Banner Health Reviews

Pros

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

Cons

Pay could be a little better

Pros

At one time I considered Banner Health to be a great place to work. Upon being hired, 1st impressions would lead you to believe you are in with a major healthcare company that is growing rapidly, thus, there being room for advancement or promotion (but not really). The benefits are okay, being able to have PTO is nice, getting a yearly bonus is smiled upon, and there are many good people who really do work hard and do their best to help others. Unfortunately, this is where much of it ends for most of us.

Cons

Let me first state I agree 100% with the downsides that many here have already wrote because they are true, and then some which I will write here. Banner Health states that the mission is "delivering excellent care." What mid to upper management doesn't seem to get is that you cannot achieve this goal when many are cheated, disrespected, intimidated, micro-managed, manipulated, over-worked, underpaid, etc...the cons seem to keep growing as the years progress. The company itself, it's facilities and those who are running them are turning into, for lack of a better word, what you might refer to as a nanny mentality. Cameras are everywhere, security surfs the internet all day when they aren't looking for cars in the wrong parking spaces to ticket or tow. You have to swipe to do nearly everything, including but not limited to printing. The computers are blocked so you can't access sites which are friendly, but music sites (use imagination) remain open for you to listen to music with swearing in it. It has and still is becoming a politically correct environment whereas no matter how right you are about the wrongs which someone else committed, they come after the few who actually have the nerve to speak up to the management and manipulate you to be in the wrong in ways you can't prove. The people who don't do their jobs or get away with everything often are related to the management in some way or another and the those same people who should be put on corrective action are not, even for repetitive insubordinate behavior and/or disrespect toward others. Bad people don't lose jobs, the good ones do for reporting the bad. If you actually show up to work and are productive, you set an expectation that must remain consistent regardless if the few people in your department are doing their work or not. Don't worry, you won't be recognized; Only the higher ups get that kind of satisfaction as they pat each other on the back and get their increases while implementing even more responsibility on you. On top of that, promotion is all inside as is a majority of the hiring process. If you pass someone corporate in the hallway, you almost get the feeling they are looking at you like a bug that needs to be squashed or that you "don't belong" because you aren't one of them. Another thing -they are shoving the "think-green" movement down everyone's throats whether you agree with it or not, investing a lot of funding into the ridiculous costs needed to convert or make everyone comply, all the while building more medical centers while preaching to the choir about cutting benefits or costs, leaving other facilities understaffed, stressing out the workers and then sending the smoking gestapo around as a result of the stressed out nurses or staff caught outside, even off the property! And the finale...gauging the employees through surveys to see who will take a flu shot when they decide make it 'mandatory.' It's your body, and there is no law, but hey you need to be protected and told what to put into it, no matter how harmful it may be. I suspect with the way things are going they will use this as a way to force out those not in compliance, saying it will cut even more costs, using the country's depression as it slides deeper down as an excuse, or they will use it or market it as a compliance or safety issue.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop the lying to the employees of Banner. Stop pretending you care about the patients when you cut staff that would be to care for them and treat great people as scum. The hypocritical costs need to end. Don't we take a compliance course yearly on anti-kick backs? The ridiculous amount of policing is making it less and less desirable each day. Is this Brave New World, and didn't I see some of these policies implemented in a book by George Orwell when I was in grade school?

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

Friendly environment, excellent team work, great patient care

Cons

Have nothing bas to say about Banner Health

Advice to Senior Management

No advice

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

Nice people to work with. Good salary for the amount of work that is necessary. More than willing to work with your schedule

Cons

If you aren't medical, you will be treated that way. Meaning: most likely you won't receive tuition reimbursement, your career can only go so far, and if you upset the wrong doctor you are gone.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more incentive for upward movement of non-medical personel to avoid the high level of turn over and loss of qualified employees to other facilities

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.