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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...
The city I work in doesn't enforce their meters overnight. So I have been parking in a metered spot near the hospital's entrance; I'd arrive 10-15 min. early in case I had to circle the block a few times. (I won't park more than a block away at night. I don't work in the Hamptons.) But I parked basically for free during the past year of working 2300-0730, unless it was approaching 0800 and I wasn't finished charting. Then I'd go down/out and feed the meter. I was told when I started that the city begins ticketing at exactly 0801.
I just started working 1500-2330 though, so now have to pay for parking. It's $8 for 8 hrs in a metered spot; I don't recall exactly how much it is to park in one of our ramps, but seems like it's near the same price as street parking. The hospital has two parking ramps...neither one of which I really want to walk to by myself at midnight. Unless the alternative is walking through a foot of snow.
a lot of companies, outside of healthcare, charge for parking. Either that, or you are on your own to compete with hundreds of others. Have you considered public transportation, even if only for part of the journey. I used to drive to a shopping center, park and then catch a bus. The bus did not come in my neighborhood
We pay a good chunk too! And my hubby pays even more to park blocks away from his building. Killer is that if we come in at certain times of the day there is not ONE available parking spot and we can park on the street (and pray your car is still there when you come out to move it) or pay to park in the visitors lot.
Never worked anyplace that had fee parking, but I've never worked in a metro city.
But how about THIS::::: Anyone on board with the idea that hospitals should be able to charge PITA visitors and ED Frequent Flyers extra fees for parking?? LOL, if some of these people had to pay OUTSIDE the hospital for the privilege of sucking up our resources once INSIDE it, maybe it'd slow 'em down a bit?!
Example: Patient X is here at the ED once again for something minor, and has nine people visiting him. They are booted, but once admitted to floor, there are now 13 people visiting. If even ONE of them had to PAY for parking, I bet Patient X would be a lot less popular!
wooh, BSN, RN
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We don't, but those that work in the city rather than the suburbs get the joy of paying for parking. Strangely, I don't find that as bad as charging patients/visitors for parking. Which the bigger hospitals in even the suburban areas around here do. I guess I just feel like they already pay enough to be there to have to pay for parking too? But that's apparently how they pay for the parking decks. The company that builds them gets to charge for parking instead of the hospital having to pay to build them.