Island Health Reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(446 total reviews)
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Kathy MacNeil

65% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Island Health has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 446 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Island Health employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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446 reviews
1.0
30 Mar 2013

Workload is BRUTAL

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Pros

Most of the FRONT-LINE people are concerned about patient care. The executives, admin managers & supervisors and the admin staff (trying to get promoted) are only concerned about their power trips.

Cons

Change and the down loading of duties to lower-level employees is constant and stressful. So many of us take sick days due to stress. Do they recognize that? No. Instead they have a "work-force" dept that are do their biding & hiding their agenda of harassing employees to take less sick days. Is anyone fooled that they are calling it "support" for the employees. NO.

1.0
21 Jun 2012
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Pros

the hospitals are set in beautiful physical settings. The front-line caregivers are generally decent, well-meaning people, albeit a bit on the lazy side.

Cons

silo thinking from the top, culture of blame, unnecessarily adversarial corporate attitude. No accountability amongst middle management-- the dead wood gets pushed into another portfolio rather than a pink slip.

1.0
26 Oct 2021
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Pros

none, don't work for VIHA

Cons

10 reasons this corporation is toxic: 1. You're not compensated fairly: in a team lead, role management will expect you to do more with your working hours and even expect you to be on-call without pay. 2. Always Short staffed: why?? high turnover and very poor staff retention planning/execution. 3. Your call for help and resources are ignored: staffing crisis, no workflows, no program planning in place, poorly trained staff, rotating management, maintenance requests, WorkSafe issues. 4. They won't care if you quit or leave: they will just keep hiring and replacing staff. they don't even care if programs suffer because of this. 5.Paycheques are often inaccurate: if you need a paycheque you might get one here. It will most likely be inaccurate as the payroll department strives for a 75% accuracy rate. 6. Forced Overtime: yup that's the language they use. 7. Scheduling is often wrong: you have to track each shift and how its been scheduled. 8. Turnstile Management: much like any other position managers change hands monthly. 9. They will Lie to you: management, payroll, HR, scheduling, FMO, they will make promises and not deliver on them. 10. They do not care about you.

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