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Boston Medical Center

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Boston Medical Center reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(1,084 total reviews)
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Alastair Bell

77% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Boston Medical Center has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,084 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Boston Medical Center employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
Jul 17, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of talented young professionals looking to build a career. Easy to learn systems and basic problem solving skills will provide quick mastery.

Cons

Turnover is incredibly high across management and associates. The ones who stay are the ones causing most or all of the issues. Some management could be sincerely described as highly incompetent. The other half of management is the exact opposite and highly skilled. It's a mishmash of broken failing systems, horrible technology, massive roadblocks, and incompetent management stopped the talented people from making real changes.

2.0
Sep 30, 2015

Administrative Coordinator

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and pay is generally higher than other hospitals I have found.

Cons

Very political environment where good&motivated employees are often driven out -either by frustration over lack of appropriate response by management in regards to employees who do not do their job effectively, or by the general knowledge that going to HR about these issues garners no real change. There are people in Director roles that have been able to continue a pattern of grossly unprofessional behavior towards employees under them who do not agree to fall in line with questionable choices. Despite employees taking this information (with proof that spans years) to HR, the Director is still there, and employees are still suffering.

1.0
Aug 21, 2014

Culture of unhappiness

Recommend
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Pros

Its a diverse population with interesting medical cases.

Cons

Inadequate leadership in nursing. From the CEO, DON on down to even the staff on units. Mismanagement of time on staff RNs part and management in general. Each unit I floated to, the culture was complain first, overrate acuity. DOH, JCAHO guidelines aren't followed properly or staff has no/limited knowledge of them. As one reviewer said there is a unwillingness to change, however management needs to address staff more appropriately, as opposed to derogatory. Lack of respect all around. During my tenure multiple units have been closed or minimized but there is never a benefit to Nursing only to the management. Time off is seemingly difficult as a great majority of staff have been there for years. Layoffs, forced retirement began to a larger extent with the current CEO. Both campuses have unions that do not fight for staff when the need it. multiple co workers, RNs tried repeatedly to contact MNA, with limited avail, regardless their situations were not helped in anyway that would justify union dues. During my years there, there were multiple clashes with staff and patients. Whether it was a socio-economical disparity or racial disparity can be argued (with both being correct answers)

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