Baptist Health South Florida Reviews

Pros

Benefits, gym, work life balance, extremely organized, senior leadership is knowledgeable, Great CEO, clear expectations, high ethical standards. Compliance is extremely important and adhered to on a consistent basis. Managers are held accountable for their actions and action plans are created based on employee opinion surveys.

Cons

Salary, workload with relation to salary

Advice to Senior Management

Although the organization is not for profit more employees would be retained if the salary were more competitive.

Pros

The well kept facilities and access

Cons

Senior Management not compassionate with employees issues

Advice to Senior Management

Get to know your employees and their working performance

Pros

Great reputation, profitable, stable, market salary. Good management talent at the top. BHSF is one of the most profitable health systems in the nation due to its pricing--surely the highest in the area. It has succeeded while its competitors have struggled and unlike the for profit companies, it doesn't pay taxes.

Cons

Management is uneven. Performance assessments are tainted by favoritism based upon friendship. While mid-level management and rank and file are predominantly female, the overwhelming majority of senior management members are male.

Advice to Senior Management

Walk the talk. Continue to expand the diversity within BHSF and create an even culture of advancement. Be more inclusive in promoting women and bringing minority religious groups into the organization.

Pros

Great benefits PT/FT
Good pay
Friendly staff

Cons

Long hours
Management sometimes
6 month transfer policy

Advice to Senior Management

If Hospital is your field of choice. Go for it, if not look elsewhere.

Pros

Great Benefits, Most of the staff work well together

Cons

Some of the older management have very rigid thinking and do not take kindly to supported suggestions

Pros

Job Security is very good at batist. You can always besure you will have place to work and save enviroment.

Cons

Slow on promotion. I have been there for several years and still on the same spot, it is sometimes who ou know, not wht ou know.

Advice to Senior Management

Promote and encourage. Not always pick people because of who tjey know. There are talented people there that dont get promoted and others that do NOTHING and get promoted left and right, spcially in IT.

Pros

Support, Caring, Resources, Excellant salary and Benefits

Cons

Somewhat challenging cultural matrix to assimulate to

Advice to Senior Management

Continue with the great job

Pros

This job is very secure. Baptist is a great place to work, but my department is run by a young, stubborn child who cannot communicate. The benefits are amazing. All and all I have learned a lot.

Cons

You begin to feel trapped...management is horrible...when you are "in" with people you are in and when youre "out" youre out...no room for growth unless you switch fields.

Advice to Senior Management

Baptist health should hire managers that have actually worked in the department that they are managing. I find it very hard to believe that you can be a good manager if you have no idea what we do!!!!

Pros

The organization had a great senior management. It is consistently growing, adding a new hospital in West Kendall, and also developing new outpatient centers north of Miami.

Cons

The middle management was incompetent. Many didn't have a great grasp of the health care system. Most were in their position because of their relationships with others, not because of their knowledge base or experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire individuals who meet the expectations of the position, not necessarily people who happen to be a friend of a friend. Also, retrain your middle management to meet the demands of the changing health care infrastructure (particularly due to the new movement of health care reform).

Pros

If you enjoy generous time off, great benefits, and do not mind working around some (not all) lethargic employees then this is a fit.

Cons

Difficult to grow career from some departments. If you area nurse there is plenty of opportunity. Add an MBA and there are many jobs for you.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve the effectiveness of the wellness benefits. Create inter-entity mechanisms to gain exposure to other entities that an employee may have future interest in.