Pros
Fellow clinicians are dedicated and loyal
Cons
LOTS of off the clock time required. Your are held to a strict productivity standards higher than most home health companies. The company absolutely lies about how they take care of their employees. They just don't and they don't care. It's profit driven. They don't pay what the government reimburses for mileage. PTO is used a lot for making up your hours which you don't always have control over. You don't have a say about your schedule and it gets changed constantly without your knowledge or permission. No continuity of care. They keep patients on the schedule that should be discharged. They take high acuity patients that are not appropriate for home health. High turnover! They use lots of agency staffing that will get your patients in times of low census to keep them busy even though you are short. Lots of meetings! No educational reimbursement for continuing ed hours to maintain your license. However they have an exhausting list of classes you must take or be written up and taken off the schedule until you complete. Hours and hours worth. They also make it very time consuming and difficult to get reimbursed for taking these classes on your own time. Hard to take vacation time. I got covid 2 x and they didn't pay me while quarantined. I had to use PTO. They also made it VERY difficult to return to work because of their policy that requires a physician to write a return to work letter. They purport that they pay employees that get covid but they didn't. They keep very difficult non compliant patients on the schedule. Don't believe the hype. You will work approximately 10+ hours/week for free. Yes, you can get a company vehicle that will cost approx $200.00/month. That said, you are their slave if you do. For sure not your 1st year and only if you are exceeding the productivity hours expected of you. for me it was 36 visits per/week. You will be expected to work weekends if you don't get your patients done. Missed visits are expected to be made up. No pay if you go to a patients house and they are not home even though they confirmed the visit the night before. The EMR platform is HCHB. Easy to use but very time consuming.
