St Charles Health System Reviews

Management is so far removed from what is actually going on at the patient care level it is quickly becoming a dangerous place. They strip the staff down to bare bones, in some units people are forced to stay over and work 13-18 hour shifts because they don't staff appropriately. They keep hiring layers of management to figure out what the problem is!! The level of idiocy is astounding and would be funny if they weren't putting patients at risk. They purposely only hire newer nurses so they can save money-I hope this lands them in another lawsuit for age discrimination. Unfortunately new nurses learn from the older ones, when you have only new nurses, you tend to run into patient safety issues-St. Charles has already had these types of issues but they don't value or respect nursing-if they could figure out a way to run the hospital without nurses I'm sure they would jump on it! Oh well, maybe they can go back to their mgmt classes where they learn how to do pie charts and graphs and figure out a way to save a dying organization.

Personally, I had to make the very difficult decision to leave this position after 10 years in a town where jobs are extremely scarce. After years of being an administrative assistant I was given the title of Department Coordinator along with more responsibility and many more duties (as to be expected with this kind of change.) What wasn't expected was an absolute 0 salary adjustment to go with that title and added job increase. When questioning my Manager about it I was told they just didn't have any more money in the budget to add to my position and that I needed to do the best I could with the added responsibilities. After years of working beyond what I can with this job and really, no value or appreciation and little recognition despite stellar annual evaluations, I feel the only action I can do is to leave. I am overly sad by this and will miss all of my co-workers. I feel there is something inherently wrong with an organization and especially a department like mine (we've lost 25% of our employees this year) when good employees leave like this. I don't want to leave, but sometimes and in this case, actions are louder than words. I hope care continues to be good at St.Charles Bend, but I may not be able to stay to find out as the job market in this town beyond the hospital is so grim.