Salem Hospital Employer Reviews

Fast pace. Great Staff. I learned a lot and the education department was well organized. I liked the surgical floor. These patients were well cared for and their turn around was imoressive.

No loyality for long term employees and they are terminating ADN RN's for any minor misstep! They are trying to save money and getting rid of "top of the ladder" RN's with ADN degrees because they have been deemed worthless now and will only hire RN's with a bachelor degree. ADN RN's dull their "Magnet" status ranking so watch out nurse's! Look at all – more... the job openings at their facility, there are a lot! They are going to shoot themselves in the foot because there are far more ADN's then Bach RN's and they will be understaffed and lack of experience will lead to patient compliants and then the community will start griping about them like they did in the 90's! Guess who turned around their bad reputation, the NURSE'S did because we all had 15,20,25 years of experience and all the patients left having had a wonderful hospitalization. It will take a long time to build it back up but right now all they can think about is saving money!
ADN'swatch out because they will fire you in a heartbeat!
Patients would much rather have an ADN RN with 20 years of experience over a Bachalor degree new grad RN with no experience any day. Most of your nurse's skills are learned on the job over the years and you do not learn the most important skills in a classroom.
New nurse's are green, no experiences to fall back on. They have not developed any instincts or confidence to know weather they are giving the best nursing care!(they won't be!). – less

Night shift, co-workers pleasant. Not really that much to say. Difficulty with patients at times, as they can be hostile and physical.

nice place to work can be very enjoyable when the management doesnt change so much

Management were friends with the ones that got to keep their job, and if they could would give their friend other jobs to keep them.
Co-workers would stab you in the back just so they would look good and take your job.
Over the 25 years I met a lot of very nice people and enjoyed my Medical Transcription job.

Worked three weekend night 12 hour shifts. I stayed busy with a 54 bed ER and also the birth center. I was able to manage most nights, except for one memorable night when I had to call in another tech.

I loved the fact that I was free to ask questions of other ultrasound techs and learn how to improve my images. We had access to patient history and – more... labs to follow up on our patient care. This helps us to learn and do better.

Our supervisor would frequently make time to go over cases with me and this showed she cared to help me do better and learn. I really appreciated her time.

Salem Hospital was also in the middle of updating and changing to a new hospital. We always had parking and it was free.

My coworkers had an astounding amount of skill and they were quite willing to help and teach. We excelled in finding appendix and they taught me the skills I needed to hunt appendixes. One of our techs was a pro at working with children. The children cried very little while she worked with them.

I loved my 12 hour shifts. They always went fast. The hardest part of the job was my days off; I always felt sick and never adjusted to night shift.

We were fortunate to have a large number of radiologists that read ultrasound. This means that the patients had excellent care and dependable reports. – less

I worked at Salem hospital as a temp worker. I performed all aspects of sonography.

Very long days, other staff are disrespectful, managers say one thing then do another. Micro manage everything you do, always talking about ways to get fired.

Wonderful place to work. Amazing co-workers, managers are here for the employees

started the day by pulling the lists to see what was needed and going over it with the previous shift. pulled lists frequently to make sure nothing was missed and dispatched out to other phlebotomists and myself.

My experience with Salem Hospital was not a good one. I would not recommend them. The pay is good, but the atmosphere is bad.

Heading towards big changes, hopefully. A much needed change.

Have to be flexible to work here. Lots of upper management. Long hours and no remote commuting.

Most of the people are pretty good to work with; most if not all work hard. Just a lot of tension regarding inflexibility around work hours. Very rigid about getting Epic certified and very rigid about varying from their rules. If you stray, you may not stay so there is good reason to question them during an interview.

With inflexible hours and no – more... jeans and only one health insurance provider. Its hardly matches up to other IT jobs that are out there. – less

I will have to say that this is one of the best places to work. They go above and beyond trying to help you out.

I am blessed to work at Salem Hospital. My coworkers are very friendly and professional and my supervisors and boss nothing short of wonderful

Salem Health is a hospital system that has been afforded great fortune over the years. As the only hospital in Salem ,past residents/patients depended on its services by default. Yet, in this day of healthcare reform and integrated medical care, the organization and its leadership has found itself amid a struggle to maintain patient satisfaction, community – more... trust and a cohesive culture that mirrors the community. One day they're focused on a lean culture, the next day is quantity of service providers, forsaking the quality of care and competence of its staff. When they realize that patients are not "lean" products, but rather people, perhaps the org will catch up to the competition that SIlverton, OHSU, Providence pose to their future. – less