Not what they used to be - Registered Respiratory Therapist Ascension Employee Review

2.0
Jan 27, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good communication between different job roles and inter-department relations. It is difficult to come up with the word minimum here.

Cons

Corporate has turned healthcare into an industrialized concept that removes joy and satisfaction from preforming the job. They forgot how to provide a satisfactory environment to work in.

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Cons

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Pros

The patient population can be very rewarding to work with, and there can be lots of different job opportunities but very limited advancement with mainly lateral department shifts if a person is looking for change.

Cons

Raises are almost non-existent. The "raise" is a yearly COLA of between 2%-3%. There is no ability to talk to anyone regarding a raise, even the admin staff are fully stonewalled in the overlly corporate monolithic HR style of maintaining "fair" wages. I have worked here for several years and I actually earn less now because my "raises" do not keep up with inflation and the actual cost of living. They maintain their functionality on squeezing as much as they can out of one employer by slowly shifting more job responsibilities called "opportunities" onto you without extra pay or change in title that would get a pay increase. They look to higher level licensed staff to provide more coverage for roles that they won't hire for or cut in departments. They do "organizational restructuring" every 6 months because more staff quit, they don't replace the staff, and tell others to absorb the former FT employees job responsibilities without pay increase and being told not to go into OT.

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