LifeFlight (Nova Scotia)

LifeFlight is an air ambulance critical care transport service that operates in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

EHS LifeFlight is delivered under contract to the Government of Nova Scotia's Department of Health by Emergency Medical Care Inc. (EMC).

EHS LifeFlight is subsidized for Nova Scotian residents and no fees are charged to patients or sending hospitals or agencies in that province.

The squadron used search and rescue aircraft such as the CH-113 Labrador helicopter and the CC-115 Buffalo and CC-130 Hercules fixed-wing aircraft to transport patients from remote areas or between hospitals[2] In 1996, the Nova Scotia Department of Health launched the first dedicated air ambulance service in the Maritimes in partnership with CHC Helicopter Corporation and the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS).

[9] In 2017, EHS LifeFlight added a second fixed-wing aircraft, a PAL Aerospace Beechcraft 1900, to provide non-critical care transport for patients from Yarmouth and Sydney to Halifax.

The new service reduced the travel time and increased the comfort for patients, as well as freed up ambulances and paramedics for local emergency calls.

[11] LifeFlight operates around the clock, every day of the year, to provide air medical transport for critically ill or injured patients.

LifeFlight has access to 82 helicopter-approved landing zones in Nova Scotia, certified by Transport Canada, as well as additional heliports in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.