Baylor University Medical Center Reviews

Pros

If you want to work at a great place with very high standards, Baylor is for you. Be prepared for a tough interview(s).

Cons

Health and dental benefits are not that great and pretty costly if you cover your whole family. Other than that everything is great!

Advice to Senior Management

Baylor is doing a lot of work around employee recognition and retention. Some managers still aren't implementing what they're expected to...follow up on your management teams!

Pros

Opportunities are available for those interested.

Cons

Politics often interfere with workflow.

Pros

Good cafeteria, nurses are very supportive

Cons

Lack of consensus among doctors.

Advice to Senior Management

Not applicable

Pros

Prestigous...excellent care for patients, Top notch staff

Cons

Poor pay, lack of recognition for good performance. The corp side is constantly complaining about monetary woes and are freezing hiring and budgets and salary increase BUT they somehow continue to buy new hospitals and build new buildings and hire high level VP's and managers.

Advice to Senior Management

They need to realize that instead of hiring upper management and cutting budgets, they need to focus on recognition of employees and increase salaries for the real workers.

Pros

Overall Baylor is just a solid hospital in which to work. Senior Management is great and goes out of its way to interact and to know staff. The Baylor name is well respected in the community. Great low cost benefits for employees.

Cons

Poor parking situation for staff ( you have to walk a 1/4 mile from your car to your working unit).

Advice to Senior Management

Please add closer parking for your employees

Pros

You will find the administrative support you need to take care of your patients.

You will be asked if there is anything else you need in order to do your work up to your own and Baylor's standards.

You can expand your education with real support from tuition reimbursement.

Baylor shows commitment to retaining the best staff as much as attracting newly recruited best staff.

There's a lot more to see and hear about when you apply, this is just what comes to mind quickly.

Cons

The EMR is not progressing as quickly as anyone (including administration ) would like. The IT people understand what a massive integration project this is with legacy systems trying to interface with an overall EMR, I surely do not.

Charting what we do is sadly fifty percent of our work, so getting this piece working so we can learn how to integrate it into our time management without adding to the workload will be a big stumbling block overcome.

The Emergency Department is a lousy place for teaching patients but I guarantee it is where teaching occurs. I need a large menu or type in space to document all the basic teaching I do on a daily basis. This is teaching that should have been occurring somewhere else but it's not. I'm not one to let the moment pass and blow it off. Give us a template !

Advice to Senior Management

Baylor is doing a great job of welcoming and supporting the upcoming and newer nurses. They are truly growing their own and molding them the Baylor Way. The system has the diversity and intensity to give that varied experience and a place to grow for everyone.

Please do not forget your long term, old hand, not so young, legacy nurses. Thank you.

Pros

Best experience you will get in the field; you will have a strong base on which to specialize, cutting edge resources, equipment

Cons

poor pay, work all holidays/hard to get time off, little recognition for a good job

Advice to Senior Management

If you can't pay someone well, you need to at least be able to offer time off and holiday. Otherwise I would suggest raising salaries to make it worthwhile to sacrifice your family.

Pros

Good work environment, pleasant staff, patients well looked after, physicians available.

Cons

Terrible pay. I just received a pitiful raise. Baylor probably should have kept it b/c they are obviously not doing too well. And they have an "employee giving campaign!" Employees give money back to their employer! And it's often those least able to afford it who are giving their hard earned money back to their employer.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't give out any raises at all if that's all you can come up with.

Pros

The Name and fame, teaching hospital, very helpful Physicians and coworkers. good working environment.

Cons

low pay, every pay check has some problem, and you have to ask for your money sveral time. not enough promotion or appriciation. partialty. Managers are so conrol freak that they do not allow anybody to work for some other company. they do not give good recommendation if you leave baylor so you will never get job to other facility or even other floor inside baylor. if you are hired by one floor, you are stuck.

Advice to Senior Management

Please take care of your emplyee who is the pillar of the institute. Donot be so bossy when emplyee wants to move out of the company and please recommend them for other job.

Pros

Insurance is cheap since they have so many employees. About 40.00 a month for single coverage. Parking is free, although you may have to walk a few blocks to get there. Dart passes are inexpensive and a shuttle runs early morning, but stops at 7 pm. 401K matches are good;I believe it was 100% match up to 3% of pay.

Cons

Pay compared to other companies is terrible, ended up with a $7.00/hour increase when I left. Raises run 3-5% so new hires earn more than you even if you have worked years. I never witnessed a promotion of a med tech within the Baylor system, although it may be available to those outside of the laboratory. No one ever says thank you for anything you have done.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to the "workers" they are the ones that keep the company running. Show some appreciation sometimes, we don't need umbrella's, beach blankets or flashlights as tokens. Would have rather had great parking for a week, or coupons for eating in the cafeteria, 20% discount isn't much when you look at the prices charged. Yes it would have cost more, but would have been used instead of being put into the goodwill pile.