Dignity Health Reviews

Pros

Great benefits and great work environment.

Cons

No cons for me at this time.

Pros

Guys, Dignity Health pays beaucoup bucks AND offers the nearly-extinct pension to those with 5 years of vested service. Their medical benefits are outstanding--preventative care is usually free, and copays for other things are $20-30 a visit. Deductibles are around ~$200 a person. Oh and they also offer completely free higher degrees through certain universities; I earned my MBA from University of Arizona Global Campus for $0 out of pocket. I work three 12 hour shifts a week and have 4 days free to myself, so work/life balance is a dream. We receive unsolicited market adjustments to our pay, annual raises with positive performance reviews, and a $400 bonus through their online employee wellness program. I have 6 years of experience in my field, 5 of them at Dignity Health, and I don't think I ever want to leave.

Cons

I honestly can't think of any at all. This company is incredible and treats their employees like the investments they are, incentivizing excellent performance and steadfast loyalty.

Pros

The atmosphere of learning and not blaming nurses or specific people. Constantly trying new innovations to improve work. Coworkers are wonderful.

Cons

Constant reminders of how to improve care. Nurses get a lot dumped on them from all angles. You can advance your pay with LEAD projects, but there are many rules, which adds to the reminder lists of things we must improve on. This can lead to burnout when nurses are doing admin work for little extra pay.

Pros

Less and less pros. health benefits are decent.

Cons

The whole operation and management of its hospitals in SAC area has gone down to the hell over last year. Extremely poor management, poor communication, focused on the superficial image, but has become rotten inside. It has the lowest pay compare to other hospital systems in the same area. With recent massive layoffs and job freeze, almost every department is under-staffed. Patient census has stayed high for most of the time since the end of last year, however, departments are still asked to reduce their productivity by scheduling less workers daily while they are already under-staff. While there is a huge budget issues, they are spending money and time upgrading some systems that would not benefit patient care and employee experience, No work-life balance. Unfortunately DH has become an unpleasant places to work, Run away from it unless you just come here to get some experience and then move on to other hospitals.

Pros

Good benefits, free uniforms every year, newer hospital, good area, 18 percent shift differential for nights and 10 percent for weekend, self schedule.

Cons

The doctors tend to order the nurses to place patient orders and have poor communication with specialists and use the nurses as the middle person. There's no accountability for doctors to follow through and much of the responsibility falls on the nurses. This is a new culture for me in my experience with other organizations.

Pros

Great benefits, upward mobility, decent ratios, teaching hospital

Cons

The staff on my floor (particularly my shift) were the definition of nurses eating their young. New nurses were quickly ostracized and left out of the clique. Our patient concerns were not taken seriously until the situation had seriously deteriorated. Charge nurses would promote their favorites to resource despite not having the experience to be able to effectively resource. Resource and charge RNs were not helpful, did not step in to help and we often did not get breaks. Experienced nurses and resource/charge would allow RNs to drown without offering any assistance and then berate staff for not having charting done in a timely manner.

Pros

excellent place to work and they take good care of employees

Cons

lower pay versus other area hospitals

Pros

Exciting changes in store with opportunity for those willing to be part of the change.

Cons

Employees have been there for years unwilling to change

Pros

Collaborate organization with competent care. Organization is very adaptive and has a great family medicine chief

Cons

Salary isn’t the most competitive

Pros

Love my team - support staff, coworkers, nursing at hospital. Boss supportive and kind.

Cons

Admin aware that we were going to be short staffed on physicians / call coverage with some warning (maternity leave with 7 month warning, one retirement, already with baseline hospital staffing issues) and did not move to hire any locums or create a backup plan for the inevitable emergency until we were at the point of almost diverting patients