Good First Job, lots of issues with long term employment
Pros
In one of the WI regions, they offer a fair amount of mentorship. Benefits are good. Continuing education package is good, but they will use this to justify a lower pay rate.
Cons
Where to start? - pay is below average. They swindle new employees and new grads with a sign on bonus. Not everyone is equal pay based on experience--some peers will be making significantly more or less than you for unclear reasons. (clinicians who were significantly less experienced than me making nearly 10K higher salary). - you will work tirelessly as a clinician for a low wage comparative to nation-wide averages to generate revenue for your clinic and to cover the very large salary of many higher management personnel who are non revenue-generating. They have a huge headquarters team in Chicago region who do not practice but rake in large annual salaries. - poor staffing. They will hire you for a specific clinic, but ask you to work at multiple locations once you're trained (without increased pay). Be wary of this as it causes high burnout. - clinic managers will leave, and they will replace with the next clinician in line at the clinic versus people who have experience--lots of young PTs in daunting roles which also contributes to high burnout. - PPW expectations are 50-55 patients per week, but they won't outline it on the job description. Seeing patients on the 30min with documentation expectations to be complete at end of day. Often you will be working through lunch/after work to reach this goal. Clinic Managers are given only 2hrs/week to complete management tasks and still held to 45 PPW expectations. - salaried employees are expected to work overtime and "extend" beyond 40hrs to get to appropriate PPW and achieve metrics. No paid documentation time if not complete at end of day. Contributes to very poor work life balance. (which they will pitch as work-life integration). - Company is ever-changing and they do not know their identity. They have had 3 CEOs in the last 4 years and keep rolling out new “initiatives”. This makes it really difficult for someone to lead staff and set clear expectations as a Clinic Manager. Until they figure this out, I would not recommend anyone work here in a management position. - with new initiatives: they push a lot of Plan of Care expectations and unnecessary services (related to Medicare reimbursement) to increase revenue at the expense of the patient. This causes borderline ethical questions.
