AirMed celebrates 40 years of flying patients to the University of Utah Hospital

| May 31, 2018, 10:07 p.m.

| Updated: 10:41 p.m.

AirMed, the University of Utah Hospital’s medical transport program, celebrated its 40th anniversary Thursday.

AirMed began in June 1978 and was the eighth medical helicopter program in the nation, according to the University of Utah. It has transported about 75,000 patients in Utah and Wyoming since being established.

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