MEDEX - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of Education and Safety
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Board
- President
- Member of the American Ambulance Association
In February 1998, Lauren Rubinson launched an ambulance service with a card table, a telephone and two ambulances parked outside a Chicago storefront. "We called it MedEx," said Rubinson. "And we didn't even have our own garage."
After 13 years working for other private ambulance providers, Rubinson believed there was a better way to provide customer service to patients, hospitals, nursing homes, and families, as well as a better culture for employees.
She knew the industry inside and out having held management positions in accounting, billing, sales and marketing at Reliable Ambulance, Tower Ambulance and AMR Ambulance.
"Believing you can do something better, and then giving your heart and soul to prove you're right is what drives most entrepreneurs," says Rubinson. "We worked 24/7 to make MedEx a success. The early days were pretty tough on me and our first group of employees, but we did it and I now call them "the good old days."
Rubinson has served as a Board Member on the Swedish Covenant Hospital Foundation Board since its inception in 2007. She has also served on the Hospital's Women's Health Initiative Campaign Steering Committee and, along with her husband Glenn, chaired a successful 2013 gala for the Hospital raising more than $800,000 for the Women's Health Initiative.
Rubinson is an active member of the American Ambulance Association (AAA) and the Illinois State Ambulance Association (ISAA) and serves on the AAA Nominating Committee.