Hospital Sisters Health System Reviews

Corporate office has taken over control of hospital practices without any direct knowledge of day to day operations. Extremely poor management and decision making. Management is more concerned with posturing than doing what is right for the patient and the employees. Employees are not valued and workloads unrealistic. I worked there for more than 10 years and it was sad to see how the changes caused an exodus of very valuable and knowledgeable employees.

-Very poor pay. I have many years of varied experience and the pay does not reflect that or the type of work I currently do for the company. -Very poor benefits, even when you pay into the "good" plan. -Poor organization and ability maintain appropriate scheduling. -Upper management is entirely disconnected and out of touch with what clinics needs are issues are. -Upper management often pushes off issues that they should be addressing with colleagues on to middle management creating unfair, unnecessary tension between clinic managers and colleagues. -Upper management does not allot funds to update buildings, medical equipment, heating, etc to the point myself and other nurses have had to purchase our own solutions due to their lack of willingness to address these needs. For example, hand/foot warming pads due to lack of appropriate heat, buying our own thermometers because they do not replace the old ones when they break even after repeated work orders and requests have been submitted. -Along with not allotting funds to things such as above, they do not quickly provide building maintenance needs. For example, we have had an issue with the sewer from our neighboring building backing up in to our building at least a few times a month that had been occurring for a long time before I even started quite some time ago. Despite staff, providers, middle management asking for help or remedy of this, still, nothing has been done about. It is so foul smelling that many times we gag and it disrupts patient care. We have had patients ask to reschedule visits because of the smell. Since yet again they do not take action on such issues that are both health hazards and disrupt patient care, myself and other staff had to again buy our own odor eliminating supplies just to be able to make it through the work days when this happens. -HSHS seems to think that its employees are disposable and its so disheartening. Between the super low, nowhere near competitive pay (I took thinking I'd get more work-life balance), benefits that you pay a lot for and get charged incredibly high copays for, lack of basic tools they give you to door your job, etc. It is now abundantly clear to me and many of us in this office where their priorities lie. Their priority is the bottom penny that they are going to pinch the life out of. -I started this job with so much excitement because my managers, coworkers, and providers were so excellent. I even put aside the cautionary stories I had heard about working for HSHS. However, over time, the constant changes coming down from corporate to the clinic level have slowly crushed this clinic. I worry how many of us will have to leave due the pressure cooker this is becoming because of them and I highly doubt that it will change anything.