There's a reason I left, and a reason I came back
Pros
For the Company: - Large medical facility, providing excellent patient care in a rural setting - Excellent time off plan, if you're full-time - Excellent benefits from day one, if you're full-time - Excellent health insurancem if you're full-time - Room to grow professionally - Collaborative atmosphere - Interested in providing excellent patient care - Gives back to the community - Selectively taking on other clinics and hospitals in the area, to prevent their dissolution, and to maintain quality care for the region - Physicians work for the hospital, not at/from it. - Geisinger was an early adopter of EMR (EPIC), and put a lot of effort into building and maintaining its IT For my department: - No micro-managing - Friendly coworkers and team-mates - Ability to work independently - Management has my back in most cases - Management is very understanding of time off needs and work/life balance - Management is approachable - Team building stuff, such as fitness challenges, picnics, etc.
Cons
For the company: - Hard to get hired. I started through the in house temp, and when a position was specifically created for me to go full-time, HR's applicant tracking system said I was unqualified. - If you're not full-time, you're not going to get much of anything - Doctor's often have god complexes and ridiculous egos - Nursing staff feels overworked and under-appreciated - A general sense of being too large - A disjoint between upper management and everyone else, despite management's efforts For IT: - IT is goo large, and too departmentally fractured to work effectively. - Collaboration is in name only For my department: - IT as a whole is so large that it often feels like teams are working against each other - A sense of distrust / blaming / etc between teams - Undercurrent of favoritism
