Beth Israel Lahey Health reviews

Do not work here if you want stability in your job or honesty about the future of your program. You will be forced into “redeployment”, a tactic to move employees to other programs that are bringing in more revenue when yours is not. If you decline being forced into a much lower position (a whole post-secondary degree lower) which may include night shifts on weekends and housekeeping, as well as a position where you may not even be doing therapy at all, you will be fired (rather than let go ethically because your program is not profitable). Leadership has no regard for client care and you and your supervisor will have to “figure it out” when you are fired, and you will essentially have to rip services away from your clients because another program is making more money and that’s where “the critical need is”. If you are still employed, you will live in fear that you will be called any day to be pigeonholed into a lower position or lose your job. This company is profiting off a global pandemic and transforming hospitals to receive funding from the state to start new programs where they will force you to go to, 30+ miles away from the original site you agreed to work at and exposed to deadly disease. This is a corporation that will do everything in their power to make sure they don’t have to pay you a penny more than they have to, AND make sure you will have difficulty accessing unemployment benefits upon your termination. If you’re lucky like me, your program director will be narcissistic and patronizing, gaslighting you for any ethical or personal concerns you have although he “welcomes your feedback”. Leadership members like him are solely focused on their own growth in the system and not their assigned programs, employees, and clients within. HR representatives will talk to you as if you are a child and invalidate real concerns about your health and safety. This company profits and thrives on deception and drama with half thought-out policies and programs. Find an agency that adapts to the time we are in and uses Telehealth and is truly HIRING, not firing. You deserve better. We all do.

Leadership in behavioral health say they want to listen but every meeting where constructive solution oriented thoughts are offered they are met with defensiveness and occasionally outright derision. We are being asked to work short staffed and take on additional clients with fewer sessions even when weekly appointments are clinically suggested. We've been told again and again that they are hiring more staff, but it looks as though the recruiting team isn't doing enough- the low pay and job postings being up on every site for months is enough to keep candidates away. We've been asked to refer our friends. I'm sorry, I like my friends. Also when people DO refer their friends they have to track down HR and payroll and make sure they get their referral bonus. Oh that sign on bonus, you better keep track of both halves, because you might not get the second half on time. The HR department is rude and unhelpful. I had to deal with them and recruitment when I moved from one dept to another and it was an ordeal. Also moving from one location to another is rare and made overly difficult. If you hope to move up, dream on. There is very little room for growth. There is no formal training program for any location. My previous location had an amazing training program and daily staff meetings- even when we were WFH. Currently? Nah, we have BIWEEKLY staff meetings and people barely want to have those because they cut into productivity. Coworkers brought up the lack of connection and senior leadership blamed it on work from home and essentially said that was the trade off- you get work from home and you get lack of connection with your peers. The defensiveness and ridiculousness of senior leadership is just wild. WFH is not the problem, the company culture of not supporting your employees constantly expecting more and more and then belittling their concerns is the issue.