Saving Lives From The Sky In Haiti: Haiti Air Ambulance Held First Hamptons Reception

Haiti Air Ambulance, a New York-based non-profit that provides a charity helicopter air ambulance service in Haiti, held its first reception in the Hamptons to introduce the organization.

Over the past decade, Haiti Air Ambulance has flown over 2,000 missions, triaging, treating, and transporting patients from remote and underserved areas to hospitals equipped to provide specialized care. Over 40 percent of its patients are pregnant mothers and newborns.

HAA brought the story of their work to the Hamptons with a special reception, “Saving Lives from the Sky in Haiti,” at the estate of Ken and Maria Fishel in Bridgehampton.

The reception featured an introduction by HAA Founder Pat Dolan, followed by guest speaker Mitch Albom, an Internationally renowned and best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio, and television broadcaster, and musician, as well as the founder of the Have Faith Haiti Mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In addition, Eric Cioè-Peña MD MPH Founder and current Vice President of the Center for Global Health of Northwell Health and the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine in addition to Dr. Wesner Jacotin, Chief Flight Physician of Haiti Air Ambulance.

Attendees included Pat Dolan, Mitch Albom, Eric Cioè-Peña MD MPH, Dr. Wesner Jacotin, Elisa DiStefano, Ken Fishel, Maria Fishel, Jerry Kremer, Suzan Kremer, Alan Harvey, Lisa Walker Brown, Christopher Lockhart, Babak Rezvani, Jerry Della Femina, Judy Licht, Angela LaGreca, Contessa Bernadette Piccolina, Leesa Rowland, Robert Zimmerman, Julia Haart, Dr. Barry Weintraub, Nancy Seidenstein, Liz Hamburg, Joan Hamburg, NYS Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright.