Genesis HealthCare Employee Reviews for Speech Therapist

"RUN, don't walk to the nearest exit!"

What do you like about working at Genesis HealthCare?

"Good co-workers, a little cliquey at times but most are all about the patients, which is good."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't bother. Recent grads may make decent money but will be crushed by the unethical requirements of maintaining a job with unrealistic productivity standards."

What don't you like about working at Genesis HealthCare?

"If you are in a Genesis owned building it's usually a good facility. Contracted facilities are horrible places to work, plus you never know if you will lose your job if GRS loses the contract. Still working for them after 2 years as PRN and then full time evaluating therapist, looking to get out. They constantly push therapists to commit medicare fraud. They deny it, but essentially that's what they do. Like this new initiative to do more IDT screens of long term care patients - case in point - most of them have been on caseload and have established RNPS/FMPs, but we are now expected to re-screen them all and if they haven't been on caseload in a few months, put them back on. GRS is all about making money, and one of the other things they do is make employees as miserable as possible, to get them to leave so they don't have to lay off. Then when someone leaves they don't get replaced or full timers get replaced with part timers. Plus if you want to actually use your accrued time off, good luck to you! They now have a system in place that is so heinous there is no way anyone can plan a family vacay. You want to go visit family at Christmas OK, then you have to work Thanksgiving (which you don't get paid extra for), you have to submit your time off request in September, AND the higher ups won't tell you if you're approved until November! LMAO! I already booked non-refundable flights, so if they say no I will be handing in my notice. For 2014 they want everyone to submit requests 4-5 months in advance, and again, will not approve until a few weeks beforehand. And if you're pregnant Good luck keeping your job! They skirt the legalities but plan to not get your job back if you go on disability or take full FMLA. And what everyone above says is true - they make you treat unstable patients up until the point they code in the gym. GRS has a bad enough rep that a couple of the doctors in my facility won't let us screen or treat their patients at all. I'm so burned out at this point that I'm looking to change careers completely."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get over yourselves. Stop denying your capitalistic/oligarchic tendencies and own the fact that you're all about the $$$$$$$$."