The California Association of Air Medical Services is a chapter of AAMS, the Association of Air Medical Services, an international association which serves providers of air and surface medical transport systems. Our teams are dedicated to safe and swift transportation while delivering the highest quality of patient care for every patient in need...
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With a multitude of bases in California, the Cal-AAMS organization is a coalition of Ground, Rotor and Fixed Wing Emergency Response Programs providing services to their respective communities.
Cal-AAMS (California Association of Air Medical Services) is a dedicated team of programs committed to representing and advocating for the Air Medical and the Critical Care Ground Transport Industry, and of our members who proudly serve their communities.
Cal-AAMS, is committed to serving our community of Air Medical and Critical Care Ground providers through continued education, enhanced training, advocacy and professional insights within our industry.
International Affiliation Cal-AAMS is a chapter member of the Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS), an international 501C (6) trade association headquartered in the Washington, DC area.
"committed to providing the highest standard of patient care while maintaining safe,
efficient flight operations"
CalAAMS is built on the idea that representation from a variety of medical transport services and businesses
can be brought together to share information, collectively resolve problems and provide leadership in the medical transport community.
The California Association of Air Medical Services is a chapter of AAMS, the Association of Air Medical Services, an international association which serves providers of air and surface medical transport systems.
Built on the idea that representation from a variety of medical transport services and businesses can be brought together to share information, collectively resolve problems and provide leadership in the medical transport community, the association, a voluntary non-profit organization, encourages and supports its members in maintaining a standard of performance reflecting safe operations and efficient, high quality patient care.
The California Association of Air Medical Services is a chapter of AAMS, the Association of Air Medical Services, an international association which serves providers of air and surface medical transport systems.
To provide a forum for the providers involved with the air medical industry. Our goal is to promote the highest level of industry safety and commitment to delivering excellence in clinical care while transporting the critically ill or injured.
AAMS represents a unified voice for the entire air medical and critical care medical transport community. Through common effort, we will improve the health outcomes of the populations we serve.
Cal-AAMS
Taking Flight. Saving Lives...
"committed to providing the highest standard of patient care while maintaining safe, efficient flight operations"
Cal-AAMS encourages and supports its members in maintaining a standard of excellence and performance reflecting safe operations
and efficient, high quality patient care while transporting the critically ill or injured.
Mercy Air provides safe, rapid advanced medical transport with one of our CAMTS certified helicopters for critically ill and injured patients...
Our aircraft are available 24 / 7 / 365, with overlapping service coverage areas to help to ensure a helicopter is readily available for our patients.
Along with Air Methods, we operate 16 helicopters throughout the state, with our offices headquartered in Rialto California.
Contact: William Hinton, Regional Business Development Director Number: 800. 222.3456 Location: 625 E. Carnegie Drive, Suite 150, San Bernardino, CA 92408
With air ambulance bases in Crescent City, Eureka, and Arcata, California; and ground ambulance bases in Brookings and Gold Beach, Oregon, Cal-Ore Life Flight serves the isolated North Coast of California in a manner that ONLY a local program can. We focus on building relationships with hospital and pre-hospital providers and embedding themselves into the communities they serve.
In 2011, REACH Air Medical Services and Cal-Ore Life Flight announced the merger of their two privately-held companies, creating the most comprehensive network of medical air and ground transportation in the Western United States.
Contact: Dan Brattaint, CEO / FAA Director of Operations Number: 541. 469.7911 Location: 311 Cove Rd, Brookings, OR 97415
Since 1984, CALSTAR has provided life-saving air medical transport for more than 60,000 critically injured or ill patients.
Flight crews respond 24/7 to emergency scene calls and hospital-to-hospital transport requests from helicopter bases located in Concord, Gilroy, Modesto, Merced, Salinas, Santa Maria, Ukiah, Auburn and South Lake Tahoe, CA.
Contact: Marketing Department, CALSTAR Number: 916. 921.4000 Location: 4933 Bailey Loop, McClellan, CA 95652
Care Flight provides critical care transportation for the Northern Nevada and North-Eastern California region. Operating five bases in Reno, Gardnerville, and Fallon NV, as well as Truckee and Plumas county, CA. Care Flight can respond within minutes of being dispatched to a scene or facility serveicings a 150-mile radius from each base.
Contact: Markus Dorsey-Hirt, Number: 775. 858.5700 Location: 450 Edison Way, Reno, NV 89502
Care Flight's Chief Nursing Officer / Chief Flight Nurse
Cal-AAMS Representative
The mission of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) is to provide the highest level of safety, service, and security to the people of California. The CHP Air Operations Program accomplishes this mission with both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft..
Contact: Sergeant Ron Wilson, Paramedic Coordinator Number: 916.843.3300 Location: Air Ops HQ, Sacramento, CA
Our Enloe FlightCare Program touches the lives of many in our region by responding to emergencies within a 75-mile radius of Enloe in counties including Butte, Tehama, Glenn, Plumas, Colusa, Sierra, Yuba and parts of Lassen. FlightCare is supported by a full team of emergency and critical care experts.
Contact: Jenny Humphries, RN, BSN, MBA, CFRN / Chief Flight Nurse Number: 530.332.5023 Location: 1531 Esplanade, Chico, CA 95926
The primary helicopter provider for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, having two dedicated aircraft for the transportation of critically ill children, Helinet also provides airborne and ground emergency medical transportation to the vital organ transport programs for all the major hospitals in the greater L.A. region.
Contact: Allison Rakun Number: 818. 902.0229 Location: 16303 Waterman Drive, Van Nuys, CA 91406
We are working to save lives and foster healthy communities in Southern Oregon and Northern California. We rescue neighbors in crisis and deliver them safely to our hospital partners..
Contact: Sheila Clough Number: 541.858.2600 Location: 2020 Milligan Way, Medford, OR 97504
REACH Air Medical Services, headquartered in Santa Rosa, California, provides helicopter and airplane patient transportation for critically ill or injured patients. REACH has bases in Concord, Imperial, Lakeport, Marysville, Oceanside, Redding, Sacramento, Santa Rosa, Stockton, Thermal, and Upland, California, as well as Corvallis, Oregon.
Contact: Sean Russell, GMR Regional President Number: 916. 921.4000
Sierra Medical Services Alliance (SEMSA) was established in 2000 as a private, not-for-profit, Nevada based corporation. It’s fundamental creation was to assist other ambulance, transportation services and communities. We provide various EMS related services for several rural providers and have formed a partnership with AirMethods Corporation to provide air ambulance services.
Contact: DeeAnn Dion, Chief Operating Officer Number: 775.544.6681
Since our inception in 1993 Sierra Lifeflight has strived to provide the best emergent medical transportation, in the safest environment.
Each flight has an EMS Pilot, Flight Registered Nurse, and Flight Paramedic. Each crewmember is carefully screened, and provided with specialty training to work in the air-ambulance environment.
Flying At The Speed Of Life.
Contact: Mike Patterson, Program Director Number: 800. 558.5186 Location: 770 Airport Road, Bishop, CA
SkyLife Air Ambulance is a partnership between American Ambulance, Roger's Helicopters and the communities we serve. Providing rapid air medical transportation for the critically ill and injured trauma and medical patient. SkyLife has been serving California since 1991... and having safely transported over 11,000 patients.
Contact: Lisa Epps, RN, Program Director Number: 559. 346.1025 Location: 5526 E. Air Corp Way, Fresno, CA 93721
Based at Stanford Hospital, we provide transport solutions for critically ill and injured patients to hospitals throughout the region.
Built on Stanford's reputation for excellence and quality outcomes and partnered with Air Methods, Life Flight continues to raise the bar in care of patients in the pre-hospital environment.
Contact:Michael Baulch, RN, JD, CMTE, Program Manager Number: 650. 723.5578
PHI Air Medical is the leading air ambulance provider across the country and internationally, providing air medical services and outreach education to local communities and leading healthcare systems. We safely transport more than 30,000 patients each year, operating out of more than 65 bases across the United States. At each base, we maintain a dedicated crew of pilots, nurses, paramedics, mechanics, and communications specialists – all exceptionally trained and ready to respond.
Contact: Erin Cox MPH, FP-C, NREMT-P
Number: 530. 221.0646 Location: 5900 Old Oregon Trail, Redding, CA 96002
Business Operations Manager, CA / TX Program
Cal-AAMS
4010 Foothills Blvd,
Suite 103, PMB 53
Roseville, CA 95747
Phone: 925 890.5782
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Committed to providing the highest standard of patient care...
