Sheppard Pratt reviews

Revolving door of Senior Level Executives. New VPs in almost every position in the last 3 three years. This causes new initiatives and better programming to be stalled. Profit over patient care. In the last several years there has been focus in increasing revenue and profit. This has led to a significant correlation to a decline in patient care. Direct care staff are hired with no experience and training is abysmal. Necessary for patients but financially underperforming programs have been slashed. Chronic Understaffing at the direct care level but top heavy with "Directors" and "Chiefs" CEO leads by culture of fear where new or different ideas are not recognized or considered.

No room for growth, I worked there for 4 years, received my masters degree and my counseling license yet they would not hire me in any of the numerous positions I applied for. Patients can be aggressive and dangerous. You can get hurt. Chronically understaffed. They constantly hire new people but the retention rate is horrible, people quit before they even complete their orientation. The quality of staff they hire is low, because they do not require a Bachelors degree or a CNA like other facilities. Only a high school diploma and no experience because they are cheap and don't want to have to pay people any money. So there are so many low quality, unprofessional staff that walk through those doors. They only care about having a body there. The upper management are always trying to do mental gymnastics trying to figure out how to fix the understaffing problem, when the only answer is to simply pay people more money. When we are understaffed, the units are even more unsafe than they have to be. I have seen so many people get hurt badly in situations that would be able to be controlled pretty easily if we had enough staff. The CEO has blood on his hands