Brigham and Women's Hospital Reviews in Boston, MA Area

Pros

They have excellent benefits and employee perks such as discounted movie tickets and lift tickets and the yearly employee appreciation celebration is one of the best at a company I have attended. It is also pretty easy to transfer jobs once you are a part of the Brigham which i believe helps to retain good employees.

Cons

Pay scales are fairly rigid and do not allow for flexibility to take into account experience and education, "everything must be equitable". Also due to an unfortunate incident with time reporting, these rules have become extremely strict.

Advice to Senior Management

There needs to be some flexibility in pay and cash incentives to recruit and retain good employees.

Pros

Resources and mentorship abound in the research arena - the place is clearly a primarily research focused institute with a patient care mission which is also extremely strong - The overall experience is very much driven by the individual department within which one finds themselves, but globally a very positive place.

Cons

Seems to have less brand-recognition than other equal hospital centers both within Boston/New England and nationally - clearly one of the ten best hospitals in the country but lesser known to many outsiders.

Advice to Senior Management

Salaries and financial support to young faculty are lacking and prevent young, future leaders from moving ahead at a competitive pace.

Pros

Excellent pay, excellent paid vacation options, highly reputable, excellent benefits,

Cons

Once you get in it can be difficult to walk away from the hospital due to highly competitive financial compensation. If you dislike your department's culture. Communication disconnects between silos (especially nurse-pharmacy-physician groups). Management seeks feedback, but is largely powerless (due to current financial constraints) and often takes considerable time to enact change. Prioritization of problems is controlled from the top rather than determined by census through feedback. Some nurses (mostly senior) can take advantage of hardest working employees, but majority are team players.

Advice to Senior Management

Consider intangibles more rather than focusing on the monetary bottom line. Cost savings is important, but often by sacrificing in clinical care provision satisfaction from health workers. Low opportunities for advancement may limit retention of more ambitious workers.

Pros

Hospital lives up to it's great reputation
High standards of patient care
High standards of employee relations
A lot of room for growth and advancement
Feel supported by my supervisors and colleagues

Cons

The annual raise is set at a percentage hospital-wide, usually around 2-3%. This is insignificant and does not account for inflation. Really, the salary you start with is pretty much what you'll be making until you move to a new position.

Pros

Opportunities for advancement (temporary to permanent)

Cons

Lower salary compared to local hospitals

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

- you have the opportunity to collaborate with truely amazing colleagues throughout the organization and larger Harvard community.
- remarkable place to practice, as well-supported with technology, consultative services

Cons

-as researcher, there is really no 'start-up package' so need to constantly fund-raise to support salary and research initiatives
- institution relies on its reputation to keep talent, rather than actually nurturing success

Advice to Senior Management

- greater attention to junior faculty and their financial support
- increased transparence regarding salaries, promotion

Pros

great experience with patients and pharmacists.

Cons

Can get very busy and sometimes over whelming.

Pros

It is an exciting place to be, very cutting-edge and world-renowned. The salary and compensation packages are good. Boston is a nice place to live.

Cons

It is unsupportive for junior faculty, and the environment is so big that it is challenging to navigate. There's not much in the way of mentorship.

Advice to Senior Management

It would be helpful to have some kind of mechanism to make smaller communities within the Boston-Harvard medical research community, and make real efforts to integrate junior faculty into those communities.

Pros

BWH is a very well know institution and does amazing work. The hospital continues to push for innovation and is located in a great part of the city of Boston.

Cons

It's difficult to leave a review of this nature since the positions vary so tremendously from one department to the next. However, within HR, there is quite the disconnect within the department and morale is lacking. There seems to be more concern with giving the department a superficial appearance of cohesiveness rather than paying attention to the actual needs of its employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Actually get to the bottom of what's causing turnover within the department and cease the creation of projects for the sake of having projects. There are many bright individuals that would far exceed the expectations of their current position if given the proper opportunity.

Pros

The schedule is flexible and people are nice.

Cons

The benefit is not good