Spectrum Health Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Spectrum Health part-time for more than a year

Pros – Spectrum Health is a great company to work for. It has great staff in every department I have worked in. The facilities are beautiful and customer service is the main focus of each staff member.

Cons – In regards to direct patient care, the Nursing staff are sometimes given an overwhelming amount of tasks with not enough help. This takes away from the ability to provide patients with the best care.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you're doing and never forget that the patient should be the number one focus.

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

Current Employee – been working at Spectrum Health full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great benefits and opportunity to move around within the company

Cons – This company does not value their employees and will promise anything to get you and not come thru on it.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to value your employees and their efforts

Former Employee – worked at Spectrum Health full-time for less than a year

Pros – Nothing good about this company

Cons – Watch your back . If management doesn't like you then you will become a target, and they will get rid of you. A lot of favoritism and racism well count against you.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Spectrum Health part-time for less than a year

Pros – Pros: The free membership, being able to workout for free. most of the gym members are friendly members are friendly and can meet good connections, a plus is the gym is clean.

Cons – Too many hours there not working because clients too spread out, not enough pay, some staff are not that friendly or helpful

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on helping employees and better training.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Spectrum Health full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Entire staff truly has patient safety, privacy and overall well-being at the front of their minds at all times. Overall SH has a great staff and the organization is a financially sound organization.

Cons – Everything moves at a very slow pace. (Typical large organization) Things can be very political at times and semantics often get in the way of moving towards positive change.

Advice to Senior Management – Have less meetings so managers and upper management can spend more time managing day to day activities.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Spectrum Health full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Spectrum Health is a large institution with decent benefits. Lots of good people work there.

Cons – The salaries seemed to be very low, advancement seemed to be limited. During my years there, the goal was to "Become the most successful health enterprise in the nation", meanwhile not even considering increasing wages to actually spur increased productivity or other factors associated with being the "best".

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Spectrum Health full-time for more than a year

Pros – Poor benefits, low pay, management focused and not pro employee

Cons – Management is uneducated, male focused "good ol boy mentality" . Human resource is not there for you when you have a concern.

Advice to Senior Management – Look past the mentality and focus on capability

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Spectrum Health full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Striving to be a model of integrative medical care for children and adults.

Cons – A large and growing group that has some growing pains.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more open and transparent at all times. Make better predictions of the future.

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

Current Employee – been working at Spectrum Health full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Spectrum Health really wants to be the best healthcare organization in the country. This drives leadership to push very hard to meet that goal. Professionalism is very high.

Cons – The relentless pursuit of success also has a downside. People often feel the crush of the machine and treated as tools to get the job done.

Advice to Senior Management – It is not easy to balance these two competing nature's. Management needs to do whatever they can to bridge this gap and recognize employees.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Spectrum Health as an intern for less than a year

Pros – There are great people to work with
There's very good job security
Most managers allow for flexible work hours

Cons – It's a big organization, so things move very slowly
At times there is a lot of pressure. Lives are on the line, but that's what you signed up for.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you're doing. Maybe make the push to speed things up a little on the internal processes.

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