CALSTAR

American Eurocopter announced today that California Shock Trauma Air Rescue (CALSTAR), with headquarters at McClellan, CA, has agreed to purchase up to eight EC135® helicopters. With this order, it will become an all-Eurocopter operator.

In an effort to upgrade its fixed wing transport capabilities, California Shock Trauma Air Rescue (CALSTAR) has purchased a Beechcraft B200 Super King Air.

California Shock Trauma Air Rescue (CALSTAR) has named Cordelia Resident Scott Wallace, R.N., C.C.R.N., C.F.R.N., as its new Director of Medical Operations, CALSTAR COO Tad Henderson announced.

CALSTAR has suspended operations of its helicopter base located in Jackson (CALSTAR 10) and will consolidate its McClellan Park helicopter base operations (CALSTAR 11) with existing base operations in Vacaville (CALSTAR 8).

The Allen-Heath Memorial Foundation has donated $25,000 to the California Shock Trauma Air Rescue (CALSTAR) base in Ukiah. It is the ninth year in a row that the foundation has made a substantial donation to the base, known as CALSTAR 4.

CALSTAR will unveil its new GPS instrument approach and Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS) on October 11 at Mee Memorial Hospital. The project will allow CALSTAR to serve more critically ill and injured patients in Monterey County.

CALSTAR's Vacaville base, known as CALSTAR 8, marks its 5th anniversary this month. Since the base opened in 2006, flight crews have transported approximately 1,400 critically ill and injured patients throughout Solano and surrounding counties.

CALSTAR 6 in South Lake Tahoe began operations 10 years ago this month. Since then, the base has completed more than 3,000 transports of critically ill and injured patients throughout the Sierra Nevada region.

The BO105LS helicopter at the CALSTAR base in South Lake Tahoe has been installed with a $230,000 Super Lifter Kit, giving it enhanced aerodynamic performance, more speed, more efficiency and less vibration while in flight.

A research study performed by the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria found that, out of 27,697 surveyed helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) transports, only 377 (1.4%) were found to be medically inappropriate flights.