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I work at ABSMC at the Alta Bates campus in the NICU. Parking is a major hassle. You have to carpool to park in the garage unless you work night shift then, you get a night pass. If you don't carpool, it is $12 a day to park in the garage. Other options are the pharmacy down the street that just increased their rates with our raise to $7 a day. You can also park out in the community and move your car every two hours but, the hospital looks down on this. They don't want us upsetting the community. Personally, I love working here especially, in my unit. I work with the greatest people ever. We have a lot of fun. Pay scale I think is very good. I think it starts somewhere in the $40/hr range. I'm currently at $55 but, I've been with Alta Bates for over 15 years. Our contract expires in 2007 and I'm sure our rates will go up again. Cafeteria is now closed on the weekends so, make sure you bring your dinner or you will be vending it. During the week it closes at 7pm so, you need to get out to dinner or run down and buy your dinner before that time. JCAHO did visit us again and you'll be happy to know we PASSED! The hospital also has shuttle service to two BART stations and they provide discounted BART tickets through work. BARTs last train leaves at Midnight so, it's not convenient for pm shift unless you really hussle your butt out the door at the end of the shift. I hope this helps. Welcome! I think you will like it here. Everyone is very nice and we appreciate each and every new person that arrives.

Hello! Our NICU is in the process of making the unit earthquake prepared. We are researching everything from the kind of containers to keep our supplies in to where to store these supplies on the unit. We are trying to make it a unit specific policy to address all the issues we will encounter with our small and fragile babies including how to evacuate them off the unit if necessary. I would like to know if any of the NICU's out there have policies or do you have just a hospital wide policy? I would appreciate any and all help you can give me. Our hope is to make a new policy and procedure that addresses our unit and then to have a mock up so, staff will be prepared when a major earthquake happens. Thank you!