Gentiva

hoolahan, ASN, RN · Jan 16, 2005

I know of one person who worked for them in PA, he hated it. Said the pay was poor, and workload unreasonable.

Mind you, this is heresay.

renerian, BSN, RN · Jan 17, 2005

Please PM me. I don't want to post that type of stuff to the public. RUN :uhoh21:

renerian

barefootlady, ADN, RN · Jan 17, 2005

I have known a couple of nurses who tried to work for them and said they were difficult to work for. Pay was low, unsteady flow of work, and in areas they did not want to go. No real experience with them myself .

renerian, BSN, RN · Jan 17, 2005

I decided I can post a few things here that are objective and not subjective. I worked for Kimberly Quality Care/anyone remember them. I loved it. Worked there as a case manager over 2 years in addition to working my full time hospital job.

Olsten/Gentiva by name now- bought Kimberly and since there was an Olsten office and a Kimberly office in the same city, they swore it would be fine -no job loss. UH that is not what happened. The new company then came along and said, yes your office is closing but we will make room for you in our office/Olsten. Uh then they closed our office and did not give one person in our organization/local office a job. So .........there you go.

If you want more information PM me.

renerian :angryfire

SUNSFAN_RN · Jan 29, 2005

Hi all, I work as an RN for Gentiva and I've been with them since this past sept. I have been an RN for more than 25 years now and been doing HH for over 7 years and Gentiva here in AZ. is about the same as the rest I have worked for. I'm full time salary w benefits and I make over 50,000 salary and after I do 27 visits in a week I get the per-diem rate. There salaries are about the same as other HHA in this area and I find there supers and others just as nice as any I have worked with at other HHA. I have done my share of management and office work in the past and I decided that I like the independence of being in the field. Too much crap and politics when you sit in an office all day.

alintanurse · Jan 29, 2005

I think it depends on the area you are covering--I have a friend who works for Gentiva,she says she is paid very well and after two years of working for them,is now able to choose her assignment. She says she had to move to an area that Gentiva was having a difficult time covering but she was given relocation expenses. Because she kept telling me how great it was to work for Gentiva--I applied at an office where I live......the pay scale quoted was terrible and they seemed unorganized. Our experiences were very different!

Cmyst · Feb 5, 2005

Happy to see this thread!

Does anyone out there know about Gentiva in Sacramento, CA? I have an interview with them on Tuesday, and an alternative offer as well. One question I have is re: "unreasonable workload". How do you define that? I do have prior HHC experience, and during the go-go years in the early 90's was making 40+ visits a week.

My alternative offer is with Interim's home health agency -- not their staffing agency. Any info about them would be nifty, too.

You guys are beginning to scare me. I had decided to approach large, national HHC companies because when I left HHC the smaller ones were scrambling for visits and dropping like flies. I figured the larger ones would be more stable, predictable, etc.

renerian, BSN, RN · Feb 5, 2005

Personnaly I think they have very lengthy paperwork. The days of 40 visits are pretty much gone due to increased paperwork for skilled patients. Their office closed here/no able to survive. Could not find nurses who would work for the stinkey rate.

Alot of nurses like interim but I think their pay rate is stinkey as well.

renerain

CardioTrans, BSN, RN · Feb 5, 2005

I worked for Kimberly Quality Care many many yrs ago. I left the company before Gentiva bought them/changed their name.

I do have a friend who went to work for Gentiva last year. Oh the stories she told me :uhoh21:

One flat rate for mileage, (I think it was $2.50) added to each visit, which the visit rate was lower than any I have seen. No help from office staff, was given 2 days of orientation and sent off on her own. She left after 2 wks. After she left, surveyors came in on a patient complaint and found numerous issues that caused many other questions to be raised about the company.

Cmyst · Feb 5, 2005

Thanks for the replies, so quick!

Well, rats. When I left HHC around 5 years ago, OASIS paperwork had been implemented and PPS, so I'm not sure if the paperwork burden is increased now in comparison with then. The rates for about every place I worked at the time were $35 per visit, mileage at the then-standard IRS rate, and $50 per open.

Now, what I'm seeing is $40 per visit and $60 per open, and I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

I think I'm gonna have to call my last agency on Monday and see what they have to offer now, before I jump to conclusions that a national company is more stable and offers better benefits.

So, is making 35 visits per week just really crazy, if they're all in the same geographic area and if there are a couple "opens" in there? My time management skills were always considered excellent, and I never thought the paperwork was bad until OASIS, despite people complaining about it.

renerian, BSN, RN · Feb 6, 2005

If your in a geographic area 35 is reasonable if your spread all over God's green earth it is not.

renerian