Allina Hospitals Reviews

Pros

Dedication to the Patient and giving care as if it Patient was "MY FAMILY"

Cons

You are'n even a number! Not one corporate person knows who I am and what my job entails on a daily basis. Acknowledgement???????????? What is that!

Advice to Senior Management

Get out of your corporate office's and find out just what every laborer does, know their care, compassion and dedication. Do you really think it is just the Doctors and Nurses that heal the hurt, the sick, and the depressed? I see more patients in a day than many other departments, my parting words to each and every patient is upbeat and is specific to each patient. I let them know If they need it, I will include them in my prayers, if that is not appropriate I tell them to have a "Great Day"
The disparity between corporate Allina and the everyday people is not just a gap, it is a chasm!

Pros

Benefits are very good. Health, vacation, and employee incentives.

Cons

It is a very large organization so it loses some of it's personal touches. In their orientation literature it states that they are in strong support of employee career advancement. I found this to be quite the opposite. When I contacted Human Resources I was passed from one rep to another.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer to support an employee that is looking to move forward in their career.

Pros

Salary and direct compensation are in the ballpark of being competitive for the market. We have a fancy waterfall in our lobby waiting area. Our CEO is well paid. United Hospital new President looks pretty and says lots of things that sound good (and that will be as far as it goes, too).

Cons

Benefits are HORRENDOUS. Hospital management is HORRENDOUS. Coordination between departments is horrible. Staff is rude to each other, due to massive under staffing. Communication from hospital leadership is completely untrustworthy and incomplete. The lack of communication and purposeful division of the workers by pitting them against each other within our department by my director is reprehensible. Department management is totally and embarrassingly incompetent, doesn't understand the jobs they are supposed to be managing, and won't even consider feedback from staff.

Advice to Senior Management

So many issues that it is nearly impossible to narrow down, but live the values that you claim you do and apply them to your own employees once in a while.

Pros

Great employees who care about each other. Pride in working for the largest healthcare facility in the twin cities serving the largest population

Cons

The culture is a little slow to change. Decisions are made in silos sometimes separating other business areas that might b affected.

Advice to Senior Management

Increase the pace of change at the hospital in order to be nimble enough to adapt to the health care changes of the 21st century

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

Worked for Allina for 8 years. Very satisfied.

Cons

Sometimes the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

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

Exceptional pay,good benefirs and co workers

Cons

Your expected to work way more than your paid hours