A Lot of Opportunities for Growth (you will gain tons of experience) - Operations Manager Sutter Health Employee Review

3.0
Jul 9, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Mandatory annual training and elective training offered to all employees. PSR's & MA's have the opportunity to move up as a coordinator, supervisor, manager, director, analyst, etc. Strong, reliable and dependable relationships are formed between managers (north & south). The culture at SPMF is to empower the staff to speak up about safety or any improvement opportunities. Invitations to join committees. Reimbursement for mileage, parking, food. Employees earn (bi-weekly) 8 hr of PTO and after 1 yr increased to 9.54 hr/80hrs wrk'd. The growth of the company provided a lot of new experiences and knowledge.

Cons

Managers are underpaid. MA's & CC Coordinator pay rate surpassed my own, leadership and HR said I was paid accordingly. I had no one on my side except the doctors I worked for. Not every care center has a supervisor and manager. Managers are expected to do it ALL It's hard to feel valued Leadership does not care if manager is overwhelmed DES board must be up to their standard otherwise the VP will chew you out.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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