Ascension has no pros. All they care about is their Executives paychecks.
Cons
Absolutely terrible staffing, horrifically low pay for staff RN’s, for holiday pay they offer double pto accrual instead of actual holiday pay rates like time and a half, pto accrual is 4 hours for 2 weeks of work.
Ascension Response
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Hello. We appreciate you taking the time to share your concerns with us. We welcome your feedback so that we can work to become better as an organization. We have forwarded your concerns to the proper team for further reflection, and would appreciate the opportunity to speak with you directly about your concerns. At your earliest convenience, please reach out to us at Careers@Ascension.org. Thank you, and we hope to hear from you soon.
The patient population can be very rewarding to work with, and there can be lots of different job opportunities but very limited advancement with mainly lateral department shifts if a person is looking for change.
Cons
Raises are almost non-existent. The "raise" is a yearly COLA of between 2%-3%. There is no ability to talk to anyone regarding a raise, even the admin staff are fully stonewalled in the overlly corporate monolithic HR style of maintaining "fair" wages. I have worked here for several years and I actually earn less now because my "raises" do not keep up with inflation and the actual cost of living. They maintain their functionality on squeezing as much as they can out of one employer by slowly shifting more job responsibilities called "opportunities" onto you without extra pay or change in title that would get a pay increase. They look to higher level licensed staff to provide more coverage for roles that they won't hire for or cut in departments. They do "organizational restructuring" every 6 months because more staff quit, they don't replace the staff, and tell others to absorb the former FT employees job responsibilities without pay increase and being told not to go into OT.