Kaiser Permanente Reviews in Sacramento, CA Area

Pros

Great place to work. Upper management support. Career advancement. Great compensation.

Cons

Minimal work/life balance. Long manager work days. Significant amount of meetings.

Advice to Senior Management

Fewer meetings. More emphasis on work/life balance. Spend more time focusing on high performers, instead of focusing so much energy on low performers (hold the low performers accountable, but reward the high performers).

Pros

If you plan to get a job at Kaiser, make sure you get hired on the TPMG side of the house. The KFHP/H entity treats its managers like crap and makes its people pay higher co-pays and deductibles than TPMG managers. Additionally, KFHP/H managers at KP do not get big bonuses like their TPMG counterparts.

Cons

They used to have a lot of team-building activities back in the day (employer-paid BBQs, etc.) but not anymore. Expect a "watch your back" culture, too, as everyone that works for Kaiser is too afraid to tell senior management anything.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the unions!

Pros

Exceptional people, resource-rich, encourages learning

Cons

poor worklife balance, favoritism on part of executives promotes interbreeding

Advice to Senior Management

Look carefully at the HR practices of executives

Pros

Good pay, good health insurance benefits

Cons

Managers need to hire assistant managers who have at least 5 years of experience on the floor. The ANM's are suppose to be our charge nurses now but they don't know how to manage the floor.the new ANM just walk around the floor like they own the floor.Managers please hire assistants that are experienced.

Advice to Senior Management

Same as above. Please hire ANM's who has at least 5 yrs of experience on the floor and please provide nurses help on floor fora much better patient feedback.

Pros

You can try new things as a volunteer and get to understand how a hospital runs. Volunteers are actually integrated into the daily operation so what they do is very useful.

Cons

I don't think this increases your chance of being hired by Kaiser. If you don't have the necessary qualifications they will not hire you for a paid position regardless of your hours.

Advice to Senior Management

Maybe more tasks that I can actually use when I apply for work in the job market.

Pros

able to work part time, with good pay and benefits. five weeks of vacation, plus 12 holiday days with pay

Cons

union organization. exceptional work can not be appropriately recognized easily. difficult to terminate employees who just do not do their job

Advice to Senior Management

generally a good work environment. staff meetings are a necessary evil, but please publish an agenda before the meeting to make it more effective

Pros

Great benefits, pay, and comunication

Cons

i cant think of any right now

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the good work

Pros

The salaries and benefits are excellent. There is good job stability. Most facilities are kept updated and pleasant looking. The computer network systems are easy to use. There are a lot of training opportunities available.

Cons

Not many paid holidays. There is a lot of pressure to improve, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Communication with management is spotty, some are great and others are practically non-existant.

Advice to Senior Management

I think they are doing pretty well. The main focus is on the members, which is where it should be but sometimes I do think the employees feel too pushed to try to make everybody happy.

Pros

opportunities are available in growth

Cons

union runs how we take care of pts

Advice to Senior Management

let us know whats going on

Pros

Medical benefits and if you are "in" w/ administration, you will succeed w/ Kaiser.

Cons

Managers don't show support for their staff nor do they encourage them to excel. Administrators "create" positions for family and friends regardless despite their lack of experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Involve the employees....communicate!! Take classes on how to get the most from your employees. Eliminate costly parties for physicians while asking staff to limit the amount of office supplies they order to do their jobs.