The facility is severely understaffed. Budget cuts caused a lack of snacks and supplies for patients, and other basic necessities like chucks and briefs. No bonuses were ever offered for picking up shifts. Management was condescending and passive-aggressive if you didn't pick up a shift to help. No communication at all on any updates to company procedures. Patients could even tell how stressed and understaffed the facility was, which would lead to more stress on the patients. Some staff showed up intoxicated and were never reprimanded. If you were someone who truly cared about the patients and the job, you would end up with more work because the staff that slacked off, or no call no showed, got away with it all the time and were never reprimanded for it. Noc shift is severely understaffed, and some CNAs would work a month straight without a day off. Nurses would never get breaks. In my entire year of being there, I never clocked out for a lunch, and there was no proper coverage for it. Management always criticized staff for not taking lunches, without providing any real solutions to help. CNAs could be assigned up to 15 patients, and never receive a lunch. Nurses are assigned upwards of 30 patients, and sometimes up to 3 admissions on top. This is without any regard to how high acuity the patients are, so if an emergency occurs (which it did all the time) you would still have to take care of the rest of the assignment on top of that. I have worked many 17-hour shifts here without a break and have been expected to show up less than 5 hours later for my next shift. If you don't advocate for yourself here, you will drown. They will cut your new employment training short in order to meet the staffing requirements, and new employees are often thrown to the wolves with no proper training. When you are hired on, there is no actual orientation. You are thrown a stack of paperwork and expected to sign it all without any explanation. So if you can afford a lawyer to look through your paperwork, and make sure you are not signing your life away, I would advise it. Apparently, I signed an agreement where my final paycheck had to be uploaded to a debit card, and that I would not receive a check. This caused many issues in being able to actually get my money, and many hoops to jump through. The system was hacked in March 2022, and both patient and employee information was stolen and made public. The company knew about the issue but didn't act on it until three months later. There is a class action lawsuit in place for it based out of Portland. During this period, the internet kept going down, and the phones were disconnected for over a week in every facility. The company offered free credit monitoring, through services that already offer free credit monitoring. They sent out a letter, not offering any other support than that. If you are a former employee, or patient, you may have had your identity stolen.
