Gentiva Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Gentiva full-time

Pros – Lots of paid training before you start seeing patients. Great online continuing education. Flexible schedule daily & weekly as long as you see all of your patients for home health care. They also have part-time therapist positions with benefits. Great job for therapists and nurses who have kids and/or other activities you want to enfold into your workday.

Cons – A lot of recent changes have diminished the quality of this company. Loved my branch when I started, but changes in management, paperwork & office policies made it harder to meet the needs of the employees and the patients.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on the needs of your employees and patients rather than useless micromanaging and frequent policy changes that are counterproductive.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Gentiva full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – independence, good teamwork, personable, positive culture

Cons – paperwork, medicare requirements, unsafe locations at times

Advice to Senior Management – be kind and look at all perspectives before judging

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Gentiva full-time for more than a year

Pros – PTO
Working with different patients in the community.

Cons – Having to use all of your PTO because of an extremely low census, then having none left for a vacation.
LPN not addressed as a nurse.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat and addresses an LPN as a Nurse.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Gentiva full-time for more than a year

Pros – 4 weeks PTO, matching 401k and a great bonus structure with realistic sales goals.

Cons – Lots of management turn over recently

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Gentiva full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Home health care is fun, laid back. Work independently in the field . A lot of PTO

Cons – Pay per visit, a lot of sitting in my car hoping a RN would need help with visits as I had to be available 8 to 4 whether I had visits or not. I did not live in the area I covered so I wasn't able to go home and wait.

Advice to Senior Management – Understand that when we are slow there are days we would sit around for hours hoping for a call and not getting paid. There were days I only had 2 visits so would hang out for hours and at the end of the day if you average out my time I would make less than minimum wage per hour for that. Day. And if it was a day I needed child care it would actually cost me money to work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Gentiva full-time for more than a year

Pros – Strong but approachable leadership. Always sensitive to meeting all patient's needs.

Cons – IT still in dark ages. Need computerized systems.

Advice to Senior Management – Update Information Systems

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Gentiva full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Generous PTO - 4 weeks.
Benefits ok
Amazing nurses and therapists

Cons – Execs not willing to invest in infrastructure
Entire company centers around sales

Advice to Senior Management – Need new management.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Gentiva full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Pay, benefits, Gentiva University, great co-workers

Cons – Overwhelming patient load quite often, you will be asked to document things that you didn't do by case managers to cover their tails, low mileage reimbursement, A LOT of after hours charting that you are not able to get completed in the home. Heavy census load, unrealistic expectations, seeing 10 - 14 units per day! Money is good for when you see the patient but if you do the job the right way, there is no way to get in and out of a patients home in 30 minutes and get all of your charting completed, realistically it will be closer to 45 minutes to an hour and then you have to add drive time in between that and pray that you didn't have to call the doctor and wait on him/her to call you back. Not every patient is 1-2 miles apart so you may spend another 15-30 minutes driving between some of your patients. You don't get paid for charting once you are home in the evenings. You also shouldn't be having to hurry up your visits because you are so full of patients for the day.

Advice to Senior Management – Home charting time should be paid at least at a base level to compensate or extend the visit to extended visit rate. Therapists are not nurses and shouldn't have to be placed in a position where they are offering or trying to give nursing information.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Gentiva full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Supportive and friendly, collegial atmosphere in local branch office where I worked and in another where I assisted frequently. However, the administrative folks at higher levels were more of a mixed bag and they could cause downstream floods. Training was good - 4/5, and one could use corp resources to meet licensure needs. The freedom to set your own schedule can be a double edged sword. OT's and SLP's have the opportunity to enjoy long rides in the country, or through city traffic. These mostly are interesting people in their own homes where you can truly and manifestly contribute to the quality of life and the best ability to function.

Cons – As I mentioned above, the regional administrators could put pressure on the office manager and other administrators that made the difficulties of the job quite unpleasant. Paperwork continued to expand under the CMS regs and despite 3 years of reassurances that computerized documentation was just around the corner, that corner must have been massive. The corp must have been more concerned with expansion than retention. Turnover was constant in all clinical positions. SLP's and OT's find that their time traveling without time reimbursement or adequate mileage rates is 3x or more that of PT's sue to the relatively greater concentration of PT patients.

Advice to Senior Management – Career ladders with internal titles are less motivating than certifications that are recognized apart from the corp structure. Computerized documentation will lead to more satisfaction and organization of the clinicians. Above all, keep the atmosphere collegial and supportive. I watched 90% of the therapists leave the company while I was there and since I left.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Gentiva full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Access to continuing education / Gentiva University
Great Benefits

Cons – Inflexible with work schedule
Big Corporation can be Inpersonal

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company