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The cutting wind whips through a
fluorescent orange wind sleeve that
floats above the helipad at North
Carolina Memorial Hospital. The
concrete landing is emblazoned with a
large white cross and a red "H."
And by July 1, a specially designed
Carolina-blue helicopter will be trans
porting patients and landing at the
Chapel Hill site. NCMH will then be
part of a helicopter network with
Charlotte Memorial Hospital, Memor
ial Mission Hospital in Asheville and
N. C. Baptist Hospital in Winston
Salem.
Robert Harrison, 33, is NCMH's
aeromedical cooridnator. "Our plan is
to provide a 24-hour critical care and
emergency transport system to serve as
an extension of the unique capabilities
of this hospital," Harrison said.
His job includes ordering the air
craft's supplies and deciding where to
place a fuel tank. UI do a lot of things
that seem unrelated," he said. "Ever
ything from trying to find a place to
put a communications console, to trying
work with other people in the hospital
to develop good relations across the
state."
Harrison said the helicopter could fly
anywhere in North Carolina. The
normal operating radius will be 120
miles with a maximum range of 150
miles.
He said the helicopter cost approx
imately $1.5 million. Additional costs
include leased pilots, a full-time
mechanic and supplies. Patients' costs
for helicopter transportation will be
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about $5(K) to $600, depending on the
distance travelled.
The helicopter will have three pilots
who rotate shifts. "We expect that youH
be able to get it just as quickly at three
in the morning as you would at three
in the afternoon," Harrison said.
"This is a very, very big project," he
added. "(It's) really something that's got
to be seen as a major team effort."
Until Spring 1985, MAST (rrulitary
assistance to safety and traffic) helic
opters served NCMH. The service was
stopped when federal funds were cut
and Duke's "Life Flight" began oper
ating. MAST helicopters are not
allowed to serve an area already served
by a private helicopter system. -
The helipad has been beckoning for
quite some time. The Division of
Facility Services of N.C.'s Department
of Human Resources denied the hos
pital's original application for helicopter
service in late October based on
questions of need.
"Then through a long and tedious
process we were able to argue success
fully in a formal reconsideration hearing
that, in fact, our statement of need had
not been exaggerated," Harrison said.
Condsideration of the hospital as a
teaching institution and certain needs
and capabilities were not evaluated in
the initial review of the application.
He said the concept of using helic
opters to transport critically ill and
injured patients started with the Korean
War. It devloped during the Vietnam
War and then began to see civilian
application.
"This is a fairly new area for hos
pitals," Harrison said. "The first
hospital-based helicopter program was
in 1977." Maryland was one of the
first places where an effective program
was organized. "The Maryland Institute
for Emergency Medical Services Sys
tems (MIEMSS) is one part of the
University of Maryland medical system
and that is the home of shock trauma,"
Harrison said. "They have five helic
opter bases across the state utilizing nine
aircraft and a series of designated
hospitals for taking care of those
patients based on the degree of injury
they have." "
Elizabeth Lay is chief flight nurse at
NCMH. She is recruiting for four
additional nurses to work with five .
Orange County paramedics to comprise
the transport team for adult patients.
"Combining nurses with paramedics
for the flight team makes us unique in
the state," Lay said. "We wanted to
involve the paramedics because of their
experience and expertise in on-site and
emergency care."
The new team will work with the
hospital's pediatric team. They have
helped transport babies and children via
helicopters for more than 10 years.
"Their experience will be invaluable
for our new flight-team members," Lay
i; "Thcvll continue to work with
pediatric patients, while the new team
will work primarily with adult patients."
Each nurse-paramedic team will
work 12-hour shifts at the hospital to
provide 24-hour staffing for the helic
opter. After the final selection, team
members will attend an eight-to- 10
week training session.
"Trainees will receive 80 hours of
lecture, 30 hours of skills work, and
about 200 hours of clinical training in
areas outside their own expertise," Lay
said.
"The most important consideration
in all this is safety . . . absolutely the
paramount consideration," Harrison
said. "We want to be sure, very sure
that weVe done all our homework very
carefully before we put anybody in that
aircraft."
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Plans are under way in the anthro
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Jenrette will lease the land, believed
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of Indian artifacts in the Southeast, to
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For the past two years, work at the
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