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I worked here for nearly 6 years. At first, it was like a dream come true. Supportive management, flexible schedule, great coworkers. After about a year, that all changed. Upper management has a habit of impulsively firing people and then hiring them back. It was like walking on egg shells every day, never knowing if I was the next to be fired.

From my experience, a lot of the nursing staff is just there for the paycheck. If you need help during a dangerous situation, you're out of luck. Your fellow staff members will be hiding in break rooms, resident rooms, closets, laundry rooms, or even sitting in plain sight SLEEPING or on their phones. Expect the bare minimum from your coworkers. 

The most enjoyable part of the job was getting to know the residents. Every day was different. 

If you show you actually care about the residents' wellbeing, you'll be treated as an outsider. If you report abuse, you'll be considered a "snitch", and your work life will be a nightmare. Abuse is often overlooked. You will find residents double, sometimes triple briefed, with horrible skin breakdown. Meanwhile, their assigned CNA is asleep or watching Tik Toks in a corner all day.

At the Jewish Home, you'll find nurses on power trips and CNAs who despise their job, yet are encouraged to work as many 16 hour shifts as possible just so the building has adequate staffing. This results in staff burn out and horrible care being provided to the residents. 

Sure, the facility itself is nice. It's been recently renovated and housekeeping does a phenomenal job at keeping things tidy.  Looks can be deceiving. I wouldn't recommend working at this place to my worst enemy, and I definitely would not allow any of my loved ones to live here. 

All I have ever wanted to be was an Activity Director. I had a horrible experience at the Summit that actually forced a career change.
You will find the work manageable at first, but your supervisor will add more on when they see that you can handle it. I was told I would have coworkers to assist me with setting up and taking down a room full of tables (multiple times a day). It was a huge fight to try to get help. 
As an Activity Director, you should be viewed as a member of administration (at most facilities, you are). At The Summit, you are viewed at the same level as kitchen staff. You will not be allowed to go to morning meeting, and you will typically be one of the last to find out important changes.
The workplace culture involves a lot of miscommunication or lack thereof, and very poor management that cares more about having casual conversations. It is not an environment that thrives on teamwork; people do not go out of their way to assist coworkers, let alone other departments.
Most of the residents are an absolute delight, but there are a handful of super entitled ones that can be really mean. This is independent living, so they have a clear understanding of their behavior (which can make the job difficult).

I loved the Jewish Home for the experience of meeting the residents. I hated it for almost every other reason. Nurse managers were more concerned about how they looked to higher management then anything else, including residents. The supervisors are actually pretty awesome but they have no power to make any real change. CNAs were rude and degrading to residents and other staff. I even had a resident get threatened by one and management did absolutely nothing about it. I had residents crying to me every night about how they just felt like they were a piece of trash there. It was the most heartbreaking thing. If you are a nurse that actually cares about people and believes in what it means to be a nurse, don't work there. You aren't going to change how they do anything and no one cares. If you have a bad attitude, are abusive, just collecting a paycheck, seems like the perfect place for you.

Started at the Jewish Home about a month ago, and was extremely excited as a BRAND NEW nurse to start on the neurobehavioral unit! I was told there would be lots of behaviors, different neuro problems, and so much for me to learn. THIS IS A DEMENTIA UNIT with double locked doors, door alarms for each bedroom, a behavior specialist and so much unnecessary bull****! I started as a GPN (didn't even have my license, and before a month of working here, I had to work on my own, because the DON made my preceptor drop down to work as a CNA). Need an RN on my unit due to the agreement of being a GPN, and have typically been able to do MAYBE one medication pass per week. JHR doesn't care about you, or your education, they just want a warm body to fill the cart so that they don't have to do any dirty work!!!

terrible management, you're being paid way below standards, payroll is managed by someone who constantly makes mistakes, you will get scheduled when you're not supposed to, HR doesn't care about anything, LPNs will micromanage you. drama infested place, the nurse manager is always on vacation. prepare to overwork yourself. they will demand you do everything and offer so little for pay. job description is basically a housekeeper, a server, and an aide. food delivery is what you do even though they have hospitality assistance who never does anything. you're expected to do everything. the CEO could care less.

Slow pace in the beginning of the shift but once it's time to eat depending on reservations it's a fast paced job.
Learned how to be a great server, I will give them that.
Management is terrible, they lack communication and they do not care for you personally, and have no respect for there workers it's all a front.
Seems to be a lot of feuds between the workers and trust me these situations are not handled properly.
The hardest part of this job is when a resident dies, they tell you to not get attached but It's inevitable.
The most enjoyable part of the job is talking to the residents and getting to serve them, it really make your day.

Working for the Jewish Home of Rochester was quite a eye opening experience.  I didn't realize how multi-cultural my employer was.  I enjoyed working with people from different cultures.  I loved working with the individuals knowing that being in a home there was some empty times that they would like to have someone make their day a little brighter, it could be as small as sitting and reading them a passage out of a book, doing their hair, talking with them.

When you’re a tower or cottage nurse, you must float to whatever unit they put you. It’s a pain to walk outside from cottage to cottage when you’re in charge of multiple floors. In the winter evening time, it’s awful! I was always afraid of slipping on ice and not being found by staff until hours later. We were short staffed like every facility. It was so mentally exhausting to work there. The residents kept me there for a while but eventually I got burned out and had to quit. The low pay compared to other nursing homes wasn’t making it worth my while to continue working.  My nurse manager was awesome and she understood. 

Perfect job to have while in high school or college, management was very cordial and understanding, hours were flexible and made it easy to work and go to school. The residents were very friendly and always welcomed you with a warm smile. the most enjoyable part of my job was being able to interact with the residents and establish relationships with them. while I worked at the Jewish Home I learned problem solving skills, and enhanced my communication skills. there was no part of the job that was hard for me I enjoyed going to work every day and always made myself available to work even in days that I was off.

I'm not sure why people have had such bad experiences because I've worked here over 2 years per diem and really enjoy it as a nurse. I use to work for 2 different nursing agencies who have sent me to many different facility's to work so I've worked at A LOT of nursing homes and there's a reason this place is rated 5 stars! It's very clean, staff are professional and I would work here full time if I didn't have a full time job in homecare. Out of all nursing homes I have worked at throughout NYS this is by far the nicest.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Licensed practical nurse 26 salaries reported	$29.37 per hour
Nursing assistant 19 salaries reported	$20.75 per hour
Unit secretary 6 salaries reported	$19.61 per hour
Physical therapist 5 salaries reported	$74,000 per year
Registered nurse manager 3 salaries reported	$78,733 per year

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