BJC HealthCare Reviews

Pros

The best reason to work at BJC is the insurance is good. They also have good training and give a good amount of vacation.

Cons

Work life balance is a con for working with BJC. It seems that you can never get away from e-mail.

Pros

Flexibility is a good thing about Bjc starting hours are good in the correct positions. Vacation and pension over many years is good management is clueless in it.

Cons

Very low market pay. Management full of red tape. Slow moving projects and raises and promotions. Good place to learn not worth spending more than two years

Pros

Many collaborating environments.
Opportunities to learn, develop and enrich your career.
A great feeling to know the work you do ultimately helps patients and families.

Cons

There are inconsistencies with how managers handle staff input. Some managers create an environment to have open discussions and decision-making and others say they are while their actions show quite a different picture. The perception is that minimal to no consequences occur for the lack of this skill set. Once enough staff leave the manager is finally dealt with; however at that point the organization has lost valuable assets in the people resources they had developed. In my opinion, this impedes a good organization from becoming a great one.

Pros

BJC has strong leadership with positive office culture. It has great infrastructure with opportunities for learning and advancement in career.

Cons

Workload is heavy and at times difficult to meet deadlines. Salary is not that great but it is compensated by other benefits.

Advice to Senior Management

The leadership of my department was great and very positive on the professional and personal growth of their employees. I had a great time at BJC.

Pros

Pretty good pension. Stable company.

Cons

Poor pay and poor raises. Job descriptions are written to include everything and the kitchen sink. Management lives to beat down employees. Supervisors and managers want you to be seen and not heard. Some how, management always finds a way to blame employees for things that managers are responsible for. To many chiefs.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of half of the management staff and make the managers you have do a good job.

Pros

Pay and benefits are average, however, they will reward the folks they want to reward. As a whole, the people of BJC are terrific (exclusive of leadership). Best leadership at (descending order): Children's, BJH, BJWC, Christian, BJSP.Financially stable- good place for security minded folk.

Cons

Stay away from HR roles in all divisions- super high turnover and poor executive leadership.
Center for Clinical Effectiveness is a nightmare- unprofessional leaders, spread gossip about employees throughout org, retaliation is common, sabotage folks attempting to transfer out.
IT area leadership of BJC needs to be gutted if they ever want to succeed in the world of technology driven healthcare.
BJC as a whole condones blackballing of employees who leave the org.

Advice to Senior Management

Lipstein is an exceptional personality based leader- need to take the human side of the business as serious as you do the financials and capital investments. BJC IS IT'S PEOPLE. Demonstrate compasionate care of your employees as you would the patients- BJC has a horrible reputation as a vindictive employer in STL market.
It's time to transform IT, CCE and some of HR. Add some high powered employee advocate roles. Implement a zero tolerance policy on leadership performing employee character assassinations.

Pros

Good life work balance, and financially stable.

Cons

slow to adopt change. For non-clinical functions....you're typically below market.

Advice to Senior Management

Increase pay

Pros

Good benefits package, plenty of work available in the IT department, opportunity for growth, good work/life balance.

Cons

Inconsistent project procedures across work groups, poor pay raise schedule.

Pros

The ability to work on many high level projects with senior, or vp level, leaders in the organization. Also, they are ahead of the industry curve in many aspects.

Cons

While I was working there as an intern, my manager was upset with my job performance during final exam week of school. This was a little bit frustrating.

Pros

Outwardly, BJC is a great company with charitable intentions and solid contributions to the community. Healthcare delivered is top notch with high patient satisfaction scores. Good work-life balance which makes up for the bottom-shelf salaries.

Cons

BJC is more worried about growth and capturing the market and making money, despite being a not-for-profit organization. It's all about the bottom line, Cheap but incompetent employees rule the roost and if you are a poor employee, they don't get rid of you they "manage you out" often to another service line who then has to deal with your poor performance. Employees who question strategy or challenge the status quo are penalized.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees. Raise your salaries. If you want to hire employees with top quartile skill sets you need to pay top quartile salaries. Look at senior leadership - in a business like yours, certain positions need new blood. It's unusual for top management in a healthcare nonprofit to have hung around as long as some of you have.