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Sick morals guiding patient “care”. Upper management and facility administration prevent therapists from providing ethical and best practice care. Old Covid policies keep patients secluded. BRR will discourage you from being paid for mandated Covid testing, test wait times, and any other penny pinching expectations required to do the job. No trust: cannot document off the clock or off sight yet productivity expectations are unrealistic. AE recommendations are all denied as esthetics are more of a priority than patient safety and function. If you can put aside patient care and ethical/moral practices and find ways to qualify patients who don’t want therapy or who are not appropriate for therapy and bend the truth through documentation and live with yourself, this might be a good fit. 
WARNING: They don’t provide health benefits for the employee’s spouse!! 
Documentation system is like working in the 80s when the technology just came out.  Supervisors have no leadership training and have a tyrannical method of “overseeing” your work. There is NO training! Just get written up if you’re doing something they don’t like or is impossible to do. Hours are NOT guaranteed. You’ll have no idea if you’re working 2 hrs or over 8 hrs until you get to work that day and clock in. As an assessing clinician, you are supervised by your assistant! PTs are supposed by PTAs and COTAs supervise OTs. Don’t let the smoke and mirrors foul you with empty promises. 

My overall impression of this company is that they are 'Revenue Driven', not 'Patient Oriented' as they claim.  D/T the new PDPM guidelines; their practice is to minimize care provided to Medicare Part A beneficiaries and instead emphasize achieving 'minute goals' with Medicare Part B patients/residents. For example, if you successfully provide PT services in 30 minutes, they will chastise you for not finding a way to bill for 38 minutes. PT/OTs/SLPs performing supervised visits will be expected to treat for 23 minutes and not 15; despite the patient receiving 60 minutes of skilled services with a PTA earlier in the day. There is strong pressure from management to push patients past their limits in order to achieve these 'minute goals'.  They are very 'stingy' and distrustful of their staff; for example, they do not allow rehab staff to take computers/laptops home to complete documentation. They do not properly train or provide oversight for their DORs. If you end up with a supervisor who is a knucklehead, well, you are out of luck. They also encourage keeping MCB patients on caseload for specified frequencies: 5xs week for non-orthopedics, 6xs/wk for orthopedic. Your clinical judgement is not needed here; they have a money making system which exploits vulnerable patient populations and rehab professionals stupid/desperate enough to participate in their business practices. 

This company does not value therapists and assistants. The caseloads are extremely high because that’s the only way they make money. It’s mainly because they don’t have good contracts with their customers, and as a result, the therapist carry the burden of being overworked to generate profits. I truly do not recommend being a DOR with this company because you will never be able to get away from the job. It will be your life. From projections to scheduling, caseload building, and trying to satisfy BRR and the customers (facilities they are contracted with), your life will be consumed by the job. Your work-life balance will be non-existent. Forget about the PTO; you will not be able to use it because you will be working during that time as well. When you’re a good DOR, of course you will have good relationships with your team, and maybe some with the employees of the customer, but that about the extent of that. You will not be able to trust anyone beyond that. It’s sad that people will lie and conspire against your improvement initiatives and good efforts. This doesn’t even stretch the surface; I could say way more but don’t have the time. In short, stay far away from this company! 

I have worked for BRR for 2 years and it is the worst therapy company I have ever worked for. Management is not on the same page and I have been told very different productivity standards by upper management. The say they care about patient care yet do not allow therapists to see Medicaid patients for more than 23 minutes and only allow 30 minute treatments for rehab to home patients! Area managers and rehab directors are given significant bonuses monthly if teams meet their numbers and yet their is no true recognition or compensation for therapists. They also will not give raises. They hire you and tell you there will be fulltime hours and that you must hit those hours to keep your status and benefits, yet it is impossible to do so in buildings either low censuses that have too many therapists or assistants in one discipline. Although mid and upper nanagement know there are too may therapists will not actually let go of anyone they don't need which hurts the entire team when you have multiple therapists only get 2 or 3 hours a day for exeyended periods of time. Also if a building closes or loses a contract, you will lose anything over 40 hours of PTO time, although it is accrued!!!! In that event, they also will drop you to PRN so that you are unable time get unemployement.
Stay away! BRR is a very sketchy company to work for.

I have worked for BRR for nearly 2 years, and I can honestly say that the 3 tiers of supervisors above me all genuinely care for their employees. They just get it. They know that creating a good culture is directly related to better patient care and that better patient care equals better patient outcomes. My experience with BRR over the last 2 years has been one of the best I have had with any rehab company. I work at a smaller facility, and since BRR stepped in as their rehab provider, outcomes have improved, star ratings have improved and the reputation of the facility in our community has improved. 
In addition, there is plenty of room for advancement, and if you make your desire for advancement known, they invest in you. They educate you and teach you. My supervisor will come, on site, and take the time to sit down with me and break down anything that I want to know so that I can apply it and further my own knowledge. 
Their clinical education team is also very involved and informative as well as quick to respond.
Their is a lot of support offered to new graduates or therapists that are new to the skilled nursing setting. 
I'm very happy with BRR, and I have no plans of leaving them anytime soon. Great employer.

Broad River Rehabilitation is owned and run  by therapist that  have been out of the real work force and do not understand what it takes to achieve their co. daily requirements :
a typical treating therapists' day at work : 12-20 patient treatments (pushing concurrent/group with no rehab tech to help), 82% -92% OT/PT/ST,   90-98% OTA/PTA,  Rehab Managers % vary(the bigger the facility the lower the producivity 30-75% for managers. No over time permitted for anyone.  The company is so understaffed PTO (covers ALL time off including holidays and sicktime) can barely be taken due to no coverage. This is a company that treats it's employees as disposable and does not invest in them. Insurance benefits are barely existent because the health insurance they offer is usually not recognized as within net work. Also, they do not offer health insurance for spouses only children. The administrative staff is not reachable because this is a contract company so Broad River Rehab is not in the building only the hired  therapy staff. All they care about is how much is billed per patient,  your productivity and group/concurrent. Poor therapy provider. The person under the owners used to work for Genesis and is running this company the same. 

Benefits aren’t great as spouses cannot be added to their plan. In our area the insurance is considered out of network for the majority of providers. 
High productivity requirements (miss it by even a tenth of a point and something is said- at times you may even be AT productivity yet they want you higher) groups concurrent pushed heavily. 
Brought some issues up during the initial transition and my concerns were explained away, or denied that what I experienced actually happened. Frustrating. 
HR needs work on talking with their employees- typically harsh, short, snippy responses. HR, regional manager and above- not approachable. They say they are but the actions speak louder than words. 
CEO was a part of Genesis Rehab back in the day, and sadly they brought a lot of their negativity and financial priorities with them. Yes- this is a business- but we are here to serve. Our patients and coworkers are more than money makers. 

Broad River only cares about making money. The employee (little man low on totem pole)  never gets raises, no cost of living raise, no sick days, no holidays only PTO 10 days a year to cover ALL needs except beareavement (can take only if immediate family).  I worked as a therapist and it's the worst company I've ever worked with. Not ethical and do not care about the employee at all. The health insurance offered does not permit spouse to be insured and is call Luminaire which is a third party insurance that is not hardly recognized by physicians. The 401k offered has ZERO match from Broad River and wirk load is totally unrealistic! Lowest wages in therapy field paid; in fact this company cuts wages when they take over and tell you to be glad you have a job! Do NOT recommend this company to anyone. Awful to work for. Sad that ut's run by therapist who don't care about their employees!! 

I found working for Broad River Rehab as a Rehab Director to be one of the best job experiences in my 27 year career. The management above me was top notch, providing me as much support as needed while allowing me autonomy. The company is generous in providing the therapy team meals on occasion, and well as programs for recognition. The corporate culture exhibits a professional atmosphere with a caring supportive environment. I found BRR to be forward thinking with the development of top products for their customers. The training I received was excellent. I only had to leave my position to move to another city to care for aging family members, otherwise I would have continued working for this company.

I love working for BRR. I've worked for many "big box" therapy companies and Broad River is truly different. They constantly invest in my education as a therapist as they have weekly and monthly calls with the clinical VP regarding different clinical topics. They are very flexible with my schedule as I am a single mom and they encourage the use of  PTO. In the midst of COVID-19, we have had weekly calls with the CEO and COO to ask questions regarding the CDC guidelines and updates. Not only have they provided our facility with gowns, face shields, gowns, gloves, and sanitizer...they've also assisted facilities outside of our company that is in need when we request it. I had a friend who worked at a facility with patients who tested positive for COVID-19, I emailed our company to ask for assistance and the PPE was mailed to the facility that day. I've never seen anything like it. They take care of their own but others as well.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Physical therapist 58 salaries reported	$56.29 per hour
Physical therapist assistant 56 salaries reported	$35.88 per hour
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Occupational therapist 38 salaries reported	$58.39 per hour
Certified occupational therapy assistant 29 salaries reported	$33.09 per hour

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