Helipad Put To Use Day After Constructed
Posted on Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
First Air Evac Copter Arrives: An emergency helicopter settled to
earth on the emergency room’s just-completed helipad on September 10.
(Photo by Dustin Michael)
Emergency Room Helipad: County Commissioner Stacy Rushing and
workers from District 3 constructed a helipad outside the new
emergency building at Mercy Health Love County Hospital on September 9.
Less than 24 hours after it was constructed, a helipad outside the new emergency room at Mercy Health Love County experienced its first touch-down.
An air ambulance was summoned for a patient about 11 a.m. on September 10. The helipad had been finished mid-afternoon on September 9.
County Commissioner Stacy Rushing and workers from District 3 assisted the Love County EMS & Fire Brigade in the construction.
First the EMS manager Dustin Michael and operations chief Tracy Walker framed a landing area and walkway. The workers filled the frames with gravel then overlay that with asphalt.
The asphalt was donated by Overland Corporation, according to Jessica Crosthwait, executive assistant to the hospital administrator.
The helipad is just a few yards south of the emergency building. Its walkway leads to the parking lot that serves both the clinic and emergency room.
Helicopter ambulances of an outside contractor supplement the ground ambulances of the hospital and are used to transport trauma patients to higher-level care.
Asphalting the Walkway: District 3 workers for County
Commissioner Stacy Rushing pound down a layer of asphalt
on the walkway from helipad to emerency room on September
9, 2025. Overland Corporation donated the asphalt.
Gravel Layer on Helipad: Workers in the County Commissioner
District 3 shoveled a layer of gravel on the frame of a helipad at
the new emergency room in Marietta on September 9, 2025.
Asphalting the Helipad: District 3 workers of the Board of
County Commissioners applied a layer of asphalt to the newly-
created helipad to serve the emergency room at Mercy Health
Love County Hospital on September 9. The ER opened to the
public on September 2.