Hospice Crapification Hits Federal Government

Strange Tony,

Financial rapscallion majority ownership turned our nationally recognized hospice into a shell of its former self.  

• Office headcount reductions of 50%
• Over-reliance on "new" (but unreliable and incapable) technology that wasted staff time
• Cutting the number of holidays and holiday pay 
• Not giving raises for years
• Reducing office square footage (to meet C-suite spreadsheet expectations)
• Put in phone system that enabled calls to be overheard without worker knowledge
• Hospice office/clinical system robbed staff of fair reimbursement for miles driven
• Made nurses salaried, then overworked them horribly
• Reduced work to 30 hours for some positions - 25% pay cut

Training on these new systems was poor to nonexistent.  Dedicated hospice staff did not have the time to properly care for patients and do the checking needed to make sure they were paid fairly for hours worked and miles driven.  The company effectively stole hours and mileage from workers.

These very things are occurring in the federal government under Elon Musk.  Musk's henchpeople are rapidly seeking headcount reductions, square foot eliminations and implementing crappy technology.  It's not clear if Musk's henchpeople have multiple full time, well paying gigs (like many insiders in our Age of Sponsorship).

Financial rapscallions have no problem ordering physicians around, negatively impacting the practice of medicine with hard spreadsheet targets.  This has been seen across multiple medical specialties.  

The greed imposed on our hospice resulted in significant and immediate disintegration.  Our census never returned to pre-rapscallion levels.  I expect that very thing is happening across the federal government as Musk's team crapifies operations.  Dang. it sure brings back bad memories.

Anonymous

Gentiva vs. Bristol Hospice: Glove Up

Strange Tony,

Clayton, Dubilier and Rice's Gentiva Hospice sued Webster Equity Partner's Bristol Hospice and a former Gentiva nurse administrator for damages resulting from the nurse violating a non-compete agreement and revealing Gentiva trade secrets.  

Bristol Hospice entered the Brewer, Maine market, hired Gentiva's nurse administrator who then tried to hire other Gentiva employees.  

Gentiva requested a jury trial.  I would love for Gentiva CEO David Causby to testify under oath as to the company's practices when they enter a new market.  I'd love to hear which Gentiva trade secrets the nurse administrator spilled to Bristol.  It it's to rob fair pay for hours worked by making nurses salaried or having a crappy software product that shorts staff for miles travelled, then I hope someone from the Department of Labor is in the courtroom for the whole trial.

I'm sure Bristol is just as abusive to staff as Gentiva.  Financial rapscallions require their numbers be met and that excrement flows downhill and downhill and further downhill. 

I expect a settlement as neither rapscallion wants to reveal their trade secrets in a public court of law.

Anonymous