Flight For Life

CommonSpirit Health (Mountain Region) Flight For Life, located in Colorado and provides critical care transport with six helicopters, three ambulances and three airplanes operating from the Denver metro area, Summit County, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Durango and Fort Morgan. All Flight for Life fixed wing airplanes are operated by Mayo Aviation, Inc. and all Flight for Life helicopters are operated by Air Methods, Corp.

Flight For Life, was established in 1972 and the first hospital-based air ambulance program in the United States. Based out of St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Flight for Life serves the entire Rocky Mountain Region. In 1972, St. Anthony Hospital joined in with the Bancroft Fire Protection District to start operating the department’s own ambulance transport service and again partnered in 1973 to utilize the new helicopter “Chopper 7”.

Since 1993, Flight For Life Colorado has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems and was the first in Colorado to achieve the designation of Critical Care Transport System.

Flight for Life Colorado is dispatched by the St. Anthony Communications Center located at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood.

Lakewood Base
Frisco Base
Colorado Springs Base
Pueblo Base
Durango Base
Fort Morgan Base
Denver Health Base
Fixed Wing Base
Ground Transport
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