Pros
Paid time off is excellent. A full-time employee (2080 hrs/yr) will get about five weeks of PTO their first year. There is no differentiation between sick and vacation days at PeaceHealth, just one bank of PTO to use as you desire. The pay in most positions is competitive. The employee pharmacy is a nice benefit, you're able to buy OTC meds for crazy cheap compared to retail. Other advantages include there are some truly wonderful people who work there who have the best of intentions.
Cons
Feckless management, pervasive anti-union attitude, senseless wasting of money, 2% raises for the rank and file the last several years, elimination of a profit-sharing bonus program, embarrassingly inadequate and overpriced medical insurance (they're a healthcare organization and provide such awful health insurance?), and wage theft. My department struggles with terrible management, but that is not indicative of the entire organization so I won't focus on my manager's myriad shortcomings. PeaceHealth cares so little about their employees the HR department doesn't even have office hours. They moved most of them off site and require you to make an appointment. But don't bother. HR is not a resource for humans, they are only a tool of middle and upper management. I joined PeaceHealth several years ago, as the organization was undergoing a serious transition. The corporate culture has transformed wildly in the past several years. "Corporate" is an appropriate word. The organization is now only interested in branding and appearance and money. This organization wants so badly to be big and to be taken seriously by other larger healthcare organizations (Legacy, Providence) that it puts every other priority out of its mind, at the expense of patients and caregivers alike. And let us not forget the bloated executive salaries. Alan Yordy, the grand poobah, makes an obscene salary and does not have to make by with a 2% annual raise. No, Mr. Yordy gets a 25% raise, his salary moving from about $1,035,000 to $1,272,000. Don't believe it for a second when they call PeaceHealth non-profit. People are profiting here, I assure you, and it's the executives. Another senior executive's salary moved from $486,000 to $737,000 a year. PeaceHealth argues they have to pay executives this much to "retain their talent." For that price, and with the poor performance of our organization, I say we let them leave. Caregivers used to be given a bonus for $800-1000 annually if the organization met certain performance measures. I imagine we have seen the last of that. The executives saw fit to eliminate that benefit and instead line their own pockets.