Geisinger reviews

Administration doesn't understand the inner workings of a hospital. Mid-level managers are expected to do whatever upper management says, no questions asked. No one ever asks the "lower employees" (aka the people who are actually physically doing things in the hospital to assist in patient care) for their opinions on changes that need to be made. Every decision is made based on money and what upper management THINKS might help. Problem is, what they think helps is typically wrong because they don't know what actually goes on in the lab. Inefficient policies are constantly made and everyone is expected to follow them blindly even if it lowers the quality of patient care. Seems like administration just twiddles their thumbs making dumb policies to prove their positions are important so they don't get layed-off. You would think hospitals care more about taking care of patients, but they do the bare minimum to save a couple bucks and wait until patients are in critical conditions to actually try harder. Policies regarding legitimate reasons one is unable to make it to work (besides being sick) is non-existent. Most Geisinger locations are located in eastern PA... there is NO snow policy. If you have a FWD car and it snows, you are still expected to come in to work or you will be penalized. If your car won't start, you get penalized even if you have proof. If you have covid, employee health mandates that you stay home for X amount of days, but the days you miss come out of your PTO. With all of this being said, each department runs things differently and has different policies. I'm speaking strictly about the Laboratory Medicine Department. 1st shift in the lab at GWV is overworked, understaffed, and running way above capacity. If you want to succeed at geisinger, be buddy buddy with your boss. It's the only way they'll actually care about you. The environment is extremely catty, feels like being back in high school.

This company 🙄 not only are the units grossly understaffed but nurses are deeply unappreciated. Been working here 3 yrs. Got a back injury (most likely from the job), went to Geisinger’s convenient care and received a note from a PA saying I can only perform light duty until after a PT eval. I was told my note from the PA can not be honored because I can’t be totally sure if I got my injury on the job or not (guess I shouldn’t have been so truthful). Lol a hospital can’t honor a providers note FROM THEIR OWN COMPANY. I get it’s a business but what about their whole slogan - which is “caring”. I can tell you through experience this company only cares about the money. They do not care about their employees. I could go on and on about the negatives of this organization. I wouldn’t recommend this company to even my worst enemy. Think before applying to this awful excuse for a hospital.