There’s a community in Washington where wealthy residents have been able to divert helicopters carrying critically ill children due to noise complaints, are the negative externalities measurable?

There's a community in Washington where wealthy residents have been able to divert helicopters carrying critically ill children due to noise complaints, are the negative externalities measurable? The helicopters are sourced from a multi state area. Only a small portion of the life flights are able to land at the hospital, and the rest are diverted and required to land roughly a mile away, and transported by ambulance to the children's hospital. I'm a Junior Quant. Economics student. I've been reading about this story, and I feel disturbed by it. Here's my view;

For anyone in critical condition, especially children, seconds matter. The actions of the board (Of the wealthy community near the hospital) likely inflate the medical costs for the families, for example, requiring children to wait longer to receive medical care can push their conditions to worsen, leading to longer medical stays. This can lead to potentially worse life outcomes for the children as well.

Also, there's a good chance that the families are footing the bill for the ambulance transport. This has been going on for over 30 years. I've read every thread and news article I could find about the issue. Actions have consequences, and adding a bottleneck to children in the multi-state area receiving CRITICAL medical attention most likely has measurable negative outcomes.

This has been happening for well over 30 years. That's thousands of flights, and lowered potential life satisfaction and outcomes for children who are required to wait longer to receive medical attention because of a FEW influential community members.

My theory is that worsened outcomes (potentially as a result of the flight diversions causing artificially higher medical response times) can reduce economic welfare for both the lifetime of a child, and for potentially increased costs to the families

Do you think that this is measurable (If internal data was available)?