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Avanti Senior Living

In my experience at a poorly managed assisted living facility, I found the overall environment to be chaotic and disorganized. A typical day at work was often filled with challenges due to inadequate staffing, lack of proper communication, and limited resources. This resulted in a high level of stress and frustration for both staff and residents.

What I learned from this experience was the importance of effective management in maintaining a functional and supportive environment for both employees and residents. In a poorly managed facility, I witnessed the negative impact it had on the overall quality of care provided. It highlighted the significance of strong leadership, clear communication channels, and proper training to ensure the well-being and safety of the residents.

The management at the facility was ineffective and lacked proper oversight. There was a lack of support and guidance provided to the staff, resulting in low morale and a sense of confusion. Decisions were often made without considering the impact on residents and staff, leading to poor outcomes and a decline in the overall quality of care.

The workplace culture was strained and tense due to the mismanagement. There was a lack of teamwork and collaboration among the staff, as well as a feeling of mistrust towards management. This created an unhealthy and unsupportive work environment, which further hindered the ability to provide adequate care to the residents.

The hardest part of the job was witnessing the negative impact of poor management on the residents. It was disheartening to see their needs not being met due to a lack of resources, staffing shortages, and ineffective decision-making. The constant struggle to provide quality care in such circumstances was emotionally and physically draining.

Despite the challenges, the most enjoyable part of the job was the opportunity to connect with the residents and make a positive difference in their lives. Building relationships, providing companionship, and offering support to those in need brought a sense of fulfillment and purpose to the work.

Overall, a poorly managed assisted living facility can have detrimental effects on both staff and residents. It is essential for proper management practices to be in place to ensure a safe, supportive, and high-quality living environment for residents and a positive workplace for employees.

What is the best part of working at the company?
All the company cares about is the way the building looks and not about staff. Constantly understaffed. Way too high expectations and the tools in the kitchen are not what a real kitchen should be. All ownership care about is putting people in beds. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Being understaffed. Also no real support when staff does call out. Also no real menu planning. Give the chef written menus from a food provider which gives no real insight to how to cook the food with ovens that don’t show you how to be a cook. They use Turbo chef ovens and everything is electric. Forget about getting anything fixed if it’s broken. Parts are either outdated or ridiculously priced

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Little to no support. Most staff only care about when they get their free meal. Or are on there phones constantly 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Run as little staff as possible. Everyday was a struggle to get through. Cooking breakfast for 70 plus people by yourself. Then hopefully your support comes in for lunch. If not you’re doing another 70 plus meals by yourself. Then the dinner shift. Again if your lucky to have night shift show then you might be able to get some cleaning done or get a menu set up that there are no recipes for because everything is cooked in an electric oven

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay was slightly higher than my previous employer. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Having no funding to perform my job well, yet being expected to perform on the same high level as my previous employers that provided a decent budget and supplies for the job I was expected to do. They repeatedly asked me to gather donations which took more time than if they had just given me a budget, leaving less time for my to spend with the residents. This is a corporation that charges heavy fees for residents to live there, and they allocated almost no budget for resident activities. I felt sad for the residents knowing that employee turnover was so high and the residents’ lives were impacted by this. Turnover was high because it’s a terrible company to work for who treats all their employees terribly. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The most toxic  I’ve ever seen by far because of the leadership and CEO. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Morning staff meeting, engaged residents in activities, served lunch, had a lunch break, spent time planning activities in my shared office, put on more activities for the residents, served them at happy hour, served dinner, handed out activity schedules for the following day to each resident.

What is the best part of working at the company?
 The opportunity to build meaningful relationships with residents, getting to know their stories and lives, and making a positive impact on their daily well-being by providing companionship and support, which often leads to a deep sense of fulfillment and personal reward. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
 Managing the emotional toll of seeing residents decline in health, dealing with challenging behaviors, juggling multiple tasks with limited time, witnessing resident grief and loss, and the physical demands of assisting with daily activities like bathing and dressing, especially when dealing with residents who may resist care or have complex medical needs. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It was a close-knit, supportive team environment focused on providing compassionate care to elderly residents, with a strong emphasis on building personal relationships, fostering a sense of community, and prioritizing the residents well-being.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
 It involves assisting residents with daily living activities like bathing, dressing, eating, and medication management, monitoring their health, providing companionship, organizing social activities, responding to call bells, and maintaining a safe and comfortable environment, all while building relationships with residents and their families;

Previously employed with Avanti Senior Living of Covington. DO NOT let the place fool you when you first walk in! Behind the scenes, the work environment is a joke. One nurse responsible for the entire facility med passes, no director of nursing, executive director has a degree in hotel management and has no medical experience whatsoever nor any concept of how to manage a healthcare facility. Extremely high turn-around rate with no job security. I never once had any formal training, orientation, or received a copy of policy and procedures. I loved all of my residents and loved caring for them, but this place is a sinking ship that just recently went under state investigation. If you are not in close with the Executive Director and her minions in administration, you will be dumped on. Any chance they have to pass their mistakes off on someone else, they will not hesitate to do so. Multiple residents have been admitted recently with no regard to patient acuity or available resources to care for them. If I could rate them zero stars, I would.

I worked here for approximately 2 months and it was the worst job ever. I’m not known to move job to job I keep my jobs for a long period of time. This one was by far the worst I have ever had! They treat the staff like dogs. Completely unfair environment. Very underpaid. The way they treat the residents is ridiculous, especially for how much they pay to live there. The favoritism is unreal!! The managers don’t get out on the floor and help at all. They literally just sit in their offices and gossip all day. You tell them a problem it takes forever for them to get it fixed. Almost all of the employees have called corporate and state on this place because of how terrible it truly is. I quit due to them having me be the only one on the floor working nights having to care for 50 residents by myself almost all the time. They didn’t care because it wasn’t them doing the work! They will leave you dry and empty handed if it doesn’t bother them! The residents are the only reason I even stayed for 2 months 

I have worked at larger senior living companies and never seen turnover in management as I did working for Avanti senior living.  They lead from the top and have the mentality do as I say not as I do.  The culture?  There is no culture.  It is a toxic place to work.  When you have to get on a conference call - you want to throw-up from nerves.   If you are interviewing with this company it would behoove you to ask about the turn-over.  Do your due diligence.  Once you work at Avanti it will be hard to get another job because they consider anyone that has worked for Avanti a loser to include C level management.  Avanti is only 7 properties and they can't figure out how to make them profitable and fill the buildings.  I repeat 7 properties.  That's a mom and pop company even though they are a small fish in a big pond.   

The community in Dallas had turnover in ED at least 10.   The last one last months and now she is gone.  Sad for the residents.

What is the best part of working at the company?
At first, it was great. Loved the job. Loved the residents. However, I started seeing the real colors of upper management and it was disgusting. It’s not a family focused company where employees are valued. It’s a I’m resigning after x amount of years of longevity and no one even calls to ask why or how to keep you, but rather asks the local HR person if the job has been posted yet. Very sad bc the idea they have going is great, but the wrong person in corporate running the show for it to be the true success it should be. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The job never stops. You’re always short handed. People not being held accountable for their roles. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
About like anywhere else. Great at first, then the mask comes off. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Youre on fire. They’re on fire. The building is on fire and corporate is pouring on the gas.

A very stressful working  environment, no rules or guidelines, no computer training on their computer software, I just had to figure it out by trial and error,  I didn’t take one safety class while I worked there,  
No dignity for residents, heard them into the dining room feed them pre made food & heard them out of the dining room & the residents that stay in their room might not get a food tray,  
Every day I worked I didn’t know if all the care partners DON or ED would show up. No nurses aids only “care partners” with no medical experience & they had to learn on the job, Usually only one day of training on the floor for new employees no mater what position, no classroom training on safety ,dignity, compassion  or communication skills. employee turnover is very high. Wether you take a break or not they take 30 min from your check. We usually don’t have time to take a break.

At the time I worked here I was in high school, as most of you know in high school you start school at 8 am. I told management this when I started working, no car and lives about 2 miles away. Someone had the bright idea to make me work the graveyard shift for 3 months. Which is when I would go to work from 10 at night go 6 in the morning then bike 2 miles home and go to school until 4. After that would rush home and sleep for a few hours just to go back to work. Long story short I was fired for doing my homework at 4 am in the morning when I had nothing else to do. Management had no care that I was tired from a lack of sleep and working 16 hour shifts every Friday and Saturday. And had no time to actually do anything in my life. When you work there you’re supposed to get 1 meal, but during the graveyard shift it’s after diner so they would put out the nasty left over from either lunch or dinner sometimes. Don’t work here

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Housekeeper 2 salaries reported	$12.79 per hour

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