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3.0

48% would recommend to a friend

(1,582 total reviews)
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Tim L. Hingtgen

66% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Community Health Systems has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,582 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Community Health Systems 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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1.0
Oct 5, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

It's a paycheck. Not anything to brag about but it's a paycheck.

Cons

Where do I start? Read the other reviews, they pretty much sum it up. As soon as CHS took over people started losing their jobs. No notice, here today gone tomorrow. Departments are downsized, tasks are consolidated to a department in Tennessee, and those who are left have to do more work for the same pay. Our department was cut from 8 people to 4. Numerous documents are emailed to one person in Tennessee and she sends them to the department that handles whatever the task is. Lack of communication, work requests not completed, causing more emails asking them to please complete the job on their end so you can complete yours. It's so frustrating! Their is no connectivity at all, you don't feel valued in any way. Moral is so low, nobody cares anymore, I mean why, nobody up the chain cares. So many people here are unhappy. Staff numbers are so low it's very hard to get time off, there are not enough people to cover. When a raise was requested, told too many costs at the moment. They just let 4 people go, what costs? The only reason I'm still here is because my hours are so perfect that it's been hard to find something good enough that I'd be willing to give them up. It sure isn't the pay.

1.0
Sep 26, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The employees have bonded pretty well, sort of how disaster survivors do. There are always plastic forks and spoons in the break room...yes I know this is a reach but I had to have at least 20 words. You literally can't get fired from here because no one cares enough to fire anyone.

Cons

I am an IS employee so I can only speak to that side of the business. What I can tell you is that on the IS side we are running roughly 20 years behind in technology and 40 years behind in work environment. The bulk of the problems at CHS rest at the feet of the CIO. He is an elderly man who is extremely out of touch with current technology and workplace expectations. Aside from making the IS employees being forced to wear ties every day he also doesn't allow: flex time, casual dress, office messenger, work from home, and essentially won't allow us to spend money on much needed upgrades - we don't even have the enterprise version of Sharepoint for crying out loud. This environment he has created causes massive, massive turnover issues so you never know who anyone is or where anyone went. This combined with the fact that the majority of people are contractors means there are no relationships between departments. This leads to lots of log jams as no one knows what anyone is responsible for, what anyone has, or how to locate anything. The problem is so systemic that people have simply given up and quit caring and nothing ever gets done. On the positive side this can lead to a relaxed environment but if you - like me - are the sort of person who sees problems and wants to proactively address them you will lose your mind. Nothing here ever changes because no one cares enough and the people who do leave very quickly...like me who am leaving currently.

4.0
Sep 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexibility, pay is good, staff, atmosphere of community hospital

Cons

passing of the buck, no responsibility, accountability, good ol' boys

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