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I was a former employee who worked as a housekeeper. It was very stressful had to clean up to 16 rooms a day but most of the time assigned to cleaning 19 rooms a day plus had to clean common areas.The housekeeping entailed laundry for the residents. Every resident had a very pacticular way of doing things. The laundry you would have to do was a lot. When doing so you would have to share machines with the other housekeepers and wait in line and check on the progress of the laundry every 15 minutes.
   Your assigned one deep clean a week per resident includes changing sheets,  laundry,  vacuuming, scrubing showers, scrubing sinks, checking expired food, taking trash, dusting, making beds, mopping bathrooms, scrubbing toilets, cleaning mirrors, cleaning mini refrigerators and microwaves. The daily task includes all of that except changing sheets, expired food checking, scrubbing showers, scrubbing sinks which is done once per week. You do have to change sheets when residents mess the bed. This happens frequently. The sizes of beds range from twin to California King mattress. Also have to clean common use towels all residents share and housekeepers try to split among each other plus cleaning rags which housekeepers also share.  You also have to use a deep clean vacuum for cleaning fecal matter or food stains. Also responsible for filling your cart meaning cleaning bottles, towels, rags, trash bags, toilet paper and if you use somebody else's cart also fill. 
  Common areas are dusting, vaccuming, trash, and mopping. At the end of the day you take all the accumulated trash of all the housekeepers gathered through the day sometimes housekeepers help or switch out throwing away so they can leave. The trash is then taken to the dumpsters.
   You only get a 45 minute lunch. If you work overtime you will get in trouble you'll get written up. You cannot be more then five minutes late or you get a verbal warning then eventually written up. 
  All housekeepers worked full time. They had two days off in a row. Housekeepers usually switched rooms meaning the ones you were were assigned too you had to switch yours rooms and and so clean  there rooms for two days. I know confusing. Never enough time to do anything. 
  At the time I had a horrible Manger who worked in memory care did practically nothing. She fired housekeepers and hired out of nepotism. I won't write her name just in case she works there still but give you a hint if she does her name can be a type of fabric.
  It was very stressful at the time. Only pluses the job had was some nice friendly residents and some friendly helpful housekeepers.

The management here refuses to give their regular employees fair raises. You can make $17+ as agency here, but are lucky if you get $12.75 as a regular employee (even with your certs). Look into getting a contract here and you will have a fairly regular job. This place is chronically understaffed due to inexperienced, incompetent management. They are unable to do their jobs for whatever reason. Showing up to work/staying at work is even optional! Don’t show that you are too good at your job because they will leave you alone on the floor. Question why you are hired on the spot here. Only good thing here is the awesome residents. This is a great place to work if you don’t have your CNA they hire everyone! You get free lunches here, but are lucky to get them on time or even of good quality since the jacka**es in kitchen are too busy goofing off. Serious cleanup starting from the top management needs to occur if this place ever wants to be a great home for their residents. Recommend this place for entry level healthcare workers who want an example of what a toxic workplace is. I also recommend this place for managers that fail to get hired elsewhere they will take you in here and you don’t even need prior healthcare experience!

Dishwasher/servers at this job are treated like outsiders looking in; and when they’re done with you, they’ll give you a dumb reason for terminating you you instead of giving you your retirement benefits that they offer (mine was “inconsistencies in stocking”…..whatever that means!) I am still receiving letters in the mail for this, and it has been 3 years since they let me go.  Management tends to play favorites, so don’t expect to be treated fairly. They even had these little computer courses you were paid for doing. They had the “company mission statement” (which, by the way, they give absolutely zero thought or validity to) and something about “person-centered care”. It is obvious they only care about the financial benefits of their resident’s families. Also you can forget about having multiple uniforms for your job; one is all you get, and some of the staff even had holes all over theirs. They do not care about their employees at all. 

Not assisted living at all. Underpaid, overworked, constant call offs, lazy PRN caregivers who come in and disappear. 1 to a hall constantly. Management doesn't care.They leave on time no matter what. Can not give proper care to the residents who pay to be there when lazy ppl continue to be employed there and do nothing while a few hardworking caregivers are by themselves on a hall to do hoyer lifts and combative ppl by themselves. Pay is a joke compared to the work expected daily. Full on skilled care is not assisted living which is what is there. During meal times instead of feeding resident's caregivers are on their phones not paying attention and letting their food get cold. God forbid they actually do their job. There are a few who do come in for the right reasons and give it their all. This is what keeps that place open...but those few are looking for other jobs or have already left.

This was my first job. I loved it until something went wrong and I was blamed for it and fired after working lots of overtime and giving my all to this company.  Even when it was stressful I make sure that I got the work done. The work that was meant for 3 people I was doing by myself and still end up getting fired. I even had a supervisor who could've careless to help us out with providing exceptional care for our residents.  Teamwork is everything in this field and so the little team that we had was all we had and when people didn't show up we did our best and kept it moving whether we were by ourselves or together. This company changed management so much that people cared less for the staffs and the residents.  They fired people left and right forgetting that they had a community to run. I will never go back there because it's too much and needs a better team.

A typical day here consists of a staff to resident ratio anywhere from 1:40 down to 1:16. You can expect to not take your federally mandated break due to the shortage of staff to maintain the floor but don’t worry! Management will still threaten disciplinary action all while doing next to nothing to help 😄 When they do come in to help out, you can bet on them doing laundry, sitting on their phones, and complaining about things not being done all while you try to make sure the residents are taken care of. They hire staff in waves just to give them a day or two to learn both the assisted living side and the memory care side. Management depict the company as a loving and caring environment but only show up to take pictures of residents during their planned themed activities. They don’t include in their brochures that residents are not able to get their scheduled showers due to how short staffed the place is. 

Severely understaffed with inadequate assistance from management. Advertised as Memory Care, but has abundance of Psychiatric residents with uncontrolled behaviors - Psychiatric nurse practitioner does not spend proper amount of time with residents to assess them or properly medicate. No behavior management/modification practiced. Admissions often come at the last minute without proper paperwork or information. Poor incentive, excessive attendance issues, and not enough recognition where it is earned. Yearly evaluations improperly given without enough investigation. Poor behaviors from caregivers tolerated by management!!! Not enough activities for residents.

Community level and co workers were great but unfortunately corporate micromanages every aspect of every day and gets in the way of community level employees doing our daily job duties. There are multiple conference calls and meetings daily scheduled by corporate, you are unable to do a lot of the most basics parts of your job duties without approval or sign off from corporate. It feels like we had to plan and worry more about the calls/meetings with corporate than we did making sure our residents were taken care of.  95% of meetings and calls are repetitive and non productive. Communities could really be GREAT if corporate would just stop getting in the way of daily tasks and just be there for the “support” they say they are. Unless this changes i do not recommend working with this company

Management turnover is excessive! They never keep their word, they talk about employees to other employees, never recognize good workers and the bad workers get rewarded because they are scared of them. New lazy ED that sleeps in his office and during meetings cannot keep his eyes open,  has bottles of beer brought into his office and cannot walk 50 feet without looking like he's going to have a massive heart attack due to his obesity. They are loosing Residents and employees at a record speed and they need to shut down and start over. This is not to mention the brown nosers who keep their jobs because they are all up Managements rear ends  and the new DHW who has the personality of a wet rag and thinks she is so special, when in reality she is a unsociable,  stuck up,  sorry excuse for a Nurse.

There are a lot of cons for working with this company. There is an extreme lack of communication, managment is poorly ran and very fake. Always short staffed so the duties are overloaded with no means to "catch up" the attitudes between coworkers are extremely depressive and no feel of teamwork that is conducive to a healthy work place environment. The residents are the best part of the job but it's also very depressing as well as knowing they all deserve better care and are not receiving it. It's only about corporate making money and not providing the level of care deserved for what they are expected to pay. I would not recommend working for this company to anyone.

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