StrangeTony,
Kindred President Ben Breier shared important information for Kindred staff during today's second quarter earnings call. Seeking Alpha's call transcript had the following information from Breier.
Let me start as I usually do by extending my deep appreciation on behalf of the entire leadership team to our now more than 100,000 teammates across the country. Each day our partners of Kindred work hard to improve the lives of the more than one million patients we care for annually. The excellent care delivery and clinical outcomes we generate are the direct result of their efforts.
Kindred at Home employees should be aware of our impact on the wider company. President Breier praised us in the call.
Kindred at Home which comprises our home, health, hospice community care and home base primary care businesses now drives more than one third of our revenue and half of our consolidated earnings.
Those who came from Gentiva should know our lower health insurance and retirement benefits helped Kindred's bottom line, which we already disproportionately enhance.
We’ve done a great job in terms of continuing to as I talked earlier drive synergies of Gentiva. I think we’re getting close to the end on that we’re almost up to the $85 million level there.
In summary, Kindred at Home employees have done great work, most of us have taken it on the chin benefit wise and the company has benefited greatly financially. Surely a reward is coming to the lion's share of Kindred's 100,000 employees? Nope.
... we’re sort of at kind of a run rate on where we think labor is. I am not sure we’re going to see acceleration, it’s pretty tough and summer seems to be always the toughest part of the year, labor wise for us, also people go on vacations, people start to retire, people think about different things. So I don’t think we contemplated much of a change from our run rates into our ‘17 guidance.
Employees can sleep fitfully knowing Kindred executives see little they need to do labor wise. Former Gentiva employees may enter 2017 with no retirement match. It's not clear how much worse employer provided health insurance will become but the drop in coverage from Gentiva to Kindred was severe for many of us.
We’re still working on health benefits. And just there’s a lot of moving parts I think still. But generally those are the pieces that as we think about getting back to at least $1 billion (of EBITDAR) next year that’s how we feel pretty good about getting to that point.
If executives feel good that usually translates to lots of employees feeling bad. StrangeTony, you retired at the right time.
Mizuho Securities Sheryl Skolnick recently took Kindred to task for taking liberties with accounting adjustments. President Ben responded to her question on what's driving wide variability in quarterly earnings.
... complex site of the house if you will.
Unfortunately Breier was talking about the company's LTAC business not CFO Stephen Farber's shared driveway. Might his former house sale be part of the guidance for third quarter being lower? It depends on how things roll up.
Anonymous (from Kindred's basement)
What are the chances of some Gentiva layoffs and consolidating that work to previously established Kindred locations, especially at the new campus they are building in KY which they said in an interview with a local paper that many of the jobs opening up there will be for billing/collections from the Gentiva take over?
ReplyDeleteMore integration for the company to do badly, like HR (as cited by one executive).
ReplyDeleteKAH does not have a clue how to bill or collect in KY. They had a great CBO in Texas that they got rid of. The billing and collections were sent to KS and GA. The current Kindred staff and patients have hated this consolidation per the feedback I receive at the KY corp office. Many patients have complained about lack of return calls and no knowledge of accounts. Bad customer service.
ReplyDeleteBeware!! I recently learned from my manager in Maryland that my lifeline, my Clinical Operations Director was "eliminated" along with many others across the region. WHAT..? This nurse worked above and beyond, traveled to Maryland each week, sacrificed her family time and was always so willing to answer any question. She personally called me to check on my progress and helped me stay engaged in this never ending job. She has worked for this company for 15 years or so and is a wealth of knowledge and passion/purpose. So much for loyalty to your employees Dave Causby!! You speak of Quality and do this!! it's really all about the $$$$$.. I will be resigning from this circus the moment I can find a job with Bayada or Amedisys.
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