Adventist Health reviews

3.6

56% would recommend to a friend

(2,010 total reviews)
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Kerry L. Heinrich

52% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Adventist Health has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,010 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Adventist Health employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Sep 13, 2019

OK if you're desperate.

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Pros

Some genuinely nice people. People out by 3pm on Fridays because of SDA practice. Opportunity to learn if you're willing because of lack of resources/people. If you're SDA, jackpot! You'll be fast-tracked to management regardless of performance.

Cons

Some real shady creeps, rampant nepotism for SDAs. No investment into employees. Questionable business practices for "transformations" in finance, HR, etc. Bills weren't getting paid to vendors/landlords and employees pay was also messed up for months. Because pay is so low talent is bottom of the barrel types except for maybe a very bright 5-10%, don't think AH will survive in the next 10 years.

4.0
Aug 5, 2019

Adventist Health Hanford

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Pros

Great benefits (full time, can get medical insurance around $44/month for self), great PTO amount, and it increases the longer you are there. Great pay, and pay increases yearly in July, plus market value pay increases. Best to start in May or June, so you can get the yearly wage increase in the next July. I started in Sep, and had to wait 1 year and 10 months

Cons

See above if you are hired shortly after July, the yearly wage increases are only done in July. Schedule may or may not be flexible. Floor RNs have a set schedule for a year. As Care Manager case loads can be difficult and heavy. This area has a lot of social problem patients (homeless, drug users, patients dumped by families) and not as many resources.

3.0
Jul 10, 2019
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Pros

Truly nice coworkers, kind of a small town thing. Direct supervisors (charge nurses) are pretty awesome as well. OK pay for the area. Nurses really try and do their best to render excellent patient care. They have a terrific new grad program and are linked in with the local junior college RN program, so all our green nurses are pretty good. There is a healthy culture of learning and being able to ask "dumb questions." Also nurses here don't eat their young, like at some places. I would recommend this as a generally good place to work.

Cons

You can't advance too high into management if you are not Seventh Day Adventist. Management does not really like "unit hoppers." If you have good ideas, but have been pegged as a "worker bee" good luck getting the leeway to implement your ideas or have them heard. The corporate office creates an "us and them" dynamic, that leads to top-down decisions being pushed through without any thought for the workers. There have been recent cuts in benefits disguised as "new choices." As with many med/surg RN jobs it seems thet each day its more charting, more charting, more charting, without regard to nurse workflow. Inbred long-term management. AHSR is the only game in town, so if you don't like it too bad. Staffing levels are sometimes whacked, leading to falls. There seems to be a blame the nurse, not the system attitude from management when there is a problem, which is opposite from what we learned in nursing school.

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