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      MedStar Health

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      MedStar Health reviews

      3.9

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (1,772 total reviews)
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      Kenneth A. Samet

      85% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Senior management

      MedStar Health has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,772 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MedStar Health employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.5 stars).

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      2K reviews
      3.0
      Oct 25, 2008

      Great place to work, as long as you don't want to advance your career!

      Emergency room registered nurse
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      It is a community based hospital with comparitively little crime or uninsured clients. The hospital staff is small enough that all departments are friendly with each other and know each other on a first name basis. It is not a teaching hospital so there are no residents to deal with and less egos to tame. The education department really guides the new hires and ensures proper training of new-hires. The ER nurses and physicians work well together; it is a very cohesive team.

      Cons

      The upper management of the nursing staff are all best friends and there seems to be a lot of nepitism. Hours get cut on the drop of a dime to save a dime! There are not many financial resources since we are a small hospital.

      4.0
      Aug 9, 2008

      Good work, competitive pay but poor communication from upper management.

      Senior interface engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      MedStar has a very good benefit package and competitive salaries. As it is a mix of 8 hospitals and 20+ related businesses, it has combination of lots of systems / processes and gives a varied experience if your job entails integrating these systems. If you are working in one specialized system, it will also give you a chance to move into similar system which helps to gain experience and to build new skills. Most of the IT staff is knowledgeable and smart. I have met many people who have previously worked for reputed companies like Booz Allen, Cisco, CACI, Govt. contractors, Microsoft, MCI and they bring lots of experience with them.

      Cons

      There are no performance related bounces below the level of AVP. Annual raises are generally capped at 3-4% which is very much in line with Fed. Govt. COLA, so after a long tenure you start to lose out in terms or market rate if you are not promoted during that time. Depending on group, you might be subjected to stringent timings ( in by 8am !) and if you are in application support for hospital IT, you have to agree to an on-call schedule which means carrying a pager 24/7 for a week with no relaxation in day time duties. The company is going through a re-org for about 1.5 year which has brought about many changes in groups / duties and their work and management has not done very good job communicating these changes till now. Some of the work is being outsourced and that has brought about some apprehensions too, once again, communication does not seem fair / trustworthy regarding this process too.

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