Very Corporate and Productivity above everything - Physical Therapist Sentara Health Employee Review

2.0
Jun 11, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

At least 1 annual raise, you get to work with good PTs typically, you are provided with a MedBridge account so you can get continuing education this way

Cons

Sentara is now forcing PTs to do 30 minute evaluations, see 3-4 patients an hour during treatment sessions, and they are only focused on productivity, NOT patient care. They ask their PTs to bill unethically with Medicare. While they advertise 21 days of PTO, they make you take your PTO for all holidays or if the clinic is closed due to weather. They recently reduced mothers’ pumping time to only 15 minutes and told postpartum moms that if they wanted longer than 15 minutes they would have to take the rest as PTO (aka another 10-15 minutes.) They also just removed our documentation time, we used to have a 30 minute lunch and 30 minutes to document in the middle of the day, but now we only have a 30 minute lunch in the middle of the day, whether you work a 10 hour shift or an 8 hour shift. Additionally, they require you to track your own productivity. At the end of every day you have to count every single patient and unit and put it into a tracker along with how many hours you worked. Sentara also changed our pay structure to instead of being salary, we are now basically hourly. We found out about this change on a Friday and it was implemented the following Monday. Do not work for this company, they do not care about you and will burn you out.

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flexible schedule and work from home

Cons

stressful accuracy and productivity standards

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Sentara Health Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share a helpful review about your position at Sentara Health! We are happy to hear that the flexible work arrangement has been beneficial.
2.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Pros

The team I was on was small but it had good people. My direct manager and her boss were great, but everyone above them were horribly disorganized and incompetent. More on that under cons. Pay was fine, slightly above the average. But raises were inconsistent. The ability to work from home was great. It was rare to be asked to work overtime, so work life balance was good.

Cons

Disorganized upper management who thought they knew better than the folks working in the weeds every day. There were multiple times that they would implement a change that my team would strongly recommend against, but it was shoehorned in anyway. Months later they would come back and say “that was actually a bad idea” and we would have to fix their mistakes, despite warning them against it in the beginning. How well you get trained also depends on your department. My team worked with other teams at Sentara that were often attempting to do things that could have put the company in legal jeopardy, but they were never told not to do it.

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Sentara Health Response
1d
Thank you for sharing your perspective. We’re sorry to hear that your experience with leadership at Sentara Health didn’t meet your expectations. Effective leadership is something we take very seriously, and your feedback is valuable as we continue to evaluate and improve our management practices. We encourage open communication and welcome further insights if you’d like to discuss your concerns in more detail. Please feel free to reach out to hrsolutions@sentara.com.
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