Life Link III plans to open a new air medical base in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
This new base, which marks the company’s tenth air medical base throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin, is scheduled to begin 24/7 operations starting in spring 2021. This base will be located at the Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport, which allows the company to support the growing needs of this area and Life Link III’s consortium member-owners.
As one of the largest hospital-based nonprofit consortium programs in the United States with ten member-owners, Life Link III has a 35-year history of demonstrating its dedication to improving patient care and transport safety. Life Link III’s medically-configured helicopters and airplane serve as flying intensive care units (ICUs) and feature advanced clinical capabilities on-board each aircraft including point-of-care laboratory testing, point-of-care ultrasound, and LUCAS mechanical CPR. Whole blood is also carried on-board every flight.
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Life Link III Announces Plans for New Air Medical Base in Rhinelander, Wisconsin
December 21, 2020 GMT
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (BUSINESS WIRE) Dec 21, 2020
Life Link III announced today that they plan to open a new air medical base in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. This new base, which marks the company’s tenth air medical base throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin, is scheduled to begin 24/7 operations starting in spring 2021. This base will be located at the Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport, which allows the company to support the growing needs of this area and Life Link III’s consortium member-owners.
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Some five months after Wisconsin Spirit Medical Transport announced it is discontinuing service in the Northwoods, a Minnesota-based air-medical transport company has announced it will open a base in Rhinelander.
Life Link III is scheduled to begin 24/7 operations at an air-medical base at the Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport (RHI) in spring, 2021. This is the company’s tenth such base throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin and is expected to bring 16 new jobs to the region.
According to a press release, Life Link III has been in business for 35 years. Its helicopters and airplanes “serve as flying intensive care units and feature advanced clinical capabilities on-board each aircraft” including point-of-care lab testing and ultrasound, and mechanical CPR.
Rhinelander is getting a new air medical service.
Monday, Life Link III announced it plans to open a new air medical base in Rhinelander.
It will be the company’s 10th base between Minnesota and Wisconsin.
In response, Marshfield Clinic said it would provide emergency air support in Minocqua for patients requiring care through its Life Link III helicopters that are used at other hospitals within the medical group.
The new base will be located at the Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport. Our new base in Rhinelander, Wisconsin will bring much-needed air medical resources to this region and surrounding communities,” said Lee McCammon, Vice President of Operations, in a news release. “Currently, the closest air medical resource for this area is almost 40 minutes away which can have a significant impact on injured or critically-ill patients needing to be transported to a higher level of care. Rhinelander is an ideal location for our new base as it allows us to serve both the need
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