public Affairs Manager at Weyerhaueser, a major forest […]

Operating critical care helicopters, airplanes, and ambulances is expensive, even more so in a geographically expansive and meteorologically complex place like Maine. As a nonprofit, LifeFlight of Maine benefits from the tremendous generosity of its supporters, including the state and federal governments. It has an obligation to maximize the resources it has, using them as […]

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

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 […]

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 […]