Vantaggi
Pros: this company is hands down the best at burning out their robots...I mean therapists. They are really good at overworking, underpaying, and always making sure that you feel unappreciated. They will never ask you to go above and beyond for a patient, unless of course, it's going to prevent them from dropping a RUG level. If you want to become a stagnant, depressed, clinically bored therapist who never wants to expand their clinical knowledge, I promise, you and RehabCare will live happily ever after. If however, you want to grow and learn, and better yourself clinically, you better hope that your manager can get coverage so that you can use PTO time & your own money to attend a course (because face it, getting reimbursed for anything here, is a complete crapshoot). Honestly, the productivity quotas are similar for most rehab companies so I'm not going to say that 88-90% productivity is crazy (unreasonable, but you'll get that anywhere). What I will say, is that unlike other companies who review your productivity on a monthly or perhaps weekly basis, RehabCare reviews it daily. You will be called into the managers office and fight your case about how it was out of your control (that Mrs. t was @ an md appt, mr K was working PT & it wasn't clinically appropriate to co-treat, ms. H was sick and you couldn't get your full time, maybe you drank a lot of water and didn't clock out of the building for your own personal bathroom breaks) you'll need to establish a plan (likely a schedule that you need to share with the other therapists) so that there's no way you'll fall below 90% again.
Svantaggi
Honestly? You better negotiate like crazy when you get hired, because you will NEVER. Get a raise. They'll claim that the 13 cent cost of living adjustment they were forced to give us last year, was a thank you for our efforts and hard work, but c'mon. They'll try to suck you in with saying things like "we haven't done pay cuts like some of our competitors have", but really? No matter what though, you won't win your negotiation battle because they can always hire new grads for $6, $7 dollars less, force them to drink the RehabCare KoolAid & eventually burn them out after 1.5 years & get another newbie. That's seriously what happens.
