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Essentia Health

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Essentia Health is known as the evil empire of the north land - Registered Nurse, BSN Essentia Health Employee Review

1.0
Jun 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

My unit manager was involved, supportive, and advocated for the nurses. My nurse team was dedicated, knowledgeable, and extremely caring. The nurse team supported one another and was reliable.

Cons

The company is awful. The College of Saint Scholastica in Duluth funnels the student nurses into this corporate hospital and its disturbing. They do not value the nurses or healthcare staff. They would rather pay travelers more money than to pay their actual staff the compensation they deserve. Staff is overworked, short staffed, and has a low compensation compared to other company's. While I worked here I had zero work life balance and was extremely depressed because of that. When I worked there we had nurses quitting and leaving on the weekly. I would walk into the medication room to see my fellow nurses crying or having panic attacks from how stressed they were from being overworked. This company traumatized me and made me want to step away from bedside nursing all together because of how awful my experience as a worker was. Leaving work and feeling like I was never enough or could never do enough to keep up with the high demands of responsibilities.

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5.0
Jan 10, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great culture. Great team. Great work life balance.

Cons

None cons at this time

2.0
Jun 4, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I really enjoyed the patients I worked with and a lot of the other providers as well. The new hospital is really nice.

Cons

The CEO is corrupt. You will feel like a number at Essentia. Advanced practitioners have no say in their job. They can change your job duties at any time. They can send you to other locations at any time. And do you have no say in this. The physicians definitely have a better position than any of the advanced practitioners. They are treated a lot better by management. There’s a reason the advanced practitioners voted to unionize. There were plenty of nurses that were making the same amount of money as advanced practitioners there. And the nurses had great locked in benefits with being unionized. Where advanced practitioners would only get two weeks paid for maternity leave.

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