This year, in order to keep the rest of the people we have, and to
have any hope of recruiting for our current openings, we began
offering health insurance to our employees and paying to have two
people stay in the building at night, instead of one. (Until this year
we used local drivers at night, who were paid an on-call rate to
respond from home, and drive for the paramedic. Due to the current
standards of care, and the lack of local drivers, we now pay both an
EMT and a paramedic to be inside the building at all times. Every
other squad in the area now pays two providers 24/7. We were the last
to do so.) The increased costs for these programs will be covered
through the end of this year by an ARPA grant we received in April for
$73,000.
what did the paramedic do in the 5 minutes between the page and the
driver arriving at the station????????????????????????????
really hope that the medic would drive the ambulance to the scene or
to meet the driver somewhere
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