Fresenius Medical Care
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Not good
Field Technician/Admin (Former Employee), San Diego, CA –
Pros: money
Cons: support, clarity of task; no tools provided
Difficult to work for. They want you to provide all tools for a field computer engineer and when you need a special tool only usable for their assignment, they will not pay for it and expect you to buy it. Little support. Incomplete instructions. Wrong solutions suggested that require you to correct.
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fun was a core value
Education Coordinator (Former Employee), Washington, DC –
company was very personalble. management was very supportive and genuine. travel with traffic in metro DC was the hardest part of the job
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fresenius acute managers are not that knowledgeable
Acute Hemodialysis Nurse (Former Employee), carrollton ga –
Pros: better work conditions
Cons: better health care
acute nurse managers believe the nurse that are doing the wrong things over doctors or other co wokers they allow rns to sit in acute rm and ride the clock for time when other co workers report this you are told to mind your own business
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If you value your professional license, don't work for this company.
Dietitian (Former Employee), Delaware –
Pros: largest provider of dialysis services in country
Cons: largest provider of dialysis services in country, provide substandard care and working conditions, managers lack management skills, staff are overworked and unperpaid, terminate staff with higher salaries, hire inexperienced staff, more concerned about profit than care, oftentimes asked to behave unethically, staff need to protect their professional licenses
This company does not care about its clients or staff. Managers have no management training and consistently violate state and federal regulations.

This company is more concerned about profits than it is about its clients or staff. It saves money by firing more experienced and compensated staff for inexperienced staff and pays them less, which compromises – more...  the safety and security of the clients.

Professional staff are not given the time to interact effectively with the clients or resources to help them manage their kidney disease.

This company provides the legally-minimum required staffing hours, regardless of whether or not it's sufficient to meet the clients' needs.

This company terminates staff who advocate for the clients and do everything they can to instill a sense of fear it its employees.

The hardest part about the job was ensuring that management treated the clients ethically and professionally at all times.

The most enjoyable parts about the job were vacations and holidays. – less
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ULTRA CARE.........what a joke
RN (Current Employee), south carolina –
Pros: a job
Cons: overworked and underpaid
Just like much of healthcare, Fresenius is simply a big corporate money making industry at the expense of overworked, underpaid staff. Not to mention the decline in patient care from the nephrologist. Doctor rounds are a joke! I have been in hemodialysis for 15+. I started in a privately owned clinic and was treated better, made good money with bonuses – more...  and pts got better care. Staff was more appreciated! I get absolutely nothing but a headache and backache from my job with FMC today! I love being a dialysis nurse but now I am looking elsewhere for employment! Just can't hang anymore. I hope the greedy corporate leaders that are making the big bucks can sleep well at night! – less
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Vertical management
Sr. Contract Management Specialist (Former Employee), Waltham, MA –
Cons: short lunch break
Long work hours
Gained experience in healthcare industry.
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The company was very productive
Patient Account Representative (Former Employee), Westchester, IL –
Pros: the benefits
Cons: short breaks and not a place to grow
working with co workers and experience the team playing and talking to the patients
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fast paced and busy
Patient care technician, CCHT (Current Employee), Jourdanton, TX –
the most enjoyable part of my day is hearing pt. stories about their pasts,children and grandchildren.
i owe a lot of my training to fresenius. fresenius has given me the tools and knowlege needed to do my job well and with a good attitude.
absolutely trust and care for my co-workers when it comes to work.
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Overworked, Underpaid, Hostile Environment
Patient Care Technician, CCHT (Former Employee), TN –
This employer has little care for their lower-level employees. The employees are worked long hours on their feet with small breaks. Patient care is not a priority in the clinic setting and some managers are ill-experienced (in management as well as dialysis). Pay is minimal and insufficient to maintain day to day life with any comfort. An open-door – more...  policy is advertised but the management doors are always closed, literally and figuratively, at the clinic and corporate levels. Employee suffering and grivances are dismissed with little to no effort of resolution. The company claims to have employees earn "sick time" but will not allow that time to be used unless your hard-earned paid time off is used up first. The bottom line with this company is how much money can we get rather than how safe and comfortable can we make the lives of the patients and how excited can we make our employees to work for us. – less
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For a healthcare organization - they are the most unhealthy company to work for.
Manager of UNIX/Storage Technologies (Former Employee), Lexington, MA –
Cons: a horrible company to work for
It all starts from their business culture which is hostile due to a certain ethnicity group whom dominates and rival between each other. I experienced this first hand when one manager was threatening one of my employees whom were part of this ethic group. They put much red tape when management decisions need to be made. Their organization is so messed – more...  and such a high turnover of management/staff that it is so hard to retain a stable coherent environment. The pay for highly skilled management positions are scaled - so if you don't have a complete degree - you get points taken off and then your pay goes down and they do something like hanging the carrot in front of you to either take it or not. My experience was that I went thru 3 directors - two VP's in less than a year if that tells you anything. Then all middle management was let go and two VP's left the company due to the instability.

I highly recommend that whoever is considering a position at Fresenius to really take this information provided, doing some research on the company and try to contact employees whether present or past to ask questions before deciding to join this company. As they think nothing about pulling you into an office with the hatchet man waiting to give you your last paycheck and out the door you go. This happened several times to non-suspecting employees while I was with the company. – less
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One of the worst companies I have ever worked for!
Acute/chronic dialysis, registered nurse (Former Employee), Martinsburg, WV –
Pros: rn specialty with great training.
Cons: poor working environment.
Unsafe staffing ratios while employed.
Great HD training program.
Poor management, poor example of leadership.
Benefits are good but poor staffing prohibits the employee from truly receiving the benefits.
Extremely long work hours in excess of >60 hrs per wk.
Lack of recognition for employees contributions and extreme lack of respect for all employees – more...  by management.
Overall, I rate this company as an unsatisfactory work environment. – less
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Outpatient Dialysis Clinic
Renal Social Worker (Current Employee), Scottsdale, AZ –
Pros: good benefits, upper management support possible
Cons: significant changing work loads, encourages subpar work
Typical Day at Work: Significant mandatory assessments, notes, patient needs & other considerable projects
What I learned: Assistant Management Skills - How to provide leadership, guidance, self-motivation & troubleshooting in a fast past clinical setting
Management: Very top down bureaucracy, very bottom line driven, decision makers are very removed – more...  from day to day operations
My coworkers: Multidisciplinary team collaboration of micro, meso & macro levels composed of dietitians, nephrologists, nurses, clinical managers, area managers, technical & medical directors
The hardest part of the job: Multi-tasking, putting out fires & dealing with bureaucracy
The most enjoyable part of the job: Helping patients who are in need – less
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Extremly high paced environment
Division Office Cash Clerk (Former Employee), Metairie, LA –
Pros: paid time offf
A typical day started with dividing the two deposits that we received the day before around 3:00 or 3:30 between the three cash clerks. The checks were keyed into the access database by clinic number after looking up the patients or the name of the clinic on the check, so the correct billing group and clinic would recieve the money. Transmittlas would – more...  be printed for the two lockbox deposits and sorting the checks by facility number order so the transmittals can be attached and the number of checks for each clinic could be verified. I would then check in the additional ten lockbox deposits that are delivered via UPS and FedEx and print any intercompanies that were received from other divisions and lockboxes.
After this was all done we would go thru any emails for research requests from the billing groups and go thru the dead letter mail.

At month end I was responsible for posting any required journal entries. – less
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Terrible Crooked Company
Distribution Center Manager (Former Employee), Pleasant Prairie, WI –
Pros: it's a job
Cons: corrupt, bias management
Corporate is a corrupt boys club. People are fired and the employees are lied to that the person "quit". SOP's are enforced when convienant. Dishonesty and lack of loyalty are the company values.
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Productive work place
Staff Nurse/Charge Nurses (Former Employee), Hamilton, NJ –
Pros: tons of inservices with lunch provided
Cons: long hours
Long hours and physical stress. Really enjoyed the fast paced environment and team work.
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busy busy work place with a lot of fun people
Staff Nurse (Former Employee), Hamilton, NJ –
Pros: meeting nice people
Cons: short breaks, long hours
At the clinic,the day starts at 5:45am when the first group of patients will have their hemodialysis treatment. Nurses do the nursing assessment, start treatment, then give the prescribed medications. At around 9am "turn over" starts. It is when first shift patients get off the machine and second shift patients getting on the machine. This critical – more...  period last approximately until 11 am when all the second shift patients had been hooked on the machine and getting their hemodialysis treatment. Then third shifts starts around 1 pm.
The nurses are team leader with two patient care technicians,and responsible for 9 patients per shift. – less
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Some advancement opportunities
Medical Social Worker (Current Employee), Ohio –
Pros: large company who promotes from within
Cons: cheap; costly health benefits
My co-workers overall are professional and care for the patients. There is a lot of differences in the two units that I am assigned. One unit is run very professionally and consistently. The other unit is run by immature people and they are very poor communicators. The company is cheap compared to local competitors.
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Unbelievable Nightmare
Patient Care Technician (Former Employee), Lansing, MI –
Pros: helping dialysis patients
Cons: everything management
First off, if your applying in the Lansing, Michigan area please run as fast as you can. I'm a 25 year medical professional who has worked in many different areas in healthcare . I was a young widow with 3 small children and I had custody of my niece who was multiply handicapped and required 24 hour care. In 2008 I lost my niece 6 week after losing – more...  my mother to sudden death because my brother committed suicide just before. I buried 5 family members that year and one being my actual job as caregiver. I was so excited to learn something new in dialysis and get my life back in order. I was so wrong, I have never experienced such unprofessionalism, lack of management and training, I have never been so belittled and just kicked until I was so down I couldnt get back up. I have always been known for my extreme work ethics and ALWAYS the ability to work well others, I had no chance here. My first weeks of training contained of playing gopher to a fowl mouthed "predecessor" who talked bad about the company and fellow co-workers from day one. She had me running for everyone's lunch which she stated she has everyone do and when I returned I am being called out by this sorry excuse for a nurse, in the clinic, in front of all patients about the concept of a half hour lunch and asked if I wasnt able to understand that and I need to start taking a proper break! Not to mention that if you injure yourself not only will they not let you seek medical attention, you will be made an example of by making sure your the last to leave. I had to work from 5am to 4pm with a broken toe and lacerated foot requiring twelve stitches which was not performed adequately since I waited so long and tissue had started to die on my foot. Management is non-existent, complaints go on deaf ears. Your personal information is told to co- workers so you have angry peers upset because you make more money than them and they let you know it!! The company has a biomedical department that repairs and maintains dialysis machines, that was not my job description nor was I trained on any sort of repair, but when I had a machine pump actually fall apart at my feet making it impossible to start my patients treatment and once again I got called out, in the clinic, in front of patients asking me what my problem was and why cant I seem to get the job done, not to mention this is the next day after my sister died suddenly and my co-worker made a point in telling the nurse about my tragedy and take it easy on me so she made it her goal to work me and talk to me as hard and foul as she possibly could. The straw that broke the camels back was when I went to lunch one day, out of the building and IMMEDIATELY upon my return I was approach by this "nurse" asking what my issue was. Not understanding what she meant since I just entered the building and when I went to my section that SHE was supposed to monitor, I had a patient dripping blood from their machine on the floor. (Lets go back 3 month earlier when I approached management about my patients not being attended to while I was on break and I was ignored) I proceded to clean the blood and go on with my day until I was called into the charge nurses office and was asked to explain my situation today!! I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about but the "nurse" had went to him and said I was negligent in letting the patient bleed and I wasnt even in the building!! I physically got ill and almost couldnt walk out of his office... this place totally broke my spirit and there was nothing more I could do to change anything, so instead of committing myself I chose to put my life in storage, to live basically homelss instead of enduring another day there. This little story is only a small fraction of what I endured there, if you care about people, care about policy and doing the best healthcare by everyone DO NOT WORK AT FRESENIUS LANSING – less
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Great work place
Dialysis Tech (Former Employee), Simpsonville, SC –
Great company to work for. They treat their employes fairly.
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Large company
Support (Former Employee), Waltham, MA –
Pros: compnesation
Cons: too many employees
This was a fun job but a very heavy work load. The company was extremely large
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About Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (FMC-AG & Co. KGaA) is a kidney dialysis company, operating in both the field of – Read more