Barnes-Jewish Hospital Reviews

Pros

Good benefits, competive salary, good working enviroment

Cons

Drive to work, location in the city

Advice to Senior Management

for middle management there is no incentive, floor nurses have one and management have one

Pros

Indoors. Room for advancement depending on where you work.

Cons

Little or no raises. You pay a good amount for health care, especially for the family plan.

Advice to Senior Management

You get what you pay for.

Pros

People that you work with are very eager to teach! Great at furthering education too!

Cons

Management and staffing on the floor. The management doesn't want to help, and they are very understaffed!

Advice to Senior Management

Help you fellow co-workers when they ask for it! We are suppose to be a team!

Pros

Great reputation, good benefits programs, domestic partner benefits.

Cons

Too large. No room for professional advancement in the laboratories.

Pros

Solid reputation, large organization, tuition reimbursement

Cons

Management--sometimes you really question their competence

Pros

They do very interesting new procedures for rare diseases at this hospital that are interesting to learn about.

Cons

Promoting from within is great, but Barnes did not provide any training to their managers on how to perform in a supervisory capacity. They didn't know even the basic human resources rules, and did not treat staff with respect. It ran kind of like a sweat shop and they did a lot of crisis management trying to make themselves look good to their superiors. The management is very disorganized throughout the hospital. They have a lot of redundancy and it's really hard to do the job in an organized way given how confusing the computer system and the policies and procedures are.

Advice to Senior Management

Train the management staff They say they're doing process improvement and risk management, but they really are only doing a surface project to meet senior management requirements and to make their department look good. They only make surface changes.

Pros

you will seldom if ever be bored with your job. there are multiple opportunities to advance in your job.

Cons

some times those 12 hour shifts were awfully long!!

Advice to Senior Management

Try giving yearly raises, even if it is just a few cents an hour. perhaps as incentive raise?

Pros

Working for one of the best hospitals in the country.

Cons

It's a long commute for me.

Pros

Variety in patients, access to everything a patient needs, good benefits, willingness to work with you to get the job done, always updating your workplace, always had influx of new people/residents/ people training

Cons

Business end really doesn't know what they are doing, I was downsized and many errors were made in the transistion, the talent aquistion specialist doesn't understand what I did, bad communication between support staff and professional staff

Pros

Having met people from various departments within the organization, I can say that Barnes-Jewish Hospital does an amazing job taking care of its patients and employees. There are a lot of very dedicated and passionate patient care staff working there. There are some nice programs that reward and recognize employees. There's a lot of effort put into communicating and reaching out to employees. As part of the BJC HealthCare system, its benefits are solid and it's a stable employer.

Cons

A lot of people in my department have been in the same position for many years, so it's difficult for junior staff to get a promotion, unless someone has vacated a position. Decision-making can be bureaucratic at times. Limited annual pay increase.

Advice to Senior Management

Always take care of our employees first as they are your most important asset.