Air Methods, Corp. is the largest publicly owned emergency medical services

Emergency medical services

Emergency medical services are a type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care and/or transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient, or the medical practitioner, believes constitutes a medical emergency...

 helicopter operator in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, with a fleet of over 300 medical transport helicopters

Air ambulance

An air ambulance is an aircraft used for emergency medical assistance in situations where either a traditional ambulance cannot reach the scene easily or quickly enough, or the patient needs to be transported over a distance or terrain that makes air transportation the most practical transport....

 that average 85,000 transports and 100,000 flight hours per year as of December 2006.

Air Methods’ company headquarters are at Centennial Airport

Centennial Airport

Centennial Airport is located in Dove Valley, an unincorporated portion of Arapahoe County near Denver, Colorado. The airport’s runways also extend into neighboring Douglas County. The airport opened on May 12, 1967 as Arapahoe County Airport, and was renamed on July 13, 1984...

 in Dove Valley

Dove Valley, Colorado

Dove Valley is a census-designated place in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 5,243. The headquarters and training camp of the Denver Broncos, as well as Centennial Airport, are located in Dove Valley....

, an unincorporated area of Arapahoe County, Colorado

Arapahoe County, Colorado

As of the census of 2000, there were 487,967 people, 190,909 households, and 125,809 families residing in the county. The population density was 608 people per square mile . There were 196,835 housing units at an average density of 245 per square mile...

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Air Methods provides air medical emergency transport services under two separate operating models: the Community-Based Model (CBM) and the Hospital-Based Model (HBM).

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