Maxim Healthcare Company

Partial quote from KLP2006: "Our RN's were always our favorites because they were the most responsible and "normal" people. LPNs were hit or miss and many of our HHA's were train wrecks. We had some amazing nurses and aides... we had some we should have taken their license away... and some... were just back to being allowed to practice medicine after having their license suspended...."

I appreciated your overall perspective from the other side KLP2006. I read a bunch of posts on indeed.com about Maxim and it actually gave me a little sympathy for the "recruiters". It seems Maxim hires them with the wrong degrees for the job, and also hires them too young to have the "life experience" and maturity to handle situations properly. It seems to me like Maxim is setting them up to fail! Cruel really. A Maxim recruiter is dealing with the families of severely disabled/chronically sick people and with a variety of staff - RN's, LPN's, and aides. Complex issues arise. This requires discernment, maturity, good communication and listening skills, and a high level of organization. NONE of the recruiters I dealt with in 2 years (that would be at least 4 of them) had any of these skills!!!!!!!!!!! I have never experienced such utter and total incompetence. But again, after the fact, I now have a little sympathy for them because you can't expect the impossible from a 22 yr old male fresh out of college with a business degree of some type! It seems to me that a degree in health care management or even a degree in office management/secretarial work or a psych degree would be better qualified for the position. Also someone older!

Regarding the quote above. I was a very "good" RN - professional, competent, wide experience base, etc. Looking at some of the charting of other nurses in the home, there were some really incompetent and scary nurses out there. Yet, I was always treated like a deadbeat! Evidently there must have been a lot of deadbeat staff, but it does not help you keep your good staff when you treat them like deadbeats too!

Arwen, that reminds me of a phrase the recruiters would use, referring to nurses. They would talk about "working" the nurses! As in, "we're just not going to be able to work that nurse" or "we can't work them on weekends" like we were a team of oxen plowing the field! Way to respect the nurses, dude!

They give different pay rates for admitting patients, flu clinics (lowest - "it's just giving needles"), and routine visits (like supervision). Insurance company evals of elders who get coverage for nursing care at home get another rate, as does teaching injection self administration for Copsaxone (if they still do that).

Maxim has been Maxim for at least a 14 years, and hasn't bought other agencies or changed their name.......
I've worked for other Home Health agencies, freelancing with 5 at one time (when I was younger), and I find them pretty similar to other agencies of their kind, except for the lack of professional nurses in their administration.

Oh, yes the checks are really messed up. They tell you what rate of pay you'll get, then give you something else, then say they didn't tell you that!

I finally got my missing paycheck a few months ago, 6 years after I'd earned it....... You have to keep bugging them.

I worked per diem for them for 3 yrs and as soon as my one patient case was closed i did not accept other assignments. I remember i went to the office to have my W 40 tax changed and it was photocopied but the change was never instituted. Only 1 time did a "nursing supervisor ' come to visit me & my patient. and now when i put them as a reference, companies have told me Maxim claims there is no record me as an employee. There you have it

I just applied at there office here in MD. It is true all of the office staff were very very young!!!!!!! hmmmm

I was at Costco the other day, and got my flu and pneumonia vaccinations. While there, I talked to the nurses and desk staff about Maxim and asked what their wages are. None of them knew what they were earning, they had not asked...... I let them know about the cut in wages last year and this year.

It doesn't sit well with me, a believer in equal rights, that women (nurses and clerical staff) take jobs without finding out what they would be paid. We need to bring back Assertion Training, I guess.

You know, we're supposed to know our rate of pay before we start work. Lately when I've brought up the subject for any reason whatsoever, I've been treated like I'm a problem child or just plain rude for asking a fundamental question that every employee has a right to have answered. I didn't like the "speaks with forked tongue" behavior that I encountered from Maxim whenever it came to pay. Tell the worker what you're going to pay them, then pay them what you told them. Lying to workers about their pay is unethical on more than one level.

"I so want to QUIT MAXIM immediately, yet I hate to bail on this family at such a bad time!!! " Arwen Evenstar

The patient is probably getting funding from the Americans with Diasabilities Department. Ask the family for that telephone number so you can talk to their case manager there. She/he will refer you to their pediatric nurse consultant (I worked as one a while back). They'll be thrilled to have you work directly with their patient, as it will save them paying the agency's fee.