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ORLANDO - The sky is the limit to what Orlando Regional Healthcare will do to meet the needs of critically ill patients across Central Florida. The hospital recently added a second helicopter to expand The Air Care Team's air ambulance program. The second helicopter will be based at South Lake Hospital , providing residents in Lake County faster access to specialized care.
The new addition serves many functions including taking trauma and emergency services to the scene, improving access to a range of medical services including cardiology, neurology and orthopedics.
The second helicopter is a Bell 206 L4 LongRanger, considered one of the safest most used aircraft in the air medical industry. The pilots and medical crew have trained for numerous hours in the second helicopter to provide the same high standard of care it has provided to the community for more than 20 years.
The Air Care Team has provided medical services in a single helicopter, 24 hours a day, seven days a week since 1984. Since then, the Air Care Team has flown more than 19,000 patients with more than 1.2 million accident-free rescue missions. The Air Care Team averages 100 flights per month and services an area encompassing a 100-mile radius of Orlando . As the only hospital-based scene responder in Central Florida, the Air Care Team responds directly to scenes of accidents upon request of law enforcement and EMS personnel, as well as transports critically ill patients between hospitals.
Omniflight Helicopters Inc., which has been a leader in providing air medical transportation services to the health care industry for 45 years, provides the aviation services to Orlando Regional's Air Care Team. The two have worked together since the program began.

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