Tread lightly... - Anonymous employee Sutter Health Employee Review

3.0
Jun 12, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The pro to working here was that it was a small community hospital, and therefore you got to know just about everyone, regardless of job/area of responsibility. Most of the employees are great to work with and are truly there for the right reasons.

Cons

The remainder of the employees are only there due to friendships with the management, not due to their ability to do a great job. It is disheartening to see this allowed in today's market and the high turnover rate in specific areas of this hospital are glaring reflections of the lack of attention to areas such as this. Good people don't leave jobs... they leave their management.

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Cons

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Pros

Leadership trainings, conferences, educational opportunities, Senior leadership seems to respond to employee feedback, Great organizational transparency and clarity around goals and direction, Front-line leadership receiving recognition more often, Fair (not amazing) compensation and benefits overall, Organization seems to be healthy and growing which is encouraging for job security and retention.

Cons

Unsustainable front-line leadership expectations, responsibilities, and tasks without providing support from supervisors or assistant managers specifically in San Francisco campuses, High burnout risk among front-line leaders which is continuing to increase, Growing list of contradicting or conflicting priorities. Patient experience scores have improved greatly in SF but patient quality/safety and employee satisfaction has become the apparent cost of that, Very unreasonable span of control for front-line leaders, i.e. way too many direct reports, Meeting metrics and KPIs at all costs is the message being received. Front-line leaders are left scrambling to reach the data points (regardless of the methods), to get there. In other words, we might be meeting the metrics and KPIs on paper, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the real purpose or reason behind those metrics is being performed. We’re just desperate to keep our jobs, The leadership culture in the last 6-9 months has shifted towards motivation through fear. Fear of losing our jobs or bonuses rather than motivation by providing actual daily support in doing our jobs and genuine concern and encouragement to succeed.

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