Allina Hospitals Reviews

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

Pros

The quality of care and the hard working, caring employees.

Cons

-inability to fully leverage strength of service lines and clinic networks across the system
-lack of collaboration-within and between sites
-cutting costs without regard to patient experience and with the customer "physicians" in mind

Advice to Senior Management

Develop growth strategies with the needs and opportunities of your entire system based on priorities and future potential. To react proactively, not reactively before it's too late.

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