VIDEO: Response times by helicopter at a southern Colorado hospital improved from five minutes to 30 seconds thanks to a new helipad.
11 News spoke with Flight for Life Colorado, a non-profit air medical transport program, who just got a new helipad at St. Francis Hospital in northeast Colorado Springs.
“This is an exciting change for us , it’s going to help patient care a lot. We used to be on the ground and it used to be a 5-minute walk with a critical patient from our helicopter to the ER or to an OR, and now we can be down there in a matter of 30 seconds,” said Flight for Life assistant nurse manager Shelby Jackson.