UnityPoint Health reviews about "raise"

2nd level management is out of control. They are mean and treat employees like cogs in a machine. I was told to make "less than one error per month" while my manger regularly messed things up. I was regularly reprimanded for asking questions and my manager did not require us to act like a team and work things out. Tattling was common and favorites were chosen. When issues are brought up with HR or senior management the answer is "your manager is your manager and can manage you how he/she chooses." Everyone I talk to that used to work at UnityPoint says the same and current employees I still talk to claim the organization is rigid.

Sometimes there are no raises because the hospital has no money? Seems like that should be something to plan ahead for.

Well, it seemed rather insulting to be giving a lot of staff very minimal in terms of annual review raises, while the upper top level administrators are giving themselves rather exorbitant bonuses. The reason being staff got stiffed? Unable to meet department goals placed by administration. Some staff were lucky to get 0.5-1% increases despite going above and beyond at their job performance. Yet at the same time, I see these same staff going out of their way to donate PTO hours or other supplies to help those much less fortunate themselves. Tragic. As I stated in the beginning, UnityPoint is heading in a downward trend at a rapid pace, and it will take some extensive intervention for things to fix themselves. And it all starts at the top. The hospital CEO that I work at (Not Mr. Vermeer) is incompetent. Due to this fact, people that work beside and underneath our CEO are taking advantage of the lack of self awareness, pushing their own agendas and furthering their careers at the expense of everyone else. We have newer and younger employees that have worked themselves up to leadership positions, and that in itself is no problem. But these same "leaders" are not mature enough to handle their positions, and the strain is showing. Workplace culture has declined. Unprofessionalism has become more prevalent than ever. And, most unfortunate of all, these same people being placed into these positions are being set up to fail by the same self interested upper management employees. That in itself is going to create a very powerful negative feedback loop that will echo and continue to cause the decline of UnityPoint unless action is taken TODAY.

Constant Micromanagement, New people get constant babysitting. If you have a question be prepared to get several different answers. Pick one and hope its right. Lots of Gossip and unhappy employees. Favorits come to play in this department, especially for the non productive employee. As for benefits, you pay for your own holidays off and sick leave. 1500 deductible for your medical. 6 holidays off. You buy your own office supplies and there always talking about its not in the budget. Raises are 20 cents a year. Employees that have been there forever are unfriendly. There is lack of team spirit. Focus is the theme they try to enforce, this does not excsist in this Office and that's from management to employees. Once hired be prepared to do all your learning yourself . NO HELP exist once you hit that floor.

Increase in annual raises

No work life balance due to management and there inability to see things for their staff members point of view. Some days I start at 6am some days at 2pm and everywhere in between. They spend to much time with workplace psych. Literally forcing the staff to send a “note” to fellow employees for doing their job “ I guess it is a feel good thing”. Raises are minimal. HR nor management care for the staff, no schedule provided more than 1-2 weeks out and then it is revised an average of 2-3 times even though we are well into it. This place could be great if they just started caring about employees, and stop treating them like just a body to staff a slot. Most of the staff I encounter daily are very caring and professional to the patents but Unity Point takes advantage of this and burns them out.

Reduced census hours, raises are not good, favoritism

There is no middle. You are either a manager or an hourly employee. There are literally no inbetweens. Employees that have been here 15-20 years are still treated as if they started yesterday, and new hires are treated wonderfully until they've been burned out by overtime. There is no incentive to do a good job, in fact they simply want you to get done fast. People are numbers, employees quite literally count for nothing, led by an equally disgruntled, just older and more beat down management that is ineffectual, does not offer change, and continues with an inefficient status quo simply to keep their jobs, it seems. The employees that have been of service for any amount of time are literally unhappy, more likely unable to get a job elsewhere than anything else. There is no "I" in team, nor is there any "team" in team in the Patient Access Department. It is almost like a contest to see who can "tattle" on who the fastest, the one with the largest knife in your back wins, sadly though, they win nothing. There is nothing to be gained. The raise is at best $0.25 per year, a Christmas "bonus" that was cut in half from a year ago at a "FOR" profit hospital. There is absolutely no "care" in healthcare unless you truly care about the patients you're trying to help, because it is not only not rewarded, if you don't follow ridiculous, and again ineffectual protocol, you can actually be reprimanded for helping a patient. I worked with someone that left their "designated area" for 45 seconds to grab an elderly patient a blanket. For this employees trouble, they were lectured by two members of management for 45 minutes about leaving their "designated area." They were taken away from thei "designated area for SIXTY TIMES the amount of time it took to help ONE patient by TWO managers. It is simply sad. Employees are micromanaged by bitter management, that likely went through the same things themselves. While doctors walk on air, nurses a close second, welcome to the lowest end of the health"care" totem poll. Stay away if you value people, life, sanity, dignity, and any amount of satisfaction in what you do.