Steele Memorial Medical Center

Air Rescue Programs

Medical emergencies happen every day without warning and transportation to a healthcare facility can be expensive. Air Rescue provides critical care and will safely deliver you to the nearest hospital able to treat your needs. Below are Air Rescue programs serving residents of Lemhi County.


Life Flight Network

Life Flight Network, a nonprofit air medical transport service, has helicopter, fixed-wing, and ground ambulance bases throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Life Flight Network has administrative offices in Aurora, Oregon, and employs approximately 600 people.

We provide ICU-level care and life-saving transport to seriously ill or injured patients from the scene of an emergency or from one hospital to another.

  • Scene locations can be remote and hard or time-consuming to get to by ground.
  • Transferring patients from one hospital to another allows patients to receive the specialized care they need if it is not available locally.
  • Life Flight Network is an integral part of local emergency medical systems. Providing air and ground ambulances with highly skilled personnel, undoubtedly saves lives and improves outcomes.

Working together with local police, EMS, fire departments, emergency responders, and hospitals, we help ensure every patient receives the highest quality care.

We have an in-depth understanding of the terrain that makes up the incredible states we serve. Life Flight Network’s ability to assist residents living in or enjoying rural locations or mountainous terrain makes the service we provide extraordinary—and at times—a life-saving necessity for the community.


Air Methods

OUR REACH IS FAR. OUR CARE IS WIDE.

Quality emergency care doesn’t begin in the hospital emergency room – it begins at the scene of the accident or the moment a life-threatening illness strikes. Air Methods has a talented workforce of over 4,500 team members, which includes the best in the air medical industry. We are pilots, clinicians, mechanics, air communications specialists, support teams and many more. We’re ready to answer the call because we know someone’s life is on the line. We dedicate ourselves around the clock to maintain equipment and supplies, coordinate logistics and relentlessly provide the tools and expertise that allow us to give more tomorrows.

From the front lines to the phone lines, we believe our status as the industry leader – and the importance we place on our mission statement and core values – allow us to attract the highest level of talented professionals. More than 20% of our team members are U.S. veterans, active duty or in the reserves. Our comprehensive aviation, clinical and maintenance training is as robust as it is intense. And our continuous curriculum of learning and simulation-based training is unmatched in the industry.

We are ready to save lives at every moment of every day, with over 300 bases of operations serving 48 states. In rural communities, that kind of reach of care is crucial. Emergency air medical transport and treatment is often the only access to lifesaving emergency care they have – providing access to millions of people who otherwise would not have been able to make it to a trauma center.

We also operate eight maintenance centers of excellence throughout the nation and a national communications center. Although we call Greenwood Village, Colorado, home, we are only a call away.


St Luke's Air

Doctors and families throughout the region trust Air St. Luke’s to carry their precious cargo in a medical emergency. With a dedicated team of professionals highly trained to the specific needs of newborns, pregnant women, children, and adult patients with cardiac or other complex medical needs, Air St. Luke’s is the region’s most comprehensive medical transport program, operating as mobile critical care units with advanced lifesaving equipment and technology.

  • Best in class helicopter performance at altitude during hot summer days.
  • Expert trained crew members
  • Only service in Idaho to carry whole blood for the critically injured patients we serve
  • The only Idaho-based team equipped with isolette capabilities to provide remote NICU services
  • CAMTS accredited service

From bases in Boise and Twin Falls, we serve Southern Idaho, Eastern Oregon, and northern Nevada. And through our partners in the Association of Air Medical Memberships Programs (AAMMP), coverage for Air St. Luke’s members extends to Northern and Eastern Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Western Montana, and Northern California south to the Santa Barbara area.

Idaho Helicopters, Inc. is the FAR Part 135 Certificate Holder providing aviation services and owns and operates the helicopters used by Air St. Luke's. Turbo Air, Inc. is the FAR Part 135 Certificate Holder providing aviation services and owns and operates the airplanes used by Air St. Luke's.