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Whatever!! It is a hostile work environment. How many places have their fearless leader send threatening emails, when they are DRUNK. How many companies block females in the office, yelling, pointing, cursing and not allowing the person to leave when they “beg” to be let out? How many companies and managers allow the managerial staff to call someone stupid because they open up a plastic container containing blood tubes prior to use, and curse at them for doing it. How many managers ask you to write Incident Reports then tell you, you wrote it wrong, per their standards. An IR is from the “individuals perspective” or account of the events. If you do not obey, you get released of some of your assigned duties.
This is not the employees doing a bad job or performing poorly. You don’t work here, shut up. Many complaints have been lodged with HR. Stephanie Thomas told the HR representative, specifically, not to investigate the complaints.
Nugent, Robinson, Collins, Manson and Baker are on power trip. They have NO IDEA how to lead or manage.
Denver Health Management is a poor excuse of leadership. They do no justice for the people of Denver. This is a 911 system for Christ sake. People are entitled to medical care provided in an agreed and just amount of time.
How would you feel waiting for an ambulance for your infant child in Cardiac Arrest for 15+ minutes, in the Capitol Hill area, not far from DH? Imagine being a parent without medical knowledge and your child goes into cardiac arrest. Imagine your child in Cardiac Arrest and the ambulance can’t leave because it is broke down on your street. You are forced to wait another 10-15 minutes for another ambulance to transport your child.
I hate to dissapoint you, but the only reason that those particular meeting minutes were posted is because that meeting was open to the public. I know what your next comment is: “Seems you have some real interest, there!”
It seems that we certainly have yours. Feel free to attend one if you want to know more, we’d love to have you.
You still haven’t said who you are, and if you’re an “ex” employee why should you care about people knowing who you are? I’m going to choose to disbelieve that one.
If you want to know about the reason for meetings at the 858’s it was originally because they were going to give us a very good deal on renting an office, but they decided that they can’t, so the meetings aren’t there anymore, and it really was that simple.
As far as what happened with Glendale, I’ve heard from a district cheif that I have had the luck to spend some time with that the reason they went through Denver’s academy and ended up as line firefighters was due to Glendales low call volume in comparison to the DFD’s…. can you disagree? Do we suffer from the same affliction? Would they be hiring us as Paramedics or as Firefighters? hmmm
Maybe we would suffer the same fate, but when a line firefighter with only an emt basic and firefighter I cert makes almost 20k more per year after 4 years than a line paramedic at DHMC with the same amount of seniority and enjoys amenities such as a station, a bed, and a crew that he gets to work with everyday… would I really mind?
I know- “Technically you make more an hour as a paramedic”, but- my career longevity would be much better if I wasn’t stuck in the front of an ambulance, additionally, I’ll take it for the average reduction of 6 days working per month.
Why do you think that we’ve lost so many good paramedics to outlying metro area fire departments? Why do we continue to do so?
How many more dfd stations are there than the amount of ambulances on the street from DHMC at our peak hours? What if everyone of these had an als ambulance… how many calls do you (or DID you, sorry) go to where dfd beat you to the scene, hmmm that might change.
We all got into this to help people, what if we really could provide als care that much quicker to our patients, and have that many more ambulances in the city for them? I know it sounds like it, but I’m not necessarily anti-division or anti-Denver Health. I started on the detox vans in 1999 and have worked in different positions here at Denver Health all with the hope of doing what I do now, I still love what I do, otherwise I wouldn’t care.
I do believe in what Denver Health does, I just think that there are methods besides this forum that would create more solidarity and achieve more. I’m also not saying that merge is the only answer, what about returning the employees of the division to CSA but allowing DHMC to retain medical control so that they maintain whatever grant programs and funding they receive by having us? What about a mill levy so that we can put more ambulances on the street or supply stations around town?
I do appreciate your opinions but if you’re not willing to truly own them they don’t hold that much validity, I know: “Why are you responding, then?”
Response: If the union is so impotent, why do you have so much to say about it?