SkyHealth (Northwell Health)

SkyHealth is the air medical programme of Northwell Health in New York. It is a hospital system programme. It flies critically ill and injured patients by helicopter across New York and Connecticut.

Services

SkyHealth brings intensive care to the air. The site lists ventilators, invasive heart monitoring and treatment, ECMO transport, newborn isolettes and fetal heart monitoring. Flight crews are credentialed in both New York and Connecticut. Crews train often in airway care, simulation, night vision goggle flying and crew resource management.

Coverage area

The site says any hospital in the Northeast can ask SkyHealth to move a patient into a hospital in New York or Connecticut. If the sending hospital is in New York or Connecticut, other states can be reached too. The aircraft can fly 150 miles without stopping. Longer trips are possible with fuel stops and good weather.

Helipads

SkyHealth 1 helipads are at these Northwell sites.

• North Shore University Hospital
• Cohen Children's Medical Center
• Staten Island University Hospital
• South Shore University Hospital
• Peconic Bay Medical Center
• Huntington Hospital
• Mather Hospital

Facts

• Type: hospital system air medical programme
• Owner: Northwell Health, within its Center for Emergency Medical Services
• Accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems, as the site states
• Works with the Northwell Center for Transfers and Acute Coordinated Care

How requests work

SkyHealth works closely with the Center for Transfers and Acute Coordinated Care and with the receiving doctors. This helps move patients to specialty centers in the Northwell system. The site says the crews also practice flying with night vision goggles.