KelliPVAC

Good job, I think you are doing a great thing, keep up the good work!!

PVAC uses Casa Rina, or we use the Mt. Kisco Holiday Inn. We have been happy with both places.

I agree with you. We are here to do the same thing. The important thing is that the pt gets the care they need. Although, I don't like the comment that "vollies" don't care about the chest pain calls, a call is a call, that when I'm on duty, I have to go. Correct me if I'm wrong but, don't we all take the same NYS test?? Hopefully this is a done issue.

I don't think that the statement made by LilBlueEyes was putting volunteers on a pedestal. I do agree at times there is a different attitude betwwen the "paid" people and the "volunteers", which I'm not saying agree with. Many times a paramedic will refer to a call as a job, to them it is, personally I feel my job is 9-5 in an office. I feel with whole issue started when a "paid" fireman was questioning a volunteer VAC. I am proud to say thay my agency was able to treat 807 people without getting paid. I personally have grown up with "volunteering", and has played a huge part in my life, and I would never change that. It is nice to be able to help a friend, neighbor or family member in need, and not feel it is my JOB to do that. I do it because I want to, not to get paid.

Pleasantville VAC did a total of 807 calls for 2005.