KSHB reports a bit of a switch-up in the way things are being done @ The KCFD: The Kansas City Fire Department has a new plan to cut down on ambulance response times.
And while personnel switchups along with rerouting is important . . . What's more interesting is a new openness with media and transparency with local gov that we haven't seen from this org in its modern history.
Even more to the point . . . We've heard fewer complaints from KCFD Insiders and that probably means leadership changes might be taking hold after all.
And while personnel switchups along with rerouting is important . . . What's more interesting is a new openness with media and transparency with local gov that we haven't seen from this org in its modern history.
Even more to the point . . . We've heard fewer complaints from KCFD Insiders and that probably means leadership changes might be taking hold after all.
don't be too nice.
ReplyDeleteSome common sense ideas there but the KCFD will never match response times of MAST with ambulances in stations.
ReplyDeleteNot any better, just futile to complain. Things are worse than ever but no one can do anything about it unless they are fire and not EMS.. Cambiano is showing his training by Louie.
ReplyDeleteWe have a much more EMS-forward union than in years past, more employee driven involvement in change, which are the main things.
ReplyDeletePlus, people realize that whining and crying in public forums like this blog isn't productive at all. Look at the amount of "insider" crying in the past 3 years on TKC. What has helped? Nothing. It's just a lot of negativity without any real solutions.
There's a produtive way to effect change, and complaining isn't the way that works.
For the first time in many years, I really think that KCFD is on the cusp of realizing how overworked its employees are, how detrimental this working environment is to the citizens and to the care, and they really want to do something different. It's actually kind of refreshing. It's not about personalities who have an agenda. It's about patient care, employee morale, and improving things.
Mast sucked!! People like Doug Hooten and Trevor Creekmore cooked the books to make Mast response times look good so they could get their bonuses.
ReplyDeleteBingo!
DeleteNuther fireman talking, 9:43. You have no business running the emergency medical service.
ReplyDeleteUnions are way more interested in THEMSELVES, their PAY AND BENEFITS, than the society they're supposed to be serving.
While I think govt workers need respresentation to get their due, unions seem to draw employees more interested then themselves, and not their customers.
I would hate it if doctors and surgeons had that union mentality rather than a professional, lifelong dedication to save our lives.
And I feel the same way about FIRST medical responders! Their loyalties are simply in the wrong place!
10:50, you're a fool if you think your doctor cares more about you than a paycheck. If they did, why is the ENT we see open 3 days a week with a 2 month backlog before I can get it, and why do I need to wait 2 hours past my appointment time?
ReplyDeleteWhy is it when you go to the ER, the registration person getting your insurance info spends more time with you than the doctor?
Why is it doctors and hospitals have this cozy business relationship where mysteriously they always seem to recommend services at the hospital they have a financial interest in?
This isn't the town doctor from nothern exposure. It's reality. You are welcome to join anytime you wish.
Ah, but doctors to have an organization dedicated to advancing their interests. Its called the AMA, and it lobbies actively to limit the number of entrants into med schools, regardless of applicant's qualifications and aptitudes, thereby keeping the number of doctors artificially low, so that compensation stays artificially high. Its actually an old trade union tactic...
ReplyDeleteTo say nothing of the AMA's other lobbying activities. In fact most professions have organized lobbying interests which work a lot like unions, but without the democracy.
Management, business owners and governments have similar organizations that collude to advance their own narrow interests at the exclusion of the greater good. Again, without the democracy, but with more money and greater insider dealings and leverage.
Don't be naive.
9:43 not a firefighter. Jim Lewis, Dave Hutton, Rina Trowbridge, one of the Kool-aid drinkers who believed everything they were told by Local 42.
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