Gentiva Home Health

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I am curious as to how this company is to work for. I don't know anyone who works for them to ask about their experience.

i work for gentiva in SC, my managers support my decisions to admit, discharge, recert my patients,,,everywhere is concerned about the numbers, they are no different than other agencies. i can honestly say that they do not do anything "underhanded" or fraudulant. i will attest that they do tend to micro manage but then again, you need to know how to deal with that and know how to respond and do what is best for you patients. very tight with spending money ie: mileage. after almost 30 years of doing HH, i know i could work for a much worse agency.

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I am glad when anyone has had or is having a good experience with their job. Gentiva is a national company in over 30 states. I worked in Massachusetts and didn't have a positive experience at all, but good to know that some RN employees have. Maybe the company as a whole is really a good one, and I just didn't work in an office that was a part of that.

However, the office I worked in received many awards over the years past and present as being THE office that has generated the most profits/recerts of all the offices, It doesn't take a rocket scientists for figure out how this office generates some much revenue... make sure your documentation is such that the company makes the most money they can from medicare even if it means .... (maybe other Gentiva employees can finish this or dissagree with this)

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Specializes in Psych, Pedi, Home Care & Case Management.

How very true your statement is cddris. I worked for Gentiva in Florida-most horrible work experience of my almost 30 years as a nurse. To complete your sentence since it was written over one year ago-Gentiva is presently under medicare fraud investigation as well as a class action suit filed by present and past employees for labor law infractions. I hope that completed your sentence.

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CDDRIS; I worked for this company for one year a few years back and I also experienced most of the things you mentioned in your May 11th, 2009 dated post.

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labor law infractions...hmmm

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Specializes in Hospice, Geriatrics, Wounds.

I know this is an older post, but I have just been hired by Genitva, and I am very nervous. I just don't understand how a company can pay a nurse a per visit rate. Anybody who has worked in home health or hospice knows there is a lot more work to do AFTER you visit the patient! (calling dr, pharmacy, etc). I feel I would put at least 2 hr per visit, travel time included. That means, their $36/visit would really only be $18/hr, which is SAD to me. They are only paying 0.30 a mile, which is insulting. And, the computer figures out your mileage reimbursment (NOT YOU), which I also don't like.

I am going to give this company a chance (unless something better comes along - gotta have a job NOW). But, I am hoping & praying it's not gonna be a nightmare!!!!!!

I see why Gentiva is being sued in a class action lawsuit from their nurses.

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Take the advice I give to people who say they are going to work for Maxim, out of desperation. Work for them as long as it takes to find a better employer. BTW, when I worked for them years ago, mileage was paid at 34 cents a mile. See they have managed to come down on that too. But you can't complain. They will tell you there are agencies that do not pay mileage at all.

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I personally have been in home health about 10 years, and Gentiva was the most horrible of them all, by a landslide. I left before working there 6 months, and have not looked back. Per visit rate, and I was taking work home with me EVERY NIGHT...and on the weekends. LPNs were expected to have the same productivity as an RN case manager. I have done both jobs, RN and LPN, and I can tell you that as an RN case manager, you should not be required as an RN case manager to have the same productivity as the LPN. LPNs would be calling me at 2 pm to give report, and I would work into the night trying to finish up summaries, paperwork, etc... Nurses have a choice when working for them, and that choice is, "take care of your patients the right way, or have a life outside of work." Of course any nurse worth anything is going to choose the former....for a while. The percentage of deficiencies on our internal audits/QA was astronomical, and I was thinking to myself that a lot of these things could be solved by giving the nurses more TIME to not rush through their documentation. I worked the rural area of an office, and I was not reimbursed any extra visit rate for driving as much as over 100 miles per day, despite people in OTHER gentiva offices saying they were being reimbursed. I was told by management that it was to be reviewed on a "case by case basis", which to me said, "If it is a person who I like, I will agree to pay them." Why not just make a rule a rule? FOR EVERYONE, esp when it comes to the fact that I lived in the rural area and none of the other nurses from the city really cared to go, and I did not mind it at all. But 6 visits in the city is a lot different of a day than 6 visits in 5 different counties...even with traffic. I HATED GENTIVA!! I should have gone with my gut, when I felt like I should not work there, but I didn't, and I tried to stick it out, and give it a good shot, but I could not...Yes, a class action suit has been filed in the state of GEORGIA, and I hope they win everything. Gentiva grossly abuses its employees. It is all about the bottom dollar, and it is not going in your pocket, but it is going in someones pocket!!!! I usually don't have opinions that are this strong, but the fact is that Gentiva pays you a per visit rate, and beyond that, who cares what your life is like....I am now working for a non profit, who pays their RN case managers by the hour, and pays ME FOR the actual time I put into my work!! And life is great!!

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I am interested in speaking with any former Gentiva Health employees who may have been subjected to or have first-hand knowledge about Medicare reimbursement issues or any other billing concerns they experienced while working with the Company. Please contact me at [email protected]. Thank you.

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It's all about profit for them. There is no mentoring for management staff and when they hear someone say something bad about them...you're out the door. Profit, profit, profit. I will NEVER recommend Gentiva. My manager was so good at delegating she never dirtied her own fingers. And the Marketing guy. For Pete's sake. How do YOU spell slime? Good to be gone.

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Worst job (in management) that I ever had. Manager was horrible; great at delegating the work AND blame. Office staff vs. the clinical staff. Clinical staff running the show. No upper management support. Just absolutely terrible. Will never recommend them for employment to anyone I know. Now I read about the senate investigation. Glad I no longer am employed there. New management job that I love with a different company and I am never going back to home health due to my poor experience with Gentiva.

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Specializes in Thoracic Cardiovasc ICU Med-Surg.

Worked for them for 4 years in Florida. Ended up leaving after they hired a manager who was CRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZY. They had me driving 100-150 miles a day sometimes doing ten visits a day and then ***** because my paperwork was not handed in 48hrs after visit made Um, really? You try it and see how well you do.

Yes, they had us recert EVERYONE, pretty much showing us how to fudge the oasis to make it reimburse more.

Horrible to work for. I had to fight with them for a month after my last day before they would pay me for my PTO I had saved up.

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