An Interview of Tom Allenstein, the President & CEO
of MedFlight of Ohio and MedCare Ambulance headquartered in Columbus,
Ohio. Tom has been the CEO since 2015 and served as the Chief Clinical
Officer & Chief Operating Officer of MedFlight from 2004. He also
became President & CEO of MedCare Ambulaance in 2020, an ALS / BLS
ambulance program that had been a joint-venture. Prior to MedFlight and
MedCare, Tom had been with Mayo Medical Transport in Rochester,
Minnesota starting as a Transport Nurse in 1989 and then Transportation
Nurse Manager in 1997.
Tom is a past board member of the Association of Air Medical Services
(AAMS) and is currently a Regent with the Medical Transport Leadership
Institute, a site reviewer with the Commission on the Accreditation of
Medical Transport Services, and the President of the Central Ohio Trauma
Systems board. He is the recipient of the AAMS Marriott - Carlson Award
in November 2002.