What does the future look like for us after this is over?

Has anybody gotten any inside information about when they are thinking we might go back in the field or how long they will keep us on in this "virtual" state before they feel like they have to start furloughs?

When (if ever) do you think LTC will be allowed back into the facilities? Or do you think they will be permanently denied access due to concerns about safety for the residents?

 

I don’t think we will be able to enter a LTC facility until sometime in 2021. We are the last people they want to see walk through their doors. They are the heaviest hit with COVID19. I have a feeling we won’t be around long after this is “over”. They are predicting Winter cases are going to be worse than this. Our future looks very bleak.

 

LTC is toast, by the way , why
did Nadine leave ?
She always said how great
Avanir was.

 

We need to have access to LTC facilities to grow business. How can I pull residents charts and help diagnose PBA if I can't go unit to unit. How do we funnel kickbacks to a doctor if we can't set up a BS dinner program at a restaurant. I am fearful that LTC is going to be toast.

 

There is no doubt vendors will
not be allowed in nursing homes
for the rest of this year.

 

where did Nadine land?

 

I think Specialty may end up being OK but LTC does not have a good future ahead I'm afraid. I cant see LTC getting back into homes until late fall at the earliest and probably not even then.

 

I've heard something similar. LTC makes more than specialty, so they wont fully kill ltc. there will be an even smaller ltc force because there is no available cash to wait this out. On the other hand specialty might be in bigger trouble. It's possible that there will be a digital sales push to make up for the lull in specialty. A specialty cut will come in the more expensive markets in favor of digital presence. We will see.

 

Or even longer....Can you just imagine ONE vendor having the virus going into 4-5 nursing homes a day???

 

Totally agree....I also agree with the previous post.

 

Just call me “ The Insider”. Here is what is going on.
1. As long as sales keep going the way they are they will not cut people except possibly RBM”s
2. The ELT is aware that we cannot get in homes until at least the fall or even the end of the year but they don’t want to say it out loud.....Yet.
3. The ELT does care about the Sales Force and all internal discussions bear that out including the Q 2 payout discussed today. That was a generous thing for the company to do.
4. We are now discussing the role of the manager. Do we need as many in the future if they cannot do ride alongs? Reps are not going to want to have a manager sitting 2 feet away in a car all day during social distancing. Maybe the manager rents a car and follows the reps around all day is another possibility. I think the days of ride alongs as we have known them is over.
5. I will post again soon when I can, but for now all is good.

 

MUHAHAHAAHA!!! Goodbye Managers!! Goodbye you evil witch!

 

Insider does not know what he is talking about. Avanir is still hiring reps and he said managers should rent cars, they have fleet cars, (he would know that)

 

does not matter if they are still hiring. they hired right before layoffs last year, one rep landed from training and got laid off the next week.

 

LTC as we know it is officially over

 

Layoffs are coming soon

 

well maybe I should continue my search--I am in final stages interviewing for Avanir--TBC

 

Hopefully the access to LTC facilities will be allowed in the near future. Each State needs to have protocols put in place for vendors.

 

Can LTC survive with a virtual model until things open up again? Maybe the future will look different but there is still a need in LTC!

 

Inside info, direct from ELT. LTC will SOON be entirely eliminated. ALL reps and managers.
MOST Specialty managers will be eliminated, no need moving forward, 3-5 max will remain for the nation. ALL new hires over past 4 months will be eliminated. Open territories will be absorbed into existing territories.