mobile phlebotomist

radiologic technologist

sonographer

medical laboratory technician

medical technologist

American Health Associates

As an mlt, this company does not offer room for growth. Very high employee turn around. A tech will be a bench tech until the day they leave. lab techs get the brunt of other employees laziness and unfinished tasks. The lab techs like myself keep this company going as they are then required to finish jobs as the last handlers of the specimens, ontop of running the tests. this lab does not have 2nd or 3rd shifts and all too often specimens were not received to the lab until late in the afternoon and this caused HOURS of downtime at a time. Techs are continuously without work and BORED waiting. As a mother with young children this became an undesirable situation being unable to adjust personal life to the laboratory’s inconsistent hours, that were all too often outside of the 8.5 hour shift hired on to. With all of that said, the techs are given no incentive to continue working hard. Employees do the bare minimum at this company. There are no yearly reviews or pay raises or job promotions. Salaries are at the lowest end of spectrum available.  Not ever even acknowledged during Lab Week in April. Management big of favoritism and inexperienced in managing employees.
Unwilling, uncertified Leads that were openly against being examples myself or others could come to for help or guidance as supervisors should be able and willing to provide. Communication between departments severely lacking. Rifts between employees very apparent, becoming very unhappy environment. 

The benefits, after 90 days, are expensive and not great. They don’t match 401k at all. Don’t get stuck here. It’s an okay environment for someone who needs to gain some entry level clinical experience but not a good place for someone who wants to continue to learn, see new things, challenge themselves, be acknowledged for jobs well done, enjoy coming to work each day and actually make a difference in the medical community.  

DO NOT WORK HERE!
The pay is terrible for the mileage and wear n tear on your car. Phlebotomists only get paid $10hr. for training, vacation, holiday, and sick days. They get paid a route pay for working hours that is really low as well. And you only get paid $0.25 a mile after you've drove either 100 to 150 miles for the day depending on your position. Now with the new tax code we can't even claim the miles on our taxes to help offset some of the cost. I drove over 80,000 miles this past year.  Remember the government allows for $0.52-$0.58 per mile. Couriers and Dispatchers only get paid $8-$10/hr. They offer horrible benefits that cost a fortune. They work you to death and don't pay overtime (the company is currently being sued for this). In fact to cut down on the chance of any overtime they require you to clock in and out throughout the day when not busy. You are also required to have insurance that is pretty expensive due to the fact that someone was in an accident and didn't have enough coverage so the company was sued to cover the costs. They take out lunch pay and usually you don't get time for lunch or you have to scarf something down while driving to your next job. The dispatchers often are over worked and are not familiar with the cities they are dispatching for. Also, I would personally NEVER trust any results that come out of this lab. I have seen many specimens handled incorrectly making them ineligible for lab testing ....and yet the clients always gets results. Also, they pretty much allow the clients free reign which means that anytime you complain or report an issue it is never handled and is always the phlebotomists fault.
The only thing going for this job is the work isn't hard, the ability to enjoy the day not in a stuffy building, and not much supervision.

I was first given a job that I would be making phone calls to get information. On my second interview with another manager that it was a misunderstanding and it would be in the billing dept. On my 1st day everyone in the dept was not making me feel welcomed. I was trained by a coworker but in a fast phase. A lot of different programs to deal with for information to bill a claim. My second day I was given 10 minutes with a coworker that I thought would be training me for the  next few days knowing that I started in the middle of the week. . And on my 3 day no one said a word to me, left me by myself trying to understand the system.I was brought into the office to see how I was doing and then she made a comment of I have only done 14 claims I was a little disturbed knowing I'm in training and what's with the number of claims is this a contest or what. I found out you have to do 300 claims a day. What ? This is crazy, I'm in training if that's what you want to call it. On my 4 day I was given another trainer and she was great and nice to me. The 5 day no trainer left alone and on the 6th day I'm asked to come into the office and the manager said that I'm not doing very well with the work meaning the 300 claims and I'm asking the coworkers some questions and she said it was disrupting there performance. Again is she kidding me I'm in training. She let me go from the job. It was one and a half hours before we left from work the office was filled with workers ,she could of waited until than but she didn't. I felt horrible and got my purse and gave my key back, and walked out the door in shock. This is a terrible company to work for. It's all about money to them and they lack the important part of their company the employees. There training is horrible and employees are not very friendly. All they want from you is to be a robot and keep pushing those claims in so they get there money.

Sure can make good money but with a huge sacrifice of work life balance.. they make you use your own car and think the rate of pay is good enough to maintain the amount of work to be done and home life bills and necessities. They pay to the area they are from and not specified to your abilities no raises or reviews and no consideration to Cost of living to the area your office is in...  They don't pay gas mileage unless you drive a certain amount of miles with their formulas and also for over time has a formula that ends up shorting the work cause it's not time and a half like it's supposed to be.  They don't care about their employees just how much money they can make and how little they can pay you. Their "health benefits" are a joke, expensive if you have a family takes a 1/4 of what you make in a month for a family to have ins.   Alone still took at least 500$ a month with high deductibles.  If I had made 1/2 to 3/4  of what I made yearly but with their car and them paying for gas and services and not working 18-21 hours a day Managers and supervisors are meh and don't actually see their employees like people like they pretend at first to do...but you wanna leave and they attack.  They don't represent their employees and try to advocate when the uppers make horrible decisions.  I could work 10 hours a day 5 days a week for that pay then  it would've been fine and a great job.  I would've been able to keep going but yea I killed myself and my family sacrificed for me to work here Too bad cause I LOVE what I did and loved my pts. 

Do not work here. You deserve better. The management is awful, uneducated, unqualified, no interpersonal skills. The pay is awful, with no raises in years. The benefits are awful. The culture is awful.   Revolving door of employees because of these things. Shortages throughout every department. The laboratory techs get the brunt of these shortages. There is no 2nd or 3rd shift. With the shortage of phlebotomy team members, the ones they do manage to keep around for awhile are overworked and sloppy. Specimens are received unlabeled, incorrectly labeled, incorrectly collected, not accessioned, or not even ordered at all.  Technicians would have to fix this. Specimens sometimes never even arrived causing patients delay in results. Way way way too much downtime waiting on specimens to arrive. Your hours are mostly flexible because of this, but I have a life and a family with children that wants/needs me around so I could not come in late and stay very long past hours. This was affecting my paycheck. Lots of time, HOURS, spent staring at my hands with nothing to do and forced to listen to the lead techs every thought or complaint and gossip I didn’t want to be a part of. It got old and very unenjoyable very quickly. Absolutely no incentives for anyone to continue working hard and enjoy themselves. No recognition for your job even during/after a global pandemic. I left in order to receive the recognition I deserve, the paycheck I deserve, work culture I want and deserve, and the ability to grow in my career and continue bettering myself like I deserve.  Embarrassed to say I was ever employed here. 

This place is the most unorganized, dysfunctional, and contradictory company I have ever seen.  They will do anything to save money at your expense.  Immediately one week after my hire, the manager that hired me was fired to "reduce spending".  The job constantly requires staying late due to late phlebotomists or couriers, and co-workers who clearly do not care about anything at all.  This resulted in plenty of overtime at the expense of any resemblance of a work-life balance.  Then the next day the management will yell at you for them having to pay you overtime.  There is zero discipline for being late, so hours technically can be somewhat flexible. The building the company is located in is old and disgusting.  The entire 3 months I spent at this company there was a cleaning crew that came in after hours ONE TIME.  The floors are disgusting, and were NEVER cleaned ONCE while I was there.  The trash cans were constantly overflowing and ending up onto the floors which again were NEVER CLEANED.  I wish I was joking about this.  Also if you work more than 6 hours you will lose 30 minutes of time on your paycheck regardless if you take a lunch or not.  If you are considering working here save yourself the trouble and find somewhere else.  

This is the best career choice I have ever made. This company actually pays you for what you do. You don't work on an hourly rate. You get paid for how much you complete. Other jobs I have had I would work circles around other employees and we were making the same wage and in some cases they were making more than me. Now I get paid what I'm worth. Those who choose not to work as hard as myself don't make near as much as I do. I LOVE MY JOB. You have to be responsible when you work here because you don't have a supervisor watching your every move when your out on your route. If you do your job right and learn all the tricks to being fast you can make as much money as you want. Most of my coworkers are incredible phlebotomist and great people to work with. The hardest part of the job is the hours. Most of us have to get up in the middle of the night  to start our shift. We have to be on the clock by 3am so that's not always easy but once you get accustomed to it, it's not all that bad. Most of us don't work 40 hrs a week and we still make 35,000-55,000 a year. You often have to opportunity to pick up extra shifts to make even more money if you want to. AHA is a great company to work for.

STAY far away from this company!!!!!!!  They expect you to drive YOUR personal vehicle and NOT pay mileage.  I used to travel over 300 miles every day!!!  This company has taken away my mileage pay saying I can claim it on my taxes which is a LIE!!!!!  Your NOT an independent contractor and will NOT get a 1099 form to claim your mileage.  They also pay you only $20 per nursing home you go to each day.  NO mileage pay for upkeep on your vehicle, your changing the oil in your car every 4-5 weeks, NO gas money, NO tire allowance, 3 sets of tires in 2 years I went thru.  I purchased a new car with only 55 miles on it for great gas mileage and after 2 years of this so called great company I now have 125,0000!!!!!!  They don't care about their employee's, rain, snow, riots, covid-19 (which you don't get extra pay for, I was told due to the "low census" we don't qualify for!!!!!).  This job is a JOKE and this company is a JOKE!!!!!  They also take money away from your paycheck without telling you about it as well!!!!  Corporate sits in their offices in Florida and or Ohio and says were making to much money while their paychecks are not affected!!!!  They say they will "look" at our mileage sheets and maybe give more money but NOTHING ever gets done about it!!!!!!  I CAN NOT STRESS ENOUGH to STAY AWAY from this company!!

I actually wish I could give it (-1 ) for a review. They use peoples credentials to make themselves look important with inspections. It's totally mismanaged from the start of the day until you leave and go home. They don't ever want to pay you for the work that you did. They are so quick to complain that you over worked a few hours. They expect you to do the work of 2 or 3 people because they don't want to spend that money to hire other people. This company is greedy, and you're looked at as a drop in the bucket. When it comes to vacation you have to work 1 year before getting any vacation hours. You can't ever call out for sick leave because they're always understaffed. They never have the supplies that you need to do your job. They are also quick to blame you when something goes wrong in the lab. The company doesn't ever accept responsibility for their actions and is quick to fire someone and for everything and anything. I know this and more about the company because I used to be a part of the management team. 

Early mornings and a lot of driving. A typical day is waking up at 3am to get ready for work. After accepting your work orders in you work phone you determine your route and begin your shift. Each facility will have a list of patients that require blood work for that date. You preform your blood draws complete all necessary paperwork and documentation and then its off to your next facility.  When your route is complete you head into the lab and centrifuge, enter orders, and label your tubes of blood.  I have learned more patients due to dealing with frustrated nurses and sometimes very upset patients.  I have learned to just smile, do my job, and create the most positive atmosphere as possible at that time.  My co-workers are great and we work as a team, as far as the management I feel that they could be more helpful and a little more ambitious to help out the team.  A difficult part of the job would have to be the all the traveling and wear and tear on your vehicle. (no company cars.)  The most enjoyable part of my job would have to be dealing with my patients and I also absolutely love the hands on and conversations with them.

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