It's a scene that's been repeated all too often in the last 20-30 years.Well established local firms go down the tubes,often due to slow pay/reduced rates from medicaid and medicare.Add in increased costs for everything from medical supplies to fuel and insurance.
Then you get these giant ambulance companies coming in,buying out competitors and putting the squeeze on every company they can't buy out.
Owners facing all of this,and trying to pay a fair living wage to their employees,and provide decent medical insurance for them.
If my company had not been bought out,i would have faced the same fate.
The giant ambulance companies (we all know to whom i am referring) don't impress me at all.They are short on good service,and i would not be caught dead running some of their equipment.
Don't even get me started on how much they charge for ambulance service!
We did not have computerized dispatch,and GPS on our rigs,but our patients got good care and respect,and good value for the cost of service