The Walmart of Healthcare - Facility Administrator DaVita Employee Review

1.0
12 Mar 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You have the opportunity to help patients and work with some great teammates

Cons

Although the dialysis facilities make all the money, these facilities are constantly under the microscope financially, while the corporate side is bloated with way too many Directors who create work for the Facility Administrators (FA) in order to justify their jobs. The FAs are constantly under pressure to squeeze more work out of their staff, while paying non-competitive salaries. This leads to a constant revolving door with nurses and techniques leaving for better paying jobs and the rest of the staff has to pick up the slack for months at a time as it takes 10 weeks to train a tech and 16 to train a nurse. There is very little work/life balance as the facilities are either understaffed or helping other facilities with staffing issues. Everyone is constantly being asked to stretch, while leadership decides to hold facilities to stricter staffing/patient ratios during a pandemic and a chronic staffing issue.

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5.0
29 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Stable company to work for with great benefits. DaVita offers tuition reimbursement, so it pays to go back to school and get a degree. They also help with career advancement and development.

Cons

If you are new to dialysis, it may take a while to reach a decent wage. You are required to work 12 hour shifts, mostly on your feet, and managers will always look to add to your workload.

1.0
18 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The local team was great. The FA was the best. She knows how to lead and to build a team. Helping the patients and their families was the best part. Knowing you were helping them improve their quality of life was very rewarding.

Cons

Upper management. All the executives care about is money. All management above the FA level was terrible. Always cutting your hours even though you were full time. People in charge that have absolutely no experience in healthcare. Management and executives who don't understand medicine and how healthcare works or should be. They bully, don't support, and try to find things to get you in trouble. They want the nurses to only use AI instead of thinking and doing what is best for the patients. When I started with DaVita, it was a great place to work. Since the business people took over at the top, it has gone downhill and is simply awful. I do not recommend working here.

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