Vital Signs:
Facts & Figures
By air and by land
DHART celebrates its 10th birthday
 Photo by Corum Photography |
It used to be called the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Air Response Team. It's still northern New England's only medical flight service, but now DHART stands for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team and two high-tech ground vehicles augment the service's two helicopters. Here's a numerical look at DHART's impact ("calls" are requests for service; weather or simultaneous calls can keep them from being completed):
7/1/1994
Date that DHART service began
7
Minutes after the service started that the first call came in
473 / 320
Number of flight calls / completed missions in 1994-95
1,709 / 851
Number of flight calls / completed missions in 2003-04
820 / 679
Number of ground calls / completed missions in 2003-04
20
Number of DHART staff members in 1994
42
Number of DHART staff members in 2004
12,885 / 8,087
Total calls / completed missions since 1994
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