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Yeah, I did volunteer EMT for a bit, and folks would call us up to help for this exact situation. Wasn't super common, was generally folks who knew us or were aware of our existence, which may sound crazy. But we'd help transport people. And they'd usually drop a donation to the squad too, almost like it wasn't about the money as much as it was about sending the money to some company versus a community organization.
EMTs have volunteers?
I unfortunately know someone who owns a metro company and that twat is rolling in cash, dude took 700k in ppp money and it was forgiven
EMTs having volunteers?!? that makes me beyond pissed
Yeah, the squad I was with is celebrating its 70th anniversary this coming April, so it kinda predates the issues we're having now. It has remained a valuable community service, except it's become an unfortunate necessity, or at least a way to help people avoid the massive costs associated with receiving medical care. Or at least in part.
And I volunteered because I liked to do it. We were fortunate enough to have a lot of folks locally who had the extra time to do it on a volunteer basis, and we ran in excess of 1,000 calls a year, which is a massive cost savings for each of those individuals who needed it. We would staff community events, so they wouldn't need to pay to have an ambulance on-site.
Personally, I found it very rewarding. I backed out during COVID when my wife was pregnant with kid number two, shit was a bit uncertain, and I gotta look out for my family first. I would never want to work the job of an EMT. One 12-hour shift a week, and one 48-hour weekend shift every few months (on top of being treasurer which was a thankless and awful job) was plenty for me.
I'd rather have arranged something myself. But of course she was getting the boot that day, the day after hip surgery. So any additional days "might" not be covered.
This was end of last year maybe into this year. My dad passed a few years ago and dealt with similar issues and it wasn't as bad. Certainly has gotten way worse since the annoying orange took over.
Heard stories of uninsured elderly patients without the ability to pay just being dropped off at homeless shelters with IV bags still attached. Skilled nursing facilities getting denies for coverage.
Shortly after she got there I had to do two appeals. She got denied as soon as she arrived. I ended up paying a portion out of pocket at like $300 a day. The rehab team wrote letters, I had them do a home inspection to prove it was unsafe. Still got denied over and over. They wear you down by denying first than hoping you don't appeal.
Finally gave in even though she wasn't as safe. Had to send her back to the hospital again in 2-days because she couldn't get up to even pee and got a UTI.
Anyhow it was royally fucked. She ended up dying from cancer in the next few months. They found that came back very aggressively during her UTI stay.
Still have collectors asking for that nursing home stay and transportation. They can eat my ass, that'll come out of her estate if anything is actually leftover.
Sorry this is long, just venting.
It's disgusting, dude. I just can't understand it. Recently got denied myself, nothing remotely life threatening, but it's just frustrating, because they are banking on me not appealing. And I won't, it's $160, and I know I'd waste hours of my time appealing. So you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Obviously just makes me more sympathetic toward men of action. Just doesn't need to be this way, but hey, some people need yachts and private jets.
I had no idea this was a thing, got a link for donation?
www.bridgewaterems.org/donate.htm. I'm not sure I've ever been on the website. Despite the donation link still working, it seems outdated.
Thanks!
No, thank you.
I'm sure they still do it, but at monthly meetings they would go through donations and basically read any notes that folks attached. It was generally a card with a check in it, but also PayPal and the like. I'm confident they'd have no idea what the Fediverse is if it was mentioned in a donation.