The bonus package for admissions and revenue increases the liaisons annual income plus the respect we get in our field is rewarding.
Every morning (Monday-Friday) we have a conference call with all disciplines in the hospital to review our pending admissions for the day. On Monday mornings after the conference call, the liaison team meets (with our director and CEO) to go over the past weeks' meetings: who we saw plus any business pertinent to LTAC (long term acute care) hospitals in our area including census of competitors along with what we have on our agenda for the upcoming week. We strategize about any new physicians, directors, changes in our STAC (short term acute care) hospital administration departments or any possible clients we might be able to market and start the process to bring them on board. While we answer directly to our Area Marketing Director, we also work very closely with our CEO, CCO, and the Director of Case Management who has an open door policy to the liaison team and are open to suggestions and problem solving. Other than our meetings, we are in our hospitals doing evaluations, meeting with physicians, case managers and nursing directors daily. We also market MD offices, clinics, skilled nursing facilities, assisted livings and promote appropriate Direct Admissions to our hospital.
This job has an ongoing training operation and I have learned to use 'Sales Force' to track my daily patient evaluations, who I met with and where I went each day. This is a good way to assist in time management. I learned to go into all area hospitals to meet the attending physicians and learn th
I really love my coworkers and the atmosphere at the Ontario location. There is team nursing, which means a team of 1 RN 1 LVN 1 CNA, but the fact that you get up to 10 patients per shift, to me, is dangerous. Though Kindred is a long term acute care, it is still acute. Patients still have major uncontrolled issues. This, of course, comes with the job, but my problem lies with the ratios. Yes, we have team nursing and yes there are many more eyes on the patients than there would be with just an RN or RN/CNA combo, BUT 8-10 patients is a TON of responsibility and work to handle, especially when there is a shift of patient census, more acute patients are being admitted, and there are a lot of confused patients on restraints and each team ends up with at least two or three restrained patients on tele, multiple tele patients where sometimes you end up with 6 or 7 tele and 9 patients total. The support of supervisors and managers is there, but to a certain extent. There are also a lot of older nurses and other staff who work there that are set in their ways and do not communicate effectively. The hospital does, however, hire a ton of new graduate RNs, and there seems to be a shift in age difference between the RNs.
There is a Med/Surg unit, 2 Tele units, DOU, and ICU. Management is constantly moving patients around to accomodate for the census, but that throws a wrench in your day if you end up getting more patients thrown on top of your already full workload (which is how som
ProsGreat coworkers and atmosphere, good place to learn.
Conshigh nurse to patient ratio, stressful, food is meh
When i first started i was a little scared but super excited! My Director was amazing and every ounce of what types of bosses we need in this world. She was very helpful, and encouraging and quick to re-educate if needed instead of discipline right away. Needless to say my ADO could really careless about the employees, if you report neglect or abuse-AND YES THERE WAS-you get reprimanded and have a target on your back. My PD was told to step down and they later hired a new PD FROM Hades! She came in and shredded every binder and threw out any type of organization we had. Our office was pretty self functioning and for the most part we all worked very well and helped each other out. Organization was key and we worked our way from their, she demanded things her way, completely tore the office apart and put us all in a heap of a mess before going on a 2 week vacation leaving us scrambling to adjust. She messed up the schedules, didn't add patients to the planners, canceled appointments with out telling therapist and any time i talked to my team and tried to address concerns i was shut down and then she started gossiping. I took it to the ADO -whom she got to first- and wouldn't you know I GOT reprimanded. The job i thrived at and LOVED became Hades overnight. The ADO always took the PD side no matter what and then they started having "Gang up" sessions where it was only us 3 allowed to be involved in the meeting and my character, my work ethic, everything i worked so hard for over
I would not recommend this particular company for employment
We unfortunately often work short of people and of just basic necessary supplies such as clean linens and any worker that is found going to the main linen supply to obtain necessary additional clean linens will be immediately terminated. A few months ago, we were all given evaluation surveys by the state to be completed anonymously and then be placed in a box that the state would pick up. There was no box made available and we had to turn them into our supervisors instead obviously in complete disregard and noncompliance of the anonymity we were assured of. They did make their way to state however and despite the fact that not all had been completed or turned in yet, there were so many complaints about management and things such as listed above that the state immediately came for an impromptu visit and when approached by management they refused and stated they were there only to speak to staff. About a week after the state visit we all received a memo from corporate about how disappointed they were about all of the complaints stating that they had given us things such as free lunch pails and felt they treated us well. They also stated that it is difficult to find another job out there right now as well as making reference to Liberty Hospital recently laying off 152 employees. Frankly, all the employees took this memo, I feel rightly, to be a sort of "keep your mouth shut" sort of communication. There is not a team concept type of employment with your coworkers which is a fir
Patient load a joke and administration targets the hardest workers
Patient loads could be anywhere from six to nine patients for the nurses and seven to ten patients for the CNAs. Administration had numerous turnovers in the time that I was there. If you go to work to take care of your patients and not to socialize and gossip, you are cast out and the cliques will spend numerous hours complaining to the nurse manager, CCO and CEO about you. You are expected to read the CNAs minds and drop everything when they want help. The CNAs can scream and yell at the nurses, but when the nurses try to teach the CNAs something the nurse is reported to the above administrative staff by the CNAs and reprimanded. Administration plays favorites to the point where people were coming into work high and nothing was done. The good workers either left or were fired. Cameras were placed on our building for "security", but in reality it was to identify smokers. The backstabbing and constant fight to try to get the best care for the patients caused so much stress that there were times when various nurses would break down in tears. The work load was unreal. In the special care unit one nurse was expected to take care of four to five acutely ill patients on various vasopressor drips by herself and if she was lucky, she had a CNA to assist/hinder her. Orientation was a joke. My preceptor was so vague I had to basically teach myself the computer charting and find my way around. Sexually conversations were a norm, from the CCO on down to the CNAs. CNAs were
ProsThere are different things to learn, wound care, vents
ConsThe work load, the backstabbing, the favoritism, the poor management
I have to say the case management team here is one of the most knowledgeable, most masterful, and most strongly-knit teams I've ever seen. Every individual person is super important and amazing at what they do. They all have great characters and are true experts in what they do. They as a whole have a great sense of unity and family and everyone has treated me with the utmost respect and kindness. The director is a completely nurturing wealth of knowledge and she truly is passionate about what she does. I already know by observing how she works that a good chunk of why the hospital operates well is because of her. Everyone (and everything I say includes the Social Workers as well) is a real credit to the hospital in every form of the word. How they each exhibit their sense of integrity in their characters as well as display their expertise effortlessly only inspires me to learn quicker and get better at my own job. Sometimes I can't help but be in awe of this great unit of medical field mastery.
As far as outside the department, everything is amazing. The floor nurses are wonderful to work with. I honestly have NOT met a single person with an attitude yet and I've had the privilege of dealing with a good amount of them in the short time I've been there so far. All the doctors I've had the chance to deal with were very nice and helpful as well. The rehab department has super nice people who are team players as well. There's an in-facility human resources director who really
My experience at Kindred Healthcare consists of numerous levels of challenges. I expect the challenges involved in providing cost effective and positive outcome wound care, but the hurdles that I have found during my employment are taking me away from my objectives that I have established when I provide, recommend wound care for my patients. I have developed a strong work ethic over the years and a commitment to my patients. I maintain my wound management skills and knowledge base without the assistance of my employer because I feel it my responsiblity in order to provide superior wound care. Currently I feel I can no longer meet my commitment to my patients despite numerous attempts to make effective changes. So I am looking for a change. I need to feel effective in what I do for my patients'; but I also feel a need to teach staff, patients and familes in various areas of wound managment, (i.e., prevention strategies,wound products, cultural and skin tone idiosyncrasies that can effect wound healing).Wound management is my passion. However, I cn not do all I'm responsible for as a team of one. I am currently responsible for the wound management program for my facility that consists of weekly skin assessment of all patients, including weekly measurements for all patients with wounds, as well as the photography of all wounds monthly on admission and at discharge.
Currently I provide direct wound care at least weekly for all patients with wounds; All negative pressure wound
ProsPatient wound challenges, because our patients are so compromised.
I'm writing this review to warn all licensed professionals who are looking for a healthy working environment and a strong organizational work culture. I've been with kindred hospital Indianapolis for 2 years. My expectations weren't high going into the facility based on the reputation Kindred has in the healthcare community. But I needed a job, and they offered a very good compensation. However, once I began my journey as a staff RN, I noticed the lack of training and nursing education Kindred offered. As I progressed, I witnessed scheduling conflicts, management gossip, favoritism among employees by management, and a punitive management style. Lack of effective leadership was also very evident to me and it eventually led to decreased employee morale. Management seemed non-engaged and unconcerned about their employees and work-related issues (i.e. lack of functioning equipment such as b/p and IV pumps). Family complaints were the norm, and hazardous patient safety concerns were prevalent due to the decreased knowledge bases from many of the nurses working there. As a supervisor, I was held accountable for the actions of nursing personnel, and as a result, was used as a scapegoat for many reasons. Kindred afforded me the opportunity to advance my education, but shortly thereafter, I was terminated due to the actions of others without receiving due process. In addition to the termination, they threatened to mark my license with negligence performance. I've since consulted a law
Prosabove salary pay rates
Conslow census, cut hours, toxic work environment
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Physical Therapist Assistant | Chicago, IL | May 6, 2013
Unprofessional and failed to deliver on promises
I accepted a PTA job with this company following graduation and the passing of my boards. I was promised mentorship and easing into a full caseload....I thought this was great and I would really have the opportunity to gain some level of comfort before being required to meet 90% productivity....however, this couldn't have been further from the truth! I came in my first day---no orientation to the facility, only a quick introduction to the staff that happened to be in the department at the time---which coincidentally enough did not even include the manager, she was not in until later in the day. I was then handed my schedule of 80% productivity expectations (and by day 3 was at 92% productivity----way to ease me in, huh?!?!) and left to fend for myself....I will say some of the staff were great and really helped to update me on some of my patients. I actually had progress notes due on patients my first day and had no clue where to even find documents or specifications as to what was expected per departmental procedure. Oh and my pre-employment drug test that was administered by the manager was done at the end of my first day AFTER I had treated my entire caseload---this showed me how much quality patient care mattered to them, their only interest seemed to be the bottom dollar and having bodies in there with licenses to maintain a certain level of cash-flow. Needless to say, this was not how I anticipated my first day going and was stressed out beyond belief. I went ho
ProsPatient care, some supportive staff members
ConsManagement, unrealistic productivity, lack of departmental orientation, organization and professionalism lacking
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Respiratory Care Practitioner | California | Mar 25, 2015
Dangerous place to work for everyone involved
A typical day~At the beginning of a shift we are assigned on average 16 hours of patient care to do in a 10.5 hour shift. (12 hrs-breaks and report=10.5) During the day on average we pick up 2-4 hours MORE work with codes, blood tests, ekgs, new patients etc.
There is no way any human being can do this 20 hours of work in 10.5 hours. So we don't. Some people probably lie on the charting saying they did do the assigned work, others tell the truth hoping the patient will not suffer and they will not get in trouble or lose their license.
No one that works at Kindred is lazy and each person begins each day like a marathon race just hoping they can finish in one piece and actually see their assigned patients if only for a minute. Money is all Kindred cares about and the patient is simply a means to that end.
Every day each dept is severally understaffed . Life saving equipment just abruptly stops working or is just too old and inefficient. Spirits are low, but the job market so bad we all stay and play the game. If you try to be a patient advocate and inform your supervisor about the gigantic workloads you are deemed the problem.
The computer system is time consuming and poorly designed, redundant, and a tremendous amount of time is spent charting whereas that time could be spent on patient care. The doctors over order costly, painful and time consuming tests and overworked nurses call us constantly for no reason except to ease their own conscious.
Most of the
ProsIt a job, sort of
ConsUnderstaffed, Computer system, license risk
Questions And Answers about Kindred Healthcare
What is the interview process like at Kindred Healthcare?
Asked Feb 25, 2016
Acceptable, normal, and to be expected.
Answered Jan 9, 2021
Some of the VERY best places I EVER worked (jobs ended for reasons out of my control) were where I was called and offered the job (salary talk was already told and accepted). It is the energy flow, you will get to understand your gut and just go with the flow. I did and never regretted it.
Answered Feb 12, 2020
How are the working hours at Kindred Healthcare?
Asked Feb 25, 2016
Flexible . 7-3 shift,3-11 and 11 -7 with great benefits... lots of training and in service great vacation pay holiday to work you get time n half .etc.
Answered Jan 24, 2020
They will work you all they can and pay checks are so complicated to figure out you will wonder if you even worked extra or not. Managers seem to “lose” paperwork you had to turn in to get your OT worked with any incentive pay.
Answered Oct 12, 2019
What is the work environment and culture like at Kindred Healthcare?
Asked Jun 13, 2016
Horrible place too work I feel sorry for the patients I had to quit couldn't take it anymore... Sad
Answered Dec 17, 2019
There is fighting going on the floor between nurses, very hostile environment from everyone I have encountered this behavior is allowed I presume as everyone is so nasty from respiratory to nurses sad environment to work in not healthy at all
Answered May 7, 2019
How often do raises occur at Kindred Healthcare?
Asked Jun 28, 2017
Have worked there 5 years with only 2 very minimal raises..... if you want to call them that even.
Answered Oct 12, 2019
4 years and not one raise.
Answered May 4, 2019
What tips or advice would you give to someone interviewing at Kindred Healthcare?
