Maxim Healthcare reviews

Maxim preys on recent college grads and pays them dog sh!t money to do an extremely stressful and high-stakes job. You are encouraged by management to underpay your nurses so you make more personal commission. You are encouraged to staff patients with "better" insurance with higher reimbursement rates, which often leads to patients with Medicaid not receiving the services they DESERVE. It's completely unethical. There is zero work-life balance and you'll often find yourself doing work on the weekends because you feel indebted to your patients. You get yelled at all day by angry families due to lack of nursing coverage, meanwhile there is a world wide nursing shortage and no nurses want to work in home healthcare because it's barely a living wage. How is it legal to pay an RN $22/hr? It's insane. The office is called the "pit" and they shove desks together and you make cold calls all day like a sweatshop. You work your butt off to hit weekly $ goals so your manager gets a free trip to Cancun. All this company cares about is money (shocker), they could not care less about the patients they serve or the nurses they employ. Maxim is evil. I would rather be unemployed than work here.

I was completely overworked and underpaid. Since I was hourly, they wanted to cut down on my overtime. I was told by upper management that my job wasn't that hard, and shouldn't take me that long to do. Then more work was piled on, so I had to do more work, and had less time to do it. At one point I was reprimanded for taking a 40 minute lunch at a nearby restaurant, and I was told if I wanted to take a lunch and sit down at a restaurant, I had to first ask if that was okay. Otherwise, my coworkers and I were expected to eat at our desks and work through lunch, considering the phone never stopped ringing. The nurses that we staffed were completely underpaid as well, so we ended up having to hire nurses that were under qualified. Those patients deserve better nurses and better care. We were expected to staff all shifts all the time, and hire multiple nurses every week, but they created a hiring system that made it very difficult to get people hired. Lots of red tape and frustration. It felt very counterproductive, and pointless. It has a very high turnover rate. Within 16 months of working there 7 people left, including me. After I left 2 more did as well. Benefits are not good. Very high deductible - covers nothing until the deductible is met. I was very sick at the beginning of the year and had to get a prescription. It cost me $226, and that doesn't include what I had to pay for the office visit.