AMR reviews

Low pay for the cost of living. Expect to work as a medic for $15 an hour for the first 6 months until you get a review and then bumped up to just under $18. Practically no downtime between calls. You can expect to run on most nights from hospital to call. FD has scene control and loves to show it. The Union went away last year, and the company is currently picking and choosing policies to follow from under the CBA as it transitions to its new version. All very secretive stuff atm, and personally seems untrustworthy. Management just brought back a policy that was sworn would not be enforced any longer, keeping crews over beyond their 12 hour shift, and also has threatened call backs on days off. As of this writing, the call backs have not happened yet, but holdovers have.

-Leadership is laid back so that can be frustrating at times when things can take a day or two to get resolved. -Local FD's- most but not all their medics are not up to date with skills, overall knowledge or protocols. They can be an outright nightmare to run calls with at times. -Local hospitals have poorly trained staff, very few good MD's who are ER certified and MCN's who know when to turn patients away and when not to. When the good ones are on they take all patients and do not turn you away -FD politics and behavior sometimes makes you want to call the local paper and put them on blast. They will constantly withhold treatment till your arrival, or make the all too familiar statement of "I don't want any paperwork today"