Pros
Good salary, working environment can be good. Outstanding potential to communicate electronically to anyone in patient care. The communication system for patient care is better than anything else out there. Potential to work less days per week, or part time. Great benefit package. Most physicians once they decide they are a "good fit", which usually takes a couple years, stay with the company many years.
Cons
Gross lack of ethics, lying, nepotism, and coverup to make themselves look good. TSPMG administration and Kaiser administration never admits wrong, so never put them in a position to look like they did anything wrong. HR is a puppet to the TSPMG administration. The company supports illegal behavior if it is financially helpful. It is a strategic calculation, so they won't for example do medicare fraud on purpose because the penalty is high. Don't report even confidentially anything through the confidential line. If they know it was you, this company does retaliate,.. Don't believe the what the company tells you about HR or the confidential lines. HR will leak anything you tell them to the administration in grossly unethical ways., A former nursing supervisor told me nurses have been set up and fired for being honest during an HR evaluation. TSPMG wants all the information internal so they can avoid accountability. They will lie about the job to get you to take it. They told me to lie to a potential employee. A department where no one has left but is growing is your best bet. One physician left for example left because of "nursing insubordination" and "I couldn't get the nurses to do anything." It isn't like this everywhere, in every department, so just be careful. Some departments and places offer good career. Everyone except physicians is in a union. Nurses have no accountability to physicians. They have accountability to Kaiser administration only. Kaiser administration have no accountability to the physician directly. Physicians are not even asked to evaluate the nursing supervisor, much less anyone above them. In the past, the nurses could choose who they wanted to evaluate them.. When you do a "confidential evaluation", realize it will only be confidential if that person is not in the administration. I heard an administrator tell someone to lie on a "confidential evaluation" or risk retaliation. Administration can by very oppressive. For example, they made everyone in TSPMG get flu shots and had a goal of 100% participation. They did this by a series of punishments, including a threat to put physicians on work improvement and financial punishments for anyone who didn't get the flu shot.