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Based in Old Town, FL, AirLife 68 is a critical care air medical transport proudly serving Florida’s Nature Coast.

Staffed with highly trained nurses, medics, and pilots, delivering advanced lifesaving care when every minute matters.

09/29/2026

Airlife 68 was honored to be apart of HCA’s involvement in the Healthier Tomorrow Fund for Alachua County high school students. Education and community involvement are important to every member of the team. Thank you for letting us drop in. 😊🚁

09/28/2026

Highway landings and clear skies ☀️🚁 Our goal is to provide exceptional care and rapid response for our ground teams and patients. Thank you Levy County Department of Public Safety for an excellent handoff to help get this patient the care they need quickly.

09/25/2026

Always a pleasure to work with Gilchrist County EMS.
James, Taylor, and Tayler lift off to provide exceptional trauma care after a smooth handoff from EMS.
Thank you for the call and great patient care.

09/24/2026

MEET THE CREW
1. Name: Tayler Ward Perez

2. What is your position on the Airlife crew?
Flight nurse

3. What is your experience in healthcare? I’ve been a nurse for 4 years. I’ve worked in Trauma ICU and Trauma/Emergency department. I also am a clinical instructor for nursing school.

4. What is your favorite thing about your job?
I love critical care and being there for people on their worst day. I like feeling like I made a positive impact on the patient and the crew with me.

5. This job can be tough. What is your why?
I was led by the Lord to do this job. He is my why because he put me here to serve.

6. Coffee, energy drink, or straight-up willpower?
Coffee. Everyday all day

7. What snacks are you grabbing from the EMS breakroom?
Quest bars and Dr Pepper

8. What’s your favorite hobby or way to spend time off?
I love to spend time with my husband. I love to run and paddleboard. When I’m not outside I do a lot of reading and writing.

9. If you weren’t in medicine, what job would you have?
I would love to be a writer and audible narrator.

09/21/2026

MEET THE CREW
1. Name: Schaffer
2. What is your position on the Airlife crew?
Flight Paramedic
3. What is your experience in healthcare? 19 years. 14 years 911 ground and 5 flight.
4. What is your favorite thing about your job?
Helping those in need. Also, I get to fly in a helicopter.
5. This job can be tough. What is your why?
It's a calling I've felt since I was about 5 or 6 years old.
6. Coffee, energy drink, or straight-up willpower?
Coffee mostly.
7. What snacks are you grabbing from the EMS breakroom?
Quest bars or beef jerky.
8. What’s your favorite hobby or way to spend time off?
Anything outdoors.
9. If you weren’t in medicine, what job would you have?
Probably a diesel or motorcycle mechanic.

09/20/2026

Always an honor working alongside this awesome community of first responders. Another seamless handoff with Chiefland Fire Rescue Levy County Department of Public Safety Dixie County Fire Rescue

09/19/2026

MEET THE CREW

Name: Jacob Floyd
What is your position on the Airlife crew?
Flight Nurse

What is your experience in healthcare?
ICU nurse for 6 years EMS 1 year

What is your favorite thing about your job?
Being able to practice medicine in such a unique and cool way and working along side amazing people and clinicians in the hospital, EMS, and in the air.

This job can be tough. What is your why?
The honor of being able to serve the people in an area that I call home, and even if we can’t fix everything, to still be able to help in anyway possible on someone’s potentially worst day keeps me motivated.

Coffee, energy drink, or straight-up willpower?
Coffee all day long

What snacks are you grabbing from the EMS breakroom?
Ice cold Kit Kat or Reese’s cups

What’s your favorite hobby or way to spend time off?
Bow-fishing every chance I get

If you weren’t in medicine, what job would you have?
Would like to do this as retirement job one day but hay farmer

09/17/2026

MEET THE CREW

Name: Rebecca Redding

What is your position on the Airlife crew? Flight paramedic

What is your experience in healthcare? Fire and EMS for 12 years

What is your favorite thing about your job? High quality training that improves patient outcomes

This job can be tough. What is your why? God has placed me here to help patients and their families on their worst days.

Coffee, energy drink, or straight-up willpower?
Black coffee

What snacks are you grabbing from the EMS breakroom?
Protein shake and something chocolate

What’s your favorite hobby or way to spend time off?
Spending time with my family, participating at church, and working out

If you weren’t in medicine, what job would you have?
Probably a wildland firefighter

09/16/2026

Night flights hit just right. Thank you Gilchrist county for a great transfer.
Rapid response. Exceptional care.

09/15/2026

MEET THE CREW

Name: Taylor Newman
1. What is your position on the Airlife crew?
Flight nurse.
2. What is your experience in healthcare?
I have worked the last 6 years in the Emergency Room/Trauma Center as a nurse. I have also been a nurse at a nursing home and a Newborn Hearing Tech.
3. What is your favorite thing about your job?
My favorite thing about this job is not only being able to see the world from the sky, but provide care so someone on their worst day. The best part, is I get to bring that care and give back to a community that helped shape me into the person I am today. Go Bears! 🐻❤️
4. This job can be tough. What is your why?
My why is and will always be my family. They are my biggest supporters and believe in me more than I believe in myself most days.
5. Coffee, energy drink, or straight-up willpower?
Some days it takes all of the above 😅
6. What snacks are you grabbing from the EMS breakroom?
I’m grabbing the beef jerky for sure.
7. What’s your favorite hobby or way to spend time off?
On my days off, I love chasing my kids around whether it’s watching them play baseball, football, gymnastics or pageants. I also love spending my Friday mornings at Waffle House. It’s my favorite tradition. I also love spending the day on the river or any body of water.
8. If you weren’t in medicine, what job would you have?
I truly would want to be a stay at home mom that homesteads, but if I have to work, I’d want to learn how to weld.

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71 NE 84th Avenue
Old Town, FL
32680

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