orangEMT246

Tom KC2UOL Just got it after testing on 1/31/09.

Newark EMS is hiring PD now. www.uh-ems.org. It is hospital based and starts at $17.94 before the night diff. We are always hiring PD's.

I got the job first and was working with a NY patch on my shoulder. The staff here (UMDNJ) got my card within six months. Within the past two years, NJ went to a new computer recert and CME tracking system, so your application could have been lost. Try again as I got mine in the summer of 2007.

You could try Newark EMS. It is UMDNJ, a hospital based 911 only system. www.uh-ems.org You start at $17.94 a hour. Getting your NJ EMT is fairly easy. We cover the airport, turnpike, and garden state parkway. You will receive lots of experience and the big perk is that you are a NJ state employee so your medical benefits are FREE. Not to mention a state pension. If you are in the Westchester area, put your scanner on 155.4000. You should hear us from there.

Rest In Peace Rich. I only worked on a few jobs with you but you were always professional and a stand-up guy. My heart goes out to your family and the entire EMS and DCSO families.

As of Dec 30, we were putting roughly 90,000 for the call number on our "PCR's" for UMDNJ. That would be City of Newark EMS. The city is only approx. 10 square miles. Don't have the official end of year number. We "little people" have to wait for the JEMS issue of city rankings (March or so?) for the official number like everyone else.

Not in Westchester or Putnam, but still in the Hudson Valley. Stay away from St. Lukes Hosp. in Newburgh. They don't care about EMS since the average wait time is about 30 minutes when I rode with Alamo and Beacon VAC with empty beds available. But again, you can work there and try to change that.

When does the Transcare contract expire? Also does this mean that OLM, Monti, and Einstein will have their own "hospital owned" ambulances?

I think this belongs in here because this covers both EMS and Fire. On the scene of a MVA with five patients trapped in a car, the fire director for the city of Newark approached a EMT "grabbed and shook him and told him 'this is a fire scene, back off.'" This sounds a little like who is in charge on a scene. University EMS does operate a heavy rescue with extracation equipment, and is usually called to serious MVA's. The link to the article is http://www.nj.com/starledger/stories/index....xml&coll=1 I don't want to start a EMS vs. Fire argument here. University EMS and the Newark FD work VERY WELL together and this is an isolated incident. Has this happened anywhere else? Again if anyone can post the article, it would be greatly appreciated.

Two more hospitals are falling on hard times here in New Jersey. Are we going to see more hospitals closing and more "doc in the box" opening up to provide acute care? An example would be Crystal Run Healthcare in Orange County and Medicus in Dutchess. There is also a new "urgent care center" opening soon on Rt. 299 in Highland NY. At least no hospitals in the Hudson Valley are going to close soon. (I hope). This article was in the "Star-Ledger" newspaper in Newark. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/2...ould_close.html

Just sent in a donation. It's not much (we all know about the EMT pay here). Hope it all works out in the end and keep up the good work Seth.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! Time to go to bed, I think I hear Santa on my roof!!

UMDNJ in Newark NJ.

When I first joined, I was living in Orange County as a EMT and the first 3 digits of my cert. are 246. Hence "orangEMT246"

I have 9 years EMT experience under my belt. I have been with my current "private ambulance" company for the past 3 years and make--FT $11.60hr. No union. With my NJ "state hospital" EMS job--PD $17.94hr dayshift PLUS a $1.75hr night diff. with a state retirement plan after 25 years in. Union shop. But we run all day and night long. 14-20 runs in a 12 hour shift.

Well said Goose. Bottom line, bashing just brings us down as a whole. Do you see the police putting down other departments like we do in EMS? This is not helping us get on a level playing field with other emergency services. Anyone can go online here, read this, and think we are children saying my sandbox is better than yours. I enjoy reading the intelligent discussions on here, but the bashng just have to stop. :angry:

After reading all the posts on here, it sounds like the majority of our "fellow brothers and sisters" have nothing to do but bash Alamo and its employees yet again. Alamo is just about dead now. So everyone in Rombout, City of Poughkeepsie, etc..., can now relax as a new management team takes over in the next year. As for us in the ambulances, hey, we just go where we are told. NONE of us like to hear "(enter name here)-in place of Alamo" Some of us are on edge to see what happens with benefits, vacation, pay, senority. I'm sure the Sloper employees would tell you the same thing when Alamo aquired them. I wish the new management team good luck and hopefully everything will come around and improve for the residents of the county.

The city of Newark NJ can be sued for a murder that occured 7 years ago, due to the mishandling of the 911 call by a operator and police dispatcher. It sounds like a few agencies are in the wrong here. A woman is screaming for help as she is being forced into a car, a off-duty Essex county officer calls 911, and the operator says "what are (police) going to do, by the time they come out, this car will be gone." Here is the link http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/11/c...sued_for_d.html If anyone can post the article for me it would be greatly appreciated. Any thoughts from the dispatchers on here?

Working at UMDNJ in Newark as an EMT, peir-deims make $17.94 an hour with a $1.75 night diff. The 12PM-12AM qualifies as a "night shift" which is nice. We run 12 hour tours. The full timers I believe work 3--3 day work weeks and on the fourth week, 4 days. As far as a career position, there is a heavy rescue and various other teams you can join. It is also a union shop. All 911 with no inter-facility transports unless you are on the CCT truck with a RN. You do sit in your truck all shift unless you are in the "central zone" where you can sit at headquarters. But averaging 13-18 jobs in a 12 hour shift, you don't sit very long.

If you are willing to travel to New Jersey, UMDNJ (Newark EMS) is looking for medics now. The website ie www.uh-ems.org. It is a hospital based 911 only system with a state retirement plan. The starting pay is in the mid 20's per hour. Also in the Hudson Valley of NY, there is Alamo EMS, Mobile Life Support, Regional EMS, Transcare, Westchester EMS, Empress (Yonkers), and Empire State Ambulance. Good Luck!

This sounds like the future of EMS if going municipal is just to expensive to do. Talk is good, but lets see how many of these new "ambulance districts" actually pan out. Hopefully the politics won't get in the way. But I see the placement of the ambulance bay being a problem ie... Pawling wants it in their town while Unionvile wants it in their town.

Maybe I missed it, but where excatly on the abdomen do you do the compressions? Also, lets say the person just ate a meal, is there a chance of vomitting and aspiration into the lungs?

Newark NJ is a paid fire dept.

Sitting at headquarters bored at UMDNJ. (Newark EMS) And yes this board is very addicting.

Great video!! It would have been nice if George would take his "money loving, greedy, pre-maddona" team to New Jersey or anywhere else for that matter. Say it with me--who is in first place--- The Red Sox!! Well the Yankees can "try" for the wild card! Lets go Mets!!!