Allina Hospitals Reviews in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN Area

Pros

-great pay compared to other security positions
-great work envirnment
-very professional coworkers
-Allina has an overall positive environment
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Cons

-lack of professional growth and opportunites. It's a great initial position but there are not a lot of advancement opportunites.
-there can be politics but what place doesn't

Advice to Senior Management

-no complaints from the security perspective

Pros

great coworkers, great nurses, great doctors.

Cons

horrible management, they treat their employees like garbage. new hires make more than current employees even though the new hires don't have as high education or experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees better. Put your employees through better management training, or hire managers that actually went to school for management.

Pros

Allina has many locations, you can travel across the company. If your family has to move for one reason or another, there is likey another Allina facility near.

Cons

Allina Hospitals and Clinics has a huge problems with communication. Many things are "kept secret" from employees in the planning phases. This discourages employees when changes are made without input from those it directly effects. Ineffective changes are made, time is wasted spending time fixing things in the retroactive phase of a project vs being proactive.

Secondly, Allina, in general, including HR is not dedicated or supportive to its current employees. Current employees can apply for a position within their current facitily and the applications are not even sent to this facility...shouldn't lateral transfers within a facility take presendence (or at least be considered!)?

Many Allina facilities are currently encouraging "float" positions vs stationary positions within departments. This creates less confidence in ones job and you move about. It also discourages the ability to build teams and work together.

Advice to Senior Management

Ask for input from current employees BEFORE making changes and decisions rather than back pedaling and adjusting after the fact. It pays to be proactive. Employees will be much happier if they are included in processes. They do not need to be in the final decision phase, but it does not hurt to include them in the working phase. Keep in mind, those being management are making decisions about departments that they are not familiar with the current processes in place.

Pros

Many beautiful facilities (except many decrepit areas of Abbott); EPIC; lots of money for salary and infrastructure.

Cons

Focus on making money, not patient care. Conform, or die. When employees criticize or question, they whisper for fear of reprisal. A truly malignant environment. Just look at the hordes who've left, from seasoned staff to physicians.

Advice to Senior Management

Live your charter, not your salary.

Pros

Patients receive great patient care. Allina provides top quality care for patients from all walks of life and 98% of the direct care givers that I worked with would do anything they could for each and every patient, as well as the families of those patients.

Cons

Senior management verbalizes the transparency of the company while hiding tons of garbage behind lead lined concrete walls. If not for the dedication of the real, caring "average" employee, patient care would be in the toilet. The most difficult mine field to traverse is the political one. The truth is often buried, and if an employee is brave enough to expose it, the resulting explosion can be very damaging. Thus, many good ideas are not shared for fear of stepping on a mine.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a lesson from "Undercover Boss" and spend some time in the real world. Not visiting as a member of senior management, nor scooping ice cream for "employee appreciation" day. Often times the appreciation seems to last about as long as that ice cream does.

Pros

Staff are great at hospitals
Mission
Friendships

Cons

Underpaid for jobs
Don't allow employees to grow into new positions
Not a data driven company

Advice to Senior Management

Seek out new ideas
Remember your mission

Pros

--Decent Pay
--Decent beneifts
--Flexible scheduling
--good life/family/work balance

Cons

--no room for advancement
--Questionable management

Advice to Senior Management

There is too much wasteful spending on moving departments around. Our department moved over 10 times in 8 years.

Pros

The Benefits and Vacation are fairly good.

Cons

Politics within groups and departments.

Advice to Senior Management

Actions speak louder than words.

Pros

Location, benefits, pay, some co-workers

Cons

No respect, No ethics, No upside

Advice to Senior Management

Care about your employees, practice honesty, lead by example, don't play favorites

Pros

Our company provides quality healthcare.

Cons

Layoffs every year leave departments struggling to keep up with work demand. Ours is afraid of letting go of underpreformers for fear the job cant be filled.

Advice to Senior Management

When IT departments tell you they need staff, listen.