Children's Health reviews

4.1

78% would recommend to a friend

(890 total reviews)
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Christopher J. Durovich

76% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Children's Health has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 890 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Children's 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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890 reviews
1.0
Oct 2, 2014
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Pros

The amazing nurses and staff in the hospital, the children, the mission and the miracles that take place every day.

Cons

Outside of the hospital hallways lies something the hospital industry should truly be terrified of. Administration is so toxic and so corrupt that it is impossible to believe the hospital is still running. The CEO Chris Durovich is truly despised among all employees. It is well-known he does not like children, young people and is extremely threatened by women. Among his senior leadership team there is constant gossip, fear mongering and lies that have infiltrated the hospital. I worked in the marketing department at Children's. The Chief Marketing Officer has proven her worth by firing whoever the CEO doesn't like, by instilling fear throughout the department and by doing whatever she needs to do to get ahead with executive leadership. Her staff is full of incredible workers who do everything for her despite the horrendously toxic work environment. As for her, I did not see any actual work or valuable input in the two years since she's been there. She is rarely present among her staff and held a total of two staff meetings a year. In those two years she has fired or lost over 30 employees. Mind you - it's a department of 40. She is also clearly threatened by millennials. Here is the thing - she and other senior leaders have taken the position of being puppets and yes men for the CEO and 90% of her office is millennials, who see no need to sit in that humiliating position to succeed in their career. She heavily resents that and creates malicious office gossip to assert her "power" over these millennials rather than working with and managing her team. There is always someone in line to be fired next. The department has lost some of the most incredible talent among her team. The entire department lives in constant fear of the next malicious move. HR has been warned over three dozen times - especially of her inappropriate, highly unethical behavior - and nothing is done.

2.0
Sep 24, 2014
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Pros

The service to children that are treated and healed daily. The facilities and the expertise of the patient care staff is outstanding. OK benefits (reduced within the past three years.) Sense of mission of saving kids' lives.

Cons

Senior Management is out of touch and the employees are suffering for it. Job security and satifaction levels are very low. This is evidenced by the high rate of turnover in middle management and staff, particularly in the Information Services department. Chris Durovich, the CEO, is in an expansive and inaccessible ivory tower. He struggles to lower his nose enough to see the utter dissatisfaction that a good - I'd venture to say majority - percentage of his subjects, er, uh, I mean employees are experiencing in their roles. This dissatisfaction is a result of four years of tremendous turnover at the upper-middle and senior management levels. As a result, culture and tribal knowledge have suffered immensely. While often times, new blood is needed to shake up an organization and bring in high-performers to move toward a culture of action and creativity, the result of the last four years of leadership recruitment at CMCD has been a disaster. Most of the new leadership, with the exception of Population Health, have contributed to the exodus of top-producing talent, the fostering of a "Fear Culture," and a feeling that the gig, no matter the tenure, is temporary. No where are these characteristics more glaringly obvious than in the Information Services department. While Pamela Arora, CIO, is an obviously smart, and pragmatic leader, her lieutenant, Aaron Miri, CTO, is an utter embarrasment of a manager. Aaron is more prone to personal rants and reactionary temper tantrums than to capably analyzing and assessing the technology and personnel challenges of a medcal organization that so desperately needs a qualified CTO. Applicants in IT/IS (particularly middle managers) take caution: The CTO is a boy in a man's shoes who tends to whine and shout when his dolls fall on to the floor. He often chooses to hit and kick and yell at those toys of his for falling down rather than picking them up, straightening them out and reinforcing their place and position in the dollhouse.

4.0
Sep 23, 2014
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Pros

Full benefits for full time employees, bonus shift incentives besides overtime, tuition reimbursement, a ton of different shifts to pick from when applying, and of course THE CHILDREN!

Cons

Building personal relationships with some of the children and getting attached even though you know what the end result for some of them are. Sometimes it's really hard to say goodbye and leave at the end of your shift when they tell you that they love you. Another con is having to make your schedule so far in advance not knowing what will be going on in your personal life a couple months from now. Last con, they do not reimburse anything for receiving Diplomas or certificates (like at tech schools and such). If it's not a degree you have to pay yourself to get ahead.

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