Banner Health reviews

1. Most of C-suite has been in the organization for 10-15 yrs...demonstrates tunnel vision and is almost entirely dyssynchronous with how its physicians feel in the frontline of patient care. 2. Hypocritical actions, stating priority is to quality of care, while bonuses continue to be based on patient volume. 3. Quality of life is virtually non-existent, though upper management seems to enjoy it. 4. Expansion doesn't make fiscal sense at all. How can this ACO make such claims of billions in revenue and exceeds in revenue by millions despite a majority of ACO's exiting the market, while at the same time buying up a bankrupt healthcare system in Casa Grande? 5. Within weeks of buying off Casa Grande, Banner's siren call lures the Board of Regents to allow to take over the University of Arizona Health network, promising over $500 million in capital improvements, $20 million per annum in research, and other treats, while dumping its failed NextGen EHR - how is this fiscally possible when it concurrently is building scores of new community health clinics? 6. The sincerity to be interested in academic medicine is questionable- While its doctors lament the paucity of time and state of academic teaching of future doctors in its flagship hospital in Phoenix, it is some how "ready"to take over an academic health network , citing synergies that will benefit the merger? This is merely a calculated act to "enhance its branding" while forcing its doctors to forgo its mission to teach and focus on income generation by overworking its hospitalists and over-consulting its specialists, to generate more revenue. 7. It must be said, Bannerhealth must undergo much closer scrutiny by both federal and state regulators, patient advocacy organizations, academic accreditation organizations and professional physician groups. Why? Behind its veneer of accolades and dashboards (that are reaching its goals), it merely takes interviewing its frontline current and past workers, physicians and ancillary staff, to reveal patterns of a dysfunctional system- a behemoth organization that barely keeps alive, and is "too big to fail" since it will become Arizona's largest employer and lifeline for training medical students and doctors from its only allopathic medical school.

Five years ago, this was a much more enjoyable place to work. Now, it's all about how do we cut costs and wring the most out of each worker. Benefits cost more and cover less, there are less people for each shift, more call, to cover the more frequent bare spots created by having less people to do the cases. Call isn't just for the "off hours" anymore, either. Now, there are TWO people on call for most of the 24 hour cycle. Three dollars an hour for call pay is almost an insult, I'd rather have control over my own destiny. The refrain bantied about the department is "according to departmental needs", as you may imagine, this trumps the 'balance of work and home life'. The whole feel of the place is "Shut up and work, be glad you have a job!". Our turnover rate is astounding, I'm amazed that no one from the upper echelon is had their curiosity piqued. The managers are good people who are Way over their heads, and as a group, they lack sophistication in the people handling arena. The main thrust had been to force fewer people to do more work. I dread going to work and being micromanaged. Every week there are more rules and more tasks that make my job harder, and lessen the amount of actual 'nursing' that I get to do. I am heartsick about it.