UC San Diego Health Reviews

Pros

Good benefits and decentn pay

Pros

Good benefits, reasonably good facilities

Advice to Management

Get rid of the consultants taking your money and giving dumb advice. Also take a look at your ROI in the Marketing Department - it’s pretty low and there’s a distinct cult of personality. You don’t need a committee to make a change to the website so that a patient can find where they need to go.

Pros

Great people to work with

Pros

Staff is all really helpful and friendly

Advice to Management

Hire more staff, acknowledge you have no idea what is actually happening in the OR at Jacobs. As a manager you don't manage people...You manage policies and procedures, and the management here doesn't do anything. And when you bring it to their attention that policies aren't being followed they will remove the policy link from employees access.

Pros

Flexible hours because they understand you are a student

Pros

Easygoing, low stress environment. Nice, clean campus. Good pension.

Advice to Management

Embrace technology. Look at how unhappy your employees are... get some decent parking, get rid of misguided open offices, let them work from home. Review wages and benefits... you’re living in the past.

Pros

Union represented position with strong bargaining power. Pension benefits & full health benefits for employees working at least 20 hours a week.

Pros

Good health and retirement benefits. Competitive pay.

Advice to Management

Patient and staff safety should be higher on the priority list than the budget.

Pros

Nice blend between clinical and academia
Good benefits

Pros

- job security (not necessarily a good thing, many in positions that should not be)

Advice to Management

I have worked at UCSD and UCSF. The same issues run rampant at both locations. I have also done a little consulting with UCLA and see the same issues. Thus I feel it is a UC system issue. Their is NO ACCOUNTABILITY!
 - I have seen departments recklessly spend at the end of the fiscal year due to a "use it, or loose it mentality".
- I have seen the operating rooms continue to be utilized inefficiently due to NO ACCOUNTABILITY. Surgeons consistently running late due to their own lack of consideration.
- I have seen IP floor staffing levels consistently below what should be required, due to NO ACCOUNTABILITY. The floors charge nurses do not schedule accurately thus creating strain on float pools and registry needs.
- I have seen charge nurses deliberately leave patients in the system that have been discharged just to make it appear that their floor is busier than it actually is.
- I have seen UCSD gloat about being "most connected hospitals". However there is technology that I have seen in other academic institutes that far exceeds the tech I have seen thus far. We don't even have the means to track patients accurately, much less provide automated family updates.