UnityPoint Health reviews about "upper management"

Well, it seemed rather insulting to be giving a lot of staff very minimal in terms of annual review raises, while the upper top level administrators are giving themselves rather exorbitant bonuses. The reason being staff got stiffed? Unable to meet department goals placed by administration. Some staff were lucky to get 0.5-1% increases despite going above and beyond at their job performance. Yet at the same time, I see these same staff going out of their way to donate PTO hours or other supplies to help those much less fortunate themselves. Tragic. As I stated in the beginning, UnityPoint is heading in a downward trend at a rapid pace, and it will take some extensive intervention for things to fix themselves. And it all starts at the top. The hospital CEO that I work at (Not Mr. Vermeer) is incompetent. Due to this fact, people that work beside and underneath our CEO are taking advantage of the lack of self awareness, pushing their own agendas and furthering their careers at the expense of everyone else. We have newer and younger employees that have worked themselves up to leadership positions, and that in itself is no problem. But these same "leaders" are not mature enough to handle their positions, and the strain is showing. Workplace culture has declined. Unprofessionalism has become more prevalent than ever. And, most unfortunate of all, these same people being placed into these positions are being set up to fail by the same self interested upper management employees. That in itself is going to create a very powerful negative feedback loop that will echo and continue to cause the decline of UnityPoint unless action is taken TODAY.

Constant direct management turn overs. Huge corporation getting bigger by the minute. No longer feels like a small, family environment as everything must be system-wide whether or not appropriate for your particular hospital/community. Too much time spent having us enforce "the brand." Constantly changing things--what someone at a desk in marketing comes up with--and obviously have no bedside experience and no actual idea what we do. Like most hospitals they run it like a bank and not a place to actually care for people. Frequently short staffed (but that's healthcare for you), however short staffed to the point of often doesn't feel safe and many nurses feel license is at risk. Can't live the mission statement (see above) when don't have time to actually be with and care for patients because so busy and short staffed. No time for the basics such as giving a bath or a back rub and barely enough time to actually do a nursing assessment much less any kind of ADPIE. Very focused on getting patients out the door whether or not they are ready--the PCI doctors want their stats to look good, then blame when re-admissions happen. Biggest complaint is the corporate feel that lacks empathy for the patients and the staff. Upper management gets richer and everyone else has to suck it up. While there are benefits to being corporate, making things so uniform that you lose touch with your community and employees is not a pro. Finally, for being a healthcare system our health insurance is atrocious. That's what happens when one of the cost saving techniques is to get into the insurance business and self insure.