Community Healthcare Network Reviews

Job offered is not the job you get. Lots of people leaving at every level. Top management has lots of change and fighting. Budget issues and cuts. They can’t keep nurses or doctors in clinics or at Central (management). No direction because of constant changes at Central. Managers steal ideas from people or don’t do the work and take credit and promotions. Patients angry with long wait times and canceled appointments. Focus is on research not patients. CHN is really big so you are not a human being in a big system. One day you have to be in the Bronx, next day in Brooklyn and you get no notice. Quality going down and people and patients unhappy. Not safe. Don’t have what you need to do your job. Then you get blamed. Favoritism. Some people punished. others don’t follow the rules. Disrespect. Bullying. Sexist. People are scared at work. Used to be a great place to work is what old timers say. Not any more. It is “whitening” of a community health center. The just have old white men and Wall Street types running the place who don’t care about communities. Managers yell. No one likes the CEO. He makes a lot of promises. Showboat. No real action.

Refuses to get to the root of the problems in leadership. Overall, the system lacked accountability and professionalism. The folks who were the most qualified/skilled/compassionate came and went in short time. Lots of folks in the highest parts of leadership know there are major issues but shrug them off. Most of the time, front line staff take the brunt of the criticism and blame despite being improperly trained/equipped/supported. Things went waivered constantly between micromanagement to no management. There was no consistent vision from leadership being executed. Communication issues top down. Supervision time with Mgmt was rare, and without agenda or focus when it happened - mostly just used for Mgmt to gossip/compalin about your colleagues - that they supervise - and try to get you to share personal information. Fielded many, many inappropriate comments from Mgmt that definitely fall outside the boundaries of appropriate workplace conduct. Blurred lines. The supportive leaders at the top were often without influence or sufficient authority/skill to change the problems. The key players at the top (CHRO, CEO, CFO, Legal, CMO for a while) are NOT diverse and tended to use verbally aggressive or condescending styles to make up for poor leadership ability. Rules changed often so even when you were doing what you were told one day, the next day you got yelled at for it. Despite strong performance and top marks in Annual Reviews every year, was let go during a pandemic and told it was for budget reasons, despite being 100% grant - personal contacts later confirming that the funding was an excuse. Never given any feedback about ANY problems leading up to termination. Was being told all along everything was good. Feedback overall was minimal and typically personal in nature - regarding whether people "like working with you" or not. Often framed to trigger rather than as constructive, tangible things to work on.