Kaiser Permanente reviews

You must be able to type and juggle email messaging from patients, telephone calls from patients, seeing patients in 20 minute blocks of time depending on your speciality. It can be pretty rough if you’re doing primary care as the various quality measures, Medicare coding and patient satisfaction surveys along with all the preventive questions the medical assistants ask make getting through the appointment difficult and that’s not even counting all the various issues the older pr anxious patient can bring up. Referral to specialists can sometimes be a chore because Kaiser expects the primary physician to do the majority of the preparatory work - ever order transplant evaluation labs and other diagnostic tests? If you are not extremely organized and efficient you will likely be taking a lot of work home at night or on the weekends.

WA State Kaiser: Numerous layoffs and reorgs in the years leading up to the Kaiser acquisition led to tenured employees filling positions for which they are unqualified and unsuited. The layoffs and reorgs created a culture of fear among tenured employees, some of whom are threatened by high performing new colleagues and protect one another by withholding information, bullying, and slandering to the point of pushing out top performers. Nepotism and 'promotion to incompetence' have been par for the course, so leads, supervisors, and managers often lack experience and proper training. All of the above contribute to an environment in which people are fully disengaged. So much has changed and the turn over has been so high, it is often difficult to find the resource or information you need. Archaic tech and slow adoption means you're not going to be gaining many new technical skills. Email and meetings are misused. Advice to job seekers: If you accept a job, here, make sure you take the time to find a new job *the second you begin to disengage*. Match the effort of your colleagues and then add 20 minutes. Ambition is punished by insecure colleagues, supervisors, and managers. If you would rather keep your self worth and work ethic, don't work here. You won't gain the technical skills or business acumen required to move to another org, and you'll be lucky to leave with your dignity. More for those interested: The following 2 observations illustrate the severity of the problem, here: 1. Every new hire in a certain department is warned about specific individuals. The supervisors and managers are aware of these individuals and even have a nickname for them. Yet, the bullies are still employed without disciplinary action because they hold certifications for which the org paid $10K+. 2. Within 9 months, an inexperienced supervisor lost 5 people of a 10-member team. 3.5 left on their own volition; 1.5 were asked to resign. This usually signals issue with the supervisor/manager. Not here.