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Does your local ED have food (Snacks) and drinks for when after you drop a patient off.

Our ED have soda, juice, coffee, sandwich (PB J, Ham, Turkey), and other snacks.
 
One provided all EMS in uniform a free meal in the cafeteria, but we rarely made it that far north. Otherwise, the other five regular hospitals didn't offer a thing.
 
Sometimes they don't get too upset if we raid a sandwich or juice from the pantry set aside for Pt.'s.

Last new year's eve, the hospital in our North District held a potluck in one of the three resus rooms for all the ED staff and all the medics were welcome to help theirselves.
 
Some have made snacks and sodas available. Most don't. During holidays, we might be invited to partake in a meal though, even at some of the facilities that normally don't provide food. I think once I got a free meal just because... a long time ago, in a galaxy...
 
yes...some even have a nice lounge with decent couches and a 42inch flat screen.
 
EMT11KDL said:
Does your local ED have food (Snacks) and drinks for when after you drop a patient off.

Our ED have soda, juice, coffee, sandwich (PB J, Ham, Turkey), and other snacks.
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Some do, some don't. Some did until they caught people coming in on their day off regularly to get free food, which resulting in a memo about how they're not doing it anymore and a picture from a security camera.
 
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Why would they? That is what the fridge at the ambulance station is for
 
MrBrown said:
Why would they? That is what the fridge at the ambulance station is for
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Ya the only time I've seen a medic grab some food from the hospital pantry was a moment of desperation during a busy shift. Those sandwiches are not so great.
 
JPINFV said:
Stations? [/sarcasm]
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I might just blow your mind then. We actually get, the legally mandated meal/rest breaks too. Two 30 minute paid breaks per 12 hour shift. During which we're only available for Code 4 (emerg calls), no transfers, standby's or non-emerg (Code 3) calls. We have to be returned to a station for it too. AND if it's interrupted for an emerg call, we get another one. AND if we're taken outside the window without a break, we get to claim $15 bucks per missed break. It's a crazy crazy world. ;)
 
Akulahawk said:
You mean like BP/76/ARCO/Shell/Chevron? Those stations? :P
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Shwing.

Actually, near the end of my days at my So Cal company I got smart. Go to posting area (we could be within a reasonable distance, we didn't have to be right at that specific corner), find the closest neighborhood park. Post there.

The small company I worked for in Massachusetts worked out of a central base (most of the time, we did do a little posting due to where some of the calls were). To be honest, given the conditions in the crew room in terms of space and cleanliness, I'd rather be posting. The only benefit that the base had was internet.
 
Akulahawk said:
You mean like BP/76/ARCO/Shell/Chevron? Those stations? :P
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That is why you get the hell out of an urban system with a posting plan and move out rural. B) No way I'd ever go back to that crap.
 
Actually, I also pretty much learned the parks around our service areas... The few times we had time to snooze... you'd find me at one of those parks, under a tree...
 
In ABQ a couple of the hospitals had an EMS break room with snacks. In Denver it seemed like every single one had one.
Our hospital here doesn't, but then again we sit in station most of the day anyways :p
 
jtpaintball70 said:
In ABQ a couple of the hospitals had an EMS break room with snacks. In Denver it seemed like every single one had one.
Our hospital here doesn't, but then again we sit in station most of the day anyways :p
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Most of the hospitals in the Dallas area, atleast from HCA, have EMS break rooms.

Most had little snacks like peanuts and small cans of soda... but there were some nice ones, such as McKinney ALWAYS had sandwiches / candy like SNickers and Twix and Skittles. Plano had sandwiches and icecream.


Once, when I went down to Austin, I saw one of their EMS rooms. I was jealous. ATcEMS is spoiled beyond belief. Though they were nice enough to let us raid it for our 4 hour drive back to Dallas :P
 
Most hospitals have some kind of room for is to hang out in, the amount of food varies. One place we just take from the patients cart, I love the cranberry juice in the plastic cups with foil lids. Another place gives out of the cafeteria, but the trauma centers all have excellent breakrooms

On holidays they usually order food. We got olive garden on thanksgiving!
 
We take the graham crackers from the place where we get the stuff to restock our NRB and what not.
 
Tea and coffee.

Some hospitals have juice and little packets of biscuits as well.

Each ambulance has its own branch or station or whatever you might call it, to which it returns after a job and there is usually cheap chips, drinks and so forth for a small donation to the social club in the kitchen.
 
EMT11KDL said:
Does your local ED have food (Snacks) and drinks for when after you drop a patient off.

Our ED have soda, juice, coffee, sandwich (PB J, Ham, Turkey), and other snacks.
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I haven't seen that here in CT. I did my field rides for Medic school in Utah and one of the local hospitals would give the ambulance crew a voucher for a free meal in the cafeteria. Guess which hospital got more patients around lunch time?
 
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