Discouraging - Par Emory Healthcare Employee Review

2.0
Feb 11, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The name will increase the value of your resume to outsiders and you will learn a lot about healthcare (if you choose to) and maintaining cordial relationships with catty co-workers and management. Hard to get fired from here so you have some job security.

Cons

No growth potential for employees. Unless you are in the UGA or Emory Univ club, it's a who you know type of party at Emory. It's such a large facility that it's hard to even know where a potential transfer location/department is. Wherever you get hired is where Emory expects you to stay forever. Yes forever. There are people with Master's degrees working entry-level. Managers will sometimes block people from potential movement (transfers and education). There are no opportunities for networking at Emory. Even if you try to reach out and show interest, managers will still ignore you. Low pay. They love to low ball you on salary. With an internal transfer, don't look for much of an increase. Most of them will try to get you to take a pay cut from what you've already earned! Please negotiate when you come in but I've heard that now new hires are no longer allowed to negotiate for hourly positions. Raises are a joke, pennies on the dollar. You have to use your PTO for everything, holidays, vacation, illness, bad weather, etc. Your bank can get pretty low, pretty quick. Lack of communication. There is a real distance between administration and the rest of staff. There is very little employee recognition. No incentives to really improve morale or make employees feel appreciated. High turnover. After working here, I am seriously turned off from healthcare.

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5.0
Jun 12, 2026
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Pros

Great team to work with under the ECMO group at Emory. Fantastic boss and lots of opportunities within the team to advance your skills and gain a ton of experience.

Cons

Normal ECMO specialist ratios (1-2 ECMO patients: 1 ECMO specialist) is not the norm here. Typically have 3-6 patients on ECMO each shift

3.0
Jun 9, 2026
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Pros

It's okay... I don't know how other ORs are run for comparison. Pay is alright. $47/hr and on-call is $8/hr. Have over 3 years of experience. Most people are pretty friendly. The friendly ones are starting to leave now, unfortunately.

Cons

Management doesn't fix problems. They won't respond to emails. Often don't have specimen printers, patient moving boards, etc. Tons of extra timeouts are kind of inconvenient (pre-op, pre-anesthesia, and pre-incision). Parking and commute are hassles. You can't park next to the hospital unless you are a doctor or advanced practitioner. At least 30min per day wasted on bus to and from hospital from parking tower I'm assigned. So much traffic to get to and from work. On call is very tiring. They frequently assign 7pm-7am overnight call right after 12hr shifts and then want you to stay because night shift didn't show up. Call requirement is at least 48hrs per month. Most OR rooms are super messy and badly stocked. ...Seems like more and more bad people are getting promoted to management positions. My immediate manager is good. The ones over her are not that great.

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