Opportunity For Successful Merger Squandered
Pros
With the 2013 merger of University of Colorado Hospital with Poudre Valley Health System, some of the benefits remained and there were still many hard-working employees left from the previous PVHS system when I left that remembered and lived the PVHS values and culture that had made it such a great employer and healthcare provider for the community.
Cons
Failing to replace employees that left in favor of eliminating entire positions and redistributing the workload. Adding additional managers and supervisors who spend more time tracking performance metrics and commuting back and forth to meetings to discuss them instead of spending more time on site or on the floors providing guidance and support to their teams---None of this seemed to actually improve the numbers, let alone employee engagement or patient care.