"Is this just a rumor? I haven't seen anything else on it. I would think that Sikorsky would be waving their cat-a performance banner after that donk quit."
Yes, it's common practice for operators and manufacturers to broadcast to the world that one of their aircraft has just had an engine failure. You see it all the time; great publicity.
There's nothing to shout about a continued OEI take off from a heliport, and it is indicative of how skewed our thinking is from the FW world that we think it's good.