Pros
Ambulnz came into the Los Angeles area with ambitions to change EMS like no one else has done before. I believe at this point they have successfully changed EMS in Los Angeles County. Working on an ambulance for many years, we are used to minimum wage, poor medical benefits, and long hours.
Since getting hired on with ambulnz I've been given the opportunity to be rewarded for my performance. This is not a company where you clock in and relax for 12 hours and Run 3 calls, this is a company where you make more the harder you run. You can make some serious money. I'm on track to make $45,000 if not more this year. They offer great Kaiser benefits, and actually care about their employees. They are on track to get a reputation similar to Hall ambulance in Kern County. Other companies we clock in and count down the time to the end of our shift well here since I started almost a year ago, we clock in and we count every single call to maximize our time and efficiency to make it profitable not just for us but also for the company.
Making the decision for moving from American Medical Response to Ambulnz was honestly the best decision I ever made. I used to work a hundred and twenty hours every two weeks that includes overtime and I would take home $1,300 $1,400 if I'm lucky. I work 4 10 hour shifts now a week. I'm home more with my family and I have more time to enjoy life instead of slaving on an ambulance like when I was at American Medical Response. Granted when I was there it was a great experience, but the difference between this company and American Medical Response and other major businesses is that they are all for-profit. They don't care about their employees. American Medical Response is specific desire is unit utilization hours and how profitable one ambulance can be and to be greedy with their money and essentially provide a wage that you can barely live off of in California yet along Los Angeles County being expensive to live in similar to New York.
This company is totally different from that. They want you to succeed. They give you the tools to succeed. They want you to make money and they share that money with you with your performance. You only be rewarded if you give it your all, if you're lazy and don't want to do anything and take your sweet time on everything and sand bag every call you're not going to make money at all whatsoever. I've had days where I made over $400 in 10 hours. Tell me what Ambulance Company will pay you that amount of money for that amount of hours as an emergency medical technician in Los Angeles. Hell, our paramedics are the highest paid private Ambulance Company paramedics in Los Angeles County. Yes I know our name, and the color of ambulances are kind of the laughing stock of EMS in Los Angeles County and we are not respected At All by many other ambulance companies yet alone the fire department, but who cares. What matters is you do your job you provide service to the hospitals or facilities requesting ambulance transport you do your job and you make money doing so and enjoy the time you're there.
This is easily hands down a career company if you make it into that.
I'm not a manager, supervisor, any part of management owner or outside entity hired to make this review. This is an unbiased review of this company after being an emergency medical services in Los Angeles County since 2010 and this company be my 5th Ambulance Company. PRN ambulance, ambuserve ambulance, and American Medical Response, has nothing on this company even if they tried. When I was at PRN ambulance they gave me a $0.09 raise after two and a half years. These are the ambulance companies need to learn from this company to actually treat their employees right because even though some Medicare in medical calls May pay only three or four hundred dollars per call, this company still finds the room and time to actually take care of their employees.
Cons
Our dispatch. I would have to say most of our dispatchers are ridiculous. The best dispatchers I've ever encountered was at PRN ambulance. They were on point. Most of our dispatchers need more experience or competency especially in medical terminology and how to properly screen calls at times. Granted they may hold you over past your shift but to be quite honest, unless you have something very important to do why not stay past your shift to run that extra call to make that extra money. The company is just providing you an opportunity to line your pockets with more cash.
Another thing I would say is a con, it takes one year to get paid time off and I believe it starts out at 1 week per year.
