Kaiser Permanente Reviews in Sacramento, CA Area

Pros

The medical benefits are outstanding. There are some outstanding employees with integrity at Kaiser.

Cons

Management is very poor. Communication is very poor. Management is power hungry and it is a very disempowering environment to work in. Management breeds an atmosphere of favoritism and nepotism. It is a very hypocritical environment as well. Employees are constantly told we must save money, yet we see our superiors wasting money constantly on big parties, extravagant dinners and such on a regular basis. Kaiser just sunk thousands and thousands, if not millions, on a substandard HealthConnect program that barely meets the needs of the company. There are parties and remodels of remodels over and over again.

Advice to Senior Management

Get off your high horses. Your power hungry nature only proves that you are afraid of something... but what? What are you afraid of losing control of? Loosen the choke hold you have on employees. Stop playing favorites; it's dispicable. Do you thnk we don't see how you go after people you don't like and coddle people you do like? You think employees stay because it's such a great place to be? Are you crazy? We stay for the benefits... that's it... and because we need to feed our families and pay our bills in this crazy economy.

George Halverson... are you paying any attention at all??? Or do you turn your head at what goes on at the lower levels??? We read your emails and they on frustrate us more. WHAT makes you think it's the best place to work??? Clearly no one pays attention to those surveys you ask us to take every year....

Pros

Salary, benefits, strives for excellence while remaining competitive in a tough market.

Cons

Budget cuts, economy, unemployment are effecting Kaiser just like they are effecting other healthcare organizations. Becoming a huge corporation and very micromanaged.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your middle management too and empower them to be leaders. Don't forget humans are unique and we have brains, experience, and talent to be leaders, not just micro managed. To a degree it is good to be regionally minded but still let our ideas and creativity show through. We do need to continue working on being effective, keeping costs down, and providing the best and safest care.

Pros

Kaiser pays more than any hospital thats to our Union.

Cons

Due to the economy, Kaiser is not hiring at the moment. Kaiser is a wonderful place to work for, its just sad we're not hiring as much as we used to.

Advice to Senior Management

Dont forget about us.

Pros

Money. Many of my friends work there.

Cons

No ongoing professional training. Everyday is fly-by-nite, re-invent the wheel. Nepotism rules. Unlicensed personnel are allowed to pretend they are licensed and engage in direct patient care, which is damaging to the nursing profession. The IT Department is a joke. The most unethical, immoral, & corrupt are destined for management. Senior Management is afraid to think outside of the box, when faced with what seems to be insurmountable problems, they choose to break the law instead of embracing best practices from others. Our work environment can only be described as a "sick building." Many employees are suffering from severe respiratory problems, asthma, headaches for the first time in their lives.

Advice to Senior Management

You are a disgrace to the nursing profession, surrender your licenses now. One is a patholigical liar so I suppose a psychiatrist might be helpful but I doubt it. The other is an aloof, backstabbing, nasty person who is not admired in the least.

Pros

Good benefits, stable work environment. When I tell people I work at Kaiser they either ask if I can get them a job thre too or they mention Kaiser Permanente's cool Thrive commercials. I feel stable in my job since it's in the health field. I enjoy working with some intelligent people that are passionate about the work they do. People helping people

Cons

I feel there are a lot of people that work at least in my dept. that work the heck out of the system. Including supervisors, calling in sick at the drop of a hat, doing mediocre word, going out on FMLA for reasons not meant for that program.
Since it's a union environment, people are promoted not because of merit but how long that have been with the company. I see a lot of bad behavior swept under the carpet and not dealt with. It makes the employees doing the work wonder why they are working so hard to pick up the slack of non-performers.

Advice to Senior Management

Come to work, stay off the golf course. Pay attention to what is going on in your dept.

Pros

Great benefits such as full medical, dental and generous vacation package. KPbelieves in doing the right thing for the patient. Ethical. I like how the organization supports is "Thrive" campain by not only having healty oriented classes for patients, but works to support employees toward better health. There's a weekly Farmers Market onsite, online tools to help with fitness and diet goals. They have health fairs so employees can get their health questions answered. Great education opportunities. Strong company growing--not stagnant. Feel like I have job security.

Cons

Being too big can be tough when you want to make changes "across the board"

Advice to Senior Management

Keep taking advice from the front line employees. Otherwise, doing great.

Pros

Good pay, with a strong union. The union helps control the employers big headed ways and works to give back ownership to the people who truly do the work.

Cons

Management thank that it is there job to try to fire people, to the point that they forget how to actually manage there departments.

Advice to Senior Management

Have your managers manage the departments and stop harassing employees over thangs that have no affect on the care of our members.