The report details how air ambulance costs increased 20% while transporting 6% fewer patients.
The District routinely uses these services to rapidly transport critical patients.
It transports patients to and from 104 different countries.
The main motivation for an airport was the difficulties of transporting patients to the hospital.
The ambulance is now used to transport patients to the hospital's day centre.
In some cases, helicopters can transport seriously ill or injured patients to a hospital more quickly than by ground.
We transport patients to the radiology lab for studies or to the operating room.
Minnesota is experimenting with a program using helicopters to transport patients quickly.
There are also underground tunnels that were once used to transport difficult patients.
County and city health authorities are preparing plans to transport patients to other hospitals.