Orlando Health Employee Reviews about "low pay"

Pros

The people and the physicians are amazing but the management doesn’t care about ANYONE…. Just numbers!!!

Cons

No growth; no REAL raises (they will hire someone off the street at a higher rate of pay); ALWAYS SHORT STAFFED and overworked

Pros

As an intern, they were very flexible with hours

Cons

Low pay for the field and a promise to 'hire after the internship' became blown smoke

Pros

Affordable health benefits. Nice employee discounts at certain businesses. Go Orlando City Soccer! Cafeteria food at Winnie Palmer is much better than typical hospital foods. Focus on "patients first" is awesome. Nice staff.

Cons

The starting pay at Orlando Health is significantly lower than the other local hospitals, ie. Florida Hospital. I was seriously floored with the average amount they start non-clinical employees at. $9.00 hourly seems to be the standard. A very low standard. I started at $9.00 even with a degree and experience. I accepted the position only because I figured I would at least get a 'foot in the door'. WARNING, if you accept a job here and plan on using it to get your foot in the door, DON'T do it. I'll explain more about that later. Merit pay raise increased me to $9.50. I transferred departments to what was clearly a more advanced department, so I just knew I'd get a nice pay increase. Wrong! I transferred to Sterile Processing. If you've never heard it, which a lot of people haven't, we are 'the heart' of the hospital. Without us, they wouldn't be able to operate. In short, we are responsible for assembling surgical trays, cleaning the instruments after surgery, and handling patient care equipment. If we stopped putting together the trays, doctors wouldn't be able to perform surgeries. So basically, we have patient's lives in our hands. Failing to properly assembly a tray, or not cleaning a surgical instrument properly could lead to infections or death and probably a major lawsuit. Therefore this job is critical and certainly deserves more pay than my starting rate of $10.21 hourly. This is around $4.00 less hourly than starting salaries for this position at Hospitals in the Orlando area as well as Daytona Beach area. It requires attending a mandatory 12 week course, passing a state certification test, and continuing education credits. All of this for making the same amount of money I could go make flipping burgers? Crazy. So I went from making $9.50 in my former department to making $10.21. Not even a dollar pay raise. The reason? This little known policy at Orlando Health which limits employees to only making a 7%-10% max when transferring departments, no matter what the position is. And getting the max 10% is highly unlikely. Had I not transferred from another department, my pay would have been higher. The issue I have with this policy goes back to what I said about the 'getting your foot in the door' . If you accept a job that pays low just to get your foot in the door, you are forever stuck with that same foot in the door. To make it clear, you can have a degree and take a $9.00 hourly job in patient transport and when you transfer to another department you'd still be stuck with a low wage even though the new job is more difficult, requires advanced training etc.

Pros

Great management and conducive to learning

Cons

Pay is not that great and people getting hired on after you make more

Pros

Great pay, teaching facility, great benefits, opportunity to grow, education incentives.

Cons

Sick pay can only be used starting 3rd day of being out sick and after taking the first two days hours from your vacation time.

Pros

Great environment. Flexible hours for pool Yearly bonuses School reimbursement Great medical and dental insurance

Cons

The only thing I would say is the pay isn’t great for the amount of work load

Pros

Good Management Great Coworkers Flexible schedule

Cons

Pay is pretty much company minimum wage even though the job duties can be pretty demanding

Pros

- Room for growth, if receptive & patient - Leadership training program available

Cons

- Unfair pay; could leave the organization and come back in 6 months for more income - Leadership training program - Constant long hours

Pros

opportunity to grow after a year

Cons

recruiters will low ball you and will tell you they wont pay more if you counter

Pros

It gave a paycheck and benefits. Relatively easy to work in different departments and many locations for work make for easy commute.

Cons

Decades of short-sighted leadership resulted in handing outpatient services dominance to a competitor. Expect reduced benefits & pay in 2016 and forward due to an extremely poor financials. Human Resources history of tightening policies, less control for frontline managers.