Pros
This review only pertains to Kindred Healthcare's contract with this particular hospital's rehab unit. (Kindred' Rehab Division). However, this review particularly pertains to the upper management team (ADO and above) and their treatment of the clinical liaisons. Kindred Healthcare's Hospital Division is very different and may be a good place to work. But Kindred's upper management (ADO and above) doesn't care much about their employees' or patients' welfare. As a matter of fact, many of their upper management members don't have a clinical background. Therefore they lack understanding of what it's like to be on the clinical side and how it is to care for patients.
Cons
-Kindred Healthcare had contracted their marketing and management team to a hospital's acute rehab unit -Kindred has unrealistic expectations. The hospital's rehab unit had an ADC of 9 in the rehab unit but Kindred expects their employees to fill all 32 beds -our rehab unit was the worst performing unit in the entire nation with 30+ below the expected budget each month (that's how unrealistic their expectations are!) -they expect you to work as many weekends as possible. When they say they expect you to work one weekend per month, it means you have to work both Saturday and Sunday (even though it may be half-days, it ruins your weekends because you still have to commute there). And you only can have one day off as a complementary day. -ADO and above management are very unsupportive. They try to be "optimistic", which means never admitting their expectations were miscalculated. -promise bonuses if we achieve their expected goals but nobody has ever achieved those goals in the last three years since the inception of the program. -high turnover rate. Average clinical liaison work approximately 6 months prior to resigning. Over 30 clinical liaisons and marketing consultants have been through this program over the last 3 years due to the high turnover rate. -the company loses over $10K per month due to their unrealistic expectations; they choose to stay as a contracted employee with that hospital because they're too stubborn to withdraw their contract. In the process, they create an unhealthy working environment and create immense pressure for all the clinical liaisons to reach their unrealistic goals. -the medical director that Kindred hired to revamp the unit also quit after 6 months due to the corruption and unprofessionalism of the work environment
