Children's Health reviews

The hospital lacks a focused strategy on process improvement causing many processes to be inefficient which in turn brings about staff and patient frustration.

- Lack of flexibility in work schedule and location (for non-clinical areas) - Poor pay for non-nurses (pay is much less that at other places) - Very political environment. It's more about who you know than what you know or how well you do your job. If you "manage up" well (read: kiss up, or be liked by the right people), you can get promoted, regardless of competence or leadership ability. - Hierarchical structure. You cannot speak to just anyone, you must go through "chain of command" for even the most simple communications or to get any information. ie, you talk to your manager, who talks to their director, who talks to another director, who talks to their employee - it's an archaic and very inefficient way to operate. At at place with such a great mission, you'd think people would spend time on that - not on politics and filtering information. - Communication is poor. Too many times, new systems or procedures are mandated, without getting input from the stakeholders - then time and money is wasted fixing something that should have been done right the first time. - Some technology is old. We are supposed to be a "most wired" hospital, but people still carry pagers?? - A lot of time and effort is spent chasing the latest and greatest "designation." Then, once we have the "merit badge" the focus changes and any improvements obtained are tossed by the wayside.