What is the hiring process like at Children's Hospital Colorado?

Positive work environment for the first 5 years

1. New management team brought in from outside for IT 2. Existing agreements with employees not honored 3. Perceived discrimination against existing team members 4. High turnover rate among long-term employees I worked here for 7 years. The first 5 years were positive. However, the last 2 years saw significant changes that negatively impacted the work environment. A new CIO was brought in who is now retired, restructured the IT team and brought in their own team from a previous organization. This led to what felt like silent discrimination against existing team members. Many long-term employees, including myself, left as a result. While I value the experience gained during my time, I would caution potential employees to be aware of the current organizational culture and to get any agreements in writing.

CHCO is an amazing place to work if you like kind, cohesive teamwork throughout the hospital. s an ultrasound tech I spent time in every department, and I genuinely don't remember ever having a difficult interaction with anyone, even when I was being trained or corrected on something. Absolutely fabulous clinical staff. And of course, the kiddos make the job so much fun and way more interesting.

I was forced to resign because I had a health crisis occur (diagnosed with brain cancer at 25 years old - idiopathic, completely out of my control). They allowed me to stay with the company on short-term disability, and I was told by my supervisor (who's not at fault in this situation) that they would work with me for as long as I needed until I could come back to work at full capacity. About a month after our last communication about this, I was then told that I would be terminated as soon as I applied for long-term disability. This turned into a two month long battle with HR to find me another job within the company that met my disability requirements just to prevent me from being fired. Conveniently, they couldn't find one or create one (all I needed was a part-time remote position, I didn't care what I would be doing) due to "budgetary reasons". I even got a lawyer involved on my side because I wanted to make sure I wasn't being wrongfully terminated, but CHCO had been very careful to use all the correct legalese. I was called by HR after this battle concluded and was told via a ten minute lecture that I would be terminated effective immediately and that my final check would be coming in the mail. As soon as the HR employee took a breath, I asked to resign, which they agreed to. About two weeks later, I received a notification that the last half on my sign-on bonus had been kept by the company because I hadn't met the required timeframe to receive it, and as such, would have some of my taxes from the prior year reunded. This was never brought up during any of my conversations with HR prior to my resignation, and I'm sure it was a very large part of their motivation for firing me since they apparently had so many budget problems. All of the HR employees I dealt with throughout this process were very dispassionate and unconcerned with whether or not I would be able to keep my job, and also unconcerned with my health status while all of this was going on. It was probably the most traumatic experience I've ever had with an employer.

CHCO is an amazing place to work if you like kind, cohesive teamwork throughout the hospital. s an ultrasound tech I spent time in every department, and I genuinely don't remember ever having a difficult interaction with anyone, even when I was being trained or corrected on something. Absolutely fabulous clinical staff. And of course, the kiddos make the job so much fun and way more interesting.

I was forced to resign because I had a health crisis occur (diagnosed with brain cancer at 25 years old - idiopathic, completely out of my control). They allowed me to stay with the company on short-term disability, and I was told by my supervisor (who's not at fault in this situation) that they would work with me for as long as I needed until I could come back to work at full capacity. About a month after our last communication about this, I was then told that I would be terminated as soon as I applied for long-term disability. This turned into a two month long battle with HR to find me another job within the company that met my disability requirements just to prevent me from being fired. Conveniently, they couldn't find one or create one (all I needed was a part-time remote position, I didn't care what I would be doing) due to "budgetary reasons". I even got a lawyer involved on my side because I wanted to make sure I wasn't being wrongfully terminated, but CHCO had been very careful to use all the correct legalese. I was called by HR after this battle concluded and was told via a ten minute lecture that I would be terminated effective immediately and that my final check would be coming in the mail. As soon as the HR employee took a breath, I asked to resign, which they agreed to. About two weeks later, I received a notification that the last half on my sign-on bonus had been kept by the company because I hadn't met the required timeframe to receive it, and as such, would have some of my taxes from the prior year reunded. This was never brought up during any of my conversations with HR prior to my resignation, and I'm sure it was a very large part of their motivation for firing me since they apparently had so many budget problems. All of the HR employees I dealt with throughout this process were very dispassionate and unconcerned with whether or not I would be able to keep my job, and also unconcerned with my health status while all of this was going on. It was probably the most traumatic experience I've ever had with an employer.