LifeFlight Archive — Page 5 of 8

May 26, 2017

Vanderbilt LifeFlight launches app for emergency responders

Vanderbilt LifeFlight has developed a new app that allows for emergency responders to request a helicopter at the tap of a button. The app also uses computer-aided software to send the emergency responders’ location and other helpful information directly to dispatch personnel at LifeFlight’s Communications Center.

By Vanderbilt Health News
March 16, 2017

Ambulance association honors LifeFlight’s Brywczynski

The Tennessee Ambulance Service Association (TASA) has named Vanderbilt LifeFlight’s Jeremy Brywczynski, M.D., as the medical director of the year for the statewide ambulance association.

By Jerry Jones
March 15, 2017

VUMC taking part in full-scale disaster drill Thursday, March 23

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will join several other hospitals and federal, state and local agencies for a full-scale weather-related disaster drill on Thursday, March 23, from 9 a.m. to noon.

By Doug Campbell
July 28, 2016

Vanderbilt LifeFlight’s Cookeville Base to Open Aug. 2

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s LifeFlight will open its Cookeville, Tennessee, base on August 2, 2016. The new base, in partnership with Cookeville Regional Medical Center, is LifeFlight’s seventh helicopter base in Tennessee.

By Vanderbilt Health News
June 7, 2016

Vanderbilt LifeFlight Offers Safety Tips For CMA Music Festival

As Nashville welcomes visitors from around the world to the CMA Music Festival this week, Vanderbilt LifeFlight officials are urging fans to take necessary precautions to avoid illness and injury.

By Vanderbilt Health News
April 28, 2016

LifeFlight to open emergency helicopter base in Cookeville

In partnership with Cookeville Regional Medical Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt LifeFlight will soon be expanding its footprint to serve the Upper Cumberland region by adding an emergency helicopter base in Cookeville, Tennessee.

By Vanderbilt Health News