They provide many hours of certified education annually, not only for their own people, but also for police and firefighters. Their highly trained physician assistants accompany critical patients between medical facilities. The PAs also respond to nursing homes when patients fall out of bed or encounter urgent medical problems that could be remedied without the need for ambulance transport to a hospital. A physician assistant can diagnose, prescribe medicines, and conduct numerous medical procedures that are above the level of a paramedic or nurse for example, suturing or reading x-rays. That saves patients and taxpayers a lot of money, and it keeps patients in their own beds.
Pridemark employees have a lot of power.
They choose their own colleagues, by means of skills testing and two interview stages. They select their own equipment. They help to decide when and how the company grows. Armed with confidential information about the company's financial status, they take whatever supplies they need, anytime. And any one of them has the personal authority to write off a patient's bill, if it seems like the right thing to do .