phlebotomist

health screener

plasma processing technician

licensed vocational nurse

licensed practical nurse

KEDPLASMA

I learned a tremendous amount during my employment at KEDPLASMA and genuinely enjoyed the fast-paced nature of the work. Plasma collection is something I became very passionate about, which made my decision to resign extremely difficult. My Center Manager was highly knowledgeable, and I appreciated the opportunity to grow professionally in this environment.

Unfortunately, the workplace culture and lack of organizational structure created significant challenges. As a manager, enforcing policies outlined in the employee handbook was extremely difficult because Regional Management and HR often would not support follow-through on corrective actions. I strongly believe in coaching and employee development, but when repeated coaching does not result in improvement, accountability measures should be implemented consistently.

One of the most discouraging aspects was seeing dependable employees consistently overworked while unreliable employees faced little to no accountability. Additionally, new hires were frequently brought on at higher pay rates than experienced employees already working within the center. Those same experienced employees were then expected to train the new hires without receiving any additional compensation or recognition for taking on extra responsibilities. I found this practice both unfair and damaging to employee morale.

Work-life balance was another major concern. Management staff within the center were often treated poorly by Regional and Division leadership. Working 70+ hours per week to keep the facility operational, assisting across multiple production areas, and taking on responsibilities belonging to other departments quickly became overwhelming. When these concerns were raised with Regional leadership and HR, responses such as, “We understand this job isn’t for everyone,” felt dismissive and unappreciative of the dedication and hard work being put forth by the management team.

Despite these challenges, I will always value the experience and knowledge I gained while working at KEDPLASMA. It is a field I truly care about, and I sincerely hope the company improves its employee support, accountability standards, and workplace culture moving forward.


I worked here for a good amount of time. There were cliques and a ton of drama. Employees and management talked about each other not only with other employees but with the donors. On top of this, the Altoona location cannot keep a staff member long enough to keep good ratio between staff and donors due to poor treatment of staff. They give you an hour lunch break, but half the time you don’t get the chance to take that. There were nights where there were two phlebotomists to over 40 donors and management sat in the office and played on their phones. Additionally, there are favorites. If you are not favored by management, the other employees can walk all over you. They say they care about your growth and your well being, but they don’t. To them, you are just another number to add to the bonuses on their paychecks. You will not see management treating you well, management does not address or solve any issues, and most of the employees leave each shift crying or physically sick because of the stress. Your coworkers will belittle you and demean you and make you feel worthless, alongside most of management (minus a couple). Management has been known to corner you if they don’t like something you did and they will lecture even if it is not your fault. As an individual that used to come in when someone called off, stay hours past shift, come in hours early, and never call off unless medically necessary by a doctors orders, the amount of times I was ridiculed for things other staff did was unacceptable. Many of the staff discuss things like private relationships on the clock in front of donors, and on top of this, some of these encounters are with donors. The management knew of this and decided there was nothing to do about it and continued to let the behavior happen. Additionally, our management allows donors that are clearly under the influence of drugs to donate, and you will encounter many individuals on Megan’s law, many that target young to middle aged women (most of the employees at KED). And yes, this does put you at risk, and employees have complained with nothing done about it. And management does counsel them and threaten permanently deferring them. But I’ve only seen that taken into action on a couple of occasions because staff is too scared to feel management anything without the thought of being belittled. I have witnessed multiple reports to HR as well with nothing done about it. If you truly care about your job, and are a hard worker, DO NOT go here unless you want your mental AND physical health to spiral because the place is an absolute prison. 

-Management was great! The only complaint I had in this area was scheduling. It is too inconsistent for anyone with children. The schedule is supposed to rotate, one week open- next week close, and they swapped your expected am/pm schedules without notification to suit their needs. Especially if you requested any time off the previous week. I did not see my child for an entire month because of this!
-The company itself does not pay enough to keep their employees from having to be on state assistance. Most had food-stamps, some section 8/HUD housing, etc. I personally am not interested in working 40+ hours a week to still not be able to support myself and my child.
-They operate on a point system that penalizes employees for getting sick, being late, etc... they will not send you home if you become ill, you must choose to leave early and take 2 points for it, or spend the entire shift spreading your germs to the donors and staff. (4 points for calling in sick. 2 pts for leaving because you're vomiting. 2 points for leaving to go to the emergency room due to anaphylactic shock. 2 points for having to go pick up your sick child from school- even if you come back and finish your shift! *You are only allowed 26 points total.) This can be helpful for employees who are constantly late, take long lunches, don't come in, leave early for no reason etc, but penalizing you for catching a virus or something just seems like they do not care about their employees.
-I, personally, did not care for the environment or lack of professionalism shown by most of the other employees, but loved the management staff. I had only been there for 2 months, and knew entirely too much about the personal lives of several employees who openly talked about their extracurricular encounters and drunken nights while on the donor floor for everyone to hear. They often used very descriptive and foul language. *I will say that most of them are very welcoming of new employees, and not hesitant to answer questions or help when needed.
-As a phlebotomist, I was able to improve my skills by using a rather large needle on some very difficult, tiny veins. 
-I think the hardest part of the job for me was dealing with the extreme smells caused by most of the donors complete lack of personal hygiene, and the lack of respect several had for everyone around them.

First, we spend many weeks being taught how to do a process exactly as the SOP states to do this, only to find that we are being trained in a location that does not reflect the same SOP as we will be placed in, and therefore being marked at inadequate for the specific job. Once this has been remedied the job itself is not hard but being able to understand how you will be marked off for checking a thyroid before feeling a gland will never be clear to me. The quality team is really great, however, they are reporting to a quality team that is not onsite and make decisions based on what they "think" is going on. Trying to communicate with management is completely ridiculous and fruitless. The co-workers are usually tired and for the most part, afraid of the QA dept, which really shouldn't be. The donor is supposed to be the main focus and most important investment, however, when the stats are not being met the donor somehow is then not so important and the numbers is all that matters, leaving the situation for doors to open fraught with non compliance and potential troubles. The Medical Operations department, the end all to the entire company are somewhat narrow minded, unable to provide accurate and valid responses to many concerns and any medical knowledge you may come in with you may as well forget. The entire operation is dependent on  how well you can read from a "script" and provide actions that that have been written out, verbatim. If you do have medical knowledge and want to use it, this may not be the job for you, but if you do not have medical knowledge, you will fit right in and read the road map. Just don't expect to be fulfilled unless all your looking for is a paycheck. Not sure why we are paid "per licensure" as the job has no variations based on knowledge, we all do the exact same thing and production does not seem to matter. 

I came in and they hired me on the spot, as an uncertified phlebotomist. They perform background checks and drug tests when they first hire you. Fridays and Saturdays you can wear jeans. They pay you $10 an hour and you'll get (easily) 40+ hours a week. The problem I have with this company is the fact that there is NO pay raise policy, you can work there for 5+ years and still make the same lousy wage as when you started, and ten dollars an hour for a phlebotomist is not good. You work with stinky, smelly people. The donors are aloud to lie and spread rumors about you and it will not matter - management won't stick up for you. Coworkers are often dramatic, they seriously thrive on drama, it's really unnerving. This place has an EXTREMELY high turnover rate, which I believe is because of the points system they use for attendance. You are allowed 26 points in a 6 month period, and management is not fair about the way they distribute points. You will get points if your child gets sick, you will get points if you had a heart attack and need to go to the ER. If you do not call at least an hour before your shift, it works as a no call no show. 13 points for one of those. I've only worked for this company for 6 months, and I've seen almost 15 people fired or quit. Don't work here, it's not worth it. The people they hire to perform phlebotomy are not experienced. They often hired people with no experience at all, except working fast food and retail. Those people come in expecting this job to be cake, we'll it's NOT. You will not get a raise here at all, so don't even think about it. There isn't any room for advancement either. Also, corporate employees are very sexist and undermine the abilities that women have. Women are forced to wear scrubs made for men, which leads to you being uncomfortable in your uniform for up to 13 hours.

Always understaffed with not so great benefits and no holidays off at all and only get thanksgiving and Christmas off you will not get a set schedule they rotate it and never approve days you request off so if you have kids definitely don’t work here and you’ll get points off for like if your late or you miss a day and so on and that can lead to termination quickly the management picks favorites and let’s those favorites get away with not working and pulling their weight and will sit down all day while the other person is having to do the work of two people and they get away with it. and then management will yell at you for any little things. it’s like high school drama working in this place and don’t ever get breaks do not recommend! everyone talks bad about each other behind their backs and is so immature. the pay isn’t worth all the trouble and the donors are awful and treat you bad , there would be crazy people  that will scream at you for not passing them because they failed the screening process so that wasn’t fun either along with all the things you have to deal with from employees and management. overall worst job experience  ever will never work at a plasma center again theirs a reason they’re ALWAYS hiring! also training is ridiculous and takes forever over stupid little things and lame videos and tests you have to complete so wasn’tu worth my time at all too little pay for everything you have to put up with 

For my job title I do not get paid enough, but the benefits are better than any I have ever had before. Management is ok, they are two people that I believe really do not have the maturity to be in management. The man is better than the woman though. He is a people pleaser and the woman is not at all. Employees are immature and do not welcome new people at all. The company has a point system that really sucks. The total a person can have is 26, really 25, because once you get to 26 you fired. That number may sound good, but say you call in two hours before your shift you still getting 4 points for the day, or if you come to work and leave early even if it is 30 minutes early you get 2 points. Natural disasters,deaths, family emergencies, sick leave,Even if you die I believe they going to give you 4 points. You have to park a mile away from the front door and if you late guess what 2 points, if you forget to clock in that is a half a point.I have seen at least 8 people since I have started that has quit, because of this. They work you 12 hours a days in a row, one hour lunch break, two ten minute breaks, but we have only one employee bathroom with at least 20 women working here, so guess what your ten minute break is you waiting in line. You are on your feet all day. There is no where to seat even if we are slow. Then after your 12 hour work week you go to the next week where you work six days in a row and have only one day off Sunday, then you go back to work for four days,12 hour shifts. Your body is so worned out till its not funny.

Never a full staff and when there was its just a bunch of people that just want to stand around and talk all day and not actually do their jobs. All this does is create a more stressful work environment for the employees that actually do their jobs. Apparently there was just no way there could be set schedules for anyone, you would be there until 8 or 9 at night then be expected to be there the next morning at 6. Clear favoritism from management towards their laziest and most problematic employees. If you have an issue with another employee, it almost always goes to management wether it’s work related or not and if they’re one of the favorites it doesn’t matter what happened you will be in trouble. No sort of confidentiality from management either, everyone there knew eachother business either from the gossipy staff or the gossipy managers. The work is easy and the donors are awesome though, that’s really the only rewarding part of the job is making connections with donors and the few nice employees. Pay is laughable as well, they do annual raises based on a managers assessment of your work and no matter how hard you work you will get the same rating as a coworker that doesn’t do half the work you put in. I’d really only recommend this place for people straight out of school that need experience before you more onto a doctors office or hospital.

This job could have been such a super easy good job, but management makes it a living nightmare. You are constantly being called into the office for insignificant things. They favor certain people and if you are not one of them expect to be in their office at least once a week. They force you to do mandatory overtime by not letting you leave and then get upset when you ask to leave. They lied in the interview and said the hours were flexible, and then denied they said that. Doesn’t matter how hard you work, the lazy people who are buddy buddy with them are the ones who get to do whatever they want (aka make their own schedule, take numerous breaks, sit in the office for hours while we are slammed on the floor, ignore alarms, leave when they want, ect…). There is only 1hr break in 10-11hr shifts, and god forbid you go to the bathroom or take a drink of water. Terrible work environment. I loved the nurses I worked with on the floor but anyone with a supervisor title is belittling and rude if they don’t like you. The donors were great it’s a shame. The place could flourish so much with better management and training coordinators. The donors are even aware of how terrible the turn over rate is there. There is literally only 2 people that have been there for longer than 2 years….There is a reason for that…

This place is a joke! They paint you a pretty picture, THEN you actually see what this place is all about. Your just a number and expected to keep pumping out the people and plasma so they can sell it for $3000 a bottle. No guaranteed breaks, you get an hour for lunch unpaid but the work is demanding and constant (WHY you ask) People are getting paid to donate their plasma. It's always busy and the training staff is MEH some are very nice, others treat you terrible. I caution anyone looking at this place for a job. I stayed 7 weeks and had enough. Management is also young people who went to college but don't have what it takes to be managers. I've worked  all my life and just amazes me how they go through the staff. The place is very tidy looking most of the time, but under that the floors were never mopped in the evenings. If you go in there and wipe the floor with a wet towel, it will be black. I mopped one evening and was told to stop. They don't care at all. Oh and your held on the line for everything you do. I was wrote up in my 3rd week for an error. I was still learning and doing my best and I still got a write up. It was ridiculous. Best of luck to you, but don't waste your time!!!  Also they are considered a manufacturing facility of Plasma not a Medical facility.... 

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