NYC 911 BLS Jobs

[Richard B the EMT]

What? Have you found either an EMS or FD, or combo, that DOESN'T involve politics in some manner, shape or form?

Either in dealing with the public, or internal, everyone has some kind of politics.

[Miz Black Crow]

As for places to work:

Transcare operates the EMS for the following hospitals (that I know of, there may be more). As someone said earlier, they should be avoided like the plague; I worked for them as BLS in transport. They fire people at the drop of a hat, have no benefits to speak of, and are totally non-unionized (and even anti-union). They run:

-Beth Israel

-Mt Sinai

-North General

-NYU

-Bronx Lebanon

-Montefiore

-BI King's Highway

As evil as they are, they *can* be a good stepping stone. TC requires 6 months experience in 911, as a volunteer, or as one of *their* txp EMTs before they'll VAX you to 911 there, but that's less time than most places.

Hospitals that run decent, unionized, voluntary 911 services:

-Roosevelt and St Luke's (same company, different locations)

-St. Vincent's (apparently they're really good to work for)

-Lenox Hill

-Presbyterian (including Columbia, Cornell in Manhattan and Community in Bk)

-LICH. However, LICH is losing their EMS licenses and shutting down the ER as far as I've heard... this may just be a rumor. Check with them.

-Lutheran, which has a kickass ER

-Staten Island University Hospital

I've left out all of Queens because I admittedly know nothing about the borough. This list is not comprehensive and I have no idea who's hiring and who isn't.

Any of the above voluntaries will want at least a year on an ambulance and/or probably (unfortunately) a year in 911.

You can always try the ubiquitous FDNY, of course, but I heard something about a hiring freeze and I hear the waiting list is over a year long anyway.

Good luck!

~Miz Black Crow

[Richard B the EMT]

Miz Black Crow, you forgot the first one in the system, Saint Barnabas in the Bronx.

[Miz Black Crow]

I thought Barney's was part of FDNY. Guess I was wrong. Sorry! (I TOLD you it wasn't comprehensive )

[Richard B the EMT]

I thought Barney's was a clothier.

FYI, there is a Saint Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, NJ. Not usually a part of the NYC 9-1-1 system, but it is on our list as a Burn Center.

[BronxMedic]

I've left out all of Queens because I admittedly know nothing about the borough. This list is not comprehensive and I have no idea who's hiring and who isn't.

Any of the above voluntaries will want at least a year on an ambulance and/or probably (unfortunately) a year in 911.

In Queens, good unionized private 911s to work for include Jamaica Hospital, Flushing Hospital, Brookdale, St Johns and Mary Immaculate (Caritas), North Shore LIJ (though you may have to do some transport shifts there), and I believe Booth, but I'm not positive about the last one. And I'm sure I'm leaving out a couple.

If you have limited experience, your best bet in the privates is to apply as a per diem. They're much more likely to give you a shot and evaluate you rather than offer someone new a full time slot.

That's how I got into 911 as a new medic. I put in a resume, and about a month later they called and offered me a per diem slot on a probationary basis. I made a point of signing up for as many open shifts as I could, and ALWAYS said yes when they called at the last minute with an open shift they needed filled.

After 6 months or so, they offered me a full time slot, and I was more than happy to leave my transport job.

[FormerEMSLT297]

Your "best bet" is to RUN AWAY...... FAST. Go work somewhere else, where the pay, benefits and retirement is a whole lot better...

If I had to do all over,,,, maybe go th MD School, PA ,, something liek that....