Really Greedy for a Non-Profit - Registered Nurse Ascension Employee Review

1.0
Mar 8, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Absolutely loved taking care of my patients. I love being a nurse, and most of the doctors are pretty friendly and easy to work with.

Cons

1. They are constantly cutting corners, reducing floor staff, and reducing resources for patients--this is all while the CEO of the company makes more than any other non-profit hospital CEO company in the whole country. 2. They don't even give a yearly raise that matches cost of inflation-- so technically get paid less and less every year. 3. Focus is really on the money versus the patients--which I have a huge problem with due to the fact that the company boasts about how charitable they are, when very little money is actually put towards charity. 4. Extremely poor management. They are so large, there is a huge disconnect from upper management. They cut jobs that directly deal with patient care while no cuts from middle or upper management are made. Then they wonder why they have such poor reviews from patients. 5. Some of the absolute WORST health insurance. You'd be better off with privately insuring yourself than going with what the company offers--its actually cheaper. 6. They freak out about any union talk--and they actually ended up firing a bunch of nurses who were trying to unionize a few years back. DO NOT WORK FOR THIS COMPANY IF YOU VALUE PATIENT CARE.

Explore other reviews about Ascension

5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Health Benefits PTO Work Life Balance

Cons

Limited mobility Ok pay Sub par management

2.0
Jun 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All