Cal-Ore Life Flight

Cal-Ore Life Flight is an emergency air and ground medical transport service based in Brookings, Oregon. It moves patients who need urgent care across Oregon, California and nearby states.

Services

Cal-Ore offers advanced life support transport day and night. The crew stays with the patient from the sending site to the receiving hospital. The service is open to anyone, whether or not they are a member. It also runs a fixed base operation at Crescent City Airport in California, with fuel for other aircraft.

Aircraft

The site says the fleet has seven fixed-wing aircraft and one helicopter. The airplanes are twin engine pressurized Beechcraft King Airs. The helicopter is an AS350, flown together with Reach Air Medical. Each aircraft is set up as a small intensive care unit.

Coverage area

Flights go to destinations in Oregon, California and bordering states, with the sending physician's approval.

Who it is for

Cal-Ore serves people in rural parts of southern Oregon and northern California who need urgent care far from a large hospital. The site says it understands the challenges of rural living. Members of the AirMedCare Network can use it, but the site says emergency services are open to anyone who needs them, with or without membership. In an emergency, the site tells people to dial 911 first.

Facts

• Air ambulance work since the 1990s, first under the name Westlog Aviation
• Accreditation: CAMTS accredited since 2007, per its site
• Merged with REACH Air Medical Services in December 2011
• Part of Global Medical Response
• Airport office: 1741 Dale Rupert Road, Crescent City, CA 95531