High School Politics and Unqualified Management - Project Manager Sutter Health Employee Review

2.0
20 Feb 2019
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Pros

Good pay and benefits.

Cons

Management was built on friends hiring friends. Managers rarely know the jobs of the people they oversee and they spend most of their time chasing whatever the fire of the moment is. Managers enjoy the freedoms of unlimited vacation time and no accountability while they phone in their jobs and require employees to perform redundant documentation tasks that inevitably end in after hours work. Sutter is so afraid of lawsuits that they allow managers to bully employees and conduct themselves with no standards or guidelines. The management team of the PMO is so unexperienced that they had to bring in a consulting agency to teach them how to run a PMO. It's a clown party. There are no paths for careers in place in the PMO although it is rumored HR is working on something.

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5.0
11 Jun 2026
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Pros

The top-notch professionalism work-culture is what made me decide to switch from a contract-worker to a full-time RN.

Cons

I wish that the N95 mask requirement was included while I was in Chicago in my remote physical and urine drug testing during pre-employment. I had to fly in SF for one day to meet the N95 fit requirement then fly back to Chicago to spend more time with family.

3.0
11 Jun 2026
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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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