Amedisys Salaries, Bonuses and Benefits.

truthspeaker in Ohio said: I'm considering working for this company, accepted offer but haven't signed yet. What I see on this forum is NOTHING like what was explained by the DOO at 3 interviews. All my questions were answered candidly, allowing for what i felt was an honest conversation. What further questions do you recommend I ask before I sign an acceptance letter. Honestly...no drama please. Just like all of you, I've got bills to pay too, but as an LPN, my choices in homecare are limited.

Great place to work if you are an LPN. Go for it....I have never looked at coworkers by degree. I did not have a choice but to see things in that manner due to the way salaries and visits are controlled. Good luck. There are many excellent LPN's I have had the pleasure of working with......good luck again.

another amedisys castaway in Miami, Florida said: I am another "Amedisys Castaway!" These people gobble you up and spit you out. Offer large salary long enough for you to "clean up" the problems within a troubled office, then find an error and call it a "zero tolerance" policy so they can fire you and replace you with someone with little or no education..As all of the others above have said...RUN don't walk from this company. They are the big giants with no conscience and should be shut down for unethical practices. Oh and let's not forget the weekly calls from corporate demanding the office change HHRG scores to increase the medicare reimbursement amount from Medicare, and Clinical Managers that are instructed to changes the nurses documentation to increase revenues. (On patients they have never laid eyes on!!)

Unless you look good in Orange or Stripes for the latest Jail wear, you may want to reconsider a position with AMEDISYS~!
I don't know about you but I have "ZERO TOLERANCE" for Medicare Fraud.

I do not work for Amedysis, I was thinking about applying for an RN position because they pay $8.00 more per visit than I make. I came upon this Forum and it caught my eye because I just this week have began receiving calls from coding asking me to change my ICD9 and functionals to benefit the co in collecting more pay from Medicare. I have been with this co for over 4 years and have not received a pay increase, except $2.00 per visit, I am small town and see 7-8 patients per day and still make less than what I made 4 yrs ago because of change in ownership to Suncrest. I am expecting THE STEPFORD WIVES any day now. Does Medicare turn a blind eye to these practices?? Do I have to change codes and reduce visits because the co says? Why I I paid so much less than Amedysis, and even less than nurses in my own co. in a larger city?? Who governs this? Is there discrimination based upon locality? I may have to work for peanuts to have job securit

Jamie in Covington, my advice is to stick to your guns and use the most appropriate codes. Document any all changes made to any codes by the co. As for reducing the visits I found the easiest way to slay that dragon was to go along with them and then get the MD to give me a verbal order to make the visits match the patient need not Acmedisys needs. The co can't trump an MD order.

Susan Goff in Kissimmee, Florida said: The DOO of Ocoee filed a WC claim, went thru the process, and was told she needed surgery and would miss eight weeks of work. She told her RVP. Two days later she was terminated. This is a felony in Florida according to the WC Division. Call Morgan & Morgan in Orlando and tell them about your situation because they have filed against Amedisys for this.

This sounds like the start of a joke:" Four healthcare workers from the same company walk into four different attorneys offices to report discrimination and retaliation..." But it happened here in Florida. All four walked into different branch offices of the same law firm, unknown to each other. All suits have been centralized. Depositions have been taken from employees and former employees of 3 central florida offices,and former Amedisys DOOs and an AVP or two also.State is very much in on the cases because they frown on retaliation, especially WC claimants. These cases are going public very soon. Lets see how BB handles the bad publicity and the lawsuits, which look to be headed to class-action territory.

I love reading the posts on this forum. All of the negative you read here is so so SO true. Amedisys moved in to our neck of the woods about 10 months ago and has made a huge impression on the health community. Let's just say it isn't a good one. Its really quite amusing, they are on a "marketing blitz" in the community and drumming up some pretty lame referrals just so they can keep their numbers up. Hopefully they will meet their quota of re-certing 50% of their case load. Bah! What a scam. It will all work out in the end. The feds will catch on to their fraudulent ways soon.

DeadheadOne in Virginia Beach, Virginia said: Jamie in Covington, my advice is to stick to your guns and use the most appropriate codes. Document any all changes made to any codes by the co. As for reducing the visits I found the easiest way to slay that dragon was to go along with them and then get the MD to give me a verbal order to make the visits match the patient need not Acmedisys needs. The co can't trump an MD order.

Thanx, you're advise is working fine, the patients are taken care of.. I'm still going broke, LOL $27.00/ VISIT PERIOD sound right to anyone???

When the Feds catch up, maybe we need a Class Action Lawsuit to cover our poor treatment, underpayment, overwork, and putting up with BS in general.. I have never been paid for hours of paperwork, phone calls, the extra mile, etc.. Paid per visit but obligated 24/7 without pay. I don't even work for ACME. LOL

Jamie in Covington, Tennessee said: Thanx, you're advise is working fine, the patients are taken care of.. I'm still going broke, LOL $27.00/ VISIT PERIOD sound right to anyone???

newbie here but geesh everything i read is true!!! $ 27.00 for LPN or RN? i have worked with amedisys for about 5 months and i am looking for a new job already!!!what a joke, there isnt even many nurses working for our company. ALL contract nurses with the exception of a few....i recently transferred to a new office and the boston office is still looking for help. its pretty sad when the contract nurse are offered jobs and dont want to stay!!! their 13 week assignment and they've had enough!!!LOL this company is a joke. I thought about writting to one the news investigators to see if they would do an investigation on the company nation wide because of our UNDERPAYMENT IN MILEAGE!!!!!! their should be a law against it. everybody that has ever been to boston knows there is always detours and road construction in and out of the city... therefor making it impossible for them to judge my mileage not to mention the traffic i am not going to sit in traffic for an hour because its a little shorter therefor i drive a few extra miles....GRRRRRR now i will go to work at the H#llHole...

I've been working for Amedisys for about a year and a half and I absolutely love it. I'm surprised by all the negative comments on here. I have worked in home care my entire nursing career and have never been paid in mileage what the government allows. You know, you can write the difference off on taxes at the end of the year. I like being paid per visit. I'm very organized and detailed. I get in and out and off to the next person. I can see between 6-8 patients a day. That amounts to big money in my area. Alot more than what any other agency makes. Our staff is wonderful. We are raising money for a family in need and we all enjoy each others company. We are the preferred provider in my area for home care and maintain the highest clinical outcomes based on Medicare.gov. All of the nurses get admin time each day to complete paperwork. This is an Amedisys policy. Maybe your offices just have bad leadership.
It's funny but our competitors all think we are just hanging on by a thread and getting lame referrals as well. When our RSD moved here last year she was told by a competitor that our census was 5. WOW!! They really have no clue. We continue to get the majority of referrals from the hospital and they have their own home health. Is it demanding and frustrating sometimes? Yes, but that is just nursing and homecare. I've never had a job that wasn't frustrating at times.

RNBSN in New Albany, Indiana said: I've been working for Amedisys for about a year and a half and I absolutely love it. I'm surprised by all the negative comments on here. I have worked in home care my entire nursing career and have never been paid in mileage what the government allows. You know, you can write the difference off on taxes at the end of the year. I like being paid per visit. I'm very organized and detailed. I get in and out and off to the next person. I can see between 6-8 patients a day. That amounts to big money in my area. Alot more than what any other agency makes. Our staff is wonderful. We are raising money for a family in need and we all enjoy each others company. We are the preferred provider in my area for home care and maintain the highest clinical outcomes based on Medicare.gov. All of the nurses get admin time each day to complete paperwork. This is an Amedisys policy. Maybe your offices just have bad leadership.
It's funny but our competitors all think we are just hanging on by a thread and getting lame referrals as well. When our RSD moved here last year she was told by a competitor that our census was 5. WOW!! They really have no clue. We continue to get the majority of referrals from the hospital and they have their own home health. Is it demanding and frustrating sometimes? Yes, but that is just nursing and homecare. I've never had a job that wasn't frustrating at times.

I wasn't talking about the cents per mile, i was talking about the actual miles driven versus their so called computer system that calculates the shortest distance, so lets say from point a to point b i came across a flooded road (which by the way happens all the time in boston because of a water main break) any way they closed the road temporarily and the only other way there is 4miles longer. i get screwed out of 4 miles. also there is always traffic and accidents in boston that cause detours,that will not show on mapquest!!

So, you were just screwed out of $1.68? Definately call the news. That is a BIG story. How would you expect them to do it? No system is going to know that you were detoured and no company is going to let the staff calculate it themselves because believe it or not, there are people who will lie just to gain a buck or two.

No miss corporate!!!!!! that was an example!! it happens all day long and i'm not the only employee that works for them.....so your $1.68 you can add to your corporate pay!! the point is there is thousands of employees. take $1.oo a day from 10,000 employees the company has now earned 10,000.00 and this is the only home care company in the area that calculates for you so do the research..HMMM Amedisys is so concerned of what their employees think of them, they send you in as a spy to watch whats being said HUH?? Hope Corporate has a nice Christmas!!!!!!

RNBSN in New Albany, Indiana said: It cracks me up so much when someone thinks just because someone likes their job that they are corporate. I am a single mom with a daughter who put herself through nursing school. I have never been a surpervisor of anything. I ask you, does your office ever bring you breakfast, lunch or give you goodies at Christmas time, and other holidays? My office does things for us all the time and I APPRECIATE IT. You should be happy that you have a job in this economic time. The truth is: there are some people who will never be happy. Type in Gentiva on this site. They are the largest homecare in the nation and people are complaining about the same crap. I think corporate has alot more things to do then to watch these little complaining/grip sessions. I'm sorry I ever made a comment. Have a nice day you poor miserable soul.

The following posted can be found openly on the internet,
www.hoosiertimes.com/pages/files/busnet/BizNet-2009-01.pdf

but not corporate huh?
Amedisys Home Health: The warm and caring staff of Amedisys provide
the care you or your loved one need. Contact Kim Robins, account
executive, or Aldea Cloutier-Hartung, director of Office Operations, at
their office at 1332 West Arch Haven Ave., Suite E.

Amedisys1332 West Arch Haven Avenue, Suite E Bloomington, IN 47403.

RNBSN in New Albany, Indiana said: It cracks me up so much when someone thinks just because someone likes their job that they are corporate. I am a single mom with a daughter who put herself through nursing school. I have never been a surpervisor of anything. I ask you, does your office ever bring you breakfast, lunch or give you goodies at Christmas time, and other holidays? My office does things for us all the time and I APPRECIATE IT. You should be happy that you have a job in this economic time. The truth is: there are some people who will never be happy. Type in Gentiva on this site. They are the largest homecare in the nation and people are complaining about the same crap. I think corporate has alot more things to do then to watch these little complaining/grip sessions. I'm sorry I ever made a comment. Have a nice day you poor miserable soul.

Nice. It's a poor miserable soul whose ethics are so easily compromised by a sack of Egg Mcmuffins at case conference and a tin of butter cookies at Christams time.

lookin for another job in massachusetts in boston, Massachusetts said: The following posted can be found openly on the internet,
www.hoosiertimes.com/pages/files/busnet/BizNet-2009-01.pdf

but not corporate huh?
Amedisys Home Health: The warm and caring staff of Amedisys provide
the care you or your loved one need. Contact Kim Robins, account
executive, or Aldea Cloutier-Hartung, director of Office Operations, at
their office at 1332 West Arch Haven Ave., Suite E.

Amedisys1332 West Arch Haven Avenue, Suite E Bloomington, IN 47403.

click on profile her name is Kim Robbins she's an account executive, so she's one of them, collecting as she thinks our pennies!!

J11HD in Empire, Alabama said: What are the requirements for part time RNs?

the requirement is to bend down kiss ass and work for nothing how can this joke of a company mandate a part time 32 hour employee with no benifits to work christmas day ??????????? this company is a joke i read all the statements here and they are so true this company underpays milage and hours, this company dosent give a crap about anything but their bottom dollar pretty cool when u can give all the ppl who get the perks a day off and pull in a lowly part timer to work the skut shift ,so can someone tell me how this can be mandated??? they are a joke !!!!!!!

married to one who slaves for them in Brownsville, Pennsylvania said: the requirement is to bend down kiss ass and work for nothing how can this joke of a company mandate a part time 32 hour employee with no benifits to work christmas day ??????????? this company is a joke i read all the statements here and they are so true this company underpays milage and hours, this company dosent give a crap about anything but their bottom dollar pretty cool when u can give all the ppl who get the perks a day off and pull in a lowly part timer to work the skut shift ,so can someone tell me how this can be mandated??? they are a joke !!!!!!!

our office doesnt work christmas day! the nurses pt ot dont work christmas day, actually they dont work xmas eve either! unless there is a daily patient, or something critical, but even then they have a baylor. so that much i can say for the company.

its called on call ...u know where they can stick u with anything and pay u penuts ,,,call u out on any bogus thing they want too ,,why should a part timer with no benifits get stuck doing this when there are full time ppl that get benifits and should be doing it ,sadly from what i hear if u speak up they can fire u it is a at will state here in pa ,i thought mandating that 5 days on call in a row wab bad they just keep getting more interesting and it wont stop till someone puts a union in or reports all the shadiness

another question working 32 hours a week shouldnt that qualify you for something ? i just had a call from a insurance co when i told them this hospice nurse works 32 hr a week and has no insurance they were apalled i mean come on a nurse with no insurance ?????????????

I have not heard from the sales side of Amed. I have worked in several Amed environments and start ups, and when I left them, I got bought right back. Amed does a lot of things right, and they really do have good intentions. But, they seriously ought to stick to Home Health and stay out of hospice, they hired a bunch ofangry, greedy folks to administer a sacred program. The home care folks resent the hospice people and vice versa, and no one cares. Sales people are treated like slaves and are tracked all day via GPS on their phones, cars and computers....there is so much paperwork and data entry, it is difficult to do your job and have life balance with all of the corporate interference. If the directors would keep their business local and quit calling corporate to report every little detail of the day, maybe we all could take care of patients....wasn't that the intention?

This company is different, it has more than the usual back-stabbing #itches, it has back-stabbing men as well! You know about carma, it always comes back to bite you.

When I worked for this company I could hardly do my work because everytime I turned around there was some stupid meeting called, and the conference calls (what a joke). Our superior was some psychotic witch from Fredericksburg. Amedysis did finally get rid of her after half the state of Va complained about her. Why they would keep someone like her for as long as they did I don't know (to torture us). Hey, what's going on with the navtrac? I hear they are getting rid of that, must have a law suit brewing. It must have been some harrassment violation Where can I go to find out about the law suits, I'am sure I know a few people that have a case as well as excellent documentation of events. I'AM SO HAPPY I DON'T WORK FOR THIS COMPANY ANYMORE, THEY SUCK!!!!!!!!

married to one who slaves for them in Brownsville, Pennsylvania said: another question working 32 hours a week shouldnt that qualify you for something ? i just had a call from a insurance co when i told them this hospice nurse works 32 hr a week and has no insurance they were apalled i mean come on a nurse with no insurance ?????????????

You must not be very familiar with the benefits that women Usually get.. We don't get first day benefits, or even benefits for less than 36hrs/wk. I paid $200/wk on my last job for family health insurance... yes, per week! kind like working to pay the insurance for 1 Day Every week. I got an interview recently & when they said there were first day benefits, I almost passed out. Many of the nurses I know have no insurance. If you're PRN, it's not offered, Part Time Usually don't get it, only the full time who can Afford to pay for it.

I've been away from Amedysis and their witch-hunting stepford wives for two years now. I am dedicated to my work, my employers who will back their nurses 200% and then some. My patients are wonderful and the continuence of care is impecable. My experience as a nurse has grown in ways I could not imagine and passions about my proffession revived and resurected. Passions that Amedisys nearly annihilated. There are Home health agencies out there that surpass Amadysis is patient care, core values, TEAMWORK, and the value of nurses in the team. The Grass IS GREENER on the other side.

Trudy RN in Indiana said: I've been away from Amedysis and their witch-hunting stepford wives for two years now. I am dedicated to my work, my employers who will back their nurses 200% and then some. My patients are wonderful and the continuence of care is impecable. My experience as a nurse has grown in ways I could not imagine and passions about my proffession revived and resurected. Passions that Amedisys nearly annihilated. There are Home health agencies out there that surpass Amadysis is patient care, core values, TEAMWORK, and the value of nurses in the team. The Grass IS GREENER on the other side.

Let me sum up locally (central Louisiana) what the thoughts on Amedisys are. I work for a great home health company which has 3 former Amedisys RN's and LPN's. We have 12 patients which are 12 miles from our closest office which live within a softball field from the Amedisys office and they wouldn't let them visit their dog. Patient care is actions, not words. 500+ offices--that an awful lot of talk and no action for the patient. Amedisys has run off more good people than any reasonable actions can serve. Why don't they have more offices in their own home state? Because they don't back their staff in the field and most workers feel like a calf looking at a locked gate on teamwork efforts from office staff. Make no doubt, Amedisys is going to take care of Amedisys first and foremost.

I am so thankful I have found this website. I began working for an Amedisys company in June of last year. It was eye opening experience and I am so happy to see that I am not the only one who feels that it is about quantity not quality with this company. I am on my last week of employment and cannot be happier for myself, and saddened for my clinical staff who have pleaded with me to stay. The statement today was, "you are not like the rest of these people".

I went from a case manager in home health to a clinical manager at Amedisys. After one week of orientation, where I watched someone else work, I was on my own. I was responsible for a team of 15 clinicians with a patient load of 240(give or take)... Within 1 month of joining this company and barely able to keep my head above water for all the "tasks" I was responsible, 3 new employees were dropped off at my door within 1 month with the words, "here is your new employee". It then became my responsiblity to "orient" them, the blind leading the blind. We were required to use Supplemental employees that had little home health experience and were told to give them one or two days of orientation.

Each week at the clinical manager meeting the DOO would rattle off the newest task that we needed to start doing. These tasks usually involved some type of micromanagement of the staff, some way to squeeze an extra penny out of medicare. We were no longer allowed to purchase gloves for patients who had dressing changes, for anyone really, unless medicaid authorized a glove alottment for the patient. They have auditors, that check auditors, that check auditors to make sure that we do not spend an extra penny on the patient or staff.

We are hounded to order PT/OT on patients, despite the RN clinical evaluation. Most of these patients were discharged by therapy recently. If the fall risk isn't high enough, then they look at functional scores to get the extra bucks from therapy... (to be continued)

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If a patient has pneumonia we were pushed to only order the SN visits that fit the "clinical track"... so that was 6. If you ordered more than that you had to justify, but my DOO (who had more than her share of kook-aid) did not have room for such, and would tell you to change the freq back to 6. (don't tell her I left it the way the assessing RN thought it should be done). I overheard the RSD say, "well they found that the more visits the nurses made the more likely they were to go in the hospital, so they recommend less visits"... Are you kidding me.. maybe they needed more visits and were hospitalized more because they were sicker????!!!!!

This past week our DOO and RSD returned from the Kook-Aid Convention and the words are so SWEET... Amedisys has realized the error of their ways and are looking back to quality.... so now we are going to reprimand anyone who spends less than an hour doing an admission or recert... another report (task) for the clinical managers to track and micromanage...

I am from the school of thought that if you treat your employees well, with respect, educate them and give them the tools they need (gloves) to do the job, they will take good care of the patients. Amedisys seems to think if they harass you enough you will make it look good on paper.

I am a medical social worker with an interview with Amedisys in the Hampton VA area. Can anyone tell me about these working conditions and what kind of per visit rate to ask for.

One of the big problems with Amedisys is the vertical integration of the company. There are so many mandates pouring downhill from corporate that the individual agencies lack the flexibility to operate freely and efficiently. Some days it seems like you can't even go to the bathroom without bowing towards Baton Rouge seven times and asking permission first.

I also heard the "good news" about the supposed reorganization of the company following the latest koolaid convention. I'll believe it when I see it. In the meantime, uninformed micromanagement rules.

I was told once from an Area Vice President that "social workers were at the bottom of the list at Amedisys, after nurses, therapists and even CNAs" ouch! Southern Girl

4-22-2010 What officeses did they close?

I have worked for Amedysis for about two years now, and I love it. My DOO is very understanding when I have to adjust my schedule, and they are training me to work in the office. I like all the nurses and therapists I work with, as well as my DOO and BOM.

WhoopsieDaisey in Oklahoma said: I have worked for Amedysis for about two years now, and I love it. My DOO is very understanding when I have to adjust my schedule, and they are training me to work in the office. I like all the nurses and therapists I work with, as well as my DOO and BOM.

Be glad you are not in Florida, they are closing 7 offices.

I worked for a hospital based agency bought by Amedisys, it was their first FL aquisition. It truly was once a home health company to be proud of but they grew out of their hearts and into their pockets. They attempted to make you think Amedisys was the only home health agency on the planet. It saddens me to see how good something could be if greed was not in the way. Before I left, after 8 yrs in management, my yearly raise was 5 months over due and big deal it was never what you deserved for all the expected overtime you did without pay, no one ever told you were doing a good job (we met presidents circle twice) and when I left no one above the DOO asked why I was leaving or said good-bye. I am still in home health and working very hard for a company that appreciates me and I have other Amedisys employees moved with me after I became established. If you are a quick learner, can work under pressure you do get great experiences from this company because they expect you to learn everyone's job in the office. So take the job learn all you can and get OUT before they ruin you!

wOW. sORRY to hear that. I think my DOO and BOM do all they can for us with our best interests at heart, but the company itself is very questionable, I am starting to see that the more I am around the office and out of the field. It's a shame.

Y'all need to read the Wall Street Journal articles and the Senate letter of inquiry regarding Amedisys. Google is your friend . . .

Being investigated by the Feds is something not to take lightly. They always find something to send someone to prison on, and it looks like the Senate has Bill Bourne squarely in its sights.

Senator Charles Grassley (R) Iowa is leading this, feel free to email him with any information you may have if you worked in an Amedisys office that participated in 'upcoding' or other fraudulent activities.

another amedisys castaway in Miami, Florida said: I am another "Amedisys Castaway!" These people gobble you up and spit you out. Offer large salary long enough for you to "clean up" the problems within a troubled office, then find an error and call it a "zero tolerance" policy so they can fire you and replace you with someone with little or no education..As all of the others above have said...RUN don't walk from this company. They are the big giants with no conscience and should be shut down for unethical practices. Oh and let's not forget the weekly calls from corporate demanding the office change HHRG scores to increase the medicare reimbursement amount from Medicare, and Clinical Managers that are instructed to changes the nurses documentation to increase revenues. (On patients they have never laid eyes on!!)

Unless you look good in Orange or Stripes for the latest Jail wear, you may want to reconsider a position with AMEDISYS~!
I don't know about you but I have "ZERO TOLERANCE" for Medicare Fraud.

Amedisys thinks they are Too Big To Fail.

Amedisys thinks they are Too Big To Fail.

And who in their right mind would pick Uncle Joe's Restaurant in Brooksville, FL to hold a training class? With a population of 8,300. There are more cows in this town than people and let us not forget the 2 traffic lights. Does any body look at a map?

Thank you CORPORATE!!!!

Walmart of Home Health Care! I Love it! Unfortunately, this company, like so many others has gotten to heavy at the corporate level. They sincerely have absolutely no internal program that gathers data that would send a red flag to the Board of Directors that there is a problem. Which inevitably will be their downfall. I worked at the corporate level for several years and became "too old" (50+) so my position was quietly eliminated. Which I knew would happen since I had never seen a company that cares absolutely nothing about your quality of work. If you are"popular" or friends with the right people, you never need to actually work. They replace dedicated, loyal, qualified employees with newbees because they can pay them a minimal wage. The company spends alot of money on acquisitions and "training" but only spends minimal amounts of money to keep quality employees and there by supply "quality" care to their patients. If you decide to work for Amedysis, always keep in mind, that you are replaceable and they do Not give a flip about you.

I no longer am surprised by the crap that this company pulls.
As a per diem LPN I have been struggling for the past 8 months to make ends meet. Why do I hang on to this job? Because when I was initially hired they told me that a full-time position would soon be available for me.

Unfortunately, that has not been the case. I have seen 3 LPN's hired since myself, have applied for a full-time position several times, work 5-6 days a week and still nothing.
Have come to the conclusion that this is because I don't spend every spare moment of my day in the office kissing asses.
I get paid $25/patient, and 42 cents to each mile. I am also going to school part-time. This means I spend more money on gas than food every week. If it weren't for my parents and future mother-in-law I would be in a really tough situation right now.

Stupid me, I've stuck it out this long...

Had to laugh at care team conference two days ago when the DOO made the comment that "we are here to make money".
And they wonder why I don't want to go to meetings.

Actively applying for a new job.

~Miserable LPN in PA

Smith9Letters in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania said: I no longer am surprised by the crap that this company pulls.
As a per diem LPN I have been struggling for the past 8 months to make ends meet. Why do I hang on to this job? Because when I was initially hired they told me that a full-time position would soon be available for me.

Unfortunately, that has not been the case. I have seen 3 LPN's hired since myself, have applied for a full-time position several times, work 5-6 days a week and still nothing.
Have come to the conclusion that this is because I don't spend every spare moment of my day in the office kissing asses.
I get paid $25/patient, and 42 cents to each mile. I am also going to school part-time. This means I spend more money on gas than food every week. If it weren't for my parents and future mother-in-law I would be in a really tough situation right now.

Stupid me, I've stuck it out this long...

Had to laugh at care team conference two days ago when the DOO made the comment that "we are here to make money".
And they wonder why I don't want to go to meetings.

Actively applying for a new job.

~Miserable LPN in PA

This company utilizes a GPS system for figuring our mileage, no attention whatsoever to what we actually drive and turn in. This year alone, I've been shorted approximately 1800 miles. When you question it, the only answer you get is, "this a a headache for everyone, but it's company policy." I guess that makes it okay to someone sitting in an office 1000 miles from where I'm
doing visits in rural WV. Even when they correct it, it's still wrong because of the GPS, it doesn't recognize most of the addresses I visit, so it reverts back to the nearest recognizable address, most often the post office, automatically shorting you for the visit. I think the mileage policy is what's funding the aggressive acquisition policy.

Holy Smokes, the things I have had to endure with this company!!! I was so excited when I took this job but that deteriorated very quickly. In my short time with this company I have been told to find something to see a patient for, even when I told the DOO that the patient was not appropriate. I was told to change a note. I was told I had to get 5 visits on a patient to avoid a LUPA. Those are just a couple examples of Medicare Fraud.
Before taking this job I was told that they would be flexible with me due to having a family and living in another city. WRONG!!! They could care less if you work til 10pm every night. When you tell them you can't fit in another patient they don't even attempt to help you out. Its not uncommon for staff to have 7-9 patients in a day following all the stupid meetings every day that keep you in the office til 11am. I spend hours a week going over my schedule with no less than 4 people who feel the need to micromanage every second of my day. I have to defend myself daily as to why I schedule patients this way or that way. I was even asked by my DOO to call a doctor and ask them if a patient (being treated by another agency) could be switched to our agengy. I mean seriously, are we that desperate for numbers. Oh yeah, I forgot, those patients pad that big 'ol bonus that DOO and the managers get. Bonuses have NOTHING to do with patient satisfaction, quality outcomes or anything else relevant to why we do what we do.
Amedisys looses some of the best, quality staff due to its lies, deception and company corruption from the top down.
My best suggestion is if your an employee-find another job. If your looking for a job-go to with Gentiva or anybody else.

saveyourintegrity in gastonia, North Carolina said: Holy Smokes, the things I have had to endure with this company!!! I was so excited when I took this job but that deteriorated very quickly. In my short time with this company I have been told to find something to see a patient for, even when I told the DOO that the patient was not appropriate. I was told to change a note. I was told I had to get 5 visits on a patient to avoid a LUPA. Those are just a couple examples of Medicare Fraud.
Before taking this job I was told that they would be flexible with me due to having a family and living in another city. WRONG!!! They could care less if you work til 10pm every night. When you tell them you can't fit in another patient they don't even attempt to help you out. Its not uncommon for staff to have 7-9 patients in a day following all the stupid meetings every day that keep you in the office til 11am. I spend hours a week going over my schedule with no less than 4 people who feel the need to micromanage every second of my day. I have to defend myself daily as to why I schedule patients this way or that way. I was even asked by my DOO to call a doctor and ask them if a patient (being treated by another agency) could be switched to our agengy. I mean seriously, are we that desperate for numbers. Oh yeah, I forgot, those patients pad that big 'ol bonus that DOO and the managers get. Bonuses have NOTHING to do with patient satisfaction, quality outcomes or anything else relevant to why we do what we do.
Amedisys looses some of the best, quality staff due to its lies, deception and company corruption from the top down.
My best suggestion is if your an employee-find another job. If your looking for a job-go to with Gentiva or anybody else.

Should see them now..scramling with the SEC, FTC, after their back sides. Have not seen anything like this sence the T-berry Shuffle. They don't know which way to turn first. And you thought Calfornia had big fires.

Attention top dog's at Amedysis (you also "BILLY B").. just because there is piss poor planning and piss poor performance on your part does not mean you have to shovel it down hill.

Please, please report any fraud you see!! I would like to work as a homecare nurse, but since they are the only game in town, they won't hire RN's to work in homes. we cost too much & they want all that money for the management. I don't look good in stripes or orange...

Do I have a story for you! Sorry, so long. This was a start up agency for Green Bay. Absolutely no one knew what they were doing-including the Regional VP! Spent 5 months in Illinois-they made me get a license there so I could train at their office. Mostly did computer orientation(took 68 of their tests)and filling in for a clinical manager while on medical leave for 6 weeks. They still did not have temp. license for Wisconsin. Finally 9 months after hire and going through a stipened payout for the remaining 4 months-got temp. license. Crap hit the fan then-especially with DOO and BOM not knowing what they needed to know, as they had put off their orientation. They still did not have even their computer orientation done from them being a new employee yet after 5 months. (They got paid full salary during that 5 months by the way.) Then they tried putting off on to the one trained (myself)the problems they were having with not knowing anything-had to train them, and any new employess the computer system-do partial clinical manager role as they didin't even know how to process orders, plus be the Field RN. Then they come back at you for little incidentals (part of learning curve and too busy to get everything accomplished in one day) set up up to fail with other office director and then write you up for them. Why because they needed to feel they were in Charge! They were mis-spelling TEAM with and I in that office! And as far as them not knowing anything reflecting on your own abilities and knowledge-they thought they could sweep stuff under the rug and claim they didn't know. Well to me, that was a red flag that let me know my license at some point would be in jeopardy. I am writing this a year later because I was very let down by this BIG corporation, I decided to pursue happiness at home-I was so burnt out from them. I am now finally clearing out the cobwebbs. PLEASE, IF YOU HAVE ANY INTEGRITY*-DON'T WORK FOR AMEDISYS! RUN THE OTHER WAY! NO ORANGE OR STRIPES!

I have an interview tomorrow for hospice field nurse in Kennesaw, GA. Could this location be the needle in a haystack GOOD, ethical, and supportive Amedysis?

Thank God-not there anymore RN in De Pere, Wisconsin said: Do I have a story for you! Sorry, so long. This was a start up agency for Green Bay. Absolutely no one knew what they were doing-including the Regional VP! Spent 5 months in Illinois-they made me get a license there so I could train at their office. Mostly did computer orientation(took 68 of their tests)and filling in for a clinical manager while on medical leave for 6 weeks. They still did not have temp. license for Wisconsin. Finally 9 months after hire and going through a stipened payout for the remaining 4 months-got temp. license. Crap hit the fan then-especially with DOO and BOM not knowing what they needed to know, as they had put off their orientation. They still did not have even their computer orientation done from them being a new employee yet after 5 months. (They got paid full salary during that 5 months by the way.) Then they tried putting off on to the one trained (myself)the problems they were having with not knowing anything-had to train them, and any new employess the computer system-do partial clinical manager role as they didin't even know how to process orders, plus be the Field RN. Then they come back at you for little incidentals (part of learning curve and too busy to get everything accomplished in one day) set up up to fail with other office director and then write you up for them. Why because they needed to feel they were in Charge! They were mis-spelling TEAM with and I in that office! And as far as them not knowing anything reflecting on your own abilities and knowledge-they thought they could sweep stuff under the rug and claim they didn't know. Well to me, that was a red flag that let me know my license at some point would be in jeopardy. I am writing this a year later because I was very let down by this BIG corporation, I decided to pursue happiness at home-I was so burnt out from them. I am now finally clearing out the cobwebbs. PLEASE, IF YOU HAVE ANY INTEGRITY*-DON'T