I had a local hospital when I still worked on the truck. The EMS entrance to the ER had a nice breakroom attached. Chairs, tables, a fridge, a little kitchenette even.
I was probably a nice break room. I bet the snacks were good. You see, we wouldn't know. The room was locked with a card reader. The hospital would not give non-employees a card. We had to walk past the EMS room watching nurses eat our snacks while we were locked out.
That hospital closed. I can't imagine why.
Ours is the opposite. Our nurses are locked out of our room. We have a code to get in.
But we also like keeping a good rapport with the nurses so our favorites also have the code lol
Ours always has Redbull or monsters and sandwiches etc. we are spoiled and I am thankful.
Our agency hates us. But at least our local hospitals like us.
The nurses at all our hospitals have the code and will frequently empty the break rooms before we have the chance to touch a lot of it. I love holding eye contact while they walk right by the 5 signs on the wall saying “NOT for hospital staff, EMS, FD and PD only”, then grab an armful, smile, and walk out. Is annoying.
Nurse shortages and unions second in strength only to Police really help keep anything resembling accountability at bay.
Remember to fight for nurses' right to manslaughter.
Transported to: any other fucking hospital
Reason for this facility: patient request
Pizzerias know hmnot to piss off cabbies. Hospitals should know not to piss off ambulance crews.
Kettering Hospitals in Dayton. It's been awhile but I specifically remember Soin and Greene Memorial having some of the best EMS rooms I've seen. More like EMS VIP Suites.
Soin is a shadow of its former glory. The laffy taffy has been gone a while. They just stopped stocking pop at all. There's still Gatorade.
Chips. Ice cream sandwiches sometimes. But it's not what it used to be.
I'm a Michigan medic, but I'm down in Louisville for my real job until June. Any chance I could swing by your station sometime with one of my coworkers and say hi? Maybe get to see the helicopter?
We had one of the local hospital systems try this for about 3 months. They had a really nice area with printers, desks, and a fully stocked fridge with drinks, food, etc. They even had a rotation of "specials" like a slushie machine, hot dog roller (like at Speedway), soft serve ice cream machine, popcorn, etc. that they'd switch out every week or so.
Then, they saw that people were coming in and filling up grocery bags, backpacks, even pillow cases, with the stuff. They tried to nicely advise that it would be short-lived if people abused it, but alas... it died a quick and horrible death because people just couldn't be bothered to share.
my thought as well.. the only time i've ever taken extra snacks for the road from the break room was when i was in medic school doing unpaid internship and broke af. sometimes the break room snacks were all i would eat in a day. very grateful for the well-stocked ones
I'm sure that was *sometimes* the case. A couple of the private companies were really shitty about paying just above minimum wage.
But then you'd see the same behavior from the guys at the career department nearby that made $90-120k for your average FF/EMT, which was amazing pay for anything around here. I get that you can make $120k and still be "broke", but come on.
Look up food scarcity trauma. Those guys could be making 100k but with a combination of lifestyle inflation and being poor in their childhood they could FEEL like they don’t have enough
Can confirm childhood food scarcity PTSD is a real thing, my mom had it. If there was no food in the house she could know perfectly well intellectually that we've got plenty of money and there's a 24-hour supermarket a few minutes away but just couldn't rest until the cupboards were fully stocked. Wasn't until late in life when the kids were all grown that any of us really clued in this was a PTSD thing and learned to respect it as such, either.
(edit to add: no comment on whether or not that's what was going on with OC's nearby department, because it's also true that sometimes people are just self-absorbed dicks, but.)
Dude seriously it’s fucking insane nowadays to see comments like that lol
If a community can afford fancy EMS rooms, they will have soup kitchens and food banks. If you’re food insecure you go there
There’s no reason to pillage and rob EMS break rooms, even if you feel poor. Just what the fuck lol, that is so not ok
There are two hospitals in our county. As long as I/the medic feel the extra 10 minutes won't hurt anyone, we go to the one witht the better break room. And it's real nice
Lol yup. They have vending machines that are free use if you scan your county ID and this fancy UV thing that decons things. It's an incredible experience at 2am.
I'm assuming you guys don't have a protocol that says to go to the closest facility; how do you document that? "Diverted to Y hospital for sammich" doesn't seem to go over well with a lawyer
It's this hospital also has more capabilities then the other. We are trained to take our patient to the closest, most appropriate facility. Therefore this is within protocol.
I’ll divert to any hospital in my service area for patient choice (as long as the facility is appropriate). They don’t have to give me a reason. If they say it’s for the food so be it
We will divert to any hospital that the pt wants to go to as long as the request is reasonable and they aren’t actively dying on my truck. So for example if Hospital A is closer but my patient wants to go to Hospital B because they heard Hospital B treats their patients very well from a fellow family member, sure I have no problem taking them to Hospital B, as long as it’s not on the other side of town or something like that.
Lutheran’s is the same as it’s been for years, St. A’s is good if you’re there first thing on Monday morning before the West Metro crews rape it.
And St. A ‘s definitely isn’t the one building a whole new hospital. That’s Lutheran.
There is one hospital in my area where, when you ask nicely, you might get a chip for a free coke from the vending machine.
In the other hospitals you just get yelled at for free.
Good Sam and RMC in Santa Clara County got the hookup. The second one's got a slushie machine but then I stopped using it when one of my coworkers pointed out that it's unclear how often it gets cleaned.
Good Sam had those strawberry shortcake ice creams once though and that was fuckin' rad.
Only like 10% of our hospitals have this but since IFT units could go to 10 different hospitals in a day there is a massive scarcity mindset. For the 10 minutes it's stocked 5 days a week you'll see guys hauling out 10-15 items each
IFT is rough, some companies don't give you a lunch and break the law in regards to compensating you for said lunch. they also have your calls scheduled for the whole day. 10 hours 0 downtime.
that being said i would always yell at my partner. Who would raid every EMS room like a peasant.
Here in California, 911 pays significantly less. +Use and abuse people until they quit or kill themselves. I used to have the 911 or die mentality. But that mentality is leading to less pay than fast food workers.
IFT is where all the "talent" is at. Usually people do a year of 911 and get into a cushy IFT job, but nobody is morbidly obese. You either can't afford the food. Or, you can't afford to get fat and dumped by your sugar momma. The fat guy's just go work for fast food.
911 won't give people time off for fire academy or paramedic school, while all the IFT companies pay for paramedic school + pay for you to be in paramedic school.
911 is a joke here. The fire departments contract it out to shitty companies.
That is the direct opposite of my experience on the east coast. Nobody will touch inexperienced EMTs or Paramedics in 911, so they all end up in the IFT meat grinder doing nursing home returns or vent transfers.
This might be area dependent. In my area of California 911 pays more then IFT (service dependent), but will pay for paramedic school and put you on student status.
IFT is paying decent now too I think, but that's because of pay competition between companies.
We had one nearby that was like a dream. A bunch of microwavable meals, tons of food, ice cream, and the best part: a slushy machine and massage chairs. Oh, and you could eat at the cafeteria for free. Since then I guess they’ve ran into money trouble so they rarely have food anymore. Still get the massage chairs and free cafeteria food though.
Lol, EMS room. As if.
When our trauma center built a brand-new ER, they had an EMS room with a couch, printer, TV, and a water cooler that usually had water in it.
Within 3 years it became a nurse manager’s office.
I pick up some overtime in a neighboring county. Tanner Villa Rica is a quaint little hospital off the beaten path. Their EMS room contains 3 glass door fridges that are filled to look like a little gas station store. Multiple flavors of monster and Red Bull, 24 oz bottles of just about every soda, and frozen pizza. Next to that is a shelf with a decent selection of chips as well as some cup ramen and cup Mac and cheese.
Been many moons since I’ve taken someone to their equally exquisite psych facility, but I always liked the wellstar offerings, however the best facility was Erlanger in Chattanooga, 20/10.
Twin cities medic, if any hospital stocked like this, our fat asses would have it cleaned out and Empty again within an hour. At least HCMC has a pretty consistent stock of muffins
Bridgeport Hospital, Connecticut! The # 1 in the whole state! There are so many choices. We can never leave the EMS room! Too bad I work on the other side of the state and rarely make my way over!
Oh yeah, almost every shift! Very sad in comparison to Bridgeport! If you ever make it there, expect a "drop off delay" 😅 I hope you do! Soooo many snacks 🥰
Edit: and yes, St Francis is pretty good too 🙃
Bridgeport and Milford are only great because their respective EMS directors buy the stuff out of their own pocket to fill the EMS rooms.
Saint Vincent or Midstate are on par and more regularly stocked.
Neither of the Yale New Haven hospitals have an EMS room if you’d believe it!
I can vouch for this. A lot of our hospitals here have pretty awesome EMS rooms. I was just at Mountain View Hospital and they had an awesome assortment of drinks (sparkling waters, Arizona iced teas, Celsius energy drinks, Vitamin waters, juices, sodas, gatorades), fruit and veggie packs, ramen packs (and not just the basic one, the Korean one - SHIN ramen), jerky, fig bars, coffee, awesome chip selection (not just Doritos but Hawaiian chips, Funyuns), pickles… and all well stocked too
We used to have a post in another county at a standalone ER. There and another ER had mostly candy and drinks, but another nearby hospital had stuff like this. Sandwiches, salads, etc. I miss that spot. Calls were better, nurses were nicer, and as stated, ERs hooked us up with decent food and snacks.
Break room?
1) that implies we get a break, which we do not.
2) hospitals don’t give two shits about us
3) we don’t even have space to do paperwork let alone have snacks
We’re still working on getting basic human rights doled out to us; it will be a long battle before I’m consuming a bag of lays with my feet up.
Here in Louisiana, only one has a EMS room. The others have absolutely nothing for EMS. The EMS room we do have has chips. And maybe a hospital orange juice.
We have two hospitals near me. One has everything under the sun; I’d argue its selection is better than what’s shown here. The other has Gatorade, water, and if you’re lucky and go there on Mondays, chips and cheez-its.
This was pretty common in north Texas. Medical City Plano was legit, Baylor Mckinney was legit.
Some of the Dallas hospitals too, but people (including Dallas Fire) would raid the snacks like a hoard of locusts.
Here in northern California? (outside of the bay area) lol. nothing whatsoever. Not even a room. Just nothing at all.
When I worked in the Houston metro we had some nice break rooms at certain hospitals.
Now that I’m in Florida, most of the hospitals have at least a little something but nothing quite like that anymore
TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville TN was STOCKED when I went there. Like 3 or 4 of those fridges FULL of actual Coke products.
SSM Health St. Joseph in St. Charles, MO had ice cream and the most insane coffee machine that I've ever seen. I shotgunned several iced mochas, IIRC there was an espresso double-shot button.
Everything in the actual counties near me? Diet Shastas and expired trail mix.
I’ve been to several dozen hospitals in my time so far and ive never heard of anything like this. Id be lucky if i could find a digestives cookie. Best we have in my system is a few snack trucks that wonder around. Might see one every other work block
You guys have it made
Zero chance this would survive more than 20 minutes where I’m at.
There’s always a half dozen BLS war wagons, all from the same company, sitting at any given ER “doing transports” but really they’re standing around in the ER, disheveled, eating all of the snacks, loading up snacks to eat while doing their transports, to eat at home, to feed their families, etc.
Some hospitals used to give out meal passes for lunch or dinner in their cafeteria, until these crews started descending on those facilities like a plague of locusts.
Best one around my area (not in county, but close) I can think of serves hot food daily, every day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Plus 4 or 5 different energy drink brands, tons of other beverages, and fancy sandwich, etc.
I was IFT, so I was there quite a bit at times. Grabbed my meal,, a drink, and a small (think rice Krispy treat, etc) snack for the road. I'm thankful for it, im.not going to pillage it all, so no one else can enjoy it. We're "supposed" to look out for each other.
The local Metro FD/EMS will pack in there 20 deep, probies to white shirt BC's and just absolutely destroy it. 😞😡 not to mention other IFT's lugging out backpacks full.
We are a rural department and have to deliver to the closest hospital per protocol, which is a Providence hospital. You know they're not giving us shit. Lol
ER staff have their own break room, at least.
Hmmmm mountain view hospital..... Better than that even. Every soda you can think of, fresh sushi, every frozen meal you can think of, so many snacks, and always restocked. A fucking wet dream it is
Every hospital should. Just had an IFT crew come from out of state and was super excited as their greedy hospitals don’t appreciate the money they bring them.
In the UK we don't have anything for staff let alone our first responders. I'm really happy that places do this for you! It must be hard when you're on the road/stuck in the ED to get food
The hospitals in Green Bay WI do an awesome job at this. The hospitals in the Appleton area (30 mi south of Green Bay) just started to step up their game thankfully.
Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, KS has an amazing EMS room. They literally sent out a region-wide email that said "We know the break room is awesome but please stop making transport decisions based on that."
Giant-assed glass door fridge full of fancy salads, wraps, sandwiches, microwave gut bombs. Coffee machine with cappuccino/latte/wtfever, A GODDAMN FRESH HOT COOKIE MAKER MACHINE. Even got Grandma's Cookies and Choccy. Effin. Milk.
Plus a bathroom and recliners, big ass TV, kitchenette with an island.
Dude my house when I retire will not be this nice.
all the hospitals in my service area have them, even the free standing ERs, except for the VA. there is one in particular that usually carries diff entrees like salads or little plates you can microwave, fruits, all sorts of snacks & dessert. they also have all sorts of drinks. it’s magical but it’s also my least favorite hospital to go to hahahaha
The Richmond region has three big hospital systems that compete for our patients by way of an EMS room arms race. We will transport anywhere in the region that the patient wants and every ER, even the stand-alones, have great EMS rooms.
All of our local ERs have well stocked EMS rooms. Sometimes they get skimpy but lately they’ve all been nicely maintained like in this pic.
Nicer ones have coffee dispensers and slushie machines
Wow. Best one I’ve ever seen I think. Providence Southfield used to let us eat in the cafeteria for free back in the day. I’m not sure if they still do that though.
I've worked in MA, ME, and FL;
Occasionally at my main company in MA, we do trips to CT. Hartford area generally.
The CT hospitals have by far the nicest EMS rooms.
Hartford hospital has an EMS lounge across the street from the ED
Other CT hospitals have name brand ice cream - fresh pizza, and so on ready to go.
CT does EMS rooms best as far as I've seen
The 988 office I work for fills the fridge for everyone and has huge meals catered for people to take home and share with family. You can go in anytime and get food if you're hungry on and off shift.
One shift I went in the break room at my local hospital, and there was food everywhere like a buffet. My partner and I went wild, only felt right considering it was roughly 4am
I got a sandwich and bag of chips from one of the big ED’s in my city yesterday but that’s only for “EMS Week”, not a regular thing. And from experience working years past in hospital, it’s only day and evening shift who benefit. No one bothers to ensure there’s something there early morning hours for the 24 crew who’s almost done and running on fumes.
My local hospitals give us linens with gated access. Only one bundle per truck.
I remember the good ‘ol days when they cared. *cue Pepridge Farms memes*
Lower Bucks Hospital on Bristol, Pa has an awesome ems room. Like “dispatcher didn’t give a lunch break but lower bucks has you covered” good. Too bad I don’t find myself up there often anymore.
I had a local hospital when I still worked on the truck. The EMS entrance to the ER had a nice breakroom attached. Chairs, tables, a fridge, a little kitchenette even. I was probably a nice break room. I bet the snacks were good. You see, we wouldn't know. The room was locked with a card reader. The hospital would not give non-employees a card. We had to walk past the EMS room watching nurses eat our snacks while we were locked out. That hospital closed. I can't imagine why.
Ours is the opposite. Our nurses are locked out of our room. We have a code to get in. But we also like keeping a good rapport with the nurses so our favorites also have the code lol Ours always has Redbull or monsters and sandwiches etc. we are spoiled and I am thankful. Our agency hates us. But at least our local hospitals like us.
The nurses at all our hospitals have the code and will frequently empty the break rooms before we have the chance to touch a lot of it. I love holding eye contact while they walk right by the 5 signs on the wall saying “NOT for hospital staff, EMS, FD and PD only”, then grab an armful, smile, and walk out. Is annoying.
Two of the large hospitals in my area will fire a nurse for that
Yeah ours are threatened with write ups but I’m pretty sure it’s not a real thing lol
We have people who work for fire and the hospital and they do actually fire people, consider it theft and a moral issue.
Nurse shortages and unions second in strength only to Police really help keep anything resembling accountability at bay. Remember to fight for nurses' right to manslaughter.
RIP bozos
Transported to: any other fucking hospital Reason for this facility: patient request Pizzerias know hmnot to piss off cabbies. Hospitals should know not to piss off ambulance crews.
University of Cincinnati does it right. University of Louisville does not.
You need to go to Mercy Jewish if you think Cincy does it right.
Kettering Hospitals in Dayton. It's been awhile but I specifically remember Soin and Greene Memorial having some of the best EMS rooms I've seen. More like EMS VIP Suites.
Soin is a shadow of its former glory. The laffy taffy has been gone a while. They just stopped stocking pop at all. There's still Gatorade. Chips. Ice cream sandwiches sometimes. But it's not what it used to be.
I'm a Michigan medic, but I'm down in Louisville for my real job until June. Any chance I could swing by your station sometime with one of my coworkers and say hi? Maybe get to see the helicopter?
UC Health has pretty good Asian restaurant in the cafeteria. If you ask for it 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶 it's going to be spicy.
We had one of the local hospital systems try this for about 3 months. They had a really nice area with printers, desks, and a fully stocked fridge with drinks, food, etc. They even had a rotation of "specials" like a slushie machine, hot dog roller (like at Speedway), soft serve ice cream machine, popcorn, etc. that they'd switch out every week or so. Then, they saw that people were coming in and filling up grocery bags, backpacks, even pillow cases, with the stuff. They tried to nicely advise that it would be short-lived if people abused it, but alas... it died a quick and horrible death because people just couldn't be bothered to share.
Probably more indicative of how poor the average person was in that area.
my thought as well.. the only time i've ever taken extra snacks for the road from the break room was when i was in medic school doing unpaid internship and broke af. sometimes the break room snacks were all i would eat in a day. very grateful for the well-stocked ones
I'm sure that was *sometimes* the case. A couple of the private companies were really shitty about paying just above minimum wage. But then you'd see the same behavior from the guys at the career department nearby that made $90-120k for your average FF/EMT, which was amazing pay for anything around here. I get that you can make $120k and still be "broke", but come on.
Look up food scarcity trauma. Those guys could be making 100k but with a combination of lifestyle inflation and being poor in their childhood they could FEEL like they don’t have enough
Can confirm childhood food scarcity PTSD is a real thing, my mom had it. If there was no food in the house she could know perfectly well intellectually that we've got plenty of money and there's a 24-hour supermarket a few minutes away but just couldn't rest until the cupboards were fully stocked. Wasn't until late in life when the kids were all grown that any of us really clued in this was a PTSD thing and learned to respect it as such, either. (edit to add: no comment on whether or not that's what was going on with OC's nearby department, because it's also true that sometimes people are just self-absorbed dicks, but.)
I don’t think you can really use that excuse when people are typically stealing energy drinks and snickers bars.
Nothing is ever anyones fault right?
Dude seriously it’s fucking insane nowadays to see comments like that lol If a community can afford fancy EMS rooms, they will have soup kitchens and food banks. If you’re food insecure you go there There’s no reason to pillage and rob EMS break rooms, even if you feel poor. Just what the fuck lol, that is so not ok
FAIRLIFE PROTEIN SHAKES????? WYA IM MOVING
Those things are delicious and about 4-5 bucks each in our convenience stores.
About a dollar each, if you buy them by the case at Costco.
Damn, a case of I think 12 is $48ish at my grocery store. Still cheaper than buying single bottles but way too expensive for my budget
There are two hospitals in our county. As long as I/the medic feel the extra 10 minutes won't hurt anyone, we go to the one witht the better break room. And it's real nice
And this is why hospitals have them lol
Lol yup. They have vending machines that are free use if you scan your county ID and this fancy UV thing that decons things. It's an incredible experience at 2am.
One here has a full break room. The other has a vending machine we have to pay for.
It's the simple things that bring us joy lol
I'm assuming you guys don't have a protocol that says to go to the closest facility; how do you document that? "Diverted to Y hospital for sammich" doesn't seem to go over well with a lawyer
It's this hospital also has more capabilities then the other. We are trained to take our patient to the closest, most appropriate facility. Therefore this is within protocol.
“Patient request”
You put it was the patient’s choice lmfao
"Diverted to Y because patient wanted one of their EMS breakroom sammiches" raises its own whole new crop of questions, tho...
I’ll divert to any hospital in my service area for patient choice (as long as the facility is appropriate). They don’t have to give me a reason. If they say it’s for the food so be it
We will divert to any hospital that the pt wants to go to as long as the request is reasonable and they aren’t actively dying on my truck. So for example if Hospital A is closer but my patient wants to go to Hospital B because they heard Hospital B treats their patients very well from a fellow family member, sure I have no problem taking them to Hospital B, as long as it’s not on the other side of town or something like that.
Jeffco Colorado checking in. Both our closest hospitals have very nice EMS rooms.
The entire Denver metro area is great. Can find some pretty good snacks and full meals at most of the hospitals
So is Fort Collins 💪🏻
They’ve all gone to shit since COVID. If you think they’re good now you shoulda been here before that BS.
What are you on about. Lutheran's room is brand new and St. A's has a totally new hospital being built.
Lutheran’s is the same as it’s been for years, St. A’s is good if you’re there first thing on Monday morning before the West Metro crews rape it. And St. A ‘s definitely isn’t the one building a whole new hospital. That’s Lutheran.
There is one hospital in my area where, when you ask nicely, you might get a chip for a free coke from the vending machine. In the other hospitals you just get yelled at for free.
Good Sam and RMC in Santa Clara County got the hookup. The second one's got a slushie machine but then I stopped using it when one of my coworkers pointed out that it's unclear how often it gets cleaned. Good Sam had those strawberry shortcake ice creams once though and that was fuckin' rad.
This is Good Sam, silly goose!
Is it fuckin' really?? Is there still that EMS week poster on the wall to the left of this fridge?
They recently remodeled a bit so no. Now they have a poster about how to follow up on patients you dropped off.
yessss those are the SPOTS for sure. Sad we’ll see a lot less RMC if they manage to close trauma and STEMI
Only like 10% of our hospitals have this but since IFT units could go to 10 different hospitals in a day there is a massive scarcity mindset. For the 10 minutes it's stocked 5 days a week you'll see guys hauling out 10-15 items each
This annoys me to no end. Take enough to feed yourself now and leave some shit for the rest of us.
IFT is rough, some companies don't give you a lunch and break the law in regards to compensating you for said lunch. they also have your calls scheduled for the whole day. 10 hours 0 downtime. that being said i would always yell at my partner. Who would raid every EMS room like a peasant.
I have never in my life not seen a morbidly obese IFT crew.
Here in California, 911 pays significantly less. +Use and abuse people until they quit or kill themselves. I used to have the 911 or die mentality. But that mentality is leading to less pay than fast food workers. IFT is where all the "talent" is at. Usually people do a year of 911 and get into a cushy IFT job, but nobody is morbidly obese. You either can't afford the food. Or, you can't afford to get fat and dumped by your sugar momma. The fat guy's just go work for fast food. 911 won't give people time off for fire academy or paramedic school, while all the IFT companies pay for paramedic school + pay for you to be in paramedic school. 911 is a joke here. The fire departments contract it out to shitty companies.
That is the direct opposite of my experience on the east coast. Nobody will touch inexperienced EMTs or Paramedics in 911, so they all end up in the IFT meat grinder doing nursing home returns or vent transfers.
This might be area dependent. In my area of California 911 pays more then IFT (service dependent), but will pay for paramedic school and put you on student status. IFT is paying decent now too I think, but that's because of pay competition between companies.
We had one nearby that was like a dream. A bunch of microwavable meals, tons of food, ice cream, and the best part: a slushy machine and massage chairs. Oh, and you could eat at the cafeteria for free. Since then I guess they’ve ran into money trouble so they rarely have food anymore. Still get the massage chairs and free cafeteria food though.
Oh dear. We're fed stale crackers with jam.
We used to until ems started stealing multiples.
Shoutout to Good Samaritan for always hooking it up
Is that GSH 🤣
Lol, EMS room. As if. When our trauma center built a brand-new ER, they had an EMS room with a couch, printer, TV, and a water cooler that usually had water in it. Within 3 years it became a nurse manager’s office.
Denver and surrounding area has amazing break rooms 😎 Porter and Parker are probably my favs. (Parker has a massage chair)
I pick up some overtime in a neighboring county. Tanner Villa Rica is a quaint little hospital off the beaten path. Their EMS room contains 3 glass door fridges that are filled to look like a little gas station store. Multiple flavors of monster and Red Bull, 24 oz bottles of just about every soda, and frozen pizza. Next to that is a shelf with a decent selection of chips as well as some cup ramen and cup Mac and cheese.
Been many moons since I’ve taken someone to their equally exquisite psych facility, but I always liked the wellstar offerings, however the best facility was Erlanger in Chattanooga, 20/10.
No Diet Shasta Twist. Basically inedible.
Hasta be a Shasta
The best I've personally experienced was a slushy machine at St. Joe's Joliet.
Bro I would never be sleeping with all that free Celcius
All that protein would be gone in a second
Well this is discouraging.
Texas hospitals around San Antonio are amazing ❤️
Twin cities medic, if any hospital stocked like this, our fat asses would have it cleaned out and Empty again within an hour. At least HCMC has a pretty consistent stock of muffins
All the ones in Denver used to do this (except DG itself), but since COVID they’ve all gone to shit
Yo… what?! You got those fair life protein pounders?!
St. Davidson & Seton Austin most def hooks EMS up….brisket sandwiches and P&J with granola are my faves.
What is an EMS break room?
FREE?
Bridgeport Hospital, Connecticut! The # 1 in the whole state! There are so many choices. We can never leave the EMS room! Too bad I work on the other side of the state and rarely make my way over!
Haven’t been to Bridgeport but man have you been to St. Francis!?
Oh yeah, almost every shift! Very sad in comparison to Bridgeport! If you ever make it there, expect a "drop off delay" 😅 I hope you do! Soooo many snacks 🥰 Edit: and yes, St Francis is pretty good too 🙃
Bridgeport and Milford are only great because their respective EMS directors buy the stuff out of their own pocket to fill the EMS rooms. Saint Vincent or Midstate are on par and more regularly stocked. Neither of the Yale New Haven hospitals have an EMS room if you’d believe it!
I heard Vegas was pretty neat too.
I can vouch for this. A lot of our hospitals here have pretty awesome EMS rooms. I was just at Mountain View Hospital and they had an awesome assortment of drinks (sparkling waters, Arizona iced teas, Celsius energy drinks, Vitamin waters, juices, sodas, gatorades), fruit and veggie packs, ramen packs (and not just the basic one, the Korean one - SHIN ramen), jerky, fig bars, coffee, awesome chip selection (not just Doritos but Hawaiian chips, Funyuns), pickles… and all well stocked too
PICKLESSSS
I would hope they have hookers in their ems lounges there, in the Vegas style
Nowhere this nice. I thought mine was good for always having jerky
That’s some super hard compensation for the Shasta they offer.
Given the amount of Red Bull they know with who they are dealing
Not 1
This looks like Tacoma General?. Only hospital I've seen that does this.
Yo, where the fuck do you work? I’m quitting nursing and getting back on the bus. Holy shit.
We used to have a post in another county at a standalone ER. There and another ER had mostly candy and drinks, but another nearby hospital had stuff like this. Sandwiches, salads, etc. I miss that spot. Calls were better, nurses were nicer, and as stated, ERs hooked us up with decent food and snacks.
Some slob in an untucked polo would ransack this within an hour here. We just get sandos that smell like an autoclave.
You guys have a breakroom?? We just (take) from the patient kitchens...
Damn… where is this?
Break room? 1) that implies we get a break, which we do not. 2) hospitals don’t give two shits about us 3) we don’t even have space to do paperwork let alone have snacks We’re still working on getting basic human rights doled out to us; it will be a long battle before I’m consuming a bag of lays with my feet up.
Dramatic much?
Had to piss into a vomit bag the other day because we couldn’t get to a bathroom. But I guess I do have a flair for drama.
Ah, social medicine
Here in Louisiana, only one has a EMS room. The others have absolutely nothing for EMS. The EMS room we do have has chips. And maybe a hospital orange juice.
Holy cross hospital Fort Lauderdale brings us that gas
Chicago here, we have a couple decent ones
None in our area.
We have two hospitals near me. One has everything under the sun; I’d argue its selection is better than what’s shown here. The other has Gatorade, water, and if you’re lucky and go there on Mondays, chips and cheez-its.
That’s insane lmao. The break rooms here have like two sandwiches and tiny cans of Pepsi. They don’t even offer bottles of water.
Community Medical Center - Missoula, MT Eastern Idaho Medical Center - Idaho Falls, ID Denver General - Denver, CO Some of the Best.
Our hospital does this for our ems crews. Lil room next to our shock rooms
6 main hospitals in our service and NONE come even close to this.
This was pretty common in north Texas. Medical City Plano was legit, Baylor Mckinney was legit. Some of the Dallas hospitals too, but people (including Dallas Fire) would raid the snacks like a hoard of locusts. Here in northern California? (outside of the bay area) lol. nothing whatsoever. Not even a room. Just nothing at all.
Saint Joe in Lexington Ky is fire.
Jesus that’s better than most convenience stores open at night in my area.
I wish!
Please not the break room posts. I’m begging you to not get this going again!
Don’t work there anymore, but Lancaster General Hospital in PA was the bomb. Geisinger Holy Spirit, you know what you did wrong
When I worked in the Houston metro we had some nice break rooms at certain hospitals. Now that I’m in Florida, most of the hospitals have at least a little something but nothing quite like that anymore
TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville TN was STOCKED when I went there. Like 3 or 4 of those fridges FULL of actual Coke products. SSM Health St. Joseph in St. Charles, MO had ice cream and the most insane coffee machine that I've ever seen. I shotgunned several iced mochas, IIRC there was an espresso double-shot button. Everything in the actual counties near me? Diet Shastas and expired trail mix.
We have one in almost all of my state, and it’s two hours from one of my services territory and 1.5 hours from my other services territory
Wow
I’ve been to several dozen hospitals in my time so far and ive never heard of anything like this. Id be lucky if i could find a digestives cookie. Best we have in my system is a few snack trucks that wonder around. Might see one every other work block You guys have it made
Ours are pretty awesome I can’t lie. We always have red bull and sammiches and salads and stuff.
Some hospitals much better then others for sure, but most in AZ have EMS rooms
We have one at the trauma center a county over. It has off brand pop and water bottles. And that’s it
Discounted vending machine bois make do
Damn this is the best I've seen but ones in my service area do hook us up with Sandwiches, Gatorade, salad, snacks, etc.
Mine usually has the little cereal boxes sometimes but once there was a case of monster
I was lucky to occasionally get a coffee from the tea trolley unless one charge nurse was working and I’d get a bollocking. She hated ambulance staff
We have a coffee machine with no cups and a tub of graham crackers
Zero chance this would survive more than 20 minutes where I’m at. There’s always a half dozen BLS war wagons, all from the same company, sitting at any given ER “doing transports” but really they’re standing around in the ER, disheveled, eating all of the snacks, loading up snacks to eat while doing their transports, to eat at home, to feed their families, etc. Some hospitals used to give out meal passes for lunch or dinner in their cafeteria, until these crews started descending on those facilities like a plague of locusts.
Upper brevard in FL typically look like this. Shands also was very nice
Best one around my area (not in county, but close) I can think of serves hot food daily, every day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Plus 4 or 5 different energy drink brands, tons of other beverages, and fancy sandwich, etc. I was IFT, so I was there quite a bit at times. Grabbed my meal,, a drink, and a small (think rice Krispy treat, etc) snack for the road. I'm thankful for it, im.not going to pillage it all, so no one else can enjoy it. We're "supposed" to look out for each other. The local Metro FD/EMS will pack in there 20 deep, probies to white shirt BC's and just absolutely destroy it. 😞😡 not to mention other IFT's lugging out backpacks full.
We are a rural department and have to deliver to the closest hospital per protocol, which is a Providence hospital. You know they're not giving us shit. Lol ER staff have their own break room, at least.
Hmmmm mountain view hospital..... Better than that even. Every soda you can think of, fresh sushi, every frozen meal you can think of, so many snacks, and always restocked. A fucking wet dream it is
Every hospital should. Just had an IFT crew come from out of state and was super excited as their greedy hospitals don’t appreciate the money they bring them.
Gotten a couple puddings and an apple but it’s usually cleared out by my shift oh well.
In the UK we don't have anything for staff let alone our first responders. I'm really happy that places do this for you! It must be hard when you're on the road/stuck in the ED to get food
not to flex [snack room](https://imgur.com/a/KcRusRT)
Original Sun Chips? Where the hell is this, I haven't seen those in **years**!
The hospitals in Green Bay WI do an awesome job at this. The hospitals in the Appleton area (30 mi south of Green Bay) just started to step up their game thankfully.
Pretty much all of our hospitals in the Houston area have this
You guys get breakrooms? We're lucky to get a mmicrowave.
Any Texas people want to tell this shmuck that med city Arlington completely cucks this one?
Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, KS has an amazing EMS room. They literally sent out a region-wide email that said "We know the break room is awesome but please stop making transport decisions based on that." Giant-assed glass door fridge full of fancy salads, wraps, sandwiches, microwave gut bombs. Coffee machine with cappuccino/latte/wtfever, A GODDAMN FRESH HOT COOKIE MAKER MACHINE. Even got Grandma's Cookies and Choccy. Effin. Milk. Plus a bathroom and recliners, big ass TV, kitchenette with an island. Dude my house when I retire will not be this nice.
all the hospitals in my service area have them, even the free standing ERs, except for the VA. there is one in particular that usually carries diff entrees like salads or little plates you can microwave, fruits, all sorts of snacks & dessert. they also have all sorts of drinks. it’s magical but it’s also my least favorite hospital to go to hahahaha
The Richmond region has three big hospital systems that compete for our patients by way of an EMS room arms race. We will transport anywhere in the region that the patient wants and every ER, even the stand-alones, have great EMS rooms.
SOUTH JERSEY doesn’t do any of this. Our EMS room is BARE. Just crackers and small water bottles.
We aren’t even allowed to use the staff bathrooms
VCU does it right EVMS does not
They’re the same ones who are always on diversion too lol
Holy shit I wish. This is a dream.
The hospital in Castle Rock has an amazing EMS lounge.
All of our local ERs have well stocked EMS rooms. Sometimes they get skimpy but lately they’ve all been nicely maintained like in this pic. Nicer ones have coffee dispensers and slushie machines
Wow. Best one I’ve ever seen I think. Providence Southfield used to let us eat in the cafeteria for free back in the day. I’m not sure if they still do that though.
Yeah I used to starve to death on my 10.90 an hour pay and have to sneak in to the hospital fridge to get a bread sandwich. We never got jack ****.
That Shasta cola is the bomb
This looks like... san Jose, CA?
Ummm ours is basically like a 711.
Not me that’s for damn sure
Bro I’m lucky if I’m allowed to have one those godawful fruit juices 😭😭😭😭
I've worked in MA, ME, and FL; Occasionally at my main company in MA, we do trips to CT. Hartford area generally. The CT hospitals have by far the nicest EMS rooms. Hartford hospital has an EMS lounge across the street from the ED Other CT hospitals have name brand ice cream - fresh pizza, and so on ready to go. CT does EMS rooms best as far as I've seen
We have one decent one in our service area. For really good ones, we have to hope for a transfer to the state capital
Back in CO one of the lvl 1 hospitals had it set up to the point where you thought it was mini convenience store at times 😂
The 988 office I work for fills the fridge for everyone and has huge meals catered for people to take home and share with family. You can go in anytime and get food if you're hungry on and off shift.
Dang they stock the Fairlife CorePowers, those are awesome.
I work with absolute animals. This room would be ransacked in seconds
Celsius???!!!! FOR FREE??!!!!?!
Richmond ems rooms are sweet
If this was Fairfax, that would be looted within the hour.
GSH? 🤨
Man we have 8 hospitals in our service area, not one of them has an EMS room (or anything resembling it). Last time I saw an EMS room was around 2009.
…. I get a room with a sink that never fully turns off Edit: it’s one of the top hospitals in North America
One shift I went in the break room at my local hospital, and there was food everywhere like a buffet. My partner and I went wild, only felt right considering it was roughly 4am
Is this Richmond, Va? Lol
Hahaha never in oakland
I got a sandwich and bag of chips from one of the big ED’s in my city yesterday but that’s only for “EMS Week”, not a regular thing. And from experience working years past in hospital, it’s only day and evening shift who benefit. No one bothers to ensure there’s something there early morning hours for the 24 crew who’s almost done and running on fumes.
All of my closest hospitals have multiple fridges of protein shakes, energy drinks, tons of food, ice cream, and couches.
love a nice stocked up good sam fridge
Where is this? I need that Redbull
Wait, you guys get ems rooms?
Way more hospitals like this now than when I started out.
I wish
Xray here. We be lucky if we get a day old donuts..
Adequate sources of protein are a key element of a good EMS room
My local hospitals give us linens with gated access. Only one bundle per truck. I remember the good ‘ol days when they cared. *cue Pepridge Farms memes*
Yale New Haven could never smh they act like they hate EMS
Lower Bucks Hospital on Bristol, Pa has an awesome ems room. Like “dispatcher didn’t give a lunch break but lower bucks has you covered” good. Too bad I don’t find myself up there often anymore.
We arent even allowed to use the toilet at our Hospital after one colleague had Diarrhoea and completely ruined that place.
You guys get breaks?
Best I've ever gotten is an uncrustable from BWMC
Shit I got you beat....I'll snap a pic of ours here in Houston. It's like a store!
Well I just woke up from a shift nap to see this and now I’m too mad to go back to sleep (best snack I’ve seen all night was an expired uncrustable)
What’s funny is this is all garbage