Pros
Knowing that hospice is an essential service and being able to educate that to the medical community. Hospice is not just the last few days of life.. it’s a service that provides a quality of life for months for patients with terminal illness.
Cons
I can only speak for me, I was a 6 year employee, with a great salary, good mileage reimbursement. However the bonus structure changed constantly. I loved my job until I was faced with upper management changes who had zero hospice experience. Those management executives wanted to implement aggressive sales tactics. That is not how hospice is to be presented. I am no fool, I know VITAS is for profit, and I came from medical sales. When Covid hit the sales side was essentially shut out of hospitals, assisted living facilities, and physician offices. However upper management raised the representatives goals to an unattainable level., during the height of a pandemic. We were told we were essential. And pressed to find ways to get into closed offices. Also ridiculed and made to feel like failures if we didn’t schedule appointments. I worked in more than one location.. the last location I worked in employee a felon as a secretary. I quickly became disenchanted with the values of this company. And I am not a sour employee, I left on my own, best decision I ever made. I miss helping patients.