Select Medical reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(1,570 total reviews)
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Robert A. Ortenzio

66% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Select Medical has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,570 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Select Medical 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
Jun 4, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

There are no pros about this unprofessional calamity of an employer. Corporate micromanages each facility and patient safety is constantly jeopardized. Money is priority and employee engagement is obsolete. Falsification of quality data as well as "anonymous" patient satisfaction surveys runs rampant. Horrible feeling for aspiring care providers! No evidence based practice exists in the education and training, it's all about making money! Leadership...or should I say management bc leaders don't exist there, is purely robotic. No development or sense of pride for accomplishing any purpose other than making corporate execs wealthier. Corporate management is comprised of stubborn elderly and repulsively disengaged tyrants. They don't care about anyone except their investors!

Cons

As a former CNO who cares about potential nurses interested in working for them, please do your research. Patient care is so sad across the company. The turnover rate is astronomical for staff and the perception of Select is the same as Kindred. If you must work here to get your foot in the door for healthcare, get out as fast as you can. It's a risk to your license the longer you stay, take my word for it. Please heed my warning and save yourself heartaches.

1.0
Jun 25, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Depending on the facility you work for- it can either feel like your extended family or incredibly isolating. Some perks of working in an HIH facility mean you get to use gym facilities and participate in some of the host facility activities. The CEO of the facility I worked for is amazing. She promoted from CNO to CEO and had done a great job winning over the staff and treating everyone with respect. She holds people accountable and has high expectations for her team. The leadership team works incredibly well together and made it a great place to want to come to work every day.

Cons

Your title is an HR Coordinator, yet you are expected to make decisions as a manager. When something negative happens, it's your responsibility to own and fix, yet you have no actual authority to correct it. Example - when licensure expires it is the HRCs responsibility to notify the CNO/Dept. Manager that this person needs to come off the schedule until the credentials are reinstated. When the manager does not remove them from the schedule and the employee continues to work, the HRC is the one on calls being told how you are not being compliant and that they need to ensure that this doesn't happen again. The HRC does not have the authority to pull an employee off the floor or remove the m from the schedule as they are not a manager, yet they take the fall whenever situations like this occur and the facility is no longer in compliance. Additionally, they are responsible for making sure all BLS/ACLS/Licensure/Attendance/Employee Health Records/Education/Competencies/Etc. are all current for all employees 100% of the time and they are the only HR person at the facility to do this. In addition, you are responsible for all ground level payroll duties, LOA management and work comp, full cycle recruitment, onboarding & orientation, employee relations/disciplinary action (notification to manager, since you can't actually write an employee up for violating policy), ordering uniforms and badges, as well as boosting employee morale and engagement. Oh, and you have to manage all the agency contracts, onboarding, files, etc. as well. There is just TOO much work for one person to be 100% amazing at every single piece, there needs to at least be an assistant to help since 100% of everything is your responsibility to get done. If you don't do it, it doesn't get done and you get behind, meaning no PTO for you. There is a definite divide between clinical and administrative staff. The corporate team expects the local administrative team to jump in and work weekends and holidays like the clinical staff does because "they have to work holidays." Newsflash - A person can do HR at any hospital, school, business, etc., working in a hospital doesn't mean I have to work a clinical person's schedule. They chose that career path that requires those hours, I did not. It is incredibly difficult to use the PTO you receive if you work in a hospital that is in their Joint Commission window or is under constant threat of state surveys.

1.0
Oct 31, 2017

Stay away if you value quality of life

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company seems to care. On the surface it will look great. They talk the talk.

Cons

I am suicidal because of this place. Me and my colleagues are demoralized and no one seems to care. Unethical practices continue and no one in upper management pays attention.

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