Apollo MedFlight, which provides air ambulance service in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, has launched a new base in Dalhart which will increase access to high-speed emergency medical response for people across the Panhandle.
“The quicker you get there the better the outcomes are. That has been the rule of thumb forever,” said Dean McFadden, Regional Business Development Manager for Apollo MedFlight.
With four bases throughout the area, Apollo specializes in quickly getting critically injured people in rural areas the help they need.
“Most people know that this area is very rural. The towns are thirty, forty or fifty miles apart,” said Jenny Herzberg, Baselead & Flight Nurse at Apollo MedFlight. “So, us getting there in just minutes, helps get those people to hospitals and definitive care.”
During the flight, onboard medics have access to state-of-the-art medical technology and can provide all of the emergency care that a patient would receive on a traditional ambulance.
“The outcome is generally better for the patient once we drop them off from when we picked them up,” said Charles Dunn, Flight Medic at Apollo MedFlight.
Through a partnership with Dallam Hartley County Hospital District, Apollo’s Bell 407 helicopter will be stationed at the Dalhart base and will be supported by the rest of Apollo’s regional fleet, which includes two planes, two helicopters and several backup aircraft.
“The whole surrounding area is going to benefit. it will be based in Dallam and Hartley County, but we are still going to operate in all those other areas that really need that rural health care also,” McFadden said.
Additionally, as part of the partnership, every resident of both Hartley and Dallam County will receive a free one-year membership to Apollo’s services.
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