I am wondering what everyone's thoughts are on nurses being charged to park at the hospital where they work. I started out as a new grad earlier this year and they had temporarily stopped charging for parking due to the pandemic, but we just found out that they are going to start again next month and the rates have increased to $80/month for outdoor surface lot parking (not fenced and no security in a neighborhood where there are lots of drug addicts and vandalism) and well over $100/month for garage parking.
Even charging patients for parking seems absurd to me, but charging nurses to park especially when we are so short-staffed right now just seems beyond ridiculous. It may not be all that much money but it's just kind of insulting to be made to pay for something that you NEED to be able to do your job (public trans not an option for me), and there are always tons of empty spaces in the garage so it doesn't seem to be a supply and demand issue.
Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.
Adding to my response above, my husband also has to pay. He works for TSA and has to be at work at 0330. When we lived in Chicago, there is no public transportation at that hour and where we live now, there is no public transportation.
Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.
When I worked for a 500+ bed hospital in an urban setting, the hospital paying was free but some of it was distant from the facility. I paid a monthly fee to park in a city lot that was immediately adjacent to the back and much older side of the hospital. There happened to be a restricted entrance/exit just across the street from the lot that put me a very short walk to the PICU.
mmc51264, BSN, MSN, RN
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Adding to my response above, my husband also has to pay. He works for TSA and has to be at work at 0330. When we lived in Chicago, there is no public transportation at that hour and where we live now, there is no public transportation.
I just chalk it up to part of life.