VITAS Healthcare reviews

3.4

64% would recommend to a friend

(1,600 total reviews)

Joel L. Wherley

77% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

VITAS Healthcare has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,600 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The VITAS Healthcare employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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1.0
Oct 27, 2012
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Pros

Generous PTO for old timers. There should be lots of opportunities here because the people who know better are going to leave. I love the people I work with. It is an honor to work with people in their time of need.

Cons

New benefits plan, takes away $46.15 bi-weekly credit, essentially giving each employee a $1200 annual pay cut. Raises were frozen for two years, now max is 2%. LTC insurance no longer offered. 401K match reduced from 50% to 25%. New single health insurance option is HIGH deductible. Employees must pay $1250 out of pocket, before any benefit available. Many VITAS employees make $10 -$14/hr. Sr Management should be ashamed. Look up CHE, chemed stock to see the top people cashing out hundreds of thousands in stocks. "We take care of each other" is a VITAS value, which has been forgotten, and replaced with a push for employees to contribute what they have left to help other employees in need. The culture of subordinates pressured to give gifts to supervisors should be banned.

5.0
Sep 24, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

VITAS Innovative Hospice Care is a corporation which started very modestly in Florida and has expanded across America. Sometimes there are some growing pains and stress with growth, but overall it works. I have worked for other hospices, and this one gets it right! Patients and their families do come first!

Cons

As with any employment, it's the team you work with that determines how much you enjoy or do not enjoy your time at work. Thankfully at VITAS Hospice in LaSalle, our team cares about each other!

3.0
Sep 14, 2012

profit centered not patient centered

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Pros

one of the largest hospice agencies in the u.s opportunity to work with great colleagues in the field and learned alot from other discipline working with terminal patients and their families was very rewarding feeling

Cons

lazy, incompetant, poor and disorganized management, no gratitude for field staff, no raises, left hand doesnt know what the right hand is doing, low morale,very high turnover, questionable termination practices as only offer at will employment but also you must sign a no compete clause preventing you from working for another hospice company in the area. on call coverage in which you are required to work for entire week and weekend after hours in which you go to some of the most dangerous areas of city at 3 am without any concern for your own personal safety. total focus is on making a profit and getting new patients. patient can be on death door but company wants you to have pt or family revoke hospice at hospital to prevent paying hospital bill.

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