1. Too Much Work - I truly enjoy the insane amount of work, but I know I was also getting paid far too little for the work I was completing. I would volunteer for tasks simply because no one else would or could do the work, and it needed to be done.
2. Pay - I was truly underpaid for all the work and knowledge I brought to Avera Health. If you're here for the money, leave now.
3. Behind the Times - I currently work for a different religious healthcare organization and Avera is running their healthcare system like it is 1980's!
4. Meditech - OOFA! Talk about one of the worst EMR systems I've ever worked with. After using Cerner, truly think Satan uses Meditech.
5. Management - I still worked here through 2023, so any new management changes, I can not speak on. I worked during COVID, and can speak on how chaotic it was. I think Avera Health, despite being the size of a metropolitan hospital system, is just run too thin (I think this is even more true after working at a metro hospital system). I think with Avera Health being spread too thin (not population wise, just distance wise), it really limits collaborative teamwork amongst management (see advice number 2 for an example I think could be improved). Avera owns too much, over too much land, I think management (particularly management in Sioux Falls), has a bit too much say about how things, let's say a small hospital 4 hours away, is run, with little collaboration. At my new organization, the hospital system is run out of two counties and services a population of over a million amongst its few hospitals and services.
