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Aegis Therapies

Must be able to multitask and be a hard worker with the initiative to maintain a high productivity and have enough time to complete paper work and daily tasks required depending on facility. Great pay and good benefits but salary increases have been frozen for the past two years with an increase in work demand and documentation reviews. I enjoy working for this company and intend on working with then for many more years to come. They are extremely flexible and understanding of personal time off. I see others complaining of unethical treatments and billing but this is hardly the case!! It takes a great therapist to work at our aegis facility and many dont last because they either dont have the experience or they cant keep up with the basic daily tasks. Many therapist are pleased with this company as i am. We are all ethical during treats as far as i have seen: bill correctly and maintain ever lasting relationships with many of the patients once discharged home. We pick up ALL that we can help in different clinical areas taking into consideration their mental status and set goals. We work with compassion and work hard so if we rest during lunch time or the late afternoons when it slows down then id say a couple breaks are well deserved, which we ARE granted btw. Discusts me to see anything else written on here...Possibly, most probably written by a lazy, fired, laid off or new graduate worker. Perhaps a person of never being satisfied in a fast paced environment. Ridiculous. We take pride in what we do. Aegis is a great company. Bosses are extremely approachable and understanding and give awards to workers and have meetings on ways to improve and work better together and more efficiently. Yea, number are important just as the patients are. These numbers pay our salary and maintain our employment. Come on, you get paid to work hard. Agreed, Aegis is demanding; just do your job and youll be fine here. Great place to work! Great staff! Fun and laid back environment! Maintaining a high productivity is a must in order to keep employed but shouldnt that be anywhere you work if compensation is high as well?! Come on.

Go to Glassdoor and other sites, you'll see Aegis' employees reviews are substantially lower than they are here. 

Decent pay & benefits, but I'd take a cut to have my life back.

I have been forced under duress to sometimes over-report my treatment minutes and WAY under report my documentation time. I've been told by senior staff in double-speak terms to do so, but then again, I've been written up for working off the clock. For every 8 hrs I get paid, I work 10-11. Others in my area have had the same experience. Pressure to pick up inappropriate candidates for therapy, overly redundant & restrictive computerized doc system. Pushing iPad use HARD, despite the fact there are still lots of inadequacies to the system, and that doc on the laptops is --HELLO!!!--MORE PRODUCTIVE than doing it on the iPads. It's clear they're shifting their focus to include not only crazy productivity requirements, but Big Brother monitoring of staff. As an American, I find this frightening, and as a professional, I find it highly insulting. Ironically, poor management & ethical practices may be causing missed caseload & money-making opportunities. Evals PAY. Let me at that Alzheimer's unit, do 2 week POCs for cog staging & staff training & get out! I'll make you money, just let me BREATHE and perform as a professional not a hamster in a wheel! We're missing a lot of dysphagia pts since we have no time to screen, cognition is over-emphasized, and most SLPs I've encountered are uncomfortable with swallowing, even though it should be prevalent in LTC/rehab. In fact I have a co-worker who is so incompetent in swallowing tx (well, everything, but especially that) that I consider her dangerous, but DOR and upper mgmt look the other way as she bills the taxpayer for doing glorified activity time and risks the lives of patients with real health problems. I can't keep this up and have a clear conscience, and am looking for another job. I'd rather leave the field than have to work like this. The only things keeping me here today are my mortgage and the fact that most other rehab companies are exactly the same.

At first I really liked this company, however as the years went on it became all about the money for them and not about caring for their employees or the patients. I received ONE raise in 4 years and it was taken away when Covid hit, but I was told I should consider myself lucky because a lot of other therapists lost their jobs. I risked my health and life for this company and was forced to see active Covid patients daily and was stripped of my raise. You were punished for being sick and had to prove you didn’t have Covid out of your own pocket before you could come back to work and also was forced to take FMLA out if you missed more than 2 days of work being sick. Sick hours not provided by this company, so you had to use general PTO for any sick days/days missed. Management will make you feel guilty if you do take a sick day and force to come back even if still not feeling well. Holidays are not given any additional compensation, if you work that day you get nothing extra and if you want it off, you are forced to work a weekend day to make up for it or use PTO (if they actually approve it). Aegis is about the top dollar for the company so they have high productivity standards and forcefully push concurrent and group treatments even if not appropriate for patients just the get them more money and pay their employees less for more work. Employees are forced to do extra work including physicals, making schedules-DOR work when they take off, however are not compensated for extra work not in their job description, and still have to maintain high productivity. Constant reinforcement on labor and productivity demands causing too much stress in workplace and not at all what is best for the patient or employee. Would not recommend this company! Too much stress than it is worth and no compensation for it unless you want to be promoted to DOR/management and have more stress added to your life! 

I worked for about 6 years as a PTA before completely switching paths. Aegis was instrumental in cementing my decision to do so and was my final job in therapy. I initially started with Aegis because I liked the DOR at the time (even though they were going to pay me over $2/less than any other surrounding company). 4 months in, she left and a whirlwind of terrible things occurred - aegis has a terrible rep so nobody wanted to take her position. We were left without a DOR or any sort of guidance for 3 months, causing many things to fall through the cracks and causing staff to be upset at us therapists for things that weren’t our fault. I could go on about that time forever. Also, once we finally got a new DOR, she quit immediately and we went through two more DORs before one that actually stuck, and she was the worst person I’ve ever met in my entire life. 
Also, the requirements for productivity are ENTIRELY unethical. They push group and concurrent even when there is NO WAY to do it correctly. They bumped up ALL of my times with med B patients to as high as they could possibly get it DAILY even though they did not need that much therapy, leaving all other patients who actually needed it with 20-30 minute treatments. 
Again, let me stress this, PAY IS AWFUL. No holiday or yearly bonuses, NO shows of appreciation for us AT ALL (the DOR I initially worked for paid out of pocket for occasional lunches and such). Compared to other PTAs around with my level of experience, I should’ve been making $4-6 more an hour and the ONLY reason I didn’t leave sooner was because I was accepted into grad school and was quitting the profession entirely anyway. 
Continuing Ed benefits non-existent. 
The therapy gym was set up very poorly. Most equipment didn’t work, and there was VERY little to choose from. 
The most trash company to EVER work for.  If you have any other options, RUN!!! 

PROS: They did have share portal for files, resources, some education tools available.  They also tried to bring the coordinators from all the communities together a few times a year to problem-solve and share information.  
CONS:  Very little on-the-job training or support if needed.  After the initial week of getting set up with e-mails and such there wasn't much interaction with upper management.  I talked to my director maybe 3 times a year.  They were nice but very hands off which was fine unless you needed something.  If you did need support,  they were more likely to back the contracting company than you as their employee regardless of the situation or documentation.  You really were on your own.  
You were also expected to get a lot more done than a time allowed.  I found it common practice that staff would "donate time off the clock" because they weren't suppose to get overtime, but we still had responsibilities to complete.  
Lastly, I was not informed of the policies for requesting time off/holiday pay until around Thanksgiving and I had been there for 9 months.  It was then that I found out that most of your PTO did not roll over into the next year, your PTO requests had to be approved before the beginning of each quarter and you had to submit PTO for all major holidays (it was not automatic as I had been previously told).  I hadn't taken any vacation that year, they never told me about the policies and I had always worked with companies that rolled over PTO so I never thought to ask.  All of this happened after the start of the fourth quarter and my director would not make any exceptions so I lost essentially a year's worth of PTO.  

My DOR is flexible with scheduling so I can flex my time to come in early or leave late based on caseload needs
They are not a "mill" because it is never or rarely extremely busy at the locations I've worked at, just have the normal expectations of productivity
Facilitates/forces independence and autonomy from the PT - forces you to push yourself to stay up on your skills since you are often not working with a team as a contractor
Poor organization amongst the company as a whole from the top down. They set up contracts with multiple locations then fail to follow-through on the expectations of the contracts per site that they've established themselves with. For example, I arrived to one location who hadn't even decided where they wanted to put the rehab room yet. Then when they decided, Aegis had me, the PT, build equipment then organize the gym, decorate it, market their services to the building, learn how to do insurance authorization intake forms, and THEN learn the duties of an actual physical therapist... I was cheap labor.
Part B services aren't fully covered like Part A in many buildings so patients refuse care secondary to co-pays. It gets frustrating.
Minimal to no training or on-boarding. "Figure it out yourself," is basically the motto.
Slow internet/EMR

Aegis therapies changed the last year I worked for them. Started to micromange.  They hired Directors of Rehab which is a joke. They are salaried employees that are puppets to the higher ups. The rest of the therapy staff have to cover their salaries as they do not do any patient care.  The last employee performance review said NOTHING about my skills or patient care. It was all about money generated for Aegis.  Horrible company to work for and unfortunately they promise the facilities they contract with that we will be able to perform at 85%. That is fraudulent as it is not possible.  I was working in 3 different facilities separated by 13 miles. I was supervising 2 PTA's. I was still expected to be at 85% including my drive time! Very stressful.  Got emails on daily basis that were always negative. They stopped paying for our time to attend mandantory education yet expected to attend these sessions.Pay was good but not worth the stress and impossibility of working at 85% efficiency. Also unstable.  Talked to an old co-worker last week and she stated that since Aegis Therapies is losing Golden Living facilities (GL is slowly selling them off),  Aegis is making them work harder and faster to try and save their current contracts with other facilities. Golden Living is also trying to sell the Aegis Therapies Division of their company.

I've been with this company for a little over a year and other than the flexible work schedule their aren't any pros. In short the cons are: fluctuating hours(cause you to float to facilities that can be up to 50 miles away; you only get reimbursed your time/miles between facilities), no holiday pay or incentive pay for weekends, very little on-going education/training, avg pay (slow process for wage increase), no 401k match, poor health plan, and very high productivity (81-83%) expectations (don't take breaks your productivity will drop). Overall the company/corporate really does not seem care for its employees ( I'm sure share holders are happy though) and according to employees who have stuck with the company more and more beniefits are getting taken away. The team I work with is great however the rest of it needs heavy improvement. Check other reviews they agree!

My overall daily work was fun and challenging. Work hours are mostly flexible and my direct supervisor was willing to work with my on needing to take my kids to Dr appointments or other appointments. If I needed a day off I would have an option to work the Saturday after to "make-up". Most of my contact was with my direct supervisor. If I wanted to talk to anyone above him to deal with any other issues I received very little contact back. Most of my questions were ignored by upper management. If I was given an assignment and asked for clarification, or if I was told about a new project getting ready to start and I asked any questions about the project I was told I was too aggressive and defiant. My direct co workers were fun and sociable and we worked very well together in the best interest of our patients and their families. My favorite part of working where here was seeing the progress my patients made and watching them return to a less restrictive environment. The hardest part of the job (minus upper management) was communication between, facility, therapy staff, patients and family and ensuring all parties understood what patients needed to be able to return "home".

Unrealistic productivity expectations, strong scuttlebutt within the organization that it's going to get worse while they're currently increasing documentation requirements. PTO looks good on paper, but practically impossible to cash it in, even for a sick day. No holidays off, must make it up over the weekend. Lots of patients picked up for service that are inappropriate, on caseload way too long. Lots of over-reporting minutes, way too much time of pt sitting around while therapist types on computer & bills time. Also lots of concurrent treatment and co-treatment that is not honestly billed--"Just put zero in the concurrent box." Otherwise, no way to meet productivity requirements. I've been formally disciplined for staying off the clock to complete documentation. Employees are put into a double bind. I'm just trying to hold on until find another position. Since these requirements are becoming all too common in the rehab setting, I may be looking to get out of the field. Thanks a LOT, Aegis. (And by the way, thanks a lot ASHA for sticking up for us... NOT!) Oh, and any high rankings are probably written by or commissioned by mgmt.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Physical therapist 16 salaries reported	$88,063 per year
Nursing assistant 1 salary reported	$23.00 per hour
Speech language pathologist 7 salaries reported	$79,286 per year
Director of rehabilitation 10 salaries reported	$91,900 per year
Occupational therapist 4 salaries reported	$90,000 per year

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