ARCH Air Medical Service

<p>ARCH Air Medical Service (ARCH was an <a href="/facts/Initialism/nlHK7aRt">initialism</a> for Area Rescue Consortium of Hospitals) is an <a href="/facts/Emergency_medical_service/K1uGpEH0">emergency medical service</a> (EMS) that provides critical care <a href="/facts/Air_ambulance/3Ntut0Cu">air ambulance</a> service in <a href="/facts/Missouri/wQ3VAb99">Missouri</a>, <a href="/facts/Illinois/MuPb1Ctn">Illinois</a>, and the surrounding regions. Air ambulance programs (also known as <a href="/facts/Medevac/6fDwDIGt">Medevac</a>) offer transport by <a href="/facts/Helicopter/chQF7H55">helicopter</a> (rotor-wing) or <a href="/facts/Fixed-wing_aircraft/0DQQP2rB">fixed-wing aircraft</a>. ARCH Air was the twelfth program in the U.S. to offer such services when it began operating in March 1979. Transporting approximately 4,200 patients per year by helicopter, ARCH aircraft are staffed by a <a href="/facts/Aviator/SJaN1UAJ">pilot</a>, <a href="/facts/Nurse/xbmA4GNC">nurse</a> and <a href="/facts/Paramedic/crUNVATd">paramedic</a>. Flights are 80% inter-facility (hospital to hospital) and 20% scene.
</p><p>Transport is also provided for specialty teams for St Louis Children's Hospital and <a href="/facts/St._John%27s_Hospital_(Springfield,_Illinois)/elTyfcjI">St. John's Hospital</a>, <a href="/facts/Springfield,_IL/PHms4o0o">Springfield, IL</a> <a href="/facts/Neonatal/gaEL1QL4">neonatal</a> and OB teams
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ARCH Air Medical Service