I am doing really well out here in Springfield, IL. It has been a hectic past few months with traveling all over for training, and then moving, and getting everything set up in my apartment as well as getting used to working somewhere new again. So I am finally getting settled and the new job is really going well.

I am flying a BK-117b2 for Air Methods and we are based here at St. John’s hospital in Springfield, IL. Right now we are just flying specialty teams for Neonate and Pediatrics intensive care units, but our adult program has been approved, so they are staffing the positions now, and we should be up and running in a few months. When that happens, we will start flying trauma patients, and do scene calls too. Right now everything we do is hospital to hospital transfers, except for PR’s and such. Which I actually got to do one yesterday, so we landed in the park for St. John’s safety day. That is where the picture is from. I also attached one of them lifting off for a NICU flight yesterday. Of course the flight came in right at shift change and I did not ahve enought duty time to take it. Oh well, what can you do?

Hope all is going well with you guys.

Posted on May 6th, 2009 by Rhonda
Filed under: Alumni