Restructured out of a job - Associate Ascension Employee Review

2.0
15 Aug 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Coworkers kept me there. Opportunities and respected in own department but not with organization.

Cons

Mission and values of St. Vincent hospital prior to Ascension coming in was good. Nuns presence made a difference. Respected among the community. It is obvious that Ascension leaders care more for green going into their pockets than patient care, patient safety, staff safety, technology and building maintenance. Physicians and nurses are not on same team, physicians rule the place and are the golden children. Leaders at Ascension corporate office in St. Louis are extremely disconnected with what clinical staff does every day, how much spare time clinical staff have and what staff in a hospital actually does. In addition, leaders, such as regional directors, don’t have qualifications or experience. Marketing isn’t keeping up, more Riley and IU Health ads and fundraisers around town than StV, Ascension or PMCH.

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Cons

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Pros

The patient population can be very rewarding to work with, and there can be lots of different job opportunities but very limited advancement with mainly lateral department shifts if a person is looking for change.

Cons

Raises are almost non-existent. The "raise" is a yearly COLA of between 2%-3%. There is no ability to talk to anyone regarding a raise, even the admin staff are fully stonewalled in the overlly corporate monolithic HR style of maintaining "fair" wages. I have worked here for several years and I actually earn less now because my "raises" do not keep up with inflation and the actual cost of living. They maintain their functionality on squeezing as much as they can out of one employer by slowly shifting more job responsibilities called "opportunities" onto you without extra pay or change in title that would get a pay increase. They look to higher level licensed staff to provide more coverage for roles that they won't hire for or cut in departments. They do "organizational restructuring" every 6 months because more staff quit, they don't replace the staff, and tell others to absorb the former FT employees job responsibilities without pay increase and being told not to go into OT.

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