Sharp HealthCare Reviews

Pros

Management is always encouraging, considerate and positive. Secure place to work.

Cons

Pace is not very fast

Advice to Senior Management

Great leaders.

Pros

I have worked at several healthcare organizaitons in San Diego and must say that Sharp is the best place to work hands down. The "Sharp Experience" is part of the organizaional culture. Sharp invests in leadership with quarterly all-day training sessions. The leadership team at my entity is visionary, supportive, and appreciative of good work.

Cons

Work 50+ hours/week. Workload is extremely heavy on ongoing basis. New priority projects are started even though numerous other projects are already in process.

Advice to Senior Management

Address the salary inequity between staff RN union-dictated salaries and salaries for RN leadership positions. Experienced union RNs can make a higher salary than their direct supervisor.

Pros

Driven towards a culture of safety for patients, outstanding leadership by Mike Murphy and Dan Gross, there are a select group of leaders who are excellent and their heart is in the right place and passionate about providing excellent care

Cons

Management can be unethical depending on the department, no confidentiality when you speak to upper management, management sticks together and only looks at the their best interest without being fair to employees

Advice to Senior Management

Be open minded and considerate of others whether they are in management or not, treat employees with dignity and respect... we learned this concept in kindergarten, why is it so difficult to embrace it at Sharp HealthCare among upper management?!

Pros

Large organization in the San Diego community committed to patient safety and care. They have raised the bar in the community.

Cons

They will work you to the bone, and show little gratitude when you do. They are the "sharp experience" to patients but do not care about employees. Most clinical managers are incredibly spoiled, and immature, and unwilling to work with non-nursing managers. It is always the clinical side of the business first, and a battle for the non-clinical side - there is truly no sense of team between the two types of groups. This is driven by a divided executive team that leads by example; clinical comes first and all others last. When the executives practice this way of thinking, the rest follow.

Before considering taking a position with Sharp, ask important questions about the turnover rate, and the dept: What was the reason for the last person leaving the dept and how long ago did they leave? How many employees have left the dept in the last year? Do you use temporary staff, and how many are currently in the dept? If salaried, how many hours are typically worked each week, and how many days should you expect to stay late? Which executive has direct responsibility for the dept, and how would they describe his/her management style?

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure executives truly practice the culture you promote, and who will hold directors, managers, and employees accountable to the same initiatives. Create a team environment from the top down between the clinical side of the business and everyone else.

Consider eliminating the costly All-Staff assembly, and reward your employees directly for the hard work and loyalty they show every day. For some, a $200 bonus just doesn't reflect the hard work and 60-hours work weeks we have put in during the year (salaried employee).

Pros

Mission to patients, good services in south bay

Cons

Primma donna docs on sharp memorial and grossmont campus. Some horrendous backstabbers still in executive mgmt..longer you been there worse they are. There is a long run culture there which is truly toxic.

Advice to Senior Management

Values. Walk the talk. Several at the level below mike murphy dont.

Pros

The organization as a whole has adopted a very customer focused core set of values.

Cons

Needed stronger enterprise standardization compliance leadership

Pros

The pay is pretty good and the job offers excellent benefits. One of the largest employers in San Diego and offers many perks to employees.

Cons

Like many larger organizations, there are way to many mangers and supervisors. This often lead to turf wars and unstable environment for the employees.

Advice to Senior Management

The organization structure needs to be streamlined and eliminating so many of the higher positions would help. Its difficult for a company that has been around for so many years and grow so fast.

Pros

1. Very flexible when it comes to personal issues. If you need time off, you do not get a negative impression from management.
2. People who work there are there for the right reasons. They want to help patients and are good people by and large to work with.

Cons

1. Too many people "drink the Kool-Aid". Lots of people at Sharp over do it and are a little too excited about coming to work day in and day out. If you're really excited about healthcare, this is an awesome place to be. If not, you'll get annoyed quickly.
2. Org structure is nowhere near flat. Very top down.

Advice to Senior Management

Consider changing from the traditional "Command and control" management style to a more flat style. Most responsibilities are not delegated from management, hereby not enabling workers to effectively grow their careers effectively.

Pros

cutting edge, pushes the envelope, good city to live in, good equipment, some great docs in south bay

Cons

culture of back-stabbing in executive ranks, tolerance of unethical rumor mongering, hypocrites in some medical staff , medical staff culture at main campus unhealthy

Advice to Senior Management

walk the talk even behind closed doors

Pros

The Sharp Experience has been in place for almost a decade. They mean it when they say they are on a journey, not a sprint, to continue to improe the organization's culture which involves enhancing the way we interact with and serve our patients, customers, and colleagues.

Cons

It is hands-down, the best place I have ever worked. The Sharp Experience culture makes it wonderfully unique. They are extremely successful in business by operating from the head and the heart, with a philosophy of treating our patients, families, the community and each other as we would like to be treated.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the journey. The staff and the public have reason to be grateful for the incredible ongoing efforts.