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    Public utility model

    We are SSM. The company under bid the previous company and the county made a ridiculous contract for our current provider and the company is paying the price. When you say public do you mean the people of the county ? Or just the bos management and work force? Our work force want third service...
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    Public utility model

    Hi all, so our county is currently running another rfp and this is year 3 of 5 of a a recent provider change. In our current state the private ems company can't sustain the hemmorrage of money monthly so there's a demand for change. Our county and private provider is pushing for a sort of public...
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    Selling 5.11 riptstop tdu pants

    Hi! im selling unused, unopen still in package 5.11 ripstop TDU pants. They are Xl with regular fitting Navy Blue. Im asking for 35 including shipping. i currently have 4 pairs of the pants for sale. Thank you!
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    Paramedics Plus

    The company says they plan on staying past the 5 year mark but they cut cost in operations to the bare minimum so we get our *** ran into . there are a lot of rumors going on but we won't know till the county contract ends. We run 12 hour units with some 9 hour units but there is only about 4 9...
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    Paramedics Plus

    It's a decent company to work for but the county I'm working in they are bleeding money badly losing roughing 700k a month. Equipment is decent, our rigs are hitting 130k in under 3 years and they are breaking down badly. The employees are great to work with. There are some employees that hate...
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    CA Bay Area - Scope of Practice

    Correction I mean they are only running code 2 911 calls in Oakland
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    CA Bay Area - Scope of Practice

    Alameda county ems does have duel emt running code 2 911 calls
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    Paramedics plus June 2014

    what beachmedic says sums it up. its a good job if you just show up on time and do your job, keep your head low and don't stick out to management and you will be fine. They are in full budget mode so they are cutting alot of things, they are cheap and will do anything to save money. The people...
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    Rural/Metro officially files Chapter 11 bankruptcy

    If that's the case I don't see them staying in alco county if they are trimming fat in there own state, they budgeting so much in alco county since there is no money here in this county without a IFT side.
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    NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit Report: Bay Area EMS (8/27)

    Yes they all got converted to als back up, no one got laid off the people who left , left on there own terms , all cct medics got hired at rm , all the type 2 units got converted to als back up with one as a back up car just in case a unit breaks down , all the way units got rebranded and are...
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    NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit Report: Bay Area EMS (8/27)

    Actually they have bls units running the 911systemonly in Oakland , they run 5150 calls and alpha calls , sometimes patients gets mistriaged but they can get upgrade if emts can't do anything for the patient and require als , the bls units were meant to relief some stress on the system but they...
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    Rural Metro's ambulance contract with Santa Clara County

    Pplus has lost just as much in Alameda county gonna be interesting next few years
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    Patients Plus - Alameda County

    As of now we have a choice of taking the lay off or go part time als in which we fight with around 250 other part timers for shifts , the first few academies will have fulltime spots just the recent nee academies are getting shafted and placed in part time
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    Rural Metro's ambulance contract with Santa Clara County

    Sounds like a certain company in Alameda county
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    AMR to Paramedics Plus in Alameda County

    There is word that emsa is going to lose that contract to amr
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    Patients Plus - Alameda County

    FTO time consist of 3 areas and i think 1 day of code 3 driving on a als unit. you go through IFT CCT and als back up training 3 days each i think. IFT training is easy since you should already know how that works, then there is CCT your working with a medic and you do code 3 driving from time...
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    AMR or Rural/Metro

    actually no i never work there but i do know inside stuff and its pretty bad =)
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    AMR or Rural/Metro

    go with AMR stay away from RM
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    Patients Plus - Alameda County

    personally i dont know why they keep saying your only gonna be hired for MHT, your gonna be trained for all parts of BLS which are IFT, CCT, MHT and ALS back up, we had like 5 people who got hired for MHT originally but since they weren't ready yet they put them in whatever shift was available...
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