Austrian Green Cross
The Austrian Green Cross is a non-profit association based in Vienna. It primarily provides ambulance transports , but also rescue and intensive care transports, ambulance services as well as transfer and return transports. He also has a rescue dog team and collects old clothes. In addition, the association participates in the training of state-approved paramedics and emergency paramedics and offers various courses in first aid in its own training center.
The association is not affiliated with the "Green Cross Styria Association".
history
The association was founded in 1993 by Walter Tögel and his deputy Manfred Rotter. The first exit was from the Gramatneusiedl office at the time . In 1994 a second office was set up in Mannswörth near Schwechat . In 1997 a head office was set up in Vienna-Simmering, Dreherstrasse 39. In 2005, new offices were established in Leopoldsdorf , Aspang and St. Pölten . In 2006 more were established in Graz , Rannersdorf near Schwechat. Since July 2009 there has been another office in Wiener Neustadt .
The association is one of the officially recognized rescue organizations in Lower Austria and has been part of the Vienna Rescue Association since November 2008. He works with the major Viennese rescue organizations ( 4 for Vienna ). In 2010, the Green Cross completed 11,052 missions on behalf of the general emergency call organization (emergency number 144) in Vienna, around 4.5 percent of the total number of missions.
The organization received ISO 9002 certification for quality management in September 2000. In September 2003 the ISO 9002 certification was reorganized to ISO 9001: 2000 and in October 2009 to ISO 9001: 2008.
In 2010, a total of 172,000 transports were carried out in three federal states.
In July 2015 it was announced that the Vienna Red Cross would like to take over the Green Cross, and a preliminary agreement for the takeover was signed. The two organizations plan to work together on administration from September 1, 2015, subject to regulatory approvals. In November, the Federal Competition Authority (BWB) approved the merger of the Vienna Green Cross with the Red Cross. The locations of the Green Cross in Lower Austria and Styria are excluded from the merger; these will continue to operate under the company name "GRK-Gemeinnützige Rettungs- und Krankentransporte GmbH". The office in Graz was closed on January 1st, 2019.
organization
The association employs 180 full-time employees, 250 voluntary employees and, as a civil service facility, is responsible for 100 civil servants annually. There is also a pool of 35 emergency doctors for intensive care transports.
The Green Cross has a total of 140 emergency vehicles, of which around 115 are constantly on duty. These are mainly patient transport vehicles (KTW) and emergency ambulances (NKTW), but also ambulances (RTW) and intensive care vehicles (ITW). In 2010, a neonatal transport network was set up in Vienna with a special vehicle ( Baby-NAW ).
In addition, the organization has trucks, command vehicles, trailers, special vehicles for transporting dogs and excavators for the disaster relief service.
There are offices in Vienna , Rannersdorf , Aspang , Wiener Neustadt and Leopoldsdorf .
The organization is responsible for the rescue service in the communities of Leopoldsdorf, Maria Lanzendorf and Mönichkirchen. The emergency number 144 is diverted to the control center of the Green Cross, the Simmering Operations Center.
Rescue dog squadron
In December 2009, a separate rescue dog team was established with a training location in Tobaj / Güssing in Burgenland. Since June 2011 there has also been a relay in Styria with a training location in Graz , and since July 2012 a further relay in Lower Austria with a training location in Wiener Neustadt .
Since September 2011, the Austrian Green Cross with its rescue dog squadron has been an extraordinary body of the Austrian Cynological Association (ÖKV) .
financing
As an organization, the Green Cross finances its operations through the income from paid services in the medical sector and through the rescue service contribution ("rescue euro") from the communities. It was criticized that the organization did not pay its employees under a collective agreement and that it had illegally obliged them to work 24 hours a day, which was only ended when an employee caused an accident in February 2010 with three injured people. The Austria-wide collective agreements that have been in effect since January 1, 2011 , as they apply to all emergency services throughout Austria, also apply to the remuneration at the Green Cross.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approvals for RS, NCCR and BM ( Memento from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Emergency services and their basics in Lower Austria.
- ↑ Authorization for emergency medical services Vienna ( Memento from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Emergency services in the city of Vienna
- ^ Statistics from MA70 - Vienna Rescue ( Memento from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) ( MS Excel ; 79 kB)
- ↑ ISO 9001: 2008 certificate ( Memento from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ orf.at - Red Cross wants to take over Green Cross . Article dated July 20, 2015, accessed July 23, 2015.
- ↑ orf.at - Red Cross and Green Cross merge . Article dated November 17, 2015, accessed November 17, 2015.
- ↑ grk-transporte.at. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: minutes of the Leopoldsdorf municipal council
- ↑ Approval from the Lower Austrian state government for the rescue service in Maria Lanzendorf ( Memento from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Approval from the Lower Austrian state government for the rescue service in Mönichkirchen ( Memento from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Minutes of the Vienna City Council, 30th meeting of January 24, 2008, pages 51 ff.
