Pros
Benefits and pay are good, coworkers great. Great place to start and move on after you get your year.
Cons
The ratios at Hillcrest were downright dangerous and the company has never cared to fix it. Be careful if your family is brought here, most sentinel events and adverse events are directly related to how poor the ratios are for nurses. Management blames nurses for these events while giving med surg nurses 8 patients, step down nurses 5 patients and ICU nurses 3 patients routinely. They lie in the interview and say it’s rare for these ratios. That was daily while I worked there and my friends say it has continued to be the case. Providers are bullied by management into accepting patients regardless of unit status, even if beds are available at other hospitals in the company. Retention is poor and management continues to remove things that helped with retention. PTO is routinely denied. Certain managers with poor management skills who were “persuaded” to leave other hospitals ended up here and have way more pull than they should, they are largely why the hospital is in the state it is. Certain other managers who started here have way more pull than they should and blatantly play favorites with units and actively create dangerous scenarios with staffing because of it. I would be terrified if my family ended up here knowing how blatantly unsafe it is.
