Anybody know about MGA health care??

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tmwood

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Did anyone end up working for this company? I'm a new grad and they are offering me a job asap. I'm not sure if I should do it for the experience or if it's a waste of time and looks bad on a resume.

tazzle

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I worked for MGA for four years. It won't be a waste of time for you as long as you get a patient that truly needs skilled nursing. They have done and will finagle paperwork to get a child who otherwise has no need for skilled nursing qualified for skilled nursing under DDD. This will hurt your resume and your skills especially when interviewing for the job you really want and they ask you what you did for that child. If no skilled nursing was involved, just toileting, feeding (not G-tube though G-tubes alone don't qualify a child for SN), and ambulating your resume will be hurt. Sooooo, BE VERY PICKY AS TO WHAT ASSIGNMENTS YOU ACCEPT!

tazzle

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MGA assigned a child to me that didn't really need skilled nursing. When that assignment came to an end THEY WOULDN'T PLACE ME because I really had not been doing any real nursing and even they questioned my skills. I have since moved on to a very rewarding position elsewhere. This was their patient they approved for DDD.

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AZSamiLPN

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I have a funny story about MGA. I was hired about 7 months ago by them and they already had a couple of cases for me. I was very excited because this would've been my very first nursing job as a LPN. I went to do my drug screen, but I was more dehydrated than I thought. I didn't offer enough of a sample, so I had to wait a few more minutes and drink a lot more water to get things going. I was also under a lot of pressure to get the sample done before they closed, which was in 15 minutes at the time. I did my sample, but it still wasn't enough. The lab tech that was with me laughed it off and assured me that it happens frequently and not to worry, but I had to get another drug screen form from MGA. I called MGA and explained the situation to them. They simply chose to not to believe me and said I would be notified at a later time when they got the official report from the lab center I went to. The lab center did send the report a few days later, and I called again to get the drug screen forms, but I was put on hold for a very long time. I finally gave up on them and resumed sending out applications/resumes again. I'm wondering if I should call them and ask if they ever looked at the official report from the lab center and see if they would hire me again?

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