The private nursing homes ought to be held accountable for the endless lift-assist calls, and start hiring competent staff, and paying their staff livable wages to do their jobs. Such a waste of resources. I've heard some fire departments have started charging for lift calls. Sounds like a swell idea.
My neighboring department is in a high crime, low income city and they Charge a huge premium for facility transfers. They also take people who do not pay their transport bills to collections. My department will send a few notices that you haven’t paid and then not even bother. We have a ton of regulars that know this.
Is the neighboring place billing low income individuals or the nursing homes in that neighborhood? For your place, sounds like they ought to start following through with the fines.
They are billing the nursing homes if they call 911. And I agree my city has a mix of very low income and very high income so I guess they are still profitable even if some people just don’t pay. The neighboring city has a long history of corruption in the city council and an extremely underpaid and understaffed department so they have to find any means to offset their expenses.
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u/WittyClerk Jun 22 '25
The private nursing homes ought to be held accountable for the endless lift-assist calls, and start hiring competent staff, and paying their staff livable wages to do their jobs. Such a waste of resources. I've heard some fire departments have started charging for lift calls. Sounds like a swell idea.