Hospital Parking

Nurses General Nursing

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Specializes in Medical Surgical.

I am getting more and more irritated with the parking situation at the hospital for staff. I now have to get to work 30 minutes before the shift starts to troll the parking lot trying to find a place to park, and then walk endlessly to get to the floor. Even worse with the cold weather. And then once I get to the floor if I have gotten pulled there's another ten minutes of walking. And when most of us have to stay over every shift, we straggle one-by-one out to walk quite a while in the dark to get to our cars, which can be scary. Do you have decent parking at work?

Specializes in Intensive Care and Cardiology.

I park for free in a parking ramp that has a sky walk over to the hospital. Please don't hate me.....

Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

The day staff has to park in certian lots and take a shuttle unless they have been there for more than 10 years or are management.

midnights and afternoons can park onsite in the parking garage. So parking isn't so bad. The local university hospital has to pay to park and the parking sucks. I think they call the parking permits a "hunting permit" meaning you can hunt for a parking spot.

I think I am lucky so far that I can park on site.

Specializes in PCU, Critical Care, Observation.

That sounds miserable. The parking is fine where I work. At night we can park in the front visitor's parking lot.

Specializes in Critical Care, Capacity/Bed Management.

I work at two facilities and both have excellent parking accomodations. at facility A we have two parking lots for the day shift, and a parking garage for the evening and night shift, finding parking is not that bad. facility B offers all their employees parking at the H garage which is HUGE and always has ample parking.

I think parking is an issue in a lot of hospitals. We have similar issues here. I have friends who actually have to park off campus and take a shuttle to the hospital from a parking lot a mile away. It is so bad that hospitals here are offering valet parking for the visitors.

Specializes in Day Surgery, Agency, Cath Lab, LTC/Psych.

That sucks. The parking for my hospital is in the front and there is always plenty of spaces. I like walking out of the front of the hospital to get to my car at night--somehow it just seems safer than if the parking lot is in the back.

Most places I have worked parking is always a hassle, but free. Here in Los Angeles, it costs the staff $63.00 a month to park in the staff garage. I take the bus to work and walk a little less than a mile every time, but once it was pouring down rain and I elected to drive my car. It cost me $11.00 that day and I used the valet since I couldn't park in staff without a sticker. No problem though, the staff said the garage floor was flooded and everyone got wet. That's crazy!

Specializes in psych, medical, drug rehab.

Well, I work in Manhattan, live in New Jersey and drive in 3 hrs before my shift so I can find legal parking!

First time I work for a hospital that does not provide some sort of parking for their staff.

Aggggg

Specializes in CTICU.

Suddenly I don't think mine's so bad...

We can choose from a bunch of lots - far away, or further away (unless you're a physician or management). There are shuttles to take us to the lots, or a long walk up a VERY steep hill.

Luckily whenever my boss is out of town/offsite he gives me his parking pass and I can park right next door to my office in the "VIP garage".

If we park in the visitor lot which is close by, it's $18.00 for the day!

Specializes in CVICU.
I am getting more and more irritated with the parking situation at the hospital for staff. I now have to get to work 30 minutes before the shift starts to troll the parking lot trying to find a place to park, and then walk endlessly to get to the floor. Even worse with the cold weather. And then once I get to the floor if I have gotten pulled there's another ten minutes of walking. And when most of us have to stay over every shift, we straggle one-by-one out to walk quite a while in the dark to get to our cars, which can be scary. Do you have decent parking at work?

LMAO, if you think that's bad, you should see where I would have to park if I worked day shifts---*and* I have to pay for parking! I pay about $15 a month for a spot in BFE (we can park in the garage at nights). I actually live closer to the hospital than where my assigned parking spot is. I would walk to work now if 1) I hadn't recently had ankle surgery, and 2) if it were not about 10 degrees here on a nightly basis. Do you have to pay for that spot?

Specializes in Mixed Level-1 ICU.

What makes me craziest is that the majority of nurses just roll over on this issue; Doctors get preference regardless of the issue.

The message: Doctors are more important than nurses.

We have to shuttle in, but not the doctors...not even the interns.

Then again, nursing has always accepted whatever is thrown it's way, why should it be different for parking.

Recently, we could pay to park in the garage. Now we all get shuttled. That means adding extra time to get to work and waiting for the bus after 12 hr shift..sometimes 10 minutes.

It's demeaning and irritating. The worst part is that they are reminding us not to swipe in early if we get here early. It's all right that we waste our own before and after work but don't expect us to pay for it.

Nursing gives and gives and gives and never says "no."

All they do is take and take and take.

Who's at fault?

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