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Vitas is a great company with a great mission to care for those without hope for aggressive curative therapy. Reps are required to work and build rapport, educate and differentiate Vitas from the 180 hospices in Illinois. If you are driven and ethical, Vitas is the place for you. In your interviews, determine if you are a fit for the DMD and the General Manager. These are the individuals you will be working with and following their direction. This is a competitive market and if you believe in the 5 t's, go back and try for a contract job that will last for 1-2 years. If you are passionate about helping people and are competitive, join Vitas Healthcare.
 




Anonymous said:
Vitas is a great company with a great mission to care for those without hope for aggressive curative therapy. Reps are required to work and build rapport, educate and differentiate Vitas from the 180 hospices in Illinois. If you are driven and ethical, Vitas is the place for you. In your interviews, determine if you are a fit for the DMD and the General Manager. These are the individuals you will be working with and following their direction. This is a competitive market and if you believe in the 5 t's, go back and try for a contract job that will last for 1-2 years. If you are passionate about helping people and are competitive, join Vitas Healthcare.
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Wow. Too bad my program is nothing like this.

Nothing like hearing clinical people whine if we could push a TOD to after midnight, or upset that that we couldn't have gotten docs signed and gotten pad for a day before the patient expired.
 












Re: Vitas -Joe Priestas

It's embarrassing to work for a company that employed an arrogant and rude person like Joe Priestas. I just attended a training where Joe bragged how he could fire the IT person (Channa) because Joe didn't understand the basics about Wifi. Joe continued to share insults about this IT guy to the traing class and how he had the power to have this guy fired. Joe is not capable of running a productive training class but has everyone around him afraid to comment on his incompetence. He is always negative and does nothing but demotivated individuals he trains.
 








the quote attached is a few years old and Joe P is still regarded by just about the entire sales force as a horses a**. Joe is a savant. He has a great mind for numbers but is not very smart at all. It is an embarrassment to bring him to a customer since he gets all caught up in himself and showing the customer how dumb THEY are. He will rip a rep to shreds with zero evidence. If anyone even THINKS about rocking the boat you are OUT. He is BFF's with the boys club at the top, so no one up top believes anything the front line says. He is arrogant and demeaning.



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Was just let go from Vitas a couple of weeks ago and I feel like I was released from prison. This is a horrible company to work for and very, very poorly managed. The clinical staff is great and do a good job but the marketing/sales aspect is a nightmare. Joe P. who is Eastern regional manager is the biggest horse's *ss you will ever meet in your life. He is the basic insecure school yard bully. The company just rides you to get as many referrals (aka dying people) as possible each month and treat those numbers like bottles of soda or boxes of shoes. They try to get people on as early as possible so they can bill medicare forever and ever. I truly think they are pushing the envelope regarding the legality of the medicare reimbursement for hospice. Hey medicare-is anyone watching and listening?
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Does anyone know anything about other managers in the Midwest team? Is it better to be a LTC rep or a Hospital Rep? Do both call on Physicians?
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Hospital is probably more prestigious. You'd be calling on hospitals, private practices, and possibly some acute rehab facilities.

LTC is calling on SNFs and ALFs, and the access is probably easier. If you've got no contracts in place, it can be a long process.

Don't know anything about the Midwest, but I haven't heard a lot of positives about management nationwide. They like to go after managers with corporate (big pharma) training, but the compensation isn't competitive, so you're often getting failed or unemployed pharma managers.
 








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