Flight Programs in SoCal

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I'm having some trouble finding the names of flight programs in SoCal. I have found some fixed wing programs, but really prefer rotor wing. I'm looking for a flight medic position. I've tried flight web without a whole lot of luck. I saw REACH is putting bases up around N/Central CA. I did find CalStar and they seem to have several bases. Thanks!
 
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CALSTAR flies dual RN, no medics, due to California's screwy county EMSA stuff.

LA flies their own patients with street medics IIRC. Have you looked into LifeTeam? I think they are more central and east coast though. Maybe the Air Methods website? They do maintenance and pilots but I'd bet they have a list of bases on their site to at least point you in the right direction.

Good luck!
 
Orange County uses Mercy Air/Air Methods for HEMS.
 
Great! Thanks for the info guys!
 
Riverside county uses Mercy and Reach. I'm pretty sure both have a medic and RN on each.
 
REACH is hiring in El Centro.

Also several opportunities in Texas should you make the wise decision to stay, lol.
 
CalSTAR flies dual RN because that's the way they want to operate.
 
I've heard otherwise but it's all word of mouth.
CalSTAR can fly Paramedic/RN teams like REACH and others, but they choose not to. I used to have almost daily face to face contact with their crews. Their RN's were quite happy with the 2 RN crew...
 
CalSTAR can fly Paramedic/RN teams like REACH and others, but they choose not to. I used to have almost daily face to face contact with their crews. Their RN's were quite happy with the 2 RN crew...

Alright. I wasn't trying to start an argument... We interact at the trauma center with CALSTAR 6 pretty frequently...
 
Alright. I wasn't trying to start an argument... We interact at the trauma center with CALSTAR 6 pretty frequently...
I haven't worked with those folks... Mostly I worked with CS2 until about 2003 or 2004 to assist them with ground transport at one of the hospitals in that area. Because of the type of calls (and having 2 of their RN's as my instructors) I got to know them pretty well. Believe me, they do their fair share of griping about "work".

It makes no sense to me that they'd be restricted to Dual RN when other air ambulance companies can run 1 RN/1 Paramedic crews. I do know that Dual RN is pretty rare for CA.
 
I haven't worked with those folks... Mostly I worked with CS2 until about 2003 or 2004 to assist them with ground transport at one of the hospitals in that area. Because of the type of calls (and having 2 of their RN's as my instructors) I got to know them pretty well. Believe me, they do their fair share of griping about "work".

It makes no sense to me that they'd be restricted to Dual RN when other air ambulance companies can run 1 RN/1 Paramedic crews. I do know that Dual RN is pretty rare for CA.

Do they fly in smaller coverage areas or are medics required to have cards in all the counties they service?

I think the RN/Medic configuration makes more sense but that's just me.
 
Do they fly in smaller coverage areas or are medics required to have cards in all the counties they service?

I think the RN/Medic configuration makes more sense but that's just me.
I suspect that the Medic only needs to be accredited in the county where they're based out of, and their response would be treated as a mutual aid, so they only need to utilize one set of protocols. Dual Nurse is a lot more flexible in that their Medical Director sets the protocols and each county they operate in just signs an agreement that CS can use their own protocols instead of the Paramedic Protocols, due the expanded scope of the Nurses and they don't have to work with a partner that has to use a different set of protocols. I imagine that all flight programs set up their RN protocols this way.

I like the idea of RN/Medic, but the Medic should only have to worry about one protocol set that's seamlessly meshed with the RN's.
 
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