Good ratios and union support - Anonymous employee UCSF Health Employee Review

4.0
Nov 4, 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Although a busy and full hospital, staff are some of the best you’ll ever work with, the union is strong and works to support its nurses, and they work hard to try to preserve state ratios

Cons

Hospital is always full and ER cannot function like it is supposed to. Most days the entire ER is admitted patients waiting for a bed, and the 30 patients in the waiting room have nowhere to go. Upper level management is often unrealistic about the daily functions of the hospital, and have made some tone deaf comments regarding real life patient care. Luckily this seems not to trickle down. Those of us in the trenches know what really goes on and how to handle real time issues.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

Close-nit community; if looking for direct patient engagement, you get it as a volunteer

Cons

Just when obtaining badge, the communication between the badge department and volunteer department could be better. Since times I have gone in, the badge department said they didn't get the form but volunteer department said they sent it.

1.0
Apr 6, 2026
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Pros

The people that work at UCSF are some of the most intelligent analysts I've ever worked with in 15 years of Health IT. Most are ex-Epic employees with strong backgrounds in project managament and IT,

Cons

UCSF recently decided to reclassify all remote employees as "Felxible" without their input or permission. As a result, employees must now travel to the office WITHOUT expenses paid. This means that flights, hotels, etc. are NOT reimbursed and are paid by the employee. UCSF has not answered to what problem they are trying to solve with this, and refuses to answer how this action aligns with goals such as sustainability (carbon emissions), equity (women and disabled are more impacted by eliminating remote work), working accommodating (UCSF does not have the physical space for all of the Clinical Systems department to be on site. There is no locked storage or accessible workspaces.), safety (there is no shuttle for UCSF to all locations that have been mentioned for work). UCSF limits employee growth, by eliminating actual promotions with "role based work". In other words, you have to do more work without compensation for it. They have also completely reneged on remote management, meaning that most employees are now at a dead end.

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