Catron's Air Medical Service

To the editor:
Pat McKenzie of PHi Air Medical out of Albuquerque presented to a group of Reserve area citizens the PHi Air Medical program on Saturday, March 15 at the Reserve Community Center.
Their air medical flight crews include highly trained pilots, critical care flight nurses and paramedics. The service, "PHi Cares" covers air transportation from the scene of the emergency and air transportation from hospital to hospital. The program works on a membership basis with an annual fee.
There are two types of membership; a family and a corporate.The corporate annual fee is $40 per household and there is no need to have insurance to be covered under the PHi Cares program.
PHi Cares flies out of Show Low and Safford in Arizona and Grants, Albuquerque and Santa Fe in New Mexico. A fourth helicopter site for the state will be located in Socorro and expected to be operational in early April.
PHi Air Medical has been assisting in the formation of groups in Red Hill, Quemado, Pie Town, Quemado Lake, Datil and Apache Creek. The program is available now in Reserve through a local Reserve fire department representative. I am the local contact person at 533-6831.
This service is a great benefit to our area as a person can have the option of being medivaced in case of an emergency with the concern being about their health not about the money.

Ron Smith
Reserve

Catron's Air Medical Service