I know Metro EMS runs some 911 in the city, not sure where their areas are though.
Grady runs the North side of Fulton(Atlanta) County, Rural Metro runs the South side of Fulton, Puckett does not cover Marietta, they do cover parts of Cobb and Douglas counties though, Douglas County Fire does their own transports(Powder Springs is technically in 3 counties, that's why Puckett crosses over to Douglas County). Metro Atlanta Ambulance covers Marietta, Smyrna and that area of Cobb County and several other cities outside of Cobb. Clark Ambulance covers Pauding County. Dekalb County Fire use to transport but I have no clue what their doing now, probably using Rural Metro.
Patient care, all depends on where you are honestly. If your in Fulton County, you could have 1 of 2 services come. Grady EMS only transports to Grady Hospital(which is a level 1 trauma center). Rural Metro will transport to the most appropriate facility, which their are 2 level 1 trauma centers literally across the street from each other(Grady Hospital and Atlanta Medical Center). The rest of the services would normally transport to the most appropriate facility that the Pt needs. Besides Kennestone Hospital all the surrounding hospitals are level 3 hospitals while Kennestone is a level 2.
I couldn't say anything as far as employee care for the services.
So the city of atlanta is Atlanta Metro?
I checked out the website, anyone know from an employee stand point what it is like working there? I am going to send an email asking about pay to the HR.
If you are talking about Grady they start there medics out at 20/hr. I think its about 14/hr for emt's, not sure on that though i only worked there as a medic.
They also pay night and weekend differentials.
Its a system status system and you will run a lot of calls (anywhere from 8-14 a night easily).
There is a lot of employee turnover so they hire pretty regularly.
Its not the place you want to be if you want to spend your shift sleeping.
They might, I know Dekalb Fire was doing their own transports for a little while but from what everyone says, they've stopped.
Wow, lots of incorrect information in this thread.
Grady EMS is the sole 911 EMS provider for the city of Atlanta (132 sq miles).
GEMS will transport to any other hospital within the city limits, sometimes out of depending on location. There are two level 1 trauma centers in the city and they are 2 miles apart.
There are a ton of rumors flying around about GEMS taking over Dekalb county. Let me just say that whatever our VP wants, our VP gets. The RPF for Dekalb will be submitted 01/01/12. Yes Dekalb fire still transports along with Rural/Metro.
It's a great place to work for the clinical skills and assessments. You wont find the call volume anywhere else in the state (think 120,000+ calls). Again, as its already been stated, you won't be sleeping on a truck.
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Can't wait for them to get that dekalb contract!