Pros
Capital Health has nicely appointed lactation rooms and lactation consultants available during the day. This helped me continue to breastfeed my son when I went back to work. Then again, this can be said if most hospitals in the area nowadays.
Cons
1. Selfish, uncaring CEO and board of directors. Fuld campus (Capital's main campus) was financially solid. Then they decided to take out a 700+ million dollar loan to build Hopewell campus. They laid off almost 300 employees because they bit off more than they could chew and their employees suffered for it. For the ones that were left, salaries were frozen for years and contributions to everyone's 403b account by the hospital were suspended. The CEO and board of directors continued to get bonuses from tens of thousands up to 1.5 million dollars. 2. The medical directors do not care about midlevel practitioners. Midlevels haven't seen a salary raise since 2012. The medical directors decided that allotting $250,000 for 70+ midlevel was appropriate. Then they forced their midlevel to sign restrictive, unfair contracts that froze their newest salary for the next 2-3 years. (2 years if you saw no salary increase, 3 years if your salary increased). The midlevels attempted to negotiate which met staunch refusal by the directors. Take it or leave it, we were told. Not an appropriate way to treat your midlevels, some of which have been at the hospital for many years. 3. My hours were completely changed after a new medical director took over. This director refuses to have any flexibility. I have family commitments and the new hours are not reasonable. This director doesn't care. The hospital prides itself on being baby friendly. Too bad they're not working mother friendly. 4. The doctors as a whole treat midlevels pretty poorly. It's generally accepted behavior to hang up on us when we call (some refuse to speak to us when we call in consults), publicly humiliate us on the floors, and generally treat us like garbage. My medical director once said that myself and my colleagues were 'overpaid transcriptionists.'
