Used to be great - Staff RN Sutter Health Employee Review

3.0
Jun 15, 2015
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Pros

Good experience for nurses; somewhat flexible schedule; benefits not as good as they used to be, but still pretty good

Cons

Since my hospital became part of the Sutter network our overall quality has deteriorated greatly. The patients no longer tell me how happy they are to come here. The atmosphere is not as nice as it used to be. The flexibility and ability to change your cored hours has been stripped completely. Our benefits have gone up in cost and down in quality. No more bonus pay for working extra shifts. They seem to be doing everything they can to get out of paying overtime. They try to make it look like they listen to our criticisms, but it is all show. There is no incentive to learn since we no longer get extra pay for credentials or degrees nor do we get money to put toward our education.

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5.0
Jun 18, 2026
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Pros

I love working for Sutter, they are a solid company offering competitive pay and benefits. The part I love the most is they promote making a career with them making it easier to show up an contribute every single day!

Cons

I don't have any cons to speak of.

3.0
Jun 11, 2026
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Pros

Leadership trainings, conferences, educational opportunities, Senior leadership seems to respond to employee feedback, Great organizational transparency and clarity around goals and direction, Front-line leadership receiving recognition more often, Fair (not amazing) compensation and benefits overall, Organization seems to be healthy and growing which is encouraging for job security and retention.

Cons

Unsustainable front-line leadership expectations, responsibilities, and tasks without providing support from supervisors or assistant managers specifically in San Francisco campuses, High burnout risk among front-line leaders which is continuing to increase, Growing list of contradicting or conflicting priorities. Patient experience scores have improved greatly in SF but patient quality/safety and employee satisfaction has become the apparent cost of that, Very unreasonable span of control for front-line leaders, i.e. way too many direct reports, Meeting metrics and KPIs at all costs is the message being received. Front-line leaders are left scrambling to reach the data points (regardless of the methods), to get there. In other words, we might be meeting the metrics and KPIs on paper, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the real purpose or reason behind those metrics is being performed. We’re just desperate to keep our jobs, The leadership culture in the last 6-9 months has shifted towards motivation through fear. Fear of losing our jobs or bonuses rather than motivation by providing actual daily support in doing our jobs and genuine concern and encouragement to succeed.

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