Updates from the Flightdeck, July 2025
Welcome to our Summer 2025 issue of Dispatches!
The past few months have been turbulent times, filled with volatility, disruption, divisiveness, and in some cases despair. We hope you find this issues of Dispatches to be a welcome relief from all of that. In these pages, you will read stories of kindness, generosity, resilience, leadership, and collaboration. It’s the story of LifeFlight of Maine.
You will learn how LifeFlight is preparing to meet the challenges that are unfolding for healthcare in Maine and how you can help be part of that rising tide, lifting us all to new heights.
As summer approaches and the state swells with visitors from around the world, we have the opportunity to showcase just how special Maine is. After all, we have lobsters, lakes, lighthouses, L.L.Bean, and another important “L” brand: LifeFlight of Maine.
LifeFlight of Maine is more than just helicopters. We play a pivotal role in Maine’s healthcare ecosystem. With our fleet of helicopters, an airplane, and critical care ground ambulances, we can reach 90 percent of Maine communities within 45 minutes. We are ready to go at a moment’s notice, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Last summer, we transported 781 patients from communities all across Maine, which is an average of one patient transported every 2 hours and 49 minutes. Although every patient story is unique, the one thing they all have in common is that when they woke up that morning, a LifeFlight transport was not on their mind. But being there for you is always on our mind.
At LifeFlight of Maine, we have been leading the way in critical care transport for almost three decades — it is in our organizational DNA. This is an important moment for Maine, and LifeFlight is ready.
We thank you for playing a vital role in our mission. Your generosity sustains our fleet, equips our medical teams, and ensures that when the next call for help comes, we are ready — just in case one of those patients is your family, your neighbor, or your friend.
– Joe Kellner, CEO, LifeFlight of Maine
– Kate O’Halloran, Executive Director, The LifeFlight Foundation
This story appeared in the July 2025 issue of “Dispatches.“
