RedheadedReptile
Joined: 09 Mar 2003
Posts: 69
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 8:06 am Post subject: FMC Headquarters office building
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Holy crap, would you LOOK at that thing?! How much money did they blow on that building?<
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>I went to the Fresenius Medical Care site out of curiousity, because our unit is getting new machines... that headquarters building is a monster!<
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>And yet the units are being told that they need to cut down on staff and maintenance people-- and the towel dispensers are stocked with such cheap-assed paper towels that they tear when you pull them out. Guess they're still paying for that building.
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RedheadedReptile
Joined: 09 Mar 2003
Posts: 69
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 8:10 am Post subject: How to get to the photo
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You go to the Fresenius Medical Care website, click "News and Press", then in the Photo Gallery section click "Fresenius Headquarters."
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patient
Joined: 29 Oct 2002
Posts: 137
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 8:37 am Post subject: FMC headquarter
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Red- That may be the headuarters in Germany anything with AG after the name is usually referred to as a corporation in Germany. Much like INC in Acme Inc. It is rather fancy no matter where it is located! I would guess they own the thing lock, stock and barrel. North America headquarters is in Lexington MA. I expect it to be quite large also but never seen photo.
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Lin
Joined: 28 Oct 2002
Posts: 337
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 1:24 am Post subject: FMC too!
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Have never seen their headquarters. I do know however about the "cutbacks". The DON has a cow if too many sure seals are used. My hemoglobin is down to ten but they upped the epo. My neph. was kind of annoyed saying that my hgb. should be at 12 or above, and commented that it should be higher because they get reimbursed for it.<
>The new machines are in the unit I go to. They have olc/traffic lights. No better than old machines, just help staff figure out the kt/v. In fact, I don't like them as much because when they run the olc check the tmp and conductivity fluctuates (because of the sodium). Lin.
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paient
Joined: 04 Aug 2003
Posts: 1
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 5:15 am Post subject: olc
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Can you explain that last sentence? What is the whole point of this system? I went to a unit where they had it. The doctor told me they can catch problems faster as the light will come on when machine problems occur and the tech techs must fix the problems immediately or the light will stay on.
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RedheadedReptile
Joined: 09 Mar 2003
Posts: 69
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:39 am Post subject: Alarm lights on poles
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You mean the nurses are gonna have to LOOK through the unit instead of huddling behind the nurses' desk, yapping? <
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>Personally, I wish the new machines would have a built-in patient call switch-- trying to get the nurse's attention when you're dizzy is almost impossible if she's talking to someone else at the time.<
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>Actually, the timing of our unit receiving these new machines is interesting... a new ARA unit is opening up in the next town, and our Medical Director is freaking out that he'll lose patients.
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Can you hear me now
Joined: 04 Aug 2003
Posts: 1
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 3:04 pm Post subject: getting the nurses' and tech's attn.
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I too am amazed the way that some clinics allow their staff to hide behind the station only to appear like a cuckoo clock when an alarm goes off. Now you see them, now you don't.
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the lonnie
Joined: 04 Aug 2003
Posts: 2
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 5:11 pm Post subject: call lights
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hi everybody remember me? how's everyone been doing?<
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>we have patient call lights in my current unit. they are greeeat! if you push the button the tech or nurse will come to check on you pretty fast. not like at my old unit..whew i saw a patient's blood spill out on the floor from the bottom of his dialyzer and no techs were even on the floor!..boy was that ever a close call! and so many times old patients would crash and i didn't know if they were dead or alive and again no techs on the floor. that place used to make me a nervous wreck that's for sure i never have figured out why people want to be techs if they don't want to take care of sick people. oh well..there's a lot of things i haven't figured out yet.<
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>love and kisses,<
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>the lonnie
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Lin
Joined: 28 Oct 2002
Posts: 337
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 11:44 pm Post subject: OLC
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sounds like a good thing, in theory. It's no different than before we had it really because the machines alarmed if something was wrong anyway. So now they alarm, and have traffic lights on top. Staff is supposed to correct problems anyway, and no light will guarantee they do that. A few of the staff are really friendly to me and will sometimes come over and talk. One of the nurses will invariably tell them to move on. However, they can all stand behind the nurses station and shoot the
eeze together. No way would I ever consider taking a snooze like some pts. do; while they're at one end of the nurses station anything could happen! Lin.
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Hemo RN
Joined: 24 Feb 2003
Posts: 17
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 2:19 pm Post subject: FMC Headquarters
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I have been to the FMC office in Mass. Was big but not fancy. I was glad. I would have been irritated if it had been plush. Actually, our unit is nicer.
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DJ
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Posts: 19
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 10:21 pm Post subject: FMC
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Too many chiefs, not enuff indians....
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Jake
Joined: 09 Aug 2003
Posts: 1
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 2:33 am Post subject: FMc
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Yeah, some of the cheifs care about what happens to the patients and some you can look into their eyes and see dollar signs.
