Serving northern Michigan communities since 1983

Cheboygan Life Support Systems, Inc. is a private non-profit 501(c)(3) organization formed to benefit the community. In 1983, CLSS was created by Cheboygan Memorial Hospital, the City of Cheboygan, the County of Cheboygan, Tuscarora Township, and the Wolverine Fire Board. The Board of Directors meets bi-monthly on the last Wednesday at noon at our facility in Cheboygan.

We are your local ambulance service, providing radio-dispatched ambulances equipped with advanced medical equipment and emergency medications administered by licensed paramedics. Our original coverage was divided into two service areas in Cheboygan County, each equipped with its own station.

In January 2015, Cheboygan Life was contacted by three community ambulance services that were part of Allied EMS. Allied EMS was going out of business, and each community was looking to collaborate with CLSS to maintain local ambulance operations. Those communities included Mackinac Island, Rogers City Ambulance Authority, and Straits EMS in St. Ignace. Contracts were signed with all three entities, and the transition took effect on April 1, 2015.

Each service area includes a heated station with garage space for vehicle storage and maintenance. Living quarters are provided for on-duty crews, including bedrooms, bathrooms with showers, a living room, and a kitchen.

The main station is located in the City of Cheboygan. This facility has four bedrooms and staffs two ambulance crews twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It is also home to the Director’s office and the medical billing offices. The second Cheboygan County facility is located in Indian River, also with four bedrooms and staffed with two crews.

We also operate two stations in Mackinac County, one on Mackinac Island and one in St. Ignace. We staff one ambulance crew at the Mackinac Island medical building. In St. Ignace, we operate one staffed crew with a second backup crew on duty whenever possible.

The Presque Isle station is located in Rogers City. It is a four-bedroom facility with a three-bay garage. Rogers City has one in-house duty crew and a backup crew that responds to the station whenever the first crew is out on an ambulance run.