Adventist Health System Reviews

Pros

The hospital is beautiful and the work people do is very efficient. There is a clear system and they give you very extensive training, with easy communication with leaders. The job isn't too difficult; there were some days where I would bring a book, etc. However, you still gain great experiences with working with people.

Cons

The job as a desk clerk could get a little boring. The nurses seemed overworked, especially in MedSurg, but they still seemed pretty satisfied with their jobs.

Pros

Good people working in the lower ranks.

Cons

Executive Management at AHS-IS is extremely dysfunctional, poor leaders and untrustworthy. Corporate never comes by to check on the Lake MAry office. The executives tell Corporate whatever they want to hear. Meanwhile they run the workers into the ground with little regard for them. They are drvien by deadlines, not what is best for the corporation.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of all of AHS-IS senior leadship (CIO, CTO and VP level) and start over with people who care about the corporation and the employees instead of their bonuses. Take a look at how many people have left the company in the past year. People are giving up on the executives.

Pros

The convenience of living so close to work and the people I work WITH (NOT FOR) are the only two incentives that keep me working at the Adventist Health System.

Cons

Leadership is VERY dysfunctional and a lot of managers are disrespectful towards their employees. Even when administration is made aware of such problems, they don't respond. It's a very political and dysfunctional place. They have employee gallop polls which are totally useless. My manager told our group which questions we could NOT select to work on in order to improve our department (because it would make her look bad). Leadership is unappreciative of their employees and treats employees horribly. Health Insurance is TERRIBLE and overall compensation is VERY poor (minimal time off compared to other health care organizations, low salaries etc). Leadership expects more & more from employees but give less and less. I heard that Home Health employees will no longer be provided with company cell phones, which is thier main means of communication. They will be expected to provide their own phones and wil be provided $50 toward thier phone bill, which will be considered taxable income! Have you ever heard of a health care organization so cheap??? I couldn't believe it when I heard that one about Home Health! Than again, it's consistent with the Adventist philosophy-CHEAP & UNAPPRECIATIVE!!!! NEVER WOULD I RECOMMEND ADVENTIST AS A PLACE TO WORK!!!!!!

Advice to Senior Management

Provide employees the compensation they deserve: MORE TIME OFF, COMPETATIVE SALARIES, DECENT HEALTH CARE!!!! DEAL WITH PROBLEMS INSTEAD OF GIVING EMPLOYEES FAKE SMILES AND AVOIDING PROBLEMS, ACT ON EMPLOYEE FEEDBACK, TREAT EMPLOYEES WITH RESPECT AND APPRECIATION (more than a free picnic in the summer or a free holiday lunch) HOW GIFT CERTIFICATES, SALARY INCREASES???? EMPLOYEES KNOW CEO'S AND LEADERSHIP ARE NOT HURTING FOR MONEY & PROBABLY HAVE GOTTEN BONUSES, WHILE THE REST OF US HAVE GOTTEN 1% RAISES AND SOME OF THE WORST HEALTH CARE INSURANCE!!!!!

Pros

It's conveinent, 12 hour shifts equals less days at work, plenty overtime avaible to supplement the low pay, new facility

Cons

Low pay with over 10 years experience I was offered $14.50 per hour and found this to be the case with 3 others in orentation. Instead of just annoucing no raises they gave knowledgable employees low review points as the reason for not receiving a raise. One employee who has worked for the company for 4 years has only received a raise once at her very first review

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employee better as far as pay/raises or be honest about the organazations inabilty to give raises

Pros

Good benefits, promote healthy lifestyle through wellness program, the majority of non-management personnel were pretty decent people to work with.

Cons

Management was poor, communication issues at every level of the organization, major egos in many cases, no "team" feel, negative attitudes.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees, hire more people to keep up with tech initiatives, stop building a system on a broken foundation and instead allow the system to be rebuilt correctly.

Pros

New facility. state of the art equipment. Clean.

Cons

poor pay. unfriendly. back stabbing --do not support employees

Advice to Senior Management

support your employees. allow ways to improve their advancement.

Pros

Very family oriented with high moral and Christian Values where faith and compassion is promoted. Decent benefits and an asset to the community.

Cons

Administrative Leadership is very green and the seasoned professional have too much responsibility fixing the problems the rookies have caused. There always seems to be a flavor of the month with little accountability to complete a task and to continue the upkeep of the task. Very poor pay comparable to the area, no consisent structure or HR leadership.

Advice to Senior Management

Open your eyes! There is so much to be proud of but there is very little compensation to those that work hard and do their best day in and day out.

Pros

Mission based, non-profit organization.
Challenging work, never bored.
Work at home program (for IT employees)
Growing, thriving hospital system with strong focus on Clinical IT initiatives

Cons

Highly political
A few bad managers (not all) spend more time jockeying for position, blaming others, and CYA'ing than focusing on the right thing to do for the organization and teams. A few in sr. positions (i.e. CTO) are poor communicators and ineffective leaders. Staff often gets things done in spite of them, not because of them.
Keep running out of space and shoving people into smaller cubicles (Work-at-home was a reaction to this, not a proactive plan for employee benefit.)
Too much work, not enough FTE's and resources, at least in technical areas.
Some preferential treatment of SDA's (i.e. HR is not a safe haven.)

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees in IT with the same respect and care that you do your doctors and patients. We've grown large -- create a career path/opportunities for technical staff. Create a 180 degree feedback program, so Managers/Directors/VP's are evaluated by peers and employees. This will weed out bad apples (or at least provide training to those) who prevent teamwork and progress.

Pros

AHS is a christian organization that teaches creation health. Employees are encouraged to volunteer in the community 1 hour a week paid. You know that leadership supports to give back to the community. And, employees care about each other.

Cons

Advancement at AHS seems slow for some individuals but others come in to AHS directly into leadership positions. The employees that easily advance usually know or may be related to the right person(s) within the organization.

Advice to Senior Management

Advancement should be done because of merits. Having the executive team with mutiple members with the same last name does not encourage employees.

Pros

Friendly work environment
Laid-back workload
Flexibility with time off
Cafeteria located inside building
Emphasis placed on employee quality of life and enjoyment.

Cons

The starting pay is always near the bottom of the scale. Growth within the company is hard, as most positions are filled from the outside or from the corporate offices in Florida. Inexperience management, as well as a lack of consistency in business philosophy.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to decide whether the company will move more towards being a mission-based organizaiton or putting financial results first. The conflict creates confusion as to what is most important for each employee.