Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Excellent compensation and benefit package

Cons – Lack of respect in the EIS department

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice campus, nice research facilities.

Cons – Politics involved in research laboratory

Advice to Senior Management – Management was good from my experience.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Minimal supervision if you do your job correctly.

Cons – Very political. People with education seem to have the hardest time advancing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great security, good benefits, excellent medical benefits, good wages

Cons – Lacks team environment, very hierarchical, little professional development, lacks solid strategic planning at the departmental level. Lock of group identity

Advice to Senior Management – Give up the old paradigm of top down direction, build people in the organization, focus on cross-functional incentives, do not incentevise one group for cost, one for revenue and another for volume

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center full-time for less than a year

Pros – A few friendly people, decent cafeteria
Some good perks, like for not using their parking
Some great science is happening here

Cons – They don't plan far enough in advance to accomodate their new positions
Some of the benefits are not good - vacation and sick time are lumped together into one category
There is a lot of snobbery and backstabbing going on in some departments, like a lab supervisor trying to take over a whole department.

Advice to Senior Management – Enforce thinking ahead so that positions are not fulfilled before the laboratory is actually ready for it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Benefits are very good. The hospital management try to improve themselves constantly.

Cons – Snub MDs think they are the centers of the world!

Advice to Senior Management – Hospital management should be separeted from the research institutions'

Current Employee – been working at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Pros – Cedars-Sinai as a whole treats employees with respect.
Most of the employees are very friendly.
There are no problems with getting resources (computers, educational materials) like there are at other places.
Great retirement plan after 5 years.
Lots of time off, good maternity/paternity leave policy.
Stable job - no layoffs.
Good flexibility on work hours.
Good pay for healthcare IT.

Cons – The management in EIS is particularly poisonous. Most directors/managers are relatively competent, but don't know the first thing about leadership or rewarding the best employees. The employee/management divide is generally obvious and can sometimes reflect an "us" vs. "them" attitude. The department does a poor job of promoting from within and the few times it has, it's made poor choices.

There are some questionable behind-the-scenes deals between management and a few favorites - and those deals aren't necessarily rewarding the most valuable employees. In addition, favoritism based on gender is not uncommon and is noticed by employees.

The Medical Center as a whole is very political and it shows. Often times, it's the department head with the biggest ego and not the one who has the biggest impact that gets dollars and time to implement and improve IT systems. Those politics bleed into EIS and cause project prioritization to be chaotic. The culture is very conservative as well, which conflicts with the desire to have cutting-edge systems and technologies available.

Advice to Senior Management – To keep the IT systems running, the department doesn't necessarily need to hire and retain the best workers, but it's missing out on opportunities to bring the clinical, research, and business systems to the next level by not concentrating on career development. To keep your best people, promote them early and often. Hire the best people you can and don't just hire PhDs because they have the most education. They make great senior technical leads but poor managers.

Current Employee – been working at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Pros – Great pay rate compare to other inpatient facility. Fantastic health benefits for employees and grate retirement plans.

Cons – Pharmacy department has minimal opportunities for growth.

Advice to Senior Management – Evaluate employees base on extra effort they put to improve patient care and quality of service.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Pros – allows looking for continous improvement opportunities
personnel appears to be happy, with the environment
stay progressive with research and good perfomr goods as a team

Cons – too much politics
few promotional opportunities

Advice to Senior Management – good relationship with the community

Current Employee – been working at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Pros – great location, great views from the office, very nice people working with you, nurses are very polite and the environment is clean and well-taken care of.

Cons – sometimes pay is not as high as it can be; too much administrative issues take up a lot of time so that doing the actual job you're there for is a bit difficult.

Advice to Senior Management – pay your researchers better!