Pros
Being in the healthcare field, you work alongside some of the most passionate people imaginable. The work culture, while not as good as it once was, is overall great. I do feel like we are all in this together, working together as one cohesive team. Regardless of department, everyone is very welcoming and accommodating of each other. My department in particular is stellar; I could not ask for better colleagues, manager, or director.
Cons
Well, it seemed rather insulting to be giving a lot of staff very minimal in terms of annual review raises, while the upper top level administrators are giving themselves rather exorbitant bonuses. The reason being staff got stiffed? Unable to meet department goals placed by administration. Some staff were lucky to get 0.5-1% increases despite going above and beyond at their job performance. Yet at the same time, I see these same staff going out of their way to donate PTO hours or other supplies to help those much less fortunate themselves. Tragic. As I stated in the beginning, UnityPoint is heading in a downward trend at a rapid pace, and it will take some extensive intervention for things to fix themselves. And it all starts at the top. The hospital CEO that I work at (Not Mr. Vermeer) is incompetent. Due to this fact, people that work beside and underneath our CEO are taking advantage of the lack of self awareness, pushing their own agendas and furthering their careers at the expense of everyone else. We have newer and younger employees that have worked themselves up to leadership positions, and that in itself is no problem. But these same "leaders" are not mature enough to handle their positions, and the strain is showing. Workplace culture has declined. Unprofessionalism has become more prevalent than ever. And, most unfortunate of all, these same people being placed into these positions are being set up to fail by the same self interested upper management employees. That in itself is going to create a very powerful negative feedback loop that will echo and continue to cause the decline of UnityPoint unless action is taken TODAY.
