Vehicles of Change

How the Automotive Industry Is Redefining Transportation in Medicine and Rural Health Administration

von Jeff Blais

174 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What happens when the place where care is delivered has to move?

In Vehicles of Change, Jeff Blais, CEO of La Boit Specialty Vehicles, takes readers inside the world of purpose-built mobile medical clinics, dental units, bloodmobiles, veterinary vehicles, and other specialty platforms designed to bring professional services beyond fixed walls.

Drawing on decades of family-business experience, Jeff shows how a garage-born company evolved into a specialty vehicle manufacturer serving organizations whose work depends on mobility. Along the way, he explains why a mobile clinic is far more than a truck with equipment inside. It is a working environment shaped by automotive engineering, clinical workflow, staffing, route planning, maintenance, power, accessibility, serviceability, and long-term operating realities.

Vehicles of Change explores the intersection of three fields that rarely appear in the same conversation: transportation in medicine, rural health administration, and the automotive industry.

Inside, readers will discover how to:

- Identify when mobile care can help close the distance between people and services- Translate a healthcare or community mission into practical vehicle requirements- Evaluate chassis, floor plans, climate needs, power systems, weight, storage, and workflow- Design around the workday instead of adding features that create unnecessary complexity- Think through rural routes, staffing, funding, downtime, training, maintenance, and support- Understand the tradeoffs between generators and emerging battery-powered clinic systems- Build serviceability and operational resilience into a mobile program before problems arise>Jeff also shares the family-business story behind La Boit, from his father Gil Blais building equine veterinary cases in a garage to Jeff learning the work himself, leaving to build businesses of his own, returning to the shop floor, and eventually becoming CEO.

For rural-health leaders, hospital and community-health executives, public-health teams, blood centers, dental and veterinary organizations, automotive professionals, and anyone responsible for mobile-care strategy, Vehicles of Change offers a practical look at what it takes to move care, not just people.

Because when the right vehicle is built around the right mission, transportation becomes part of the care model.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798172146930
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published