WLKM Radio 95.9 FM
West Michigan Air Care will discontinue its helicopter service at Ascension Borgess Hospital and Bronson Healthcare in Kalamazoo.
According to WOOD-TV 8, an email sent to employees from Bronson Healthcare President and CEO Bill Manns cited a 50 percent reduction in flights over the past 15 years, as well as strong ambulance transportation in the region.
The email said service would end on April 20.
Kalamazoo-based West Michigan Air Care provides rapid medical services for patients at the scene of a crash, transfers critically ill and injured patients between hospitals, and transports specialty teams.
A spokesperson for Bronson said additional meetings about the changes are expected to take place this week.
More corporate gamesmanship endangering the lives of critically ill and injured. I have been in TR hospital and have heard cardiac and other very ill people being airlifted to a Beacon hospital in Indiana because no Kalamazoo hospital or their affiliates will accept them.
Hospital administrators reducing necessary staff, shuffling and cancelling employee and patient insurance coverage, limiting services and locations. All while making corporate profits. Look up the net worth of our region’s healthcare corporations, their CEOs, CFOs and board members. Do the same with the insurance corporations. Then listen to the blarney they keep slinging while our family and neighbors suffer.
Welcome to another corporate death panel. Acceptable to voters as long as their team’s against business regulation.