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Generally most of the facilities in the KCMO area had great managers/Program Coordinators who were organized, cared for patient-first needs, and worked their tails off doing not only patient care (treatments) but also meetings, paperwork, management duties required by the facilities or upper management but would get reprimands for their productivity being low despite fantastic patient care. High turnover rate for Program Coordinators in my time there, sometimes new PC every 3 months, upper management burned almost every one of them, all wonderful therapists who fought to give good care. Two stars only for the great PC's who worked but not upper management itself past that level save for a few good souls. 

Upper management constantly focusing on productivity (unrealistic super-high productivity lines their pockets with money) and made it difficult to get patients adaptive devices or items needed for basic care or rehabilitation. Therapists would voice concerns about patient-first care, difficulty with working in facilties with dysfunctional elevators or larger psychiatric ones with multiple codes to punch in, or patient needs and management wouldn't offer concrete or helpful ways to get around problems, shift blame to not working hard enough.

Required hours worked per pay period went from 30 hrs to 37 (most employees want their full hours), employees who were willing to travel to 2-3 facilities sometimes every *day* to keep their hours when caseload dropped (normal at any facility fluxing throughout year) who weren't making their hours were passively job threatened, dropped to part-time or didn't get PTO/benefits. This company is not in it for your best interests even though they would adamantly say they look out for you. If you were forced to drive 1-2 hours away from your home base, they would only compensate for half of your drive even if you were getting more hours than staying local. 

At larger facilities I enjoyed having the few (due to turnover rates) older therapists around to learn from, but even then everyone so hurried with high expectations hard to have good interactions. Culture fairly good, most therapists had good rapport with patients. If you work for this company, stand up for your rights, but know that job security here is non-existent. Worked at many therapy companies but this one was tops the worst.

I have worked for Innovate for 11 years, and have enjoyed every minute. I started as a student, and moved into a full time position after I graduated.  Within 3 years I moved into a management position as a program coordinator. Innovate has always felt like a family from the staff I work with at the facility level all the way up to the president of the company.  Innovate offers flexible scheduling so that anytime I needed to flex a day during the week to the weekend to be able to do something needed for my family, or a dr appointment for myself, I was able to do that.  Innovate does not pressure us to treat 20+ people a day with mandated goups/concurrent treatments, allowing for more 1:1 treatments with approximately 8 treatments a day.  If you are looking for a low pressure, family oriented environment Innovate Rehab and Wellness is for you.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Decent coworkers helped the monotony. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Being forced to see patients that were uncouth and acting out in violent behaviors, lack of raises, lack of support from management.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Not good. Felt like everyone was for themselves. Management was not supportive. Impossible to get days off. And the facilities themselves are some of the worst in the area. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful. Trying to find keys to use elevators, not ample space to perform therapy, and having to see patients who consistently refuse, act out in anger, spit at you, etc.

The pay scale is above all others in my experience. The expectations of productivity are realistic! Plus grouping/concurrent is NOT mandadory! We are allowed to use our own judgement for what our patient needs are! The ability to take off work is not difficult: flexible schedule. Family oriented. Upper management does not "talk down" to us and we are treated as a TEAM, which means the world to me because I am huge on giving respect and expecting to receive it in return! We have outpatients, as well as, residents which allows us to use a broad spectrum of our skills. The facility and the therapy team work together to provide the best care for each individual patient. 

This company started off well. But over the last year they have become more concerned with productivity than employee satisfaction and patient outcomes. They talk a good game but do not back it up.
If the client gets nervous about census dropping, the resulting low revenue is blamed on therapy. Upper management issues veiled threats to improve productivity. When pressured to keep patients on caseload longer than the treating therapist deems as clinically appropriate, management does not back up the staff. 
No raises are given. No performance reviews are done. I will be leaving ASAP (God willing).

Management is only interested in the bottom line. Not the employee or person served. Many negative comments from management regarding “the people we serve aren’t the greatest” referring to persons with mental disabilities in the facilities served. Productivity is their only concern and their demand is too high based on population needs. 
This company changed required hours worked per pay period to a higher number (from 30 to 37 hrs) in order to keep benefits then they didn’t provide the hours required so you can keep the benefits. 
Kicked most employees off benefits without notice (one was pregnant!) and lowered them to part time despite the fact they signed on for full time work.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The support received at all levels. There is always someone to reach out to for support. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
State visits to the facility can be rather stressful, but didn't affect me directly. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Good backing, family run business, that supports its employees. Good working environment, small facility that feels like home. Family team atmosphere. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Morning meeting, insurance updates, seeing patients, conference calls with region, seeing the rest of the patients for the day, afternoon meeting.

Innovate has kept therapists and assistants in the program director positions in therapy departments. I have multiple friends who have worked for contract companies who are now being micromanaged by techs setting schedules and planning minutes. That is not the case at Innovate. The program directors take scheduling information from the treating therapists, as it should be.  Frequent department meetings for patient care discussion & good communication. 

Management is always training and keeping us up to date on regulatory changes.   Flexibility and compensation is much better than other SNF locations.   Productivity target was 80% for PTs and 90% for assistants, but that included group/concurrent (which weren't mandated when PDPM changes occurred for skilled!)  My facility could use some updates and staffing is always short for them, so that's a huge stressor; but that's everywhere, unfortunately.  

The days were ;long when work was available. Management was insensitive and did not demonstrate interest in reassigning when the work did not fit into an 8 hour day. The program coordinators did not notify therapists how many hours and amount and kind of paperwork would be needed. When you got the a facility, you were overbooked so many times it was long hours and need for cancelling personal appointments

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