Pros
I enjoyed my work environment and the other employees and clinicians. The benefits were good, but the pay was far below what others were making.
Kontras
My experience at Sutter was all roses and great for the first 3 years that I worked there. I was praised for my work ethic and received many compliments from the staff and patients. However, as the economy decline hit the healthcare industry in 2011, I noticed things began to change. I went from being the "golden child" of my site supervisor to getting written up for things that I didn't do. I even had evidence to prove it, but they wouldn't even look at it. To make a long story short, Sutter was hiring an outside private practice physician to come on their team. Part of his agreement to come on board meant that the site supervisors had to find positions for all his staff because he didn't want to leave them with out a job. They had me train his receptionist, and then they made up something to fire me, and gave her my job. (I was notified that this was happening to me by another employee who was in the click that apparently knew I was getting fired before they actually did.) This was very unprofessional and shady on their part to gossip about employees like that. I also witnessed a nurse who worked in our department for many years and for Sutter for 27 years get fired because she was at a too high level of pay for their liking. They don't care about their employees, we are only numbers and dollar signs to the upper management. When I spoke to Human Resources to ask for help in this matter, they told me that they couldn't help because of the budget cuts they would be with out a job too. All in all if you are in the "click" as mentioned above, you would get promoted to supervisor with no high school diploma, or get promoted when you don't show up for work half of the days of the week. (I have seen it all!) As far as going to school to get advanced degrees, Sutter states that they will support that and even help pay for your classes, but if they won't let you leave 30 minutes early to get to a class, one time a week, how can you go? The bottom line was that they would't let me leave early because I was the only reliable employee they had in that office. Thank you to Glassdoor for allowing me to vent my story about Sutter Health.