I think WakeMed's air ambulance was contingent on them acheiving the same Trauma level status as Pitt, Duke or UNC-CH. I imagine Duke's Lifeflight will probably not be touching down so much as in the past since they're ambulance service competes now with WakeMed. I would think that WakeMed might consider further eastern expansion to compete with Duke or Pitt. Pitt owns two additional hospitals in eastern NC and of course, Duke has strong affiliation with Johnston Memorial and now has Raleigh Community, although its location is probably not as strategic of a location as Johnston Memorial for basing LifeFlight. Its seems to me that Wake would eventually expand further outside of the Wake County area. The way I understand of these ICU ambulance services, they often base their ground units at satellite hospitals which can be dispatched quicker and the air ambulances can retrieve patients quicker inside the golden hour. Since Wake is no longer just a county hospital, it would seem conceivable that multi-county expansion is almost a certain guarantee with the New Bern campus being the focal Trauma unit. Just my own hunch, though.
no they just gave some of the employees a tour of it. she was asked if she wanted to work on there for the peds calls.