Just wow.. merger/takeover - Physician Office Assistant Ballad Health Employee Review

2.0
Aug 9, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Helping the community. Helping the patients.

Cons

Poor wages. No communication. Anywhere. Ever. An occasional email 5 minutes before the news announces stories on it. Non existent raises [literally... $0.05 one year, nothing the next, my highest raise in almost 8 years was $.21. By comparison, Targets raise that same year was between $0.75-$2.25- for non- health related retail... right now Target pays $4 / hour more then many tenured employees in healthcare. Terrible insurance. No HR support after the merger.. I work a full 80 hours and my single child and I both still qualify for Medicaid & food stamps, and 100% write off with ballads own financial aid program. I'm considered in poverty by their own guidelines, and government guidelines, and work A SECOND JOB to make the bills. That's not ok. I've written emails many times, no response. Tried to get the news involved, their being paid to sway their opinions.. just wow.

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Cons

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