Air Methods reviews

*Pay is laughable for the area: cost of living in Denver is terrible. I shouldn't have to struggle to pay for a one bedroom apartment as skilled labor. Inflation is only making things worse. *Logistics is a mess: we are often waiting on parts and kits due to organizational bottlenecks, and lack of backshop personnel. We're basically building kits on the floor now. *Terrible upper management: the office workers are clueless on what's going on on the floor, they only see in dollars & hours. Communication is nonexistent, our immediate managers are ignored. Deadlines are almost always missed due to cooperate over promising on contacts, and expecting the floor to work perfectly and tirelessly to meet it. *Retention and morale are low: people are leaving for greener pastures as fast as they can. Only the people who have serious roots in the community are staying, like families.

No real HR department. If you happen to have a crappy boss or someone in power at your base doesn't like you, they will make up a reason to make you go away. Also non-union so you don't have rights like you do in a traditional hospital setting. The pay isn't great. The clinical independence and autonomy is fun, but it can also get a little sketchy because you're making these decisions very quickly, on little sleep, and with little to no information. I was shocked to find out that our HR dept is virtually non-existent. No published office hours, no organizational structure, no supervisors, no oversight, and no one answers phone calls or emails. This is sadly not an exaggeration. Published company policies are generic and vague, with varying degrees of enforcement by management. Nothing is ever in writing until a manager needs it to be, and then they'll just summon an HR rep to write it out for them as their needs require to make it legitimate... and use all that to take action against you. Just so I make myself clear, keep in mind that you have no rights here. It's quite insane. Any minimum standards for a company HR dept you've come to expect from being out in the workforce simply don't exist at Air Methods. Wish I had known that going in.