Calstar
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| Nonprofit organization | |
| Industry | Air medical services |
| Founded | San Francisco, California, 1983 |
| Headquarters | McClellan, California, U.S. |
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Area served
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Parts of Northern California, Central California and Northern Nevada |
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Key people
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Lynn Malmstrom (CEO, Ken Meehan Chairman of the Board) |
| Website | www.calstar.org |
CALSTAR (California Shock Trauma Air Rescue) is a nonprofit regional air medical services company serving California and northern Nevada. It is currently the largest nonprofit air ambulance provider on the West Coast.
CALSTAR was founded as a non-profit public-benefit corporation in 1983, and began flight operations the following year using a leased BK 117 helicopter based at Peninsula Hospital in San Mateo, California. In its first year, CALSTAR flew 235 patients.
By 2010, CALSTAR’s operations had grown to ten helicopter EMS bases located throughout Northern and Central California and a fixed wing program providing inter-facility transport services from the company’s headquarters at McClellan Park (formerly McClellan Air Force Base) in Sacramento, California.
Since its inception, CALSTAR has provided air medical transport services to more than 50,000 critically ill and injured patients, and has logged over 75,000 accident-free flight hours.
All CALSTAR pilots have a minimum of 3,000 hours of pilot-in-command flight time. CALSTAR operates under its own Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate and Part 145 Repair Station, and is directly responsible for all aspects of its flight operations and aircraft maintenance.
CALSTAR operates a fleet of: MBB Bo 105LS's; and MD 902 Explorer helicopters. In 2012 ordered eight Eurocopter EC 135 helicopters. As of January, 2014, six EC135 aircraft had been delivered. All aircraft are modified with special medical interiors, high skid gear, high intensity search lights and more than 20,000 radio frequencies for in-flight communications.
CALSTAR also utilizes King Air B200 light twin-engine airplanes for long-range inter-facility transports.
Each CALSTAR flight crew is staffed with two registered nurses. CALSTAR flight nurses must achieve and maintain Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN), Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certifications.
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