Episode 306. Air Date: 11/17/13.
Rod Crane has served in various leadership capacities since his calling into healthcare administration in 1973. Prior to that he was an entrepreneur and also worked in the media: radio disc jockey, engineer, CBS TV Detroit and cable TV in its’ pioneer days.
For the past 18 years, Mr. Crane has served as President/CEO of MedFlight of Ohio, one of premier air and ground transportation services in America. MedFlight and subsidiaries operate 8 medical helicopters and 50 ground ambulances, employ approximately 450 people and transport more than 60,000 patients per year; prior to that he was consultant, Rod Crane and Associates, to hospitals in America and to the American Medical Clinic in Moscow regarding creating safe, efficient and economical patient transport systems nationally and internationally. As a pioneer in creating fixed wing air ambulance services in the mid-west in the late 1970’s Mr. Crane was a key resource to the FAA in creating the first fixed wing air ambulance operating standards.
As an advocate for safety in air and ground medical transportation he was awarded the 2012 American Eurocopter Vision Zero Safety Award, the highest such recognition in the air medical industry.
Mr. Crane has also been a volunteer for the American Red Cross since 1983. As an experienced leader/volunteer, in 2004 he was called to lead a team of Red Cross consultants to support the Beijing Red Cross Society to help them prepare EMS stations for each sport venue at the 2008 Olympics. As a result of Mr. Crane’s 4-years of work, raising or donating in excess of $250,000 to secure training and technology to help the people of China, he was awarded the honor of International Humanitarian of 2008 by the Beijing Red Cross Society, the first non-Asian person to receive the award.
In 2005, following Hurricane Katrina he was called on to assist the relief efforts of the American Red Cross in Louisiana; he served as assistant shelter manager of the Baton Rouge Red Cross mega-shelter for three weeks; in this capacity he was the liaison to work with FEMA to place the 1000 homeless into FEMA housing.
As a leader he has adopted Servant Leadership, a movement started by Robert Greenleaf, as the foundation for MedFlight and his business partners.
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