Meridian welcomes new air ambulance communications center [Video]

MERIDIAN, Idaho — A new hub for the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West’s most prominent air ambulance company just landed in the Treasure Valley.

On Wednesday, the expanding medical emergency air ambulance flight provider, Life Flight Network (LFN), celebrated the opening of its newest communications center, located in Meridian. 

The company previously worked out of Saint Alphonsus Medical Center.

LFN provides air ambulatory services or ‘life flights’ for patients needing medical care, be it in the case of a medical emergency or a planned interfacility transport.

The membership-funded company is based in only four states: Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Montana, where air transport is especially crucial, given the region’s vast terrain of remote and sometimes inaccessible land.

“We continually look throughout our communities to see where there is a need to put a helicopter or …