RI International reviews

2.9

37% would recommend to a friend

(200 total reviews)

David Covington

49% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

RI International has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 200 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The RI International employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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200 reviews
1.0
May 9, 2015

Run Away!!

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Pros

Dedicated and talented front line staff.

Cons

The new upper management team are a joke! They are only concerned with money and pleasing community stakeholders. Quality of care, safety, and employee morale take a back seat to profits. Kind of ironic given RI is a nonprofit organization. An executive lectured me once about profits, and in the same breath told me that failures were lower level employees fault and upper management was only accountable for successes. They would take the credit and pat each other on the backs for lower level employee accomplishments too. Pay no mind that these people are a bunch of Magellan and CRN rejects - a lot of narcissistic clowns from the CEO on down. Run away even faster if you're a nurse. They're expected to care for 20+ patients with very little administrative support. They're scapegoats if something goes wrong too. Convenient huh? Ethics? Pff...what are those??

4.0
Oct 9, 2014

Overall great experience

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Awesome philosophy and vision -Friendly and creative co-workers -Some opportunities for advancement if you have a college degree and management skills -Excellent place to learn new skills and become more competent -People they serve are good, gentle folks with a desire to recover from mental illness and addictions -Great place to get beginning work experience as a Peer Support Specialist -Always something new happening -Really positive work environment where everyone is treated with respect

Cons

-Always something new happening! Change is so fast-paced that it leaves some employees in the dust and that's been painful to experience over the years -Pay is not great, neither are opportunities for advancement if you don't have a college degree -Benefits are not so wonderful -Upper management and leadership sometimes seem fickle and make arbitrary decisions -Not a lot of promoting from within for upper level positions

1.0
May 21, 2016

Sad to Watch it Burn

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I worked at Recovery Innovations for 13 years as a full time employee. I had my fair share of challenges with average pay and benefits, some inexperienced and poor management/leadership, and feeling pretty nervous when people got suddenly let go for what seemed like fickleness on the part of the upper management. But honestly, we were doing something very special and important. We were pushing the boundaries of behavioral health care in ways that were truly innovative and wonderful. There was a beautiful way of keeping records--more like adding chapters to a story than clinical notes. There were college credited classes for people who were currently homeless. There were people with serious mental illnesses gaining wonderful work experience and providing unique supportive services to others based on their extremely valuable lived experiences with recovery. We were writing and speaking and creating and growing like crazy. It was a time and a successful effort that was unmatched. People came to see what we were doing from all over the world. It was incredible, really.

Cons

I don't know what happened other than that a new CEO came in and shifted the working mission to suicide prevention and stabilization. The language and culture shifted in a highly clinical mode and all the work we did to create a beautiful environment was just decimated. The vision was lost. The talented and dedicated people were all lined up and fired. New folks with no appreciation of the mission or history or of recovery culture were hired and the boat has been sinking ever since. It is such a horrible thing to watch. I must say that I feel genuine grief. I am sorry for what was lost. Hopefully, others who lit their flames from the Recovery Innovations of the past are still going strong and will carry the message and the good work forward. The aim was true.

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