Pros
The people I worked with, for the most part, were absolutely amazing. I made lifelong friends.
Cons
St. Alexius was bought by Amita Health and their main goal is saving money by cutting staff directly involved in patient care while maintaining a full array of people who work in the sidelines doing various tasks which do not pertain to patient care. They decided to operate with skeleton crews (of RNs, PCTs) causing massive burnout and frustration amongst the staff. Many seasoned nurses have left SAMC to pursue positions at local area hospitals. Now, the hospital seems to be staffed by a lot of new graduate nurses. While we all were there at some point, at least we had some seasoned nurses to watch over us and fall back on. That doesn't seem to exist now. It's a very sad and scary situation. The mere mention of a lack of patient safety consideration, is met with hushes and "Don't ever say that again!"