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Greedy company not employee friendly. They pride themselves in how much money they can pocket so they can personally spend the money that the hard working employees make for them while being paid less and less.  I was told I am getting a pay decrease without an explanation.  I was also told this is going to happen company wide because all employee salaries are being looked at because so many are being overpaid.  What are you comparing this to or are you just singling out your older employees and dropping their rate to match your younger less experienced?  Why is this just now a thing?  If we are overpaid then we’ve always been overpaid so why a decrease now (because you also don’t give pay increases)?  I am contacting an attorney because I am an older employer making the money I do because I have more experience.  You really do suck as a company.  Get ready people because this company is just like all others.  Facebook will tell you where the money is going.  It’s padding the pockets of those cutting your salary.  We are not stupid hourly employees and we see and know what is going on.  I bet you none of those sitting on the corporate throne is taking a pay cut but a pay increase more likely.  I also read somewhere about someone not getting paid and that happened to me to.  It took me 2 months to get my paycheck fixed and get what was owed to me and then they still didn’t fix my benefits.  I did not pay for benefits for all of 2019 and after 2 or 3 times of telling payroll it wasn’t being deducted they still never fixed it.  My tax consultant said that my w2 will be wrong because I should have had benefits listed but won’t if they never got deducted.  They also better not come back and say I owe for them because I have my emails and documentation where I called and emailed over and over with no response or resolution.  Maybe that’s the department you need to cut salaries in because I can’t be the only one you have lost money on with not paying for their benefits, but maybe you made it up by paying people wrong.

Functional Pathways is the best national provider of physical, occupational, and speech therapy services I have ever worked for in my 25 years! There is no other company like Functional Pathways. And I plan to stay until they kick me out!!
Functional Pathways invests in people. The culture is like no other--we take responsibility for ourselves, our patients, and each other. Employees are not "just a number" and our owner even knows your name! We value long-lasting sincere relationships with our customers, patients, and each other. We are constantly helping each other to improve and are committed to do everything we can to provide excellent rehabilitation care to our patients.The passion about care giving flows from the top and it is contagious and can be witnessed in the field by the way we care for our patients and customers. Functional Pathways is truly a customer oriented company. We have external customers- our patients, family members, and facility members. We also have internal customers- Functional Pathways employees. We put the needs of our customers first.
The executive management team doesn't dictate how we should treat patients. The freedom of individualized care planning and treatment execution is in the hands of the therapist, not in the hands of corporate telling us how to treat patients.
We have innovative clinical programs that are actually trained and utilized in the field. Any rehab provider can have clinical programs and market clinical programs but if you aren't doing it in the field, then they are worthless. But we ARE doing them in field!!
Functional Pathways is truly an elite provider of therapy services in the nation. I am proud to work for such a fine company whose values are in line with mine.

Don’t work for them. Yes, its a therapist owned company which might lead you to believe quality matters- but it doesn't to my regional director. Its all about profit and unrealistic productivity. DOR makes schedule then regional goes in and adds unrealistic patients arbitrarily to group. No plan for group. Also, if staffing low all if a sudden you schedule turns into 12-16 patients at 30 minutes a piece and others assigned to group. 
The company standards for daily documentation are extensively detailed. Then they want you to do point if service documentation. I still haven't figured out how to chart while delivering bedside care to some of my highly complex max assist folks- which is what SNF is full of presently. 
Then there is the “ how can we help” question. Which is an exercise in futility.
Our computers slow, evals get lost randomly, glitches.  Basically lost  time with charting and then you get threatened with pay cut ( when you pay is already low, and no raises ever- no performance reviews). When you do well by their standards you receive zero feedback. They are all programmed to threaten when you fall below their standard.
They never appreciate the hard work you do. Only feedback is all negative, do more, less time, Oh and by the way add more detail to your daily charting…
With all this said i currently work with a great team, and I enjoy most of my patients.
This could be a dream job with a different company. 
FP is a therapist owned farce- out of touch with the reality in daily delivery of care. No concept of how to treat highly internally motivated professionals who are challenged daily with delivering high quality cost effective care.


Functional pathways paints a good picture up front at time of hire. BUT after relocating myself and my spouse , leaving family and doctor's with a promise that we are a great company with values is a false statement.
 Functional Pathways does not support their employees.  They are more concerned with their facilities they are contracted for. I took a position of management,   was told not by the company I worked for but instead by  the company that contracted us what a wonderful job I was doing. We are so happy to have you here. Never received a negative statement at all. But because of an anonymous call by a trouble maker employee, ended up losing my job with no written reason. Never one write up, only positive feedback. 
That is the first time in my 10+ yrs career to have ever been treated like this! Functional pathways does not support,  back,  or advance their employees.  There is no pay increase. Their PTO accrual is lower than anywhere I have ever worked. 
    Functional pathways relocates trouble makers rather than dealing with the problem. Takes the word of these trouble makers over someone with great experience and great references from past employers and screws with people's lives. If it doesn't benefit Functional Pathways then it doesn't matter.  
If you are looking for a company that supports their managers/employees,  has room for salary growth, advancement within the company then this is NOT the company you want to work for.

A typical day of work is clocking into the system and running to your first patient’s room. Hopefully, they are available for therapy at the time of your arrival. If not you need to quickly find someone else to see. We don’t get paid by an hourly rate like most companies since they have changed our pay module. Now it is by units. So, if it takes you an extra 40 minutes throughout your day going between your patients. Or maybe someone stops you to talk to you about a patient or a family member you won’t get paid for that time lost since the patient isn’t with you or just to say, “hello!” That is a lot of lost money you aren’t getting paid for if you add up the minutes of each day. That is why we don’t have any productivity that we have to make. We don’t get paid while locating our patients. Some facilities are larger than others and “Hopefully” no one stops you in the hall to talk to you about a patients care either staff from the facility or family members. 
If you are hired for full time, ask specifically how many hours you will have before you take the job. Otherwise don’t plan to have a vacation because you will be required to use your PTO to make up the hours required for a full time employee. 
STRESS
If you like to feel stressed, this is the company is for you. Now, they have given us a handout to remind us that we do not get paid for our down time. That’s the running time to find your patients. This company’s main focus is on making a profit not patient oriented or caring about the therapist.

This mid-sized company is large enough to provide ample resources and opportunities for training, advancement, and competitive compensation for their therapists, yet small enough to truly feel like family, hold everyone to a high expectation, and foster a sense of teamwork, even with upper management.
I am unaware if other posters have worked with super-duper large RehabCompanies, which will remain unnamed, but when you do, you are literally treated like a robot that fills a therapist position who's sole purpose is to generate as much profit as possible, for the lowest wage possible. And I mean Low Wage. If you think FP was unrealistic in productivity expectations, poor in company culture, pays low wages, or doesn't treat their employees right, you're in for a shock when you experience some of the other very large, supposedly "top" rehab employers. So far, honestly, FP is one of the best companies I've had the pleasure to work for.

Was hired to work here full time as a therapist that relocated to South Carolina - my first day on the job, the full time OT stated that there was NOT enough caseload to warrant bringing me into the facility in the first place and the regional manager was made aware of this by the OT.  Then, regional manager stated to not worry about your productivity; subsequently, two weeks later complained that the facility productivity was too low. In a separate meeting weeks later, regional manager reports to therapy staff that "any mistakes that are being made at the middle management level are to be corrected by the therapy staff here".  What a total insulting remark!
Rehab manager turnover is awful and rehab managers are hired with NO therapy background whatsoever (sort of explaining partially the turnover by all staff alike).  Consequently, after only 5 months working, was layed off due to lack of caseload as was the case when arrived at my first day by the OT.  The issues with inconsistent staffing continue to be an issue for 3 years now with a trend developed with the company business model of submitting new OT and COTA job alerts postings every spring and fall with advertisements via indeed.com and other hiring websites for this same facility.

Initially I had reservations on even taking the position when offered. As it turns out, my instincts were correct. During my first week of employment I attended a full day of dementia training which I found to be very informative & useful until we were rudely interrupted by the building administrator. She carried on & on for about 10 minutes with the staff educator making it virtually next to impossible to hear the video. This did not sit well with me since it was unprofessional & did not set a good precedence.

As time went on I found there was a complete breakdown of communication & support from my rehab manager. I received more praise from my coworkers & patients than from my patronizing rehab manager. Word of advise, if you ever find yourself in a one to one meeting with the rehab manager don’t sign ANYTHING until thoroughly read!

The quality & quantity of pt equipment is insufficient to meet pt needs & the facility is currently struggling at this location to bring in patient admissions. The healthcare plan FP offers is horrific, read the fine print! The deductibles alone range from 3K to 13K depending on type of plan, geographical location & family size. They may deny and/or delay healthcare coverage based on pre-existing conditions.

I currently provide Occupational Therapy Services in a skilled nursing facility/ Transitional Care Center. This is a fast paced setting and on a daily basis, I am given the opportunity to provide skilled therapy services to individuals disgnosed with various ailments ranging from CVA to orthopedic surgeries.  I have learned how to work well on a rehabilitation team and have learned how to remain productive under current medicare guidelines. I enjoy my co-workers and learn various treatment techniques from them as well.  The hardest part about the job is unexpected changes in schedule due to changes in patient medical status, staffing changes, and new rules/guidelines being implemented within the facility,  however I have learned to adapt well to said changes.  The most enjoyable part of my job is definitely being able to interact with people of all backgrounds- I learn so much from my clients and am very grateful to have been afforded the opportunity to serve in this capacity.

I worked for (dys)Functional Pathways for the past 6 months and had no choice but to get out of there. I'll start with 1 positive. They pay higher then most companies(although you barely get 25 hours a week for FT position) I was fortunate to work with other good therapists that were like-minded and had passion and understanding for the well-being of the patients. Cons; They do not care about how many hours you have they will force you to do group treatments which ultimately do nothing for the short-term patients that are trying to recover from injury. Schedule changes, poor leadership, unethical and blatant apathy for patients to get better. The Director is just terrible at communicating and being in charge, constantly micromanages every detail of the schedule, has a pretentious, demeaning tone of voice and feels like she is more important then the others. Overall, this was a horrible experience and I feel sorry for anybody who works for this company and for the ill-equipped, self-absorbed Director who takes pride in letting you know she is constantly in charge.

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