Geisinger Health System Reviews in Danville, PA

Former Employee – worked at Geisinger Health System as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Innovative, encourages new ideas, focused on quality outcomes,

Cons – Bureocracry. Several layers of management to get through before a decision can be made.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Geisinger Health System full-time for less than a year

Pros – Average Compensation
Time Off
Beneftis
Peer Decision Making Model is not appropriate. Managers should make decisons that are sensitive to individuals not peer commitees

Cons – Scheduling
Infastructure (inta-department)
Lots of responsibility
Cafeteria
Worl/Life Balance

Advice to Senior Management – Make scheduling more flexible.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Geisinger Health System full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Fully integrated multispecialty medical group with mature EMR (EPIC).
- Collaborating and communicating with colleagues is very easy.
- Ability to provide gold standard of care to patients.
- Capable and friendly colleagues.
- Generous PTO and CME allowance.
- Benefits from day 1.
- Good retirement plan.
- Ample opportunities for participating in committees, quality improvement projects, research and teaching.
- Medical management is mostly receptive to ideas related to improving things around.
- No traffic.
- Patients are mostly respectful to healthcare workers in comparison to most cities.

Cons – - Low salary for some physicians (they were unable to afford to pay me the 10th percentile for my specialty)
- Minimal raises.
- Space is a premium for some departments. I did not have an office.
- Removed from urban amenities (3 hours away from a real city)
- Mediocre public schools with the exception of Lewisburg school district. No good private school alternatives.
- Long commuting for outreach clinics for some specialties (20-90 miles)

Advice to Senior Management – Geisinger is buying smaller hospitals and expanding quickly. Please ensure that the "culture" is maintained in the newer institutions. Also, make an effort to retain MVP employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Geisinger Health System

Pros – Job security
Pay rate
 Great co-workers
location

Cons – management needs to be more professional, and care more about their workers.
Fair treatment of all employees

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to care about their employees more. We are more than a person that fills a space! We are people with needs also, and need to know that we are appreciated.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend