Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters full-time for more than a year

Pros – They tend to grab people with little to no experience. So this can be great for someone getting out of college or starting a new career path. There is also a general sense of community where everyone knows it's all about helping the children.

Cons – The pay is horrible and you don't get any raises or promotions. there is virtually no room for advancement. A lot of the employees including management have been there for 10+ years and have strong bias towards new comers.

Advice to Senior Management – After 2 years management tends to treat you like your as new as the employee they just hired. there is a tendency for them to only trust employees there for 10 years or more.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Giving our time to the children is so rewarding. The staff really love what they are doing. Benefits.

Cons – Medicare drive a lot of our funds.

Advice to Senior Management – No amount of money spent on employee appreciation is too much. We give our all.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There are a lot of friendly people to work with, great intern program, good surgeons, patient's can be adorable.

Cons – It doesn't have a merit based pay initiative, it only gives out a cost of living wage, and even that is taken away when finances are difficult. No clinical ladder. Advancement opportunities are not really earned but given to friends as perks. There is no retention program, there is no retention.

Advice to Senior Management – You shouldn't be afraid of what is the right thing to do.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters full-time for less than a year

Pros – Working with ill children and infants

Cons – Heavy political (politically correct) atmosphere

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters full-time for more than a year

Pros – The children.
The impact you can make on the family of a sick child is all the gratitude I need.
The doctor I worked under was amazing & we kept in touch long after I left the practice.

Cons – Besides being completely underpaid, management was very cruel and played favorites; enjoyed pitting colleagues against one another.
Got to the point where I hated coming to work.

Advice to Senior Management – A new manager altogether would be a wise idea.

Current Employee – been working at Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – The children are the best

Cons – Lack of Salary increases or raises (if you get one - salary cap s close to competitors "starting" pay. Senior and middle management undermining sneaky and play favorites.

Advice to Senior Management – Need more training

Current Employee – been working at Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters

Pros – Only pediatric hospital in the immediate area, great staff physicians, amazing patients, strong community support

Cons – Poor pay, poor benefits, employees are very condescending towards each other creating a negative work environment, managers play favorites, difficult to get time off, hospital offers tuition assistance however makes it difficult to claim, raises are few and far between, raises are small when given, hospital does not recognize employees for excellent work, "guilty until proven innocent" frame of mind

Advice to Senior Management – Support your employees; all the good employees are leaving for hospitals that treat them better, and it's beginning to show in the quality of care.

Former Employee – worked at Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters

Pros – If you like working with children and you enjoy children then that will be the main reason you will like it. Noting else in order for you to even be remotely appreciated you need to be a nurse, thats it hands down. if you do any other job in the office its not recognized.

Cons – There are too many to name, a few environment, the doctors, no increase, no promotions etc... Management's not good. It does not matter how many times you contact human resource they do not seem to help you and even when they do management will put a bulls eye on your back and will pick on you until you decide to leave. The office is run in the manner of "Do As I Say, But Not As I Do". They do not practice what they preach and the Doctors, are very uptight and they do not appreciate anything that the staff does. They yell a lot and do not have any sense of decency and management will put non-certified individuals in positions that they are not certified to be in and are not educated to be in. On a whole this company will make you loose your religion. This company is not worth you loosing your sanity over neither yourself.

Advice to Senior Management – Head office needs to do a clean sweep of management all around. Management is not helpful and will not assist you if you have medical issues that need to be taken care of.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters

Pros – The care given to the patients is excellent.

Cons – The employees are not treated very well, the pay is poor compared to the extremly high standard of living in this area. They do not give annual raises for a job well-done. Only standard of living raises which is usually less than 10 - 25 cents a year. Whena n emloyee calls in sick they are either given a hard time about it, or made to feel guilty upon their return. Also when there has been emergencies and staff has not been able to come in or leave because of it, the supervisors act like its just another excuse and don't care. They haven't even bothered to ask if everything was OK. The 2 supervisors in my department, were in my exact position less than 1 year ago. They have no managerial experience or training and treat the employees very poorly!

Advice to Senior Management – In departments where the turn-over rate is very high, they need to start looking into the managers & salary and stressful conditions the employees must work in & try to fix it & maybe the rate wouldn't be so high. Also they need to be more flexible when it comes to time. Some departments allow a 6 minute "cushion" on time. If the employee arrives before the time clocks turn over to the next 15 minute increment then the employee is not considered late. But another department states that "you are late if you are 1 minute late." That is an exact quote from a manager. The tunnels and traffic in this area need to be taken into consideration, there are constant accidents and traffic jams that cannot be predicted and change day to day. So "leaving earlier" makes no difference. You can leave at the same time everyday and your arrival time will vary about 5-10 minutes either way, early or late.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great people to work with, as well as the satisfaction of helping children. There seems to be room for growth depending on your department and goals.

Cons – Hours, but that depends on the position. Some managers seem to not encourage growth for employees. Some positions seem to not have enough work to do, while others have to much.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't shoot down employee ideas right away.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend