GilbertFIRE

Native 1 & Lifenet 1 moving

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Gilbert Hospital & Florence Hospitals are closing Monday, Native 1 & Lifenet 1 will need to find new quarters,  I assume NA1 will move to  Mesa Gateway Airport or Mercy Gilbert and LN 1 will move to Florence Station 541,  Banner Ironwood is going to get a lot more busy and will need to open the 4th & 5th floors  Go figure  Banner is building a new 4 floor hospital @ Loop 202 & Alma School in Chandler & another new hospital is coming. Gilbert General @ Val Vista & Pecos  Also PCH is building a 5 story Children's Hospital next to Mercy Gilbert      

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Heaven't heard anything about Native 1 but rumor was LifeNet1 was shutting down (this was pre-the news of the hospital). LN1 was/is Gila River's preferred air ambulance service and they've been grounding alot more of their patients to Chandler now that they're Level 1. Also, AMR's air ambulance division is looking at establishing a base in Coolidge. As most know, AirEvac is AMR's preferred air ambulance and that could change if/when AMR's division comes into play. That'll really put AirEvac 6, 8, 9 at risk for scene calls in the county. 

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FYI

AMR/Rural metro/Southwest is all a part of Air Medical group Holding Corp

http://www.amgh.com/

They have 7 separate air medical outfits including GaurdianFlight  and Reach

When they bought AMR, they wanted to explore mixing air and ground synergies.

Also AMR has their own fixed wing  operation AMRAir.

Watch for AMHG companies to move into Arizona and compete directly with Air Methods and AirEvac

 

 

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Native 1 is at Williams Gateway but sleeping at hotel around the corner. 

 

LifeNet1 isn't expected to stay operational if Florence Hospital at Anthem remains closed. 

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Native toured FS215 today about possible quarters. Don’t see it happening but interesting. 

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Just found out CareFlight has moved helos out of Yuma.

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17 hours ago, legos.8ty7 said:

Native toured FS215 today about possible quarters. Don’t see it happening but interesting. 

Mesa needs the rent money

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