Good Benefits, but Poor Management - Project Controls Specialist Sutter Health Employee Review

2.0
Jan 12, 2017
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Pros

Excellent health benefits. I would even say is the best benefits I had from all my previous jobs. Good Paid Time Off. I get about 32-36 days off per year (this includes the 9 days national holidays Sutter observed) after working there for 9 years. So I get to take several 2 weeks vacation every year.

Cons

Poor upper management. Sutter put people who are not intelligent, have no management skills, bias, play favoritism, and lack experience in managerial role. There are lots of favoritism going around and people who are friends with upper leadership gets promoted very quickly even though they are not qualify for the position and has no former experience. Because of this there's a high turn around of long term employees who have a lot of experience and ability. Those who are able, left. Those who remains are the one who can't go anywhere else and they stay to be protected by their friends. It's a really bad morale situation and leadership just close a blind eye and try to make everyone get along. Lack of upward mobility - slow to promote and not many positions for advancement. No career coaching for employees.

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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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