Great place to work - Occupational Therapist, Hand Therapist, Lympedema Therapist Sutter Health Employee Review

5.0
20 Aug 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Wonderful place to work, great benefits, health care needs are fully covered, educational opportunities are bimonthly with 60 min in-services in the outpatient department. They are highly specialized occupational therapist who can devote a full 45 min to each patient to meet their needs. You see 7 patients a day, which is in heard of. The hand surgeons are well know and have good communication with the hand therapists.

Cons

Documentation is very lengthy, and since they are inside a hospital, they follow JACHO standards. It helps that you only see 7 patients in an 8hr day.

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5.0
26 Jun 2026
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Pros

Helping others with safe care, compassion, and advocacy for their medical and emotional needs allows me to take pride in what I do

Cons

Physically and emotionally exhausting at times,

3.0
11 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Leadership trainings, conferences, educational opportunities, Senior leadership seems to respond to employee feedback, Great organizational transparency and clarity around goals and direction, Front-line leadership receiving recognition more often, Fair (not amazing) compensation and benefits overall, Organization seems to be healthy and growing which is encouraging for job security and retention.

Cons

Unsustainable front-line leadership expectations, responsibilities, and tasks without providing support from supervisors or assistant managers specifically in San Francisco campuses, High burnout risk among front-line leaders which is continuing to increase, Growing list of contradicting or conflicting priorities. Patient experience scores have improved greatly in SF but patient quality/safety and employee satisfaction has become the apparent cost of that, Very unreasonable span of control for front-line leaders, i.e. way too many direct reports, Meeting metrics and KPIs at all costs is the message being received. Front-line leaders are left scrambling to reach the data points (regardless of the methods), to get there. In other words, we might be meeting the metrics and KPIs on paper, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the real purpose or reason behind those metrics is being performed. We’re just desperate to keep our jobs, The leadership culture in the last 6-9 months has shifted towards motivation through fear. Fear of losing our jobs or bonuses rather than motivation by providing actual daily support in doing our jobs and genuine concern and encouragement to succeed.

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