Any further speculations on when Home and Community can expect any answers? I guess we all feel like we are waiting around until 10/29. It feels like a lifetime’s worth of waiting and not knowing (with certainty at least) how it’s going to be determined.
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@m7 So what are the PSCs doing now if a big chunk of your workload shifted offshore?
In the world of SICCs, it’s business as usual. My caseload is overflowing that I have been needing assistance everyday. But I am anticipating a huge drop once Humana ends.
Pre-service side - RIF is coming. The question is when.
Has anyone heard any updates?
US based clinicians barely have any cases. 90-95% of the volume has shifted offshore.
@jf nothing for today
Any layoffs or odd short touch point meetings scheduled across Home & Community or ECS so far today?
My manager is sending out internal job postings weekly, it’s coming people!
@ej I don't believe they could. Even though some of them may have had the role several years ago, things have changed so much and the documentation, administrative tasks, engagement and the metrics are so much more now than even a couple of years ago.. no way they could do it like they used to, or think that they can.
@ej im just ready to know and get on with it. The waiting is too much. Hard to concentrate on what im supposed to be doing. I guess we'll know tomorrow (10/1)if we have a couple more weeks or longer.
The Discharge Care Coordinator job sounds like an exhausting and emotionally-draining job from the job description.
I imagine calling patients who are mad about being discharged too soon, getting consents for Housecalls and other programs, discussing non-existent DC plans, etc. I’d rather get RIFed than transfer to this kind of work.
It honestly can’t come soon enough. My guess is it’ll be heavily weighted toward metrics, because that seems to be all the number crunchers at the top care about anymore. There’s such a massive disconnect.
I’d genuinely love to see some of these “leaders” take on the actual workload for a week and see how they fare.
@b1 do you have the job number for the DCC job?
@db I wish my manager would tell us something!
@db that would be the 15th or 29th i guess..
Our manager is telling us mid to late October for lay offs
@b1 are you preservice or SICC? Preservice here and did not hear about this, so assuming it was for SICC?
@b3 it's DCM. Discharge Care Manager. It's being piloted in a few states.
@b2 what is DCC? DSNP Care Coordinator??
Can someone clarify "DCC"? I am on the preservice side. I do not want to leave but the amount of work we have had these past three weeks has been alarmingly low.
@b1 I was also thinking of it in the way that if they told us October 1, it would give us time to put in interest in for DCC by October 2 if we are on the RIF list. But have thought it it that way too, maybe they want to see interest before decisions are made.
I would anticipate finding out in a couple weeks. With interest submissions due 10/2 for the DCC role, I would imagine they would want to lock in who will be transitioning to those roles before finalizing RIFs.
@az the "business as usual " feeling I've gotten in just the last 2 days from management makes me wonder if it'll be November.. it's been strange honestly.. the "vibe" so far this week. When everyone knows it's coming.
@a2 I have been feeling this too this week, wondering and hoping for October 1. But that’s literally just going off feeling. I would hope it wouldn’t be the end of the month… but who knows at this point...
@a5 it's felt like that too me as well.. at least from management. The anxiety is increasing on the team as time is going on with no information. Not knowing for this long and getting into the Holiday season soon isn't helping.
@af there will be (probably significant) reductions on the SNF team: SICCs and most likely some management. There have been efforts to minimize the number: promoting internal transfers, part time roles, and new DC program. Hopefully it will help.
@ak I am so, so genuinely sorry. Are you pre service? I’ve heard about them having to train their offshore replacements. That is so hard to swallow. I am a CC. Hoping for the best but expecting the worst.
I am having a LOT of difficulty right now knowing how our team had to train our replacements and the timeline we were given. I honestly don’t know how they did it. I am very angry and sad about the situation. The domestic team has years of clinical and rehabilitation experience that is difficult to replace quickly, and these reviews require a significant level of clinical knowledge and judgment. It is incredibly difficult to know experienced employees are going to be replaced after being asked to train the people taking over their work - new grad nurses with little to no experience, let alone any US healthcare experience.
What areas of home and community do you think will get laid off?
@a2 what’s the vibe like where you are? It just seems business as usual for our team. One can only hope that it would actually be sooner than later.
There is a weird vibe this week—- I wonder if they will do something Oct 1