I was trying to remember which hospitals you had in Evansville. My daughter went to USI. I was a little mystified at the airlift to Indianapolis. If I remember it sounded like she had muscle moved from leg(?) to chest(?). Is that an Indy specialty? All I could think was St. Vincent's.
In addition to St. V's, there are two additional hospitals in Indianapolis, that are verified Level I Trauma Centers: IU Healt Methodist and Eskenazi Health (plus Riley Hospital for Children). Evansville only has Level II Trauma Centers, Deaconess and St. Mary's.
Source:
http://www.in.gov/isdh/24972.htm
In addition, University of Louisville Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center, is located approximately 2 hours away from Evansville (by car) vs. Indy, which is 3 hours away.
With the understanding that every situation is different, depending on condition, urgency, insurance, etc. (e.g., when my aunt, who lived about 45 minutes north of Eveansville at the time, went to St. Mary's in Evansville and was diagnosed with very late-stage cancer -she passed away a couple of month later-, she was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN by ambulance, a 2.5-hour drive; she was on Medicare at the time). I'm somewhat familiar with the Evansville area, in that my parents have lived there for the last 20 years (plus, my mom suffers from a chronic neurological condition), and Indianapolis is not the first place that comes to mind as far as locations where people from the Evansville area in dire medical situations seek treatment or are referred to. Also, as others have pointed out, I, too, think it's rather unusual that the information regarding this very recent health scare on the mother's part is being talked about only on the FB page, and that as far as I can tell, no MSM outlets have mentioned it.