Willamette Dental Group Reviews

Pros

Willamette is a wonderful company to work for. The company fulfills the mission and values of the company on a daily basis. Feedback is solicited from patients and employees alike and then the company makes changes based on the input received. Everyone that works at Willamette believes in our philosophy and doing the right thing for patients.

Advice to Management

Keep listening and involving employees in business decisions. Work with employees to create long-term career/growth plans.

Pros

The Pro Active approach to Dental health is very much in line with the prevention training I received in Dental Hygiene school. Many other positions I had required me to sell or promote dentistry and products as production of income for the office. I love the focus on prevention and education.

I have amazing benefits and I am considered full time as a 30 hour a week employee! Willamette provides well for its employees!

Willamette attracts a great number of truly caring and talented health care providers that are wonderful to work with.

Advice to Management

Plan a realistic amount of time to fully provide care and education to newly on board patients to the practice.

Pros

1. Good benefits (for non-dentist employees only)
2. Friendly working environment
3. Guarantee pay/ salary based. Good for STARTERS.

Advice to Management

1. Please actually "show" your employees how much you care about them. Not just saying it. If you don't think it's worth your time, please just don't say some foolishly nice things, it only makes things worse.
2. Please don't actually "lie" about stuff you don't think it's going to happen. It actually matters to the people who want to get into your company.
3. You really don't need a long period of time to find replacements. It's sad you need employees who already are quitting to stay for some days to months as an excuse for you to obtain enough money/ stable patient flow/reputation?!?!. Having 50+ offices across 3 states, the company has enough reputation. The biggest reason patients choose your company is largely because of your insurance policies according to their sayings.
4. Please standardize your protocols better, so your staffs can actually understand after reading them 2 times. Please don't be lazy on this by asking those who do know to help those who don't know. It's a matter of being professional and spending some time to read.
5. Please don't experiment on patients and claim some of these experiments are evidence-based at the time. This is a matter of legal issues. It does not matter if it's dangerous for patients or not. Please actually list out your reference sources instead of posting them like you are the pioneers of the subjects.
6. Please integrate more merit-based values in your payroll system. Your performance based system only encourages employees to be as slow as possible. But again, your DMO income is from your premiums. Ultimately, you don't really care.
7. Please actually face your employees and tell them if they are doing something incorrect or something that is not expected by the company, instead of making detours by going through levels of employees. This only delays the mistakes from getting worse and not solving the problems. But again, it's a private company after all. Everything is about connections.
8. Please have your staffs actually properly trained before sending them out to work with the dentists. This not only delays everyone, but also increases risks on patients.

Pros

Great work life balance, senior leadership truly values employees and runs the company with integrity

Advice to Management

Better opportunities for CE training in specialty work

Pros

Awesome evidenced based concept, allows the providers to treat patients based on their actual needs and not based on the insurance limits of more traditional offices. They treat their employees great. PTO, medical and dental, 401k.

Pros

Great benefits, evidence-based, prevention oriented

Advice to Management

please stop shortening all the appointments

Pros

The benefits are out of this world great. Great hours. I like the 10 hour days with the possibility of OT.

Pros

It has great dental and medical benefits

Advice to Management

Better communication and direction. If you want employees to grow and be a better fit
One can’t fix a problem if you don’t be specific in directions. You can’t say to be more engaged if you can’t give examples of what that means. There was not the direction given on how to succeed

Pros

Pay and benefits
team building activities
is willamette dental merchandise considered a pro?
they make a good effort to be employer choice... but i'd rather work at Kaiser.

Advice to Management

district managers need to be more in touch with employees. Managers need to fix issues, not letting them slide until they escalate and need to not favor one employee. Admin needs to realize that management needs to be restructured.

Pros

Benefits and 4 Ten hour shifts