Pros
The people I worked with. Not on the Ascension level, on the hospital level. The people in my department were amazing and helped make working for an awful company like Ascension tolerable.
Cons
Where do I start? 1. They spend too much money 2. They use outdated software and business practices that create ridiculous amounts of work. A simple process becomes so complicated you’ll want to throw pencils at the ceiling because that’s more stimulating. 3. They aren’t really Catholic. They are pretending to be Catholic. I’m not Catholic either but I wasn’t pretending to be Catholic to make a ton of money. 4. They will fire good people and replace them with ineffective automated services. 5. They will fire good people and replace them with untrained people in call-centers. It’s not the MSC’s fault that Ascension is a piece of garbage though, don’t be mean to the MSC employees. They aren’t the big talking heads making all the idiotic decisions. I could go on. Ascension is like that predatory fish waving it’s pretty flashy light in front of you starving face. You think you’re about to eat but instead it eats you. If your hospital is profitable, it won’t be anymore. If it was going under you might have a different experience....but my hospital was better off before Ascension got its greedy fingers involved.
