Kindred Healthcare Employer Reviews

This place needs to be shut down, they have no staff. You never get to take breaks cause you're so over worked. Lack of communication,poor care of the resident's, Nures are always on they phones even the unit managers. Residents dresses are not being changed.

Faced paced, great place to learn your skills. Innovative & Energetic.

I enjoyed working at Kindred. The management teams were very dedicated and great to work with

A typical day would be to start out assessing the pts. before my shift started to see what condition they were in., I had good co-workers, they mostly performed the way they were told to care for the pts, my DON was a nice person and gave me compliments on my performance and dedication to my job. I learned that just one person that has multiple job – more... duties can't do it alone to care for pts., it takes the whole staff to do a great job, making pts. and family happy and my supervisor happy was the best part of my job, the worst part of my job was to go in on a daily basis and have to fix problems and that should have been taken care of from the previous shift. – less

Small cozy hospital. Very easy to master both staff and hospital functions + patient care is balanced,

Its not a good place to work or a safe place for pts. They have a new CCO who exposes herself with tight dresses who has no management skills and who got the job bc she knows people. There are so many terrible things that happen at kindred bc the people who work there are incompetent...unsafe for everyone.

Kindred is a terrible company to work for, they have zero respect for their employees, benefits are awful, insurance is very high and terrible coverage. The turnover rate is outrageous, the worst of any healthcare facility I've ever worked for. Nobody wanted to stay for very long, some didn't even last a day. The admin. staff are rude and disrespectful – more... , don't do anything but smoke and gossip all day while nurses on the floor are so overworked you can't even take your lunch. I never learned anything new here, I actually begged for new courses, promised I would get new training but it never happened. There was nothing good about this job and I really mean nothing. The hardest part was the work load and lack of staff. I would starve in the streets before I worked for them again. They have frozen raises for 3 years with no sign of them lifting the freeze. They just don't care...about residents or employes. – less

While my time was short at Kindred, staff seemed very cooperative, which was needed in a highly specialized and very serious environment. Duties were of a staff pharmacist in hospital, which means doing everything from order entry to IV admixtures to Narcotic dispensing

AWFUL PLACE!
Not enough staff.
Management wants to do a good job but hinder by corporate!!!
gossip and back stabbing amoung staff.

I always having enjoy the fields i've choosen I'm a people person enjoy helping other

The night shift supervisor hated me at the onset. Nothing I could do would please him. He is Gay and I am not. Gave me 3 times the patient load leaving others with nothing to do. Management is a bunch of back stabbing jerks. There was nothing enjoyable part of the job. I had worked at other Kindred Hospitals in Chicago, but the Sycamore Hospital really – more... sucked. – less

This place is beyond getting help the dug themselves so far in the ground it's not funny. The treat their employees like dirt the say we will work with you while you go to school or have another job the just make you work more over I feel so sorry for the residents there not enough staff to take care of them and they need to get a new director of nursing

Every morning starts with the morning meeting, we discuss what to expect for the up and coming day. Admissions starts with a tour of the building to ensure all rooms are presentable for the arrival of a new patient. While touring the building stop by and say hello to the current residents to see how they are doing. If any questions or concerns arise – more... take it upon myself to get them handled in a timely manner. Began working the faxes from hospitals and return any calls that have come in. ensure any new admissions are settled in may sure they have received proper meals if they arrive late. Get the necessary paperwork signed. – less

My typical day as a PRN therapist begins with logging into handheld time recording device along with inputting pt's to be seen that day. I work mostly independent with occasional assist from aides with more complicated pt's. Safety is priority! I work anywhere from 4-7 hours a day. I love the challenge of working with inpatient pt's and making sure – more... that they get the best care possible in order to return back home or to a location of their chosing for further care. Management and co-workers are great and very supportive of any needs. The hardest part of this job is seeing or hearing that a pt. expired that you have treated and become close to. On the other hand, it is great to see those who improve and are able to leave the facility and become functionally independent again. – less

My typical day of work started with clocking in, get assignment from the head nurse, get report from cna's who had your clients previously. Check on all patients to make sure they had there alarms on and to let them know that you are the cna on duty now and if they need anything to call you. check on all patients at least every 2 hour. i was assigned – more... at least 16 patients per night. make sure everyone is safe at all time. i did transfers, feeding, changing, bathing..... ect. basically adl's and vitals. a very physical work experience – less

Your always on the move. You learn to work well with other. Your co-worker are kind and willing to help.

I beat myself up everyday and question why this is so much different then anywhere I have ever been. People here are very unhappy, complain and discuss trying to get a new job everyday, patients and family are under the impression that it is acceptable to treat staff poorly, certain night sups are rarely seen and do not offer assistance of any kind – more... or even check if assistance is needed, assignments are not acuity based and are often unsafe, high profile families are given together as an assignment to one nurse setting the shift up for failure, multiple tasks are being signed as performed but reported not done per pt/family, miscommunication often leading to substandard care, management under the impression that since 'they have been able to work under certain circumstances, then everyone should be able to', policies regarding narcotic administration are not followed the majority of the time and verbal/ written reprimanding is not consistent, staff members have been know to be rough on other staff and it has been reported and nothing has been done to provide a safe and secure environment, staff members quitting/resigning after short periods of employment or even completion of orientation, low levels of moral within the facility causing undue stress to nursing staff, patient care suffering due to lack of staffing. As an experienced nurse with less then one in this Kindred facility I highly recommend avoiding employment at any of the facilities owned by this company. I have been in multiple situations that have jeapordized my license and and am currently looking for employment elsewhere. – less

Most of the people are nice, except my boss. He was easy to work with the first day after that, if i as so much as walk by he would roll his eyes, or talk to me while walking away. Never "showed me everything he knows" like stated after i was hired. I guess it depends on who youre working for here.

Patient loads could be anywhere from six to nine patients for the nurses and seven to ten patients for the CNAs. Administration had numerous turnovers in the time that I was there. If you go to work to take care of your patients and not to socialize and gossip, you are cast out and the cliques will spend numerous hours complaining to the nurse manager, – more... CCO and CEO about you. You are expected to read the CNAs minds and drop everything when they want help. The CNAs can scream and yell at the nurses, but when the nurses try to teach the CNAs something the nurse is reported to the above administrative staff by the CNAs and reprimanded. Administration plays favorites to the point where people were coming into work high and nothing was done. The good workers either left or were fired. Cameras were placed on our building for "security", but in reality it was to identify smokers. The backstabbing and constant fight to try to get the best care for the patients caused so much stress that there were times when various nurses would break down in tears. The work load was unreal. In the special care unit one nurse was expected to take care of four to five acutely ill patients on various vasopressor drips by herself and if she was lucky, she had a CNA to assist/hinder her. Orientation was a joke. My preceptor was so vague I had to basically teach myself the computer charting and find my way around. Sexually conversations were a norm, from the CCO on down to the CNAs. CNAs were lazy and expected the nurses to answer all the call lights, even when the nurses had nine patients and were running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Everybody has to be very careful of what they say due to the fact that it will be twisted around and reported to the administration and the person who said it is written up without investigation and without any warning whatsoever. The equipment is archaic and only recently did we receive new feeding pumps and IV pumps which break down or don't function right most of the time. The pharmacy is continuously complaining that nurses make med errors and overlook their own medication errors, which the management also overlooks. Low census was another problem. For the last six to eight months our census for a 69 bed hospital has been in the low to mid thirties at best and down to the low twenties or high teens at the worst, and call offs were frequently once or twice a week which resulted in very short paychecks. – less

LOVE THE GIRLS I WORK WITH WE ARE A TEAM ..LISTEN TO REPORT GET RESIDENTS READY FOR THERE DAY ..IS NOT KNOWING WHEN YOUR SHIFT IS OVER IF YOUR RESIDENT WILL BE THERE IN THE MORNING..I LOVE TO SEE MY RESIDENTLOOKING AND SMELLING GOOD AND KNOWING U MADE THEM SMILE