VITAS Healthcare reviews

There are a ton of these... Management - stupid, incompetent, feckless, lazy, and a blight on The Admissions department. I worked for VITAS nearly 1 year and my manager was there and available to our team a quarter of that time. I am not kidding. Management literally cares only about themselves and not the employees. I never felt like I could go to them for guidance or help. There were no goals for us to meet. There was no coaching, no onsite training, and nothing that could help me be better at my job. Wait, I was sent to attend training in their Dallas office (which is a very professional well oiled machine where the team works together). Management wanted me to learn their ways and report back and train my other teammates (Ha!). That sure didn't work. My co-worker was: juvenile, petty, angry, and wanted absolutely nothing to do with me. Literally nothing I said after the training was taken into consideration. I wanted to help make our office better but it was a tiresome siege the entire way. I knew after that trip I had made a mistake Management at VITAS is only good for writing up employees. Even as a new employee 1 mistake would get you a written warning, complete with the HR rep sitting beside you. No coaching. No teachable moment. No stern talking to. No other training. You just get a write up and the carrot of termination dangled in your face. No learning curve - See Above. Any mistake that you make will be sent to HR and it counts as a formal warning. My first write up came my second month at VITAS. You got it, a brand spanking new employee was written up AFTER never seeing their manager for more than a couple of weeks. VITAS does not invest in employees. You are a body. You take referrals and make sure nurses are there to admit them. That's it. You got questions about how to do your job more effectively? Don't bring it to management. Ha! I was stressed beyond belief. It got to the point that I was taking PTO days to relieve stress. I could not sleep at night and I was regurgitating food. Pettiness - Long story short I was fired because I wrote a rebuttal letter to my final write up describing management as worthless and incompetent. I meant every word of it, and that Monday I knew I was gonna get fired (NOTE: VITAS waits until the end of the day Friday when they write you up or are about to fire you. If you feel like you did something wrong you are gonna know it THAT Friday). For the record I don't regret being fired, AT ALL. I was ELATED when it happened. I was miserable at VITAS EVERYDAY. Everything that I expected that place to be it wasn't. I didn't feel like I was making a difference, just toiling. I really felt like hospice work was a noble endeavor; however, my experience was the antithesis. The office was a toxic environment of pettiness, competition, immaturity, and overwork (The job was not what signed for. I was trained one way and then wound up doing what felt like 10 jobs on a daily basis). I am accustomed to being in a professional environment... VITAS felt like a Wall Street boiler room and that is NOT a good thing. Until VITAS I have never been: written up, miserable, or sick (it was literally impacting my physical and mental health being there) at a job before. Again, I am happy I was let go. I wouldn't go back to VITAS if they were holding my first born child hostage. My warning to anyone who reads this is to not accept a position at VITAS in the Houston area. You will regret it. You don't have to take my advice but consider this a warning.