As the employee in the meetings said on Monday, layoffs across the company are coming. During the Town Hall Thursday, they said impacted employees will be notified on Monday, Jan. 29, and no later than Friday, Feb. 2.
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Is October still the closing dates? Or have they moved the timelines up? I just feel like they will pull the rug out from under the employees that plan on staying until Oct.
CVS ran this company into the ground, higher ups are making decisions and have no clue how things are run. You can’t put retail people in charge of long term care. CVS does not even know how to get rid of the employees they are laying off, they keep threatening our severance if we don’t follow their cult rules.
Omnicare is by far the worst company I've ever worked for. I hope those in management that don't lead by example are the first to go.
The Omnicare in St George Utah is closing.
Yes, the 5,000 was from last year as part of CVS Health, although a few Omnicare executives were let go as part of the 5,000. But Omnicare regular staffers was not hit until this week.
Isn’t the 5000 the total total from the first announcement last year?
The below link states another 5000 this year. Yikes
Central MA closing by October
I've been with Omnicare for nearly five years, coming in with no experience whatsoever. The first 8 months I was here, we had non-stop workload (and being pushed by sups to watch your production numbers), so much a couple people just quit on a dime, one person who started with me walking out at lunch and not coming back. Toward the end of 2019, the work literally fell off a cliff. I have no idea what happened. We went from non-stop and overloaded to basically being done by 11 a.m. The sups were pretty good at finding busy work trying to protect jobs. The work eventually picked up a little as we headed into the pandemic and went remote, but it was hit and miss, some weeks a little busy, some not at all.
From there, we've had layoffs in 2020, 2021 and 2022, this is the fourth round. Eventually, the luck runs out. The disappointing thing is despite learning a ton about medical billing, I've had no luck in finding any jobs. But that might be because I'm trying to get remote, which always has like thousands of applicants. Once I'm cut, it'll be back into the regular work field and maybe that will help.
I agree with the post below. Unfortunately, this week is billing week on the 1st. So I fear, as well, they may be waiting until afterwards -on Thursday/Friday- to let go more people. I've heard of some mgt people being let go but nobody on the billing or census teams. Outside vendors were trained last year and have been doing a lot of the electronic census work now. Our census people cannot work in the queues that the vendors get trained in & have been running out of work since the holidays. So it wouldn't make much sense that they wouldn't let go some of our people. I hope it's not true and I wish the best for all of us. A lot of us have hung in there since CVS bought Omnicare & things went wonky during the pandemic. We've listened to leader after leader tell us things are getting better (as they continued to lay off people) and the leaders themselves move on to other companies. For over 3 years they tell us to be compassionate for our coworkers being laid off (like we need to be told that!) and we'll need to pitch in and work harder and we'll get through this cause things are looking brighter - different leaders, same sorry meaningless words.
Don't bother with that linked story. Doesn't say anything we don't already know.
Layoffs being announced this week, no numbers, just wait for a phone call and hope you don't get one.
Very quiet today, we didn't hear anything on our billing teams. My guess is they will wait until Thursday or Friday to make more notifications. Let people think they might be spared so they do better work until they are ultimately released.
https://www.mcknightsseniorliving.com/home/news/omnicare-notifying-workers-of-layoffs-this-week/
Any more updates? Specifically in Texas?
This is so crazy. So I sit and wait all week for a phone call that they didn’t get to on Monday!?!??’ Or what!? This is bull. Just man up andb tell the employees that actually WORK!!!!? For higher up bonuses!
Does anyone know how the closures will affect the omnicare drivers?
Sorry, were you in billing?
My entire dept is done. Jerks at omnicare.
My team's experience has always been a meeting scheduled for the same day and then the call was through Teams.
I'm sorry to hear that you were laid off. Can you tell us if the call came through on your work phone or personal cell? And how far out is your term date - a couple of weeks a month?? Thank you and again I'm sorry. You'll definitely find somewhere better with your experience.
What location and position were you?
Yes I got my call at 9:30 this morning. After 39 years “my job is being eliminated”. Good luck to all that make it through the cuts.
Yes
Did it start yet?
In the Town hall on Thursday he did not give any numbers. He stated that it will impact both pharmacy & non pharmacy related positions, so that sounds like nobody is safe from this upcoming round of layoffs.
Did they announce how many this will impact or what departments?
Do we know if omnicare in springfield missouri will be affected by the layoffs?
To the question below about how the layoff is communicated. We were told in our meeting that you would get a phone call. They didn't know who the caller would be - your manager, supervisor, HR person? And also didn't know if it would come through on your work phone or personal cell phone. But it is supposed to be a phone call.
How do the layoffs get communicated usually? Like do you get a meeting invite the day it happens or do they cold call you or what?
I've worked for Omnicare for over 10 yrs & really loved my job up until about 5 yrs ago. After CVS started a "shared service center" in Arizona they were slowly closing all of the billing centers across the country. We were told in the spring of 2017 our branch would be closing but by fall they changed their mind. I think CVS had no idea of Omnicare's antiquated systems/programs & personal relationships the billing centers had with their facilities. I used to love training people & showing them all the ways they could find insurance to pay for our clients bills and get the company paid as well. We used to run a series of different insurance checks when we set up a patient's accounts-because most of the time the facility didn't supply or have all the info when the patient admitted. Now they only do 2 checks and that's it. And the newer employees don't even know of or have access to the additional checks that us "old timers" still do to benefit the patient. If nothing's found they just bill the patient or their responsible party. It's all about productivity and getting your numbers - the "Heart at Work" is a joke.This is so stressful for the client- mostly seniors, people who are critically ill or on hospice. We rarely had collections involved when we were just Omnicare. Since CVS-people get erroneous bills that go to collections very quickly & customer svs has to deal with a lot of upset patients/families. Try explaining to somebody why they got a bill for $0.75 which is pretty much the cost of postage. Try walking an 85-yr old through punching in their cc number on their mobile phone to pay their bill - instead of just giving the info to a rep like they used to do. And when they get frustrated and can't do it then you have to tell them to get a family member or a nurse to do it for them. It's sickening! Like any company, Omnicare may have had its issues, but CVS completely bombed the ship and sunk us. I REALLY used to love my job at Omnicare. Good luck to everybody this coming week.
The president in the call said at the end "we'll get this turned around." No, you won't. It's over.
Obviously, CVS can't just shut it down or they would have done that after nobody would buy this train wreck when it was on sale for more than a year. They have no options left, just outsource as many jobs as possible, let facilities leave and leave, and at some point, shut it down or reduce their business so much the losses are reduced.
I have been with Omnicare for over 15 years, and the days of Omnicare are coming to an end, we have gone from an industry leader to a shell of a company.
How many presidents since 2015 have sat in the chair of LTC and failed. Not one them has realized, look down at your leadership and their lies the failure. The same people for the last 9 years are still holding the same positions. Bring in new sales, great but we fail at delivering the goods.
Close pharmacies, layoff staff, consolidate and bring in consultants and they believe this is the solution. DREAM ON.
Lets concentrate on the OSAT score, the number that is complete BS. The number that reflects NOTHING. This is a number, after getting into a fight with my husband I wake him up at midnight and ask him "How do you feel about me?" . Let me put on a se-y outfit and ask him the same questions. Glad we are running our company based on this score.
President of Omnicare said it best on Thursday "the customer tells us they LOVE us, we are the BEST!!! here is 60 days notice."
He asked on his call what differentiates us, packaging, customer care, automation, delivering - Mr. President our pharmacies, our software, our automation and our leadership is best described in two words "Medicare Advantage".
You want to know what will differentiate us? Delivering the GOODS!!!
You want to know what will differentiate us? Leadership that knows, not having leadership that is not about paycheck and maintaining their mileage and hotel status.
You want to know what will differentiate us? We could have been!!!!
Lets see if Monday after 15 years, I have a job. I wonder what my OSAT score will be with hubby if employed or unemployed.
I agree with your comment. If they knew yesterday, please advise folks. This is going to impact their lives and their families. There's no reason to wait. I've been through it and it is not a pretty thing to go through.
I wasn't on the call, but from people on the Teams chat were saying, it's across all of Omnicare. It's going to be a bloodbath. I heard the final minutes, and the president said twice something like "it's going to be a difficult week."
Is it going to be in all departments or do we know yet ?
Any facility doing business with Omnicare needs to have their heads examined. Absolute sinking ship.
Come on stay on topic. It literally says omnicare in the title, this is isn't about Aetna
We have been getting "help" from "contractors" in billing for about a month. I assumed from the getgo they outsourced our replacements and it looks like I was correct
Is this just for Omnicare? I’m on the Aetna side, but feeling worried. Things just don’t feel right in discussions with my management team.
I would expect on our billing team, our last week will be next week. There is no work. They have timed it right down to the layoff week. The billing dept. is a mess, mistakes everywhere by the vendors. My team constantly was making errors and nobody would ever catch them. Wrong codes, wrong dates, everywhere. It's amazing this place is even able to function. When I first started, if you put in a wrong code, you'd get an email within a week correcting your error. That stopped years ago.
In prior layoffs, they let people stay usually about a month. There is no reason for that to happen this time since there is no work left.
We all knew it was coming, it just took a little longer than expected