Good and Bad - Practice Manager UCSF Health Employee Review

3.0
2 Apr 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Benefits / Great Benefits / Great Benefits. You need to look at the whole compensation package because (as a once finance person there) what UCSF pays you *say 65K as your take home, and what UCSF pays for you are two different things. The company pays about 40% more on top of what you take home, in benefits for you. so you are really making 65K+40% more. Good work/life balance but only IF you personally take advantage of it.

Cons

I did not take advantage of the work/life balance and worked a ton. That is why I was very frustrated and got bitter and burned out. There are also a ton of office politics and gossip which is to be expected from an institution that is THE LARGEST employer in SF along with "lifer's" (aka: people who plan on retiring from there) so 50% of people slack off all day and 50% of people do everything.

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5.0
2 Jul 2026
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Pros

Close-nit community; if looking for direct patient engagement, you get it as a volunteer

Cons

Just when obtaining badge, the communication between the badge department and volunteer department could be better. Since times I have gone in, the badge department said they didn't get the form but volunteer department said they sent it.

1.0
6 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The people that work at UCSF are some of the most intelligent analysts I've ever worked with in 15 years of Health IT. Most are ex-Epic employees with strong backgrounds in project managament and IT,

Cons

UCSF recently decided to reclassify all remote employees as "Felxible" without their input or permission. As a result, employees must now travel to the office WITHOUT expenses paid. This means that flights, hotels, etc. are NOT reimbursed and are paid by the employee. UCSF has not answered to what problem they are trying to solve with this, and refuses to answer how this action aligns with goals such as sustainability (carbon emissions), equity (women and disabled are more impacted by eliminating remote work), working accommodating (UCSF does not have the physical space for all of the Clinical Systems department to be on site. There is no locked storage or accessible workspaces.), safety (there is no shuttle for UCSF to all locations that have been mentioned for work). UCSF limits employee growth, by eliminating actual promotions with "role based work". In other words, you have to do more work without compensation for it. They have also completely reneged on remote management, meaning that most employees are now at a dead end.

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