Impersonal and top heavy - Physician Office Coordinator Ascension Employee Review

1.0
Mar 22, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I adore my coworkers, physicians, and manager- my manager and a couple physicians are the reason I have endured so many years in healthcare. Within this very small circle, I feel appreciated and somewhat inspired.

Cons

My physician group joined Ascension a few years ago, and since I am not entry level, I have not been eligible for a wage survey/increase for three years, and since it is such a large company, any merit-based increase is nearly impossible to achieve since there are so many levels of approval. I currently make less money relative to the economy than what I was making when I started. I also feel that even though this is a nonprofit, Catholic health organization, it values the bottom line over employee satisfaction and wellbeing- in compensation, benefits, and advancement opportunities. My staff is seriously overworked, with hiring freezes, etc, and in the executive space there continue to be more "thinkers" and "planners" brought in to give us idealistic goals, although what we are lacking is manpower and realism.

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Ascension Response
4y
Hello. We appreciate you taking the time to leave a review, and would like the opportunity to follow-up with you directly regarding your concerns and get more details. Should you wish to reach out, please email us at Careers@ascension.org. Again, thank you and we hope to hear from you soon.

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Cons

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Ascension Response
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2.0
Jun 18, 2026
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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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