Centralized leadership model isn't connected with local teams - Anonymous employee Ascension Employee Review

2.0
25 May 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Competitive pay for healthcare IT. AHIS gets this right. Promotes from within, however that's based primarily on personal relationships rather than quality of work and potential. Mostly one has the tools they require to do their best possible work. Project management processes are solidly put together.

Cons

There are too many layers of management, particularly from the director level and up. Mid-level and senior leaders who are located away from their core teams and the hospitals' IT staffs are utterly disconnected from what really happens where the boots are on the ground. Inane decisions are made on a regular basis which creates days and weeks of unnecessary work. Non-sensical IT projects are routinely created simply to justify leadership and system office jobs; meanwhile the negative impact of the same falls upon the front line employees at the local health systems. System-wide solutions often do not meet local hospital customer needs, and again the explanation for that falls upon the front line employees. Poor results from senior level staff/teams are often praised by senior level leaders due to all the hard work put in (ignoring the poor results).

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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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