Fairview Health Services Employee Reviews about "management"

Pros

The management is good and helpful

Cons

New care model is causing nurses to quit

Pros

My department was a great place to work with a solid supervisor and great co-workers. Benefits, especially medical, were above par on every level.

Cons

The upper management mismanaged the budget and had to balance the budget by laying people off en masse. The cuts were arbitrary and the people working HR knew it (and said so). They seem to have no clue what their overall business plan is other than trying to compete with Mayo and the other Children's hospitals instead of carving out their own niche.

Pros

The health benefits are pretty good

Cons

Management is clueless and lazy

Pros

Caring co-workers, flexible work hours, decent benefits overall, good visibility to upper management, wear many hats and have lots of responsibilities

Cons

Too much decentralization due to M&A; however, management is working on centralizing processes. Corporate needs to put their foot down on some of the subsidiary management teams that tend to do things 'their way'.

Pros

Fabulous co-workers who are dedicated to patients and families.

Cons

Major time of restructuring and lean management to adjust to the changing landscape in healthcare. Staff reductions have been painful.

Pros

Management will listen and understand any issues you have They have resources and staff Critical issues are made priority 1 and are resolved to managements approval If you want to work a lot of hours this is a good place to go.

Cons

Too many managers and project managers who assign work to a very short staffed engineering group. A lot of analysts and project managers and few engineers to do the work. Support takes precedence and projects are emphasized and you are held accountable. Burnout is the result. Management over promises and you have to bear the burden. Management assigns all work from any source and add to the ever increasing work load. The limited number of engineers who actually do the work are buried and burned out. Outside consultants are plentiful and are the only ones in control of their work load. Worst case scenario is to be an employee and work for management that loads work on faster than it can be tracked and pages and calls you off hours even when you aren't on call. Treat all employees like they are bedside patient care. Page you for any reason, any time, anyone can create a Priority 1 page for any group. Majority of pages aren't assigned to the right group or shouldn't be paged at all. Policy is time off only if you give 4 weeks notice. My manager didn't follow this rule but expected it from me. No paid holidays, like a nurse in an ER. You earn more time off but it will take 6-12 months of working to earn your time off up to the level you can start taking holidays and 2 weeks of vacation. Lots of sick time available, can only use as a last minute time off request, like a sickness. ** Burn out and limited time you will want to stay here.

Pros

like the clinic I work in love to avoid upper management. try to ignore their unrealistic goals as much as possible and because I am not sure they know we even exist most of the time we are left to our own devises for now.

Cons

upper management and the CEO are completely out of touch with any semblance of day to day medical practice. when I have tried to participate in changing policy , the upper management has actually talked about the doctors and nurses as if they were chattle that needed to be coddled and how they could 'get them to do things' that were above what was needed , even though we were sitting in the room with them.!it was pretty insulting. so I don't bother with that anymore and just try improving my patients lives and while I continue to practice evidence based medicine , I won't just order tests to ' get that check mark done!' let's get real people. you have enough pull now that you should be pushing back on the wastefulness that some of these supposed 'quality measures ' are supposed to be bringing. Have you noticed how many have dissappeared over the years due to lack of evidence? corporate medicine has a limited shelf life and I will be happy when it dies.

Pros

Good benefits. However not as cheap as you would expect working for a hospital.

Cons

I used to love my job. But the Lab has really gone down hill since old management left and new management came in. Things went from very good to awful - fast. Current management is not hands on AT ALL and doesnt care about anything. They are unwilling to help with questions or problems. Time to find a new job.

Pros

The healthcare needs that they fill need to be met. Most clinical providers are extremely caring. There are good groups of managers that have integrity and are able to overcome the lack of support and leadership by executive level management. Fairview has the ability to be great if it receives better leadership.

Cons

Some, but not all management, from middle to executive level will target you if they do not like your opinions. They ask for candid feedback, but will find ways to retaliate against you for giving it. Be careful if you do not understand this. Human resources staff are centralized and removed from the people. This leads to issues where some HR staff believe that all employees are trying to abuse the system, which leads to a lack of respect and care for staff. This is extremely damaging.