Pay for parking?

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Okay, how many of you here on allnurses pay for parking? We do at my hospital, and I can't fathom charging employees...

Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.

Also it was a super long walk... some nurses measured and said it was about a 1km walk and it was beside the heli pad

Specializes in Acute care, Community Med, SANE, ASC.

There are three major adult hospital systems in my town. The only one that charges employees for parking is the university hospital.

Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
Why is this? (Rhetorical question) Docs make a lot more than nurses, techs or the janitor, but they get the most 'perks'.
Doctors generate profits for hospitals when they refer and admit billable patients that generate revenue. Therefore, hospital administration bends over backwards to make things comfortable for doctors.

On the other hand, hourly wage employees such as nurses, techs, janitors, dietary aides and admitting clerks generate huge expenses for hospitals in the form of labor costs and benefits. Since the aforementioned members of staff cannot bill for services or drum up increased revenue, hospital administration does not value them as much.

Specializes in Acute Care, Adults, Telemetry, Stepdown, SNF.

I just started working at a very large hospital in a metropolitan area. I pay $30/month to park blocks away at an offsite lot, then I catch an employee shuttle to my building. It definitely adds minutes to the day, but at night and on weekends I'm allowed to park in the lot closest to my building.

Specializes in ER, Med/Surg.
Doctors generate profits for hospitals when they refer and admit billable patients that generate revenue. Therefore, hospital administration bends over backwards to make things comfortable for doctors.

This sounds like the definition of a "kick-back" if you ask me.

They SHOULD admit based on whether the patient needs it, not based on if the hospital gives them free coffee and donuts.

Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

I pay $1.25 per pay period (every 2 weeks). Most of the time I actually park in the lot/garage too.

My current employer has free parking, but the large medical center downtown (hospital, multi-storied physician office tower, and attached parking deck) charged $6/day for parking. Being a M-F employee that added up to $30/week, which was expensive in a hurry. Pts would ask us to validate their parking, which we couldn't do because the facility didn't own the parking deck.

Specializes in Emergency; med-surg; mat-child.

$10/month, can park in the garage for PM, NOC, and weekend shifts. Given how tight on-street parking is, I consider it a deal.

Specializes in Emergency; med-surg; mat-child.

We can park off-site and shuttle for free, but I don't trust it to be on time. I like to get on campus at least half an hour before my shift so I can caffeinate and have some chow. Ten bucks a month for half a block's walk is fine by me.

Specializes in LTC.

I don't pay for parking, but I work in a nursing home in a surburban area.

My husband works in a large hospital in a major city and has to pay for parking. They deduct it from his paycheck, I think it's something like $26 bi-weekly. If he paid cash everyday, the employee rate is $5/day.

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
I don't pay for parking, but I work in a nursing home in a surburban area.

My husband works in a large hospital in a major city and has to pay for parking. They deduct it from his paycheck, I think it's something like $26 bi-weekly. If he paid cash everyday, the employee rate is $5/day.

Where I work, all of the close-in parking garages are reserved for patients or physicians. That means if you're a nurse, you get to park 5 blocks away and walk through the less-than-safe neighborhood to get to work. Or sneak into the patient/visitor parking garage and pay $12/day. The $144/month we pay to park in the garage 5 blocks away is only a bargain if you work 3 12-hour day shifts a week (or more.) But parking for nights and weekends is free. Assuming you're actually doing the 50% night rotation you're supposed to, paying cash for parking would come out to about $78 per month. And if you work every other weekend on top of that, it's even less.

I no longer have a parking permit.

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