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Brown University Health reviews

3.3

44% would recommend to a friend

(784 total reviews)

John Fernandez

32% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Brown University Health has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 784 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Brown University Health 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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784 reviews
1.0
Jun 16, 2025

No longer delivering health with care

Anonymous employee
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Pros

My peers and colleagues and the patients I work with keep me here.

Cons

As someone who has been here for 10+ years, I have witnessed really terrible changes in which this one time caring organization has become overly fixated on money, over-hiring administrators and not enough clinical providers, extremely hierarchical, and disrespectful to the clinical providers and created an environment where no one can speak up because administrators do not value input and because HR is in the back-pocket of administrators. The administrators do not understand nor care about health care of patients. They also changed the health insurance of employees and medications that were previously covered are no longer covered, with many workers going without life-supporting, maintenance medications. Further, they make you go to their pharmacy (even if you do not live anywhere near their pharmacy) to get your medications or risk paying double- triple the price of meds. So now, the pharmacists who you may be calling into for your own patients, also knows your personal information and medications. But Brown health doesn't care because they now make money off the employees they employ and don't give them raises.

4.0
Mar 14, 2020

Positive experience

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Pros

Pros include: -Excellent benefits (all union and non-union positions) -Fair accrued vacation time -Paid training, opportunity to learn things that improve your skills or make you stand out in a list of potential candidates at other companies. -Opportunities to change careers via internal hiring preferences -Opportunities to be involved in positive and contructive changes/projects -Almost endless opportunities for overtime -Salary is ok for region/experience

Cons

-Little to no tuition reimbursement -Complicated sick time policies -Little room for upward movement without a B.S. or higher education -Inconsistent 1st shift schedule -Difficult workplace environment. Very crowded, noisy, extremely fast-paced. Very cliquey, though management is aware and trying to diffuse tensions. -Management is actually pretty helpful to talk to, but very hands off with the actual workload. They can be kind of obvious to challenges. They are willing to listen to problems though, and have made efforts to be more approachable. It would be nice to see them come out of their offices once in a while and get in the trenches with us, especially on days with high numbers of callouts.

1.0
Dec 16, 2018

Don’t do it!

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Pros

Pay isn’t horrible if you can stand dealing with management/administration

Cons

Administration doesn’t support their employees. You’d think such a large company would support long time employees that have given much of their time, sweat and compassion.

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