Pros
Good for a 401K package. Decent hourly rate. Not much else. Good business expense account
Cons
No paid time off, no vacation time, no bereavement time. Care about the bottom line only and not providing good patient care. At my hospital, when they came on board, they cut the number of physician coverage hours By 20% and cut PA hours by 20% as well. I was a Nocturnist there and the company created a situation that was dangerous to patients. previously, there was a PA working from 7 PM to 7 AM. The PA shift was cut by two hours and moved to 4 PM to 2 AM. At 40,000 patients yearly, The er has single coverage from 2 AM to 6 AM. I've had situations where I've been placing central line and patients with status epilepticus have come in creating danger for the patients and medical legal liability for myself and the company. They used to give $35,000 per year as a 401(k) contribution which was excellent as well as $8000 annually in a business expense account. In the last year and a half, they Cut their 401(k) to 26,000 per year, they cut the business expense account to $4000 per year, and they have a bonus structure where only The most productive doctor in the group is given anything. I had left the company and then they took over my current hospital, where they made the hour cuts and fired two of our Best doctors One of them had been at the hospital for 20+ years and the other for eight years. What they do is start a paper trail on the doctors they wish to fire a few months before and then they say you have three months to improve (with no intention of keeping them). The one Dr., was family practice trained and their excuse was that he was not good at procedures. Ironically,during the three months of probation, EMP/USACS offered a course The company you work for the course in common ER procedures. instead of sending a Doctor Who worked at the hospital for the whole of his professional career to the conference, to practice and learn the procedures they fired him. The other doctor they fired spoke up about Hour cuts that was draining the morale of all the physicians in the group and was an advocate for the position and PA employees. US ACS then gave him his three month later, and cited one patient complaint as their reason for termination. In all, instead of supporting struggling employees by referring them to EHS, they fire them. At my previous hospital, 4 of the 15 doctors I started working with were fired by the company. The reasons ranging from being too slow to defending oneself against an abusive patient. The type of workers they want are those that are fresh out of residency who are willing to kill themselves for The company and stay two hours after their shift without pay. The emphasis is on patients per hour and making money at the expense of employees. When I first started with the group 5 years ago, it was completely physician owned and the leaders like to brag about this fact. Then two years ago EMP took on private equity funding and that's when the benefit and hour cuts really ramped up. If you disagree with something that management does, they could care less, it is easier to just fire you as they can bring in firefighters if they are some of the worst. They will fire people who have been with the hospital for 20+ years and make excuses as to why they did so. I know with two lawsuits and my hospital alone against this company for wrongful termination and violation of the hospital contract as there was termination without cause.