Pros
-Great coworkers, great mission to treat underserved communities that keeps people here.
-Good compensation structure- good base salary with quality and RVU bonuses. However, Acclaim just hired an outside consulting firm to look at compensation- I suspect with the layoffs a couple of months ago that that means provider compensation is getting cut next.
-$5000 a year CME money is higher than anywhere I have worked
Cons
-The Behavioral Health Department is extremely toxic. I would not recommend it to anyone.
-Feedback is elicited, then ignored. People that provide feedback- that is asked for- are retaliated against. If you choose to work here keep your mouth shut, even when they ask you for feedback.
-Leadership is more concerned about surveys, engagement numbers for their bonuses than actually having an engaged, happy workforce. They make sure you know before the surveys that their employment and bonuses are contingent upon these surveys, which is unethical in my opinion. It's a guilt trip.
-there are no paid holidays, no sick leave, no CME days. You are expected to use your PTO for these. If you are not scheduled to work a holiday, it automatically gets deducted from your PTO. You don't have nearly as much PTO as you think you do for this reason.
-You are not allowed to use PTO on weekends on inpatient, CL, or PEC due to lack of cross cover. They only hire cross coverage Monday-Friday, so if you want to go on a vacation you have to find your own coverage
-You are treated like a number, not a person. You are disposable to them. They just restructured and laid off 8/28 administrators. Those administrators they kept got their pay cut/title demotion and are now working across multiple different service lines/more work for less pay. They laid off the BH service line administrator who had been here for nearly 20 years with less than a month's notice. If they will do that to their most loyal, imagine what they will do to you. With this restructuring, the admin support for providers is minimal as they are stretched thin.
-the level of acuity was already high, and only getting more acute post-pandemic. The numbers you are expected to see is high and burnout is inevitable. The level of stress is not worth the decent compensation package.