Emergency medical veteran Dean Dow named executive director of Care Flight
Care Flight, a program of the Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority, has named Dean Dow as its new executive director. Dow brings more than 20 years of experience in the air and ground emergency medical industry.
“We are excited to have Dean join our team,” said Jim Gubbels, president of REMSA and Care Flight. “His extensive air medical and pre-hospital emergency medical experience, coupled with his customer relations skills and leadership ability, make him an ideal person to lead Care Flight.”
Care Flight is a non-profit community service that provides critical care services 24-hours a day with four air ambulances around through northern Nevada and northeastern Sierra including Carson City.
Prior to joining Care Flight, Dow, who has a masters in business administration and is a Certified Medical Transport Executive, was the owner of Drawing Board, LLC, where he assisted in the planning of strategic growth for ground and air medical services. He also helped develop and integrate external service lines with medical centers, including the nation’s largest hospital systems.
His professional career also included roles as regional vice president of Air Method’s Southeast Region where he had business and operational responsibility for 45 medical aircraft and more than 650 personnel; program director for LifeNet of New York, an organization that includes five air medical bases with 76 personnel; director of business development and quality assurance for EagleMed/Ballard Aviation, Inc., the largest regional air medical service provider in Kansas; fire chief for Ford County Fire and EMS in Kansas; and program director for Alaska Regional Hospital’s two medical aircrafts.
Dow earned his master’s degree in business administration at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Albany, N.Y. and his bachelor of science degree in organizational management and leadership at Friends University in Wichita, Kan.
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