Who even decided productivity standards for this field and why?
I am a pediatric COTA covering a SNF for the summer. I normally work an outpatient pediatrics in school based I’ve done my time at SNF and inpatient hospitals, so I’m used to the hustle. I can handle the productivity standards at this facility, which is 90% for the next two months without an issue. What is disheartening to me is the poor care and low quality of care therapy patients are getting. this is not on the Therapist. It’s on the shitty Rehab companies that push high productivity. Therapist are being forced to see five and six people at a time no equipment or broken equipment spending all of five minutes with a patient to review exercises and moving onto the next person. Why do we tolerate this? What other industry demands that you are productive 90% of the time there’s no way to deliver meaningful effective care under this model. So to be clear, you have overworked underpaid therapists, broken or in-adequate equipment, and seniors that are going bankrupt to pay for shitty therapy just so some CEO can afford a third home on Martha’s Vineyard. It wasn’t always this way folks I graduated in 2001 and we could give people therapy they needed. It’s not about achieving goals any longer. It’s about billing units. What a sad state of existence our field has become. I can tolerate it for the summer but damn guys I can see how the burnout is even worse for those working in SNF