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WARNING DONT WORK HERE
LPN (Current Employee), Wichita, Ks – May 14, 2013
Pros: end of your shift
Cons: beginning of your shift
This is a very unprofessional work environment. The Administrator leaves the building numerous times a day with other department heads to go "smoke" due to smoking being prohibited on the grounds. However it was ok to let her staff smoke on company grounds until her boss busted her out at a company meeting. And that is not even the half of what goes – more... on in this building. They never have activities, supplies, meds, and the things necessary to the residents. They are good at putting on a show to keep their bills paid. The State should shut this place down. Also bed bug outbreaks frequently, I'm quitting soon. I've had it. – less
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Good company to work for
Regional Director of Government Relations (Former Employee), Plano, TX – May 13, 2013
Pros: many jobs you could work at home. good benefits
Cons: major restructuring - past couple years little job stability
GL is a good company to work for. Recently however the company has had restructuring that resulting in elimination of huge amount of jobs.
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Friendly work enviroment.
Charge Nurse (Current Employee), Vanceburg, KY – May 9, 2013
all employees were easy to talk to and get along with. they helped me and paid for my IV certification, which was not offered when I went to lpn school. learned computer documentation through this company.
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Love the residents
LPN staff nurse (Current Employee), Titusville, PA – May 8, 2013
Administration very money oriented at the expense of the employees and residents
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Good people to work with but company needs to take a careful look at some of its priorities.
Maintenance Supervisor (Current Employee), Indianapolis, IN – May 7, 2013
Pros: nice staff. team environment at the building level
Cons: pro-rated medical insurance, based on your health. no high blood pressure, no high cholesterol, these will cost you, among other things.
This company is constantly concerned about hours. Hours get cut based upon Low census. Emergency call-ins do not pay if census is low, even though you are considered a 24/7 on call employee. You must take the time off to make up for extra hours worked on emergency call-ins. If the census is below a certain amount everybody has to cut their basic 40 – more... hours too. There is never enough time left to complete general maintenance tasks properly in the time frame required because of this practice. Your feet hit the ground running and don't stop until the day is done. In some respects I consider this to be a good thing though because I am a very active person and time goes by fast when you are busy. It would just be nice to be properly compensated for emergency call-ins and to not have to worry about if you are going to get to work a full 40 hours or not. If you need your income to be stable, and I do, this can be very stressful. Maintaining good cost control is always a problem due to the age of the facility along with some other key factors that I will not mention in this forum. It is my opinion that many previous years of poor maintenance practices has contributed to this buildings maintenance woes. This could be partially due to the very little time allotted within the parameters of the maintenance schedule to perform basic preventative maintenance tasks. This problem can produce a future whirl wind of mechanical problems and expenses. I have experienced many of them already. With regards to the staff, they are very friendly. The most enjoyable part of my job currently is the actual mechanical and repair work and the interaction with staff and residents. – less
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Golden Living Center.
Dietary Aide (Former Employee), Uniontown, PA – May 7, 2013
Cons: upset residents
•Prepare dietary trays for patients
•Stock supplies
•Cleaning the kitchen and filled where needed
is what I mainly did on my shift.
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Worse than Hell
CNA (Former Employee), La Crescent, MN – May 3, 2013
Pros: not a single one
Cons: everything
This job made me want to work in food service or retail, anything but be a CNA again at a Nursing Home. When I was first hired, I thought it would be great. But the management is absolutely horrible, along with most of the employees. For example, our DON had an affair with a Physical Therapists in her office while working! She was not fired. One of – more... our CNA's abused a resident and would sleep on shifts.. When the executive director was told, she laughed and said, "He's a weird guy isn't he?".. Do not work here, the residents are sweethearts but they deserve so much better than this dump. This place is a complete trash bin inside and out. They treat residents like prisoners and put on a huge fake show when anyone important stops by to check on the place. Do not put your family members here. – less
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Nurselpn – May 7, 2013

This company seems to want employees who lack morals. They seem to favor these employees. They will believe any lie that comes out of their mouths and reward them. If you are honest and try to do your job as it should be done, you will be a target for the ones who are dishonest and don't do their jobs. And, management will back them up and harass you, because they lack integrity and have no conscience. I thought nursing was an honorable profession. I was ashamed to say I worked there after seeing the horrible things that some of these so-called nurses did to the residents and management turned a blind I to. If you reported any of it to management, they attacked you. You will not be able to stand working here if you have morals and a conscience.

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Results driven organization in the long term care industry
District Dietitian (Current Employee), Travel thoughout Alabama and South Georgia – April 27, 2013
Intense focus on providing quality healthcare for a geriatric population and also pre-geriatric individuals needing rehabilitation. Technologically advanced, multiple systems ensuring CQI, and myriad communication modalities utilized for instructing staff.
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Bottom of the barrel place to work!
LPN (Former Employee), Rochester, MN – April 26, 2013
Pros: pay was ok. residents were wonderful.
Cons: they could care less if you got a break or not
Upper management horrible, workload way to heavy, get written up for the dumbest things!
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Fun
Dietary Aide/Cook (Current Employee), Lima, OH – April 23, 2013
Great places to work, everyone is friendly and has a good time a work while getting everything done that's needed.
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Rewarding I love working with elderly, job was physicallly hard.
Certified Nurses Aide (Former Employee), Slayton, MN – April 23, 2013
Pros: my co-workers
Cons: not enough staff, no time for 1on1 time with residents.
Typical day would start with getting residents ready for their day. bathed, oral care dressed. We usual had 1 wing per aide and it was a fast paced morning after cares we would go to the dining room and pass trays and feed residents. After breakfast it was back to residents room to toilet lay down, or put into a easy chair or get residents to an activity. – more... Then pass ice water and give supplements. Now it's time for 1/2 hour break and do a little charting. It's close to dinner so we'll get residents toileted, walk some to dinner and once down in dining room we would pass trays and then feed residents that needed assistance. Now we'll toilet again if needed then lay residents down or put into their easy chairs, finish up last minute charting and relay any information to aide coming to replace you. The hardest part of the job was not having enough help always rushed I always felt I didn't have the time to give compassion . – less
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good coworkers
CNA (Former Employee), Merrillville, IN – April 21, 2013
They had a management turnover that effected everyone. There was a nice group of people I worked with.
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Great Place to work!
assisting nurses and other medical personnel (Former Employee), TN,WI – April 18, 2013
Cons: health care
general CNA work/ learned something always either from a nurse or other medical proffessional/was good/they were also great/when residents passed that were taken care of/again just working an taking care of the residents
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very supportive supervisory team
Health Information Coordinator (Current Employee), Indianapolis, IN – April 17, 2013
Golden Living Centers present employees with new challenges each day. No two days are the same. Makes you look forward to what is in store for tomorrow
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Excellent long-term care facility with a friendly staff and updated equipment.
Certified Nursing Assistant (Current Employee), Boaz, AL – April 12, 2013
The most enjoyable part of the job is knowing that a resident is in a better condition when I leave his/her room than when I entered.
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it was a nice nursing home with games and bible study a bunch of actitives they keep the patients happy and i think they do a great job
Nurses Assistant Clinical (Former Employee), Batesville, MS – April 11, 2013
its was a great training location for me i had a great tyme with the patients there.they loved me it was wonderful i think a typical day at the nursing home i can handle because i love taking care of people.i learned that you have to make sure you are on time and that you should never bring home to work and always respect your patients at all times – more... i had to manage my time because i learned i will have more than one patient my co workers were ok some of them but the other half didnt carethe hardest part of the job is trying to cheer up the patients when they are sad because its very emotional and you have to keep a professional facei would say the most enjoyable part was interacting with the patients with games bible study n the spa day just talking to them making them feel good – less
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Management sucks! Work somewhere that appreciates you... Definitely not here!
Gna - former employee (Former Employee), Westminster md – April 11, 2013
Pros: residents
Cons: management, no raises, no recognition
You work extra hard... Often short staffed. The management does not care about its residents or employees. Their only concern Is money. When I left we had not had a raise in two years I was there for over a decade and it meant nothing to the new management. After recent schedule changes i had no choice but quit. Sad to say good bye to the residents – more... and some of my coworkers. The place was ok when I started but after a gazillion upper management changes dons and Ed's it had progressively gotten worse. Very low morale. – less
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Great Working Environment
Reports to charge nurse (Former Employee), Watertown, SD – April 10, 2013
The resident loved you, the workers all got along, long enough breaks, discount food. Hardest part was having to take care of 17 residents by yourself but there was great teamwiork, most enjoyable part the nurses and staff and everyone got along.
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it was ok
cna (Former Employee), Decatur, GA – April 8, 2013
Pros: no free lunch
Cons: 30 minute breaks
the place was interesting had to get used to the environment
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Worst place I ever worked
RN (Former Employee), Monroeville, Pa – April 7, 2013
Pros: there are none
Cons: enormous stress
Company constantly calling for additional work hours because of staff shortages. Very high work load. Poor management and communication. Management unaware of corporate policy changes that affect employees which resulted in loss of earned vacation and sick time. High expectations and little direction.
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