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Horizon Behavioral Health Reviews

3.6

71% would recommend to a friend

(115 total reviews)
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Melissa Lucy

87% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Horizon Behavioral Health has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 115 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Horizon Behavioral Health employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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115 reviews
1.0
27 Aug 2017

Mission Impossible

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers who know and understand but are unable to speak and clients who are none the wiser

Cons

A good manager understands, appreciates, and respects his employees. A bad manager destroys morale, micro-manages to the point of hindering productivity, and creates such a bad reputation within the community that the company itself is damaged. Horizon has the latter. Excessive compensation goes to the top, to those close to the CEO, and to those who are related to or friends of the CEO. Others are eliminated, demoted, or pay is cut. While the mission of the agency is good, it’s mission impossible now. High turnover and failure to recruit and retain qualified staff makes it harder for remaining staff. Workloads are disproportionate and pay too low for the caseloads maintained. Insurance is too high for those with families and benefits have been reduced. CEO trusts no one, acts as lord and overseer, and the atmosphere is toxic. Lip service is given to cutting costs but this does not apply to the CEO and his staff. He spends excessively while programs go without. Staff who provide billable services and bring in revenue are not appreciated while those who do not perform billable services are overpaid and making it more and more difficult for those that do. Communication is as clear as a brick wall. Company success has digressed along with morale, services to clients, and programs. The backbone of the agency has been ripped out and a spineless milquetoast holds the reins. He has control but is no leader. He is all about himself and gratified by his own delusions. Arrogance, ego, and ignorance have destroyed Horizon.

2.0
4 Feb 2017

The walk doesn't match the talk...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Liberal vacation accrual, VRS Retirement plan, hard working co-workers.

Cons

Top down mgmt, smoke and mirrors communication, ignorant or ill informed board members, knee-jerk decision making from highest level without real information re. feasibility or sustainability. Low pay and below-COL raises. Wasted/lost work time for "All Staff Retreats" that are far from a true retreat--just a CEO Show.

1.0
11 Oct 2017

Revolving Door

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Employees play a vital role in the community helping those in need, work is interesting and challenging, and co-workers are a comfort when the chips are down.

Cons

Bureaucracy at its worst! There are few to no opportunities for advancement unless you remain silent and go along with everything the CEO says, there are no opportunities for professional development, staff rotate so frequently that it's like a revolving door, and the CEO is annihilistic and is destroying the agency from the inside out. The agency has been financially unstable for years and has gotten progressively worse. A long-term manager was recently let go for supposed financial reasons but is getting paid to not work while at the same time others have gotten raises for assuming her duties. It was a political removal of someone that actually knew what she was doing and was respected by staff, co-workers, and others. She was a threat so she had to be removed. That's the way it works ... get in his way or dare to disagree and you will be removed. A good CEO does not fear intelligence, experience, and knowledge, he embraces it. Not at Horizon. He puts on a good charade for the board and outsiders but staff see the truth. He does not care that his impulsive decisions have detrimental consequences for the agency, wasting time and money and other resources. He doesn't listen and lies under pressure to preserve his delusions of grandeur. With the hours we devote to work, working for a dictator is unbearable, putting strain on us, our health and our families. There is nothing worse than having a bad boss. It makes your time in the office really painful. It makes getting up in the morning tough.

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