Community Health Systems reviews

This company is run by men who like to make money and appear to have a decent amount of business acumen -- but they have no idea how to run an IT/IS organization. Running lean is their mantra and, yes, not over-staffing means no layoffs. However, their "lean" means not enough people to do work. There is no time or space for cross-training. Many positions are silo'd to the point of people not being able to take time off when needed. Paying vendors and business partners is pushed off for as long as possible to not affect the bottom line, which has led to entire projects being handcuffed because work cannot be done. Moving into the 21st century has been a painful process, and has been done with gritted teeth. Had the government not made EHR a legal requirement, they probably would have never changed the day-to-day hospital operations, security be darned. (Let's not even talk about their week security teams and the data leak that happened this summer) The CIO is incompetent and blames employees for shortcomings within the organization. The organization will flat-out lie about their own policies on pay and promotions. You will not be promoted based upon excellence in your job. You MIGHT be promoted once meager annual bumps, which you shouldn't count on, add up to enough for your salary to fit into the next box up. (And your salary will be at least 10K below industry averages, if you're lucky.) Morale is below the floor. Management pits different parts of the organization against each other. VPs and above are forever locked in battle between themselves to prove who has the largest proverbial manhood. The significant (and powerful) majority are out for themselves, not the company, and certainly not their employees.

The CEO has been voted 'Nashville's Most Overpaid' several years and shareholders voted down executive salary by a 2:1 margin due poor performance and executive pay which were not aligned for the interest of shareholders. Employees are consistently told there is no money in the budget for a raise yet the top brass continues to rake it in hand over fist. Do not expect to be valued, if you are 'promoted' it will be in title only and you will receive a max of 7% raise even if the new position is one which pays 100% more. The company paid a $100 million dollar fine to the U.S DOJ for fraudulent over-billing practices without admitting fault even though the lawsuit is pretty clear on what went down. The dress code is ridiculous and many employees shop at good will or otherwise they could not afford it. The department infighting is scary and it seems everyone, including bloated middle management, are deathly afraid so they just blame everything on anyone else. No career advancement potential. Nepotism is rampant and the top brass often employees their kin at the org's hospitals as admin. specialists out of grad school so they can slip into a hospital CEO position making six figures. In fact, the internship program exists only for exec's to hire their kin. Also the Company avoids paying taxes on equipment to the 'affiliated' hospitals by purchasing it buy a Cayman island company (Community Insurance Group - CIG) and then leasing it to the facilities. This way they get around state and federal taxes. Patient care is not a priority at this company and our health benefits are some of the worse I've seen despite being a health care firm.