Pros
The Healthcare Benefits and Retirement Plans are two things that are very hard to compete with anywhere else.
Cons
You will not get an annual raise, you will have to fight for any income change justification, you will be overworked, underplayed, and undervalued. You will see significant favoritism and less than ethical practices. Middle management sometimes listens, but unfortunately Executive level management doesn’t. The atmosphere was mostly about money and profit, not providing the best level of care for our clients. For being THE county hospital and also a non-profit organization, that didn’t ever sit well with me. You will find Physicians, Nurses, Clinicians, and other professionals who have such recognizable burnout that they should not be treating patients, and yet no corrective action is ever taken. Bullying in the workplace is real and incredibly prevalent in several departmental areas throughout the MHS. It wasn’t always like this, It started out as my dream job, and place to work, I thought I would retire here. After 2 years, that quickly declined due to poor Executive management that trickled down through the system.