VITAS Healthcare reviews

3.5

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,601 total reviews)

Joel L. Wherley

80% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

VITAS Healthcare has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,601 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The VITAS Healthcare 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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2K reviews
1.0
Nov 15, 2017

Not Good

Recommend
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Pros

I learned a lot and gained valuable knowledge. I worked in several roles over many years and was able to have different experiences. If you can set aside the company's approach to hospice "care", it is a humbling experience to work with dying patients and their families.

Cons

This organization and its upper management is very arrogant. They have only one goal, to pad their revenue as much as possible. They make mind boggling amounts of money by exploiting patients. They absolutely pressure you to admit patients who probably are not appropriate for hospice care, and they pressure you to put them on higher levels of care so they get paid more by Medicare. They set unobtainable goals, right down to telling you how many patients you should have on continuous care at all times. They have business and financial people telling medical staff how to manage patients. They give quotas on how many supplies you are allowed to have for your patients, so if you run out things like diapers you can't get more. It doesn't matter why the patients might need more supplies, it is all based on numbers. They have a churn and burn approach to staff especially sales representatives. They use high pressure tactics to force sales reps to admit unrealistic numbers of patients each month. The heat is so high that it all but forces reps and program managers to admit inappropriate patients just to save their jobs. The pressure is unbelievable and they absolutely have a financially driven approach to patient care. It is good to know they have to pay back $85 million to the government and whistleblowers. It might cut down on the luxuries enjoyed at the corporate level. The "benefits" are a disgrace and their health plan has the highest premiums and deductibles anywhere in healthcare today.

1.0
Oct 31, 2017

The worst hospice company

Recommend
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Pros

They have a lot of patients because they buy it a lot of doctors

Cons

Horrible pay rate, no consideration with patients and the employees, PTO suck, is when they wanted, corporate workers has a different health insurance that non corporate( look like congress and rest of population), management doesn’t know what they are doing, if you are a favorite of the management you have access to good positions, the office staff are very disorganized, the nurse are over staffed with patients, they have only few doctors that really care, I can still writing all day

1.0
May 12, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Fast paced working environment with many rewarding challenges.

Cons

Excessive micromanagement, favoritism, upper management likes to play mind games with employees by pitting one against the other.

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