Ernest Health reviews

This company seems to lack leadership in senior management. There is a lot of drama and distrust in the facility as a whole with a high rate of employee turn over. Ive seen many great members of the nursing staff leave due to unfair practices and or bullying on the part of senior staff members. Overall there is a lack of leadership in this company and although there tends to be a focus on the guiding principles, they are rarely upheld. They talk about teamwork and for the most part based on my interaction and experiences Ive seen decent teamwork from a few of the members. It's either hit or miss with the staff, especially nursing. They are either really good or really crappy. Therapy department was overworked with a poor work life balance. Ive ended up working 9 days in a row at times. While on salary the expectation is that you work longer hours than you actually get paid for without any overtime. Ive seen many great therapists burn out, injure themselves, or just plain quit because of the stress of the job and the intensity of patient Care. This company seems to be more concerned about their case mix index and maximizing patient outcomes as well as decreasing their SNF discharge than actually caring for their employees and staff according to patient needs. Overall, I think people really hate it here and are very dissatisfied with the company, however they stay because there arent many other options in the area.

There are many with the main one being the hypocrisy of what the company says it was founded on, their famous guiding principles, vs the reality. Managers and directors being allowed to bully and harass their subordinates with executive aware of it and not doing anything to stop it. I saw many people leave because they couldn't tolerate the poor treatment. Nursing staff is either very good or horrible with little middle ground. The therapy staff were the golden children and perhaps that's why nursing and support staff were so mediocre. The therapists were allowed to be disrespectful to all the other staff and had little to no respect for the nurses. The regional positions were a joke. They were apparently appointed positions and violated every tenant of human resources fair practices. It's surprising that they haven't been sued for this practice. Most everyone in upper management has worked together for years coming from Health South. They claim they wanted to start a company that was better than HS, but it looks like they've just slapped a new name on the same tired and unhealthy work environment practices. The work life balance is only balanced for the some of the lower level jobs such as housekeeping and dietary services. Everyone else works much harder than peers at like types of institutions. Profit means everything and they work employees to the bone. God forbid if anyone doesn't clock out and overtime is accrued. However, it's impossible to get all the work that must be done in nursing without either marginalizing patient care or working off the clock to get the work done.