Strange Tony,
Financial rapscallion TPG received money from the federal government to protect jobs. TPG owns 30% of Kindred at Home, as does Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. Yet our 60% majority owners continued cutting positions at our hospice, a depressing process that began shortly after Humana, TPG and WCAS bought us in July 2018. News reports revealed:
TPG co-Chief Executive Officer Jon Winkelried acknowledged the controversy around the use of taxpayer funds to prop up private-equity investments. TPG decided it didn’t qualify for the Small Business Administration’s forgivable loans under the Paycheck Protection Program and returned that money, he said. It did take advantage of Health and Human Services Department programs that provide advances on expected revenue from the government.
“We had a number of health-care companies that are providing vital essential services to the constituents that they serve and were impacted by the situation with Covid,” Winkelried said. “It allows them to stay in business and continue providing the services that are critical and important services.”
That is not the case at our hospice. Financial rapscallions reduced and eliminated critical important services in a series of profit maximizing moves. TPG applied for federal funds to protect jobs while our hospice cut the same.
Another view into our 60% owners hearts came from "Home Healthcare News":
Kindred Healthcare LLC has cut wages for many of its employees by 10%, and CEO Benjamin Breier is taking a 15% pay cut, a Louisville, Kentucky news station reported. Kindred Healthcare is owned by two private equity firms, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and TPG Capital. It doesn’t appear that there have been any pay cuts at Kindred at Home, which is separate.
Pay cuts and job eliminations in a time of crisis when healthcare workers risk their lives by going to work---Heartless. This is so financial rapscallions and Kindred at Home executives can have a giant payday to add to their overflowing bounty of wealth.
What would Dame Cicely Saunders think if she were here to witness what happened to her hospice movement? I imaging she would strongly suggest this is the wrong transformation.
Management tormenting hospice professionals for their financial gain is an ugly picture and unworthy of hospice's roots. It is a symptom of our society, where the haves are unsatisfied with their vast wealth, always needing more. I don't recall Jesus proclaiming that in his Sermon on the Mount.
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No support from management at the AVP level. Managers hire and promote friends based on relationships rather than qualifications. Managers will ask staff to do things they are uncomfortable with. Work/life balance is awful. PTO is paid at 50% if you don’t use it. PTO does not roll over. No sick time is offered. 401K match is a joke. Unfair staffing metrics. Families are constantly complaining about not having enough supplies to care for their loved ones. The diapers provided are paper thin and leak. You’re not supposed to offer chux if the patient wears diapers. Cutting costs is the name of the game with this company. Patient care is not what’s most important. This company DOES NOT value its employees.
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Get from behind your computers. Go to one of your metro area offices and see if you could do what is being asked of that staff. Don’t say how it was when you were in the field. Get in touch with what your employees are doing.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-CURO-Health-Services-RVW33762892.htm
"There was no work-life balance, only work. Productivity and documentation overrule your entire life. They laid off several workers as soon as COVID19 hit."
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Kindred is no longer the same company that bears the Kindred name. Poor communication from management no support, no supplies. No work life balance. Request for time off is routinely denied
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no support. No supplies . You are on your own with absolutely no work life balance.
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Kindred-Hospice/reviews/zero-work-life-balance-and-no-support-from-management-difficulty-getting-supplies-for-patients-and-you-have-to-give-one-excuse-and-reason-over-and-ov?id=68899b7ae3953baf
Low pay after 12 years, only 2 pay raises .25 cents an hour
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worked at Kindred at Home full-time for more than 10 years
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Home Health is a very rewarding career. Kindred gets it wrong.
Cons
Office staff. Only care about numbers. Don’t care why numbers are not to par.
Advice to Management
When employees suggest ways to fix issues, take them into consideration. Senior management with 33 years experience who can only regurgitate policy. If numbers are not to par they don’t ask why they blame the clinician and not their management skills.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Kindred-at-Home-RVW33879025.htm
New management is poor. Big turn over in nursing staff.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.indeed.com/cmp/Kindred-Hospice/reviews/big-turnover-in-management-positions-really-enjoyed-working-with-the-clients-and-having-time-to-get-to-know-them?id=0c7ae17fd2130eed
"This was the worst job I ever had. It was life consuming and the pay did not begin to match the hours I put in. The local management was great, but the regional management and corporate management provided little support and had unrealistic expectations.
ReplyDeleteIf you are salary then you would do better working at McDonalds for all the hours you put in."
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Kindred-At-Home/reviews/life-consuming?id=8b3aed00c0af8f85
No sense of lyoalty
ReplyDeleteWorked for Kindred @ Home 15 years. Was allowed to work remotely for a year and then told the abruptly told I would be changing jobs. Terrible upper management!
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Kindred-At-Home/reviews/no-sense-of-loyalty?id=1d9894384ff4e94a
Poor supervisors and administration
ReplyDeleteWorst nursing position I ever had. People in charge NEVER work in the field. They don't support the nurse staff. They make policy changes and get rid of people and don't care about the patients. They care about money only. Fake concern. Can't take planned PTO. Wait until the last minute to give decision.
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Kindred-Hospice/reviews/poor-supervisors-and-administration?id=dd70a5cebe23545b
Terrible experience
ReplyDeleteI can’t stress what an awful opportunity this was. The management was puppet for the sake of job security. Favoritism locally and cut throat nationally. There was absolutely no trust, sincerity or concern and compassion. Did I mention I began as a family member who used them? Such a Night and day experience when you become a paid employee and not a paying customer.
Cons
Greed and corrupt
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Kindred-Hospice/reviews/terrible-experience?id=912c295d91cd54bc
Indiana RN said "Work a lot at a busy and hurried pace"
ReplyDeleteCompany switched hands during employment and changed some payment policies for nurses. After hour visits were paying $40 a visit which really did me in w considering I would drive some 3-4 hours round trip for a visit at midnight and receive $40 compensation as a RN Hospice nurse. Heavy patient care load & crazy busy on call days.
Pros
Most co-workers very helpful
Cons
Workload, hours, difficult to get any time off
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Kindred-Hospice/reviews/work-a-lot-at-a-busy-and-hurried-pace?id=8fdc8a247e0dec2b