Has Anyone Else Noticed More Medivacs To Albany?

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Is it my imagination, or are there more patients being medivac'd to AMC? I have been reading a lot of press reports lately that mention a patient being flown to AMC. Seems most of them are from mid and northern Dutchess or Ulster counties, but I swear that some have also been from Outer Orange and Sullivan counties.

Is there something going on that they are by-passing St Francis or WMC?

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Is it my imagination, or are there more patients being medivac'd to AMC? I have been reading a lot of press reports lately that mention a patient being flown to AMC. Seems most of them are from mid and northern Dutchess or Ulster counties, but I swear that some have also been from Outer Orange and Sullivan counties.

Is there something going on that they are by-passing St Francis or WMC?

Medevac crews may triage to Regional Trauma Centers thereby passing St Francis and from Dutchess/Ulster the flight time to Albany may be the same (or very close) to Westchester. From the Dutchess County Airport for example the flight time to Albany would be about 35 minutes and to Westchester about 20 minutes. Obviously if you're talking northern Dutchess or Ulster that's going to be closer to the same difference. That may be why...

Or it could be that WMC isn't validating their parking tickets at the helipad anymore!