Excellent place to work - Anonymous employee UCSF Health Employee Review

5.0
Nov 11, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I can not say enough about UCSF Medical Center as a place to work. Excellent benefits, excellent leaders, and a commitment to all employees to advance their careers in health care. Advancement is not handed to you on a silver platter, you must work for it. For those that do, the possibilities are endless. I'm shocked to read some of the reviews about the CEO. Mark Laret is a fantastic leader with an open door policy and a commitment to quality improvement as demonstrated by our generous Incentive Award Program based on goals set for the entire organization, departments and individuals.

Cons

The union environment can be frustrating in terms of raises and preventing management from firing people who do not work at the level they should be.

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Opportunities to learn new skills. My team is excellent.

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1.0
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The people that work at UCSF are some of the most intelligent analysts I've ever worked with in 15 years of Health IT. Most are ex-Epic employees with strong backgrounds in project managament and IT,

Cons

UCSF recently decided to reclassify all remote employees as "Felxible" without their input or permission. As a result, employees must now travel to the office WITHOUT expenses paid. This means that flights, hotels, etc. are NOT reimbursed and are paid by the employee. UCSF has not answered to what problem they are trying to solve with this, and refuses to answer how this action aligns with goals such as sustainability (carbon emissions), equity (women and disabled are more impacted by eliminating remote work), working accommodating (UCSF does not have the physical space for all of the Clinical Systems department to be on site. There is no locked storage or accessible workspaces.), safety (there is no shuttle for UCSF to all locations that have been mentioned for work). UCSF limits employee growth, by eliminating actual promotions with "role based work". In other words, you have to do more work without compensation for it. They have also completely reneged on remote management, meaning that most employees are now at a dead end.

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