Strange Tony,
Ben Breier, the man who trashed his company's vision for integrated post-acute healthcare while making two king's ransoms, said of his new book Intentional Disruption:
"This is not a technical business book; it's an emotional leadership survival guide," Breier explained. "It encourages readers to be connected to a mission rather than just a salary. This book will hopefully help incumbent leaders, but was written with an eye towards inspiring emerging leaders of tomorrow."Ben Breier is a jerk who sold our once great hospice down a river. While he counted his winnings Humana and financial rapscallions destroyed our hospice, harming employees and patient care.
Intentional Disruption is what Breier did to enrich himself multiple times. He did not give employees an equity stake in the company. Breier held that for fellow executives and his financial rapscallion partners.
Breier disrupted employee trust when he abandoned us in summer 2018 for his first king's ransom. Executives told us there would be no changes. Yet, our new owners decimated staffing, cut the number of holidays and holiday pay (50%), drove away experienced hospice workers, and acted like everything was great when customer service scores plummeted and stayed poor.
Our leaders did not communicate with us, likely for their emotional survival. They acted like there was no damage from the ongoing series of betrayals and reductions. A management basic is paying people fairly for hours worked and miles driven. Leaders failed abysmally in that regard.
Disruption should not mean stealing wages and mileage reimbursement from the people you supposedly lead. Ben Breier will atone for his actions when he faces his maker. I expect no insights into the distorted reality he created while enriching himself at the expense of the worker. Rupture is a word I associate with Kindred Healthcare and Ben Breier. That he did it all intentionally shows what a sorry person he is.
Anonymous
When Ben Breier took over as CEO for Paul Diaz Kindred's stock closed at $21.53. Breier's leadership resulted in a $12.53 haircut for Gentiva employees when Humana, WCAS and TPG bought KAH. That's a 58% decline in share price for loyal employees.
ReplyDeletePay for deformance resulted in more than one multi-million dollar payday for Breier.
Breier ensured he took home the bacon in all that disruption.
https://generichospice.blogspot.com/2018/05/loyal-employee-stockholders-shafted.html
Kindred at Home Occupational Therapist from Seattle said
ReplyDelete"We use to have some gatherings but they were all stopped in 2020. Morale has fallen and there is no feeling of a team."
Many, many, many Vice Presidents and very top heavy company. While they send us corporate emails we have no time to read them. At least 60% of the work is unpaid for workers in the field. I have had two performance reviews in six years. It is all done now electronically.
Pros
They pay on time. With six years with the company I now receive a month of leave time.
Cons
Underpaid for visits only, No advancement for an OT, They removed our salaries but we are dependent upon how many referrals our account executives obtain, 60% of work is unpaid
Another KAH executive made the news. Brandon Ballew was COO for our first year under Humana ownership. That means he was part of the group that laid off many of our talented, dedicated hospice staff, cut the number of holidays and holiday pay and gave us s Rube Goldberg hospice software program that robbed staff of miles driven and hours worked.
ReplyDeleteSo I call nonsense on his "dedication to the personal care aspect." There was nothing personal left after Causby, Ballew and company eviscerated our once great hospice.
https://homehealthcarenews.com/2022/02/two-former-kindred-execs-plan-to-leverage-home-health-experience-in-home-care-world/