Brigham and Women's Hospital Reviews

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

Most everyone is professional and very respectful of others, while in a pretty casual laid-back environment. The benefits are fairly generous.

Cons

Very fragmented silos. They have very unclear or nonexistent career ladder paths for some staff. There's career development opportunities, but not enough of the managers/supervisors take advantage of them, so they lack management skills.

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

i really like the atmosphere and enjoy the environment and the people are great or something

Cons

i d not like working at a place where they work me all day through lunch and don't let me eat good meals at lunch because food is no good

Advice to Senior Management

management is nice except they do not let me take federally allowed breaks after my federally allowed breaks on occasion sometimes

Pros

great experience with patients and pharmacists.

Cons

Can get very busy and sometimes over whelming.

Pros

BWH is a large and prestigious organization. It's great meeting other researchers and working with other researchers and medical professionals on projects.

Cons

If you're a scientific researcher, then you're faced with the fact that basic research is always the less favored "child." You have to complete tasks that have nothing to do with basic research, such as being forced to take TB tests every year even though you may not even work in a building with patients. And then there is the purchasing department, can they make purchasing items any more difficult? Or worse yet, cost more than it should?