St Joseph’s Medical Center — Toxic and abusive environment - Cardiac Sonographer CommonSpirit Health Employee Review

1.0
25 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great pay, benefits for the Phoenix area.

Cons

Cutthroat, fear-based, backstabbing, quantity-over-quality of care culture, no support or onboarding or competency sign offs, just sink or swim. Management views you as a commodity to be squeezed for as much revenue as they can get out of you and not a human being. What you did for them yesterday doesn’t matter. The staff are overall very predatory and sense under-confidence like sharks with blood in the water and seize any opportunity to undermine eachother to management and rely on gossip in order to elevate themselves. This is only a reflection of the management from above them and the culture that is perpetuated hospital-wide. At least 1/4 of the department is violating HIPAA on a regular basis going into patient charts/images in which they played no role in their care whatsoever with management well aware for the purpose of ridiculing eachother’s work as if it is a sport. Bullying is a common practice here and plotting witch-hunts by management and their pets is a pastime here. Lots of gaslighting, power games, toxic positivity, narcissistic cult-like behavior. Classic symptoms of a toxic work culture. Union-busting captive audience meetings are forced on the department only to find out a month after the “mandatory meeting” the corporate HR guy giving us the lecture on why unions are bad and “working directly” with management is better got laid off with the major cuts in middle management was actually kind of funny and ironic. Who will hold our union-busting meetings now?

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CommonSpirit Health Response
5mo
Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective. We recognize that this reflects a deeply difficult experience, and we understand how strongly workplace culture, leadership approach, and day-to-day interactions can impact an employee’s well-being and sense of purpose—especially in healthcare. We want to be clear that respect, professionalism, patient privacy, and psychological safety are foundational expectations in our organization. Concerns related to workplace conduct, communication, or patient confidentiality are taken seriously, and we encourage employees to raise them through appropriate internal channels so they can be reviewed and addressed. We appreciate your acknowledgment of the compensation and benefits offered, and we respect your decision to seek an environment that better aligns with your values and expectations. Feedback like this, even when difficult to hear, provides important insight into how experiences can differ across teams and highlights the importance of ongoing dialogue and accountability. We wish you the best in your next role.

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