Pros
Not required to work on-call every other weekend.
Cons
To meet production, you are required to make 25 home visits a week. If you have 25 scheduled visits and several are cancelled by patient or cannot reach pt then you are put on an "Action Plan". This is similar to a probationary time. BUT, if you see 30-40 patients in a week, you don't get any recognition UNLESS it is negative because you didn't get your visits transmitted by early the next morning. You are worked like a dog and you can forget about home life or a social life because there is NO WAY you can get everything done for your patient in the one hour time allotment, plus the POC completed. You end up giving this company many hours a week of your own time. 7 visits a day is a busy day, then you are called to do PRN visits, make all your own phone calls to MD's, write your own orders, follow up on labs, and so on. A regular workday is 8 hours. If you have 7 visits or more, they don't take into consideration the time it takes to get from point a to ppoint b to point c...and heaven forbid if you have to race a lab to the hospital inbetween. What exactly the Case Managers job is, it's beyond me...I have no clue anymore. Most of the time they are doing work that the DOO is behind in. I have worked in the Home Health care industry for over 25 years and this is the first time I have ever worked for a company that doesn't care about their employees. All they care about is how many Medicare patients they can admit and keep recerting over and over.....EVEN if the patient is well and out driving every day !!
