Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin celebrates new helipad

Leaders of Ascension Seton and local/regional EMS teams recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin’s new helipad on the roof of the West Tower. The new helipad is 50' x 50'9" and replaces the existing ground-level helipad.

As a comprehensive stroke center, STEMI (ST-elevation myocardial infarction) center and hospital with ECMO/transplant capabilities, in addition to complex maternal and neonatal services, Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin sees patients that other local hospitals are unable to treat, and typically sees 20-30 helicopter flights with urgent cases per month. The flights come from the counties of Travis, Bexar, Burnet, Blanco, Hays, Bastrop, Gonzalez, Lee and Caldwell, comprising a 160-mile radius around the hospital. Heart, labor and delivery and neonatal ICU patients are the most common to be transported by helicopter to the facility.

Ascension Seton has longstanding partnerships with STAR Flight, PHI Air Ambulance Services and Air Evac Lifeteam. The relationships, collaboration and teamwork between Ascension Seton and these service partners had resulted in the transport and delivery of thousands of patients to critical care during life-threatening situations.