Kaiser Permanente reviews

On-Call means you must accept ALL hours offered to you even if you are On-Call/Part-time. On-Call/Part-time just means they have to offer you at least 20 hours per week. As an On-call employee you are not asked to work you are told to work. Lets say you are offered an on-call position in a Kaiser facility that operates monday through friday 8am-5pm and closed on weekends, you figure, that's not a bad schedule to be on-call but 100 miles away you have a Kaiser facility considered part of your department and it operates 7 days a week 12 hours a day, as an on-call employee you are now expected to work at that facility 100 miles away from home and accept all hours offered to you, refusing them will result in termination. Not much room for growth and like most Healthcare facilities Kaiser's priority is there budget over patient care and that is why you are seeing more on-call positions because they don't want to guarantee hours even though they have those on-call employees working overtime.

Very bureaucratic and intensely political environment. All promotions are based largely on seniority. Managerial hires must often be approved by union leadership. The union leadership often paralyzes the organization. SCPMG has legions of administrators, both physician and non-physician, who sit around, criticize, pontificate and add no value to the organization. Physicians have little to no autonomy in shaping their own work processes and no control over the unionized support staff. The unionized support staff are often thuggish and are not held accountable for their actions I was stuck in a department that was perceived to be of little import to the hospital and medical group. Thus, I did not get the support that I needed. The physician chief of service did not care for either myself or my colleague, perceiving us as a means for him to escape into administrative functions. The non-physician department administrator was weak, ineffectual and unsupportive. The salary structure is based SOLELY on seniority. There are no rewards given for productivity or revenue brought in. Thus, SCPMG retains older, less productive physicians who find ways to spend their time performing administrative functions. Inappropriate usage of patient satisfaction surveys often discouraged integrity in the arenas of disability management and opioid prescriptions. While I would not cater to malingerers or drug seekers, I saw colleagues who did both, to preserve their patient satisfaction ratings.