Banner Health Reviews in Phoenix, AZ Area

Pros

Good pay, better than most hospitals in AZ. Great benefits.

Cons

Pay could be a little better

Pros

Standardizing systems and processes are important initiatives.

Cons

Some leaders at facilities choose not to align to the system standards causing variations in patient delivery.

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure that senior leaders at facilities role model expected behaviors as it is done at the system level.

Pros

-flexible schedule
-good amount of PTO

Cons

-no raises & poor pay(other nearby hospitals are still getting raises!)
-no retirement! (other nearby hospitals pay retirement plus contribute to 401K)
-no accountability which goes back to management
-overworked & understaffed
-'behind times' as far as equipment & procedures performed
-poor communication
-poor benefits, education, ect..
-Employees are not happy and all want to leave

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees better, communicate, follow what you preach and hold employees accountable. Be fair!!! Appreciate your employees and set us up for success as far as our futures are concerned. Be smarter with your money and quit wasting it!

Pros

well recognized name and facilities valleywide

Cons

transferring internally is very challenging

supervisors are not very skilled

not very good opportunities for staff career education or advancement

Advice to Senior Management

should start offering more educational resources for employees to advance if they wanted to and also treat your internal employees fair when submitting applications for a position change.

Pros

Good insurance
Yearly bonus
A lot of PTO hours per pay period

Cons

Very disoragnized company.
Administration is all about themselves and care less about their employees.
Customer service is more important than patient care, and if I wanted customer service I would go to Wal Mart.
No money for yearly raises, yet they spend all their money on re-paving the roads and refurnishing buildings.
Very understaffed.
Not black and white rules. There is a lot of grey areas as to what is expected and what is not.

Advice to Senior Management

You would keep more employees happy and the morale up within each department if you actually cared about the people who work for you.

Pros

Decent place to work, but didn't like answering to technicians as a grad student.

Cons

See above for the description

Advice to Senior Management

Treat grad students as grad students not sub-techs.

Pros

Promotion opportunities fare plentiful, tendency to promote from within, good 401K plan/match, good benefits (not great, but good), dedicated employees throughout the organization, well equipped facilities, well maintained facilities, fair pay.

Cons

Managers constantly pressured to do more, not enough emphasis on work-life balance, some hospital leaders out of touch with demands of front line employees, benefit costs increasing and level of benefits on the decline due to budget challenges, some departments understaffed, upper management doesn't like to listen to complaints.

Advice to Senior Management

Allow employees in annual engagement survey to give their opinion of senior leadership at the facilities, not just their immediate supervisor.

Pros

Banner is a large employer, you can work closer to home. There is good communication from the top down in terms of changes that are coming. The administration is visionary and has pulled off enormous sea changes, ie; going to electronic charting, getting most paperwork online, communicating via Email.

Cons

Five years ago, this was a much more enjoyable place to work. Now, it's all about how do we cut costs and wring the most out of each worker. Benefits cost more and cover less, there are less people for each shift, more call, to cover the more frequent bare spots created by having less people to do the cases. Call isn't just for the "off hours" anymore, either. Now, there are TWO people on call for most of the 24 hour cycle. Three dollars an hour for call pay is almost an insult, I'd rather have control over my own destiny. The refrain bantied about the department is "according to departmental needs", as you may imagine, this trumps the 'balance of work and home life'. The whole feel of the place is "Shut up and work, be glad you have a job!". Our turnover rate is astounding, I'm amazed that no one from the upper echelon is had their curiosity piqued. The managers are good people who are Way over their heads, and as a group, they lack sophistication in the people handling arena. The main thrust had been to force fewer people to do more work. I dread going to work and being micromanaged. Every week there are more rules and more tasks that make my job harder, and lessen the amount of actual 'nursing' that I get to do. I am heartsick about it.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend some time on the floors in the various departments, feel what it's like. Sit down at a table of workers in one of the breakrooms, ask them what their experience is. We have tons of surveys each year where there is plenty of opportunity to talk about how marvelous the company is, leave room for narrative, let us give feedback on the people making the decisions in our department, not JUST the person directly above us. You need to regroup, stop expanding the empire and take care of the people that have helped you to get there. Stop the squeezing and breathtaking controlling manuevers. The clocking in and out for lunch is really Too Much. Now I can't even enjoy the 3o minutes (that I pay for with my 12.5 hr shift), I'm concerned about clocking back in in EXACTLY 3o minutes, or having to fetch a letter from my manager as to WHY it wasn't exactly 30 minutes. I don't think there's anymore blood left in this stone.

Pros

Good place to learn, some excellent people work there

Cons

Poor communication, no employee feedback, limited sense of accountability, like a governmental agency without the stability

Pros

-Freedom to innovate and create change
-Willingness among staff members to communicate and collaborate
-Strong corporate desire to develop staff members and improve the organization as a whole
-Commitment to work-life balance

Cons

-There still exists a strong bureaucracy with substantial red tape
-Communication between departments is not always consistent or fluidly
-Rapid growth has led to a degree of disorganization