Inept leadership, good for personal time - Mather IT Employee Sutter Health Employee Review

3.0
Jul 25, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Very good about personal time for family, doctors, etc. Good salaries. IT department is lucky to have the medical community set the standard for how employees are treated.

Cons

CIO has been checked out for years and follows a pattern of putting people with no experience in big positions and letting them run wild. This has left the IT department in a constant state of flux because once one lunatic leaves another one is appointed to their place with a new agenda. Currently have a COO who is in the process of replacing Microsoft Project with Cherwell, a build-as-you-go product, but it appear\is run like a high-school business club, where promotions are handed to friends and nobody bothers to google the basics of how to run a business. Management sells one culture but follows their own with no oversight. New CTO seems to know what he's doing and publishes his future vision for his department leaving the server support and engineering side of IT the only viable location to land in 2016.

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5.0
Jun 11, 2026
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Pros

The top-notch professionalism work-culture is what made me decide to switch from a contract-worker to a full-time RN.

Cons

I wish that the N95 mask requirement was included while I was in Chicago in my remote physical and urine drug testing during pre-employment. I had to fly in SF for one day to meet the N95 fit requirement then fly back to Chicago to spend more time with family.

3.0
Jun 11, 2026
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Pros

Leadership trainings, conferences, educational opportunities, Senior leadership seems to respond to employee feedback, Great organizational transparency and clarity around goals and direction, Front-line leadership receiving recognition more often, Fair (not amazing) compensation and benefits overall, Organization seems to be healthy and growing which is encouraging for job security and retention.

Cons

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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