Medavie Health NL Selected to Design, Manage and Operate Integrated Road and Air Ambulance Service

The Provincial Government has reached the next phase in the integration of ambulance services throughout the province as Medavie Health NL Inc. has been identified as the selected proponent to design, manage and operate a single, integrated road and air ambulance service in the province.

The company will partner with PAL and Air Borealis to deliver the integrated fixed and rotary wing air ambulance service.

Medavie Health NL Inc. will be required to provide clinical and operational management staff, manage the dispatch of all emergency calls, routine medical transfers, and non-medical transfers, support existing operations through the period of establishing a fully contracted air ambulance service, manage the road ambulance base infrastructure and determine the optimal positioning and deployment of road ambulances, implement a 10-year plan to upskill and transition the paramedicine workforce to a minimum of primary care paramedic certification, allowing emergency medical responders to become a part of the public service, including non-medical transports, and work with the Provincial Government and NL Health Services to implement a long-term plan for developing a province-wide helicopter emergency medical service.