UPMC Reviews

Pros

Opportunities for advancement are immense in the right field and if you are in the 'in' crowd. It's very much a click network.

Cons

Once you reach the top you tend to have a target on your head. Routine layoff's of upper manement are the norm.

Advice to Senior Management

Stabalize the organization. Too many people are scared of being layed off as is the history of UPMC. You are the econonomic driver of the city, and the 2nd largest employer of the state.

Pros

Good benefits even for part time employees
not too hard to get hired
co workers were fun to be around

Cons

Management only cared about how many packaged you load.. can be hard at first but you get the hang of it
hot
boring
fake sense of accomplishment

Advice to Senior Management

let the package handlers do what they want to do and dont micro manage them.. especially in the beginning. thats why so many people quit.

Pros

For lantek project for data migration the bigest would be pay increase and benefits and room to grow and learn.

Cons

less flexiablity in working environment

Advice to Senior Management

value your employee and put effort into them.

Pros

Good salary and reasonable benefits, however you would think they would be better considering they are a health care company? There are a lot of opportunities LATTERALLY i.e. you may get "promoted" but its just moving to a different division, with a new title to make you feel special. However MANY of the upper exec's are awesome and deserve to be where they are. Lots of smart people to learn from within UPMC Finance, but with the good comes the bad as in any company. Having UPMC on your resume looks great in this region, and even nationally if you stay within healthcare.

Cons

One in 6000 within UPMC Finance. Every man for themself kind of attitude where people would rather see you fail than succeed and make the whole department look good. High expectations, long hours. If you start as a junior analyst, might be 3 years before youre an intermediate analyst, 5 more until youre a senior analyst..if you are looking to learn a lot and move up it wont be a fast ride.

Advice to Senior Management

Better training, listen to your employees, not everyone is replaceable, focus more on retention and employee satisfaction. Word around Pittsburgh is "you sold your soul to Satan" when you hear someone got a job with UPMC (whether the position is in finance dept or a nurse in the ICU).

Pros

working with the population served was a priviledge

Cons

while I was there , there seemed to be a resistance to change by some pockets of the employee population

Advice to Senior Management

senior leadership should ask for and listen to feedback from the employee population at all levels

Pros

The PTO system, fantastic floor and housekeeping staff - work extremely well together and support one another, positive experience with patients, hospital location

Cons

Management is a joke, ridiculous food pricing for employees, pay is not competitive - it's disgustingly low for the job at hand, patient food is grease filled and mostly carbohydrates - not at all healthy especially considering that it's a hospital, negative work environment: burn out and turn over are high, ancillary staff and nurses receive no support, patients aren't actually treated to get better so it's a revolving door, low morale due to no support, putting nurses in management positions just makes them petty - get people who have actual management experience, staff concerns and issues written off as "negative attitude" rather than worked out, incompetent HR staff, staff never given actual praise for doing good work - unless it comes from each other (i.e. nurses to ancillary, ancillary to nurses, etc), staff constantly looking and applying for new jobs.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize that your staff works hard and tell them "good job" every once in a while, include staff on decision making - as they are the ones who are affected by the changes, allow staff to actually help patients and give them incentives for getting (and staying) better, support staff when they have an issue - rather than calling them negative and brushing off complaints, promote and recognize hard work - instead of promoting the laziest workers because you like them, come up with a realistic method of handling staff burn-out, stop making staff feel disposable - that contributes to low staff morale AND negative work environment, competencies and policy changes contribute absolutely nothing to the work environment - come up with a new system, and most of all pay a LIVING wage

Pros

I've met some highly competent individuals with whom I've had the opportunity to work. My work is interesting and rewarding.

Cons

Upper administration often has no idea of what compromises our workday. Consequently, they make decisions and institute changes with no regard for the consequences. Since we aren't involved in the decision making process, we're left to deal with the hurdles that are shown thrown in front of us. UPMC has a way of making things difficult and I've felt that they care much more for the bottom line than their employees. It is very, very difficult to advance, even if you walk on water.

Advice to Senior Management

For a change, listen to the people who actually do the work. Many of them have good ideas. Without them, the place would fall apart.

Pros

In the IT dept, there are opportunities for great learning, my boss is a great exception to all the managers I've ever had at upmc,..actually competent, gets hands dirty in the trenches with you, leads by example, deserves an award

Cons

being buttonholed and stuck in non-learning jobs, working with information horders, no project management certification process, no career support

Advice to Senior Management

I would be foolish to ascertain the motives of upper mgmnt

Pros

flexibility and understanding of middle management.

Cons

Some of the specific tasks are mind numbingly boring.

Advice to Senior Management

I have not heard a clear statement addressing the question..What distinguishes Rx Partners from the other similar closed door pharmacies. What about the billing department makes it better than the competition, What about the automation department makes it better, the senior management, the pharmacists, the technicians, the drivers...etc...

Pros

management is great and I like them

Cons

hours expected to work is many

Advice to Senior Management

none except pick more qualified people and you won't run into problems in the future. Otherwise great place to work.