Great Place to Work - Anonymous employee Sutter Health Employee Review

4.0
May 4, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Phenomenal growth and leadership opportunities. The culture is face paced with a focus on employee satisfaction. Very positive people from employees all the way up to the C level. Very competitive pay and excellent benefits.

Cons

If constant change is uncomfortable for you then, this is not the place for you.

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Sutter Health Response
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Your review is much appreciated! Your recommendation to have separate teams solely support project related work is a good one; in fact, we have a dedicated Project Management Office (PMO) that does just this. However, each role within SPS is unique and possesses inherent project work that cannot always be farmed out. We believe that by allowing individuals and teams to own and be accountable for managing the [project] work allows for skill development and growth. Finding the sweet spot between balancing operational work load and project work can be a challenge and we rely on our leaders and employees to work together to effectively make this happen. Thank you for your 5+ years of work with SPS! Sincerely, Carla Alegado

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Unsustainable front-line leadership expectations, responsibilities, and tasks without providing support from supervisors or assistant managers specifically in San Francisco campuses, High burnout risk among front-line leaders which is continuing to increase, Growing list of contradicting or conflicting priorities. Patient experience scores have improved greatly in SF but patient quality/safety and employee satisfaction has become the apparent cost of that, Very unreasonable span of control for front-line leaders, i.e. way too many direct reports, Meeting metrics and KPIs at all costs is the message being received. Front-line leaders are left scrambling to reach the data points (regardless of the methods), to get there. In other words, we might be meeting the metrics and KPIs on paper, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the real purpose or reason behind those metrics is being performed. We’re just desperate to keep our jobs, The leadership culture in the last 6-9 months has shifted towards motivation through fear. Fear of losing our jobs or bonuses rather than motivation by providing actual daily support in doing our jobs and genuine concern and encouragement to succeed.

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