February 20, 2025
Vol. 2 Issue 8
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Williston Care Flight Returns Air Ambulance Services to Region CITY OF WILLISTON Thanks to a local collaboration, the sky is no longer a limit to the City of Williston's first responders. For the last 18 months, Williston has been without locally stationed air medical transportation services after the region's most recent provider discontinued operations in July of 2023. In the coming months, Williston’s air medical transportation services will return thanks to a collaboration between the City of Williston, CHI St. Alexius Health Williston and Williston Care Flight when its new medical airplane takes to the skies. "We have a unique model for this operation in that we are collaborating with the community, the hospital and the county to bring these air medical services back to Williston," said Williston Care
Flight Vice President Kyle Black. Already operating Care Flight services from Grand Forks, N.D. and Sidney, M.T., Black is excited to return these vital services back to Williston. Williston Care Flight will operate out of Overland Aviation, of which Black is also co-owner and vice president, with assistance from the Williston Fire Department. Overland Aviation will provide the hangar, office space and fuel for the operation with Williston Care Flight providing the pilots and mechanics to work alongside three paramedics and three nurses, staffed by the Williston Fire Department. "Historically when we have initiated operations in a community, our medical staff have been direct employees of the local hospital itself," Black explained. "In this operation, working with (WillisCONTINUES PAGE 4
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