Any experience working for Prime healthcare

[NursePaula]

Hi all,

I work at a hospital in Northern California that was taken over by Prime Healthcare on November 1st. Can anyone tell me what the company is like to work for in general. Do you feel like quality healthcare is able to be done in their facilities? This hospital here was on the verge of closing within hours, so for that I am greatful, but at the same time ALL employees were fired :bluecry1:on the 31st and 80% of us were invited to reapply. This means the union (which wasn't much good anyway) no longer exists. There did not seem to be any rhyme or reason to who was let go and who stayed. I am trying so hard to be positive, :confused:but there is so much negative going around about them. ANY input would be very helpful (encouragement also). Thanks in advance for whatever info you may have. I want to work in a positive environment and so far it has been hard but I am trying to remain hopeful...

[Faeriewand, ASN, RN]

Prime bought our hospital and turned it around. It had been losing money and I hear it is about to break even. I came on board after ownership had changed and starting pay is very low for new grads. They also hire LVN's in every department (to save money I guess). But the hospital didn't close down and we new LVN's are really glad to get the experience in a hospital because we didn't want to go to LTC.

I hear that many jumped ship before Prime took over. The hospital was never unionized. I don't know if anyone was fired or not. It has been about 18 months and I have not been there a year yet. I guess we will see how it goes.

[NursePaula]

Sorry that I am so slow in saying thank you, have been very busy. I am trying to be very positive and upbeat. So far things seem to be about the same except for some of the coworkers no longer there. We are slower, but that too is not much of a surprise. Our town is less then 100,000 people and there are two hospitals in town. Unfortunately the one newspaper in town has always considered us the "red-headed step-child" so to speak so they are extremely bias when it comes to reporting anything concerning the 2 hospitals. I will keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best....Thanks again for your insight.

Paula