Employee focus, growing company - Anonymous employee Sutter Health Employee Review

4.0
Dec 10, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company is always interesting and dynamic. The work is engaging and it feels important and impactful. The culture is collaborative and feels like every opinion matters. It is incredibly exciting to be part of a company in a huge growth mode.

Cons

There are still a lot of small company processes that havent been shed yet. It can be hard to stay with what is important as it changes so quickly. Not very diverse Leadership Team.

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Sutter Health Response
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Thank you for this review! We continuously work hard to create a culture of collaboration and engagement; we are glad to hear that your perspective is aligned with our efforts. We agree that some of our processes are still "small company". There are some things that change quickly here at SPS and other things that take some time. We are hopeful that you will begin to see more and more positive changes as we embark the new year and take our business to a national level.

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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.

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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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