Penn State Health reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(710 total reviews)
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Dr. Michael Kupferman

73% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Penn State Health has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 710 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Penn State 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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710 reviews
1.0
Feb 25, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Great 401K and benefits. Education assistance. PTO payout. Some opportunities to learn and advance in your career. Looks good on a resume, that’s about it.

Cons

Bullying from RNs that had been there longer & were jaded. Favoritism from management & leadership with certain RNs - would give unfair assignments & the “sick” patients to the favorites. Continual problem with staffing and not enough help, aids are lazy and RNs do literally everything. On the IMC side, you’d have 3 total care patients and most other RNs are unwilling to help reposition, majority of the time I felt like I was neglecting my patients if one was more complicated than another. Neurosurgery residents are disrespectful to say the ABSOLUTE LEAST - ignore text pages & calls when their patients are on the IMC side of the unit. When there was a charge nurse on the IMC side, they would sit the entire day & text, rather than help. Management was told countless times, but nothing ever changed. The turnover rate is extremely high as the unit is hard to work on - RNs are not very welcoming or willing to help you learn. Management and Educator are straight up rude when critiquing individuals when they’re on orientation, to the point that they make you cry.

4.0
May 18, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pros and cons are very dependant on who your supervisor is. Luckily I had a wonderful supervisor who genuinely cared about her staff and was very flexible and understanding with hours and time off. PTO is pretty good and the tuition assistance they provide is wonderful.

Cons

Yearly raises are tiny and do not often make up for each year's rising insurance premiums which after getting a tiny raise and then being socked with a yearly insurance premium increase, you can easily be left with a smaller paycheck than the year prior. this has happened to me for the last 2 years. Also. it used to feel like a family and management maintained a very nice balance between making sure the revenue was coming in as well as making sure staff felt appreciated. New HR policies and various new directors have changed the atmosphere and many employees are starting to feel like just a number.

2.0
Jan 24, 2016

Left in the dust

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits including vision and dental

Cons

Constant changes in support staff led to scheduling mistakes. Was scheduled many times for 10 hour work shifts and would only be paid 8 as I was salaried. The medical specialty in which I worked had a history of high turn-over rate. Poor orientation and false description of what I would be doing at work. By the end of my employment I encountered harassment in the office setting. LARGE disconnect between manager and director HR was not helpful My employment can be summed up in a quote taken from another reviewer on indeed.com: "During the time I was employed there I was aware of numerous occasions where a single employee, physician, nurse, administrative staff were cast to the side and then plagued by accusations in order for them to either quit or be "dismissed" without cause."

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