Anybody work at, or heard anything about, these hospitals?

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Stevens Hospital, Edmonds

Northwest Hospital, Seattle

Skagit Valley Hospital, Mt Vernon

Valley General Hospital, Monroe

Providence Hospital, Everett (a more well-known one)

Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland

Thanks guys!

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Stevens Hospital, Edmonds

Northwest Hospital, Seattle

Skagit Valley Hospital, Mt Vernon

Valley General Hospital, Monroe

Providence Hospital, Everett (a more well-known one)

Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland

Thanks guys!

Providence Hospital is a Sisters of Providence facilty. They are all very top heavy with "chiefs". I worked at Sacred Heart here in Spokane. They are all represented by the Washington State Nurses Association, which in my NY in- your- face opinion, and from personal experience, are about as useful as tits on a bull. In other words, they are rather in effective against the abuse of power by the management and administration. I do not know the other hospitals.

Lindarn, RN, BSN ,CCRN

Spokane, Washington

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Prov everett is actually represented by USNU which just settled their contract at prevailing seattle levels after quite a struggle with management.. The Providence System has been making tremendous profits the last couple years and are notorious for short staffing and really not liking or respecting their nurses. Providence is the "largest cathloic health care sstem in the west" so your everett managers must answer to the home office.

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Prov everett is actually represented by USNU which just settled their contract at prevailing seattle levels after quite a struggle with management.. The Providence System has been making tremendous profits the last couple years and are notorious for short staffing and really not liking or respecting their nurses. Providence is the "largest cathloic health care sstem in the west" so your everett managers must answer to the home office.

I just wrote another thread about this. USNU should come to Spokane. WSNA has been worse than worthless. And you are right about the Providence system.The nurses as Sacred Heart have not seen a penny of the profit that they have made.They ARE notorious for short staffing. The nurses are killing themselves. And yes, they DO NOT respect nurses.

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN

Spokane, Washington

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Specializes in tele, stepdown/PCU, med/surg.

Stevens just laid off a whole bunch of staff due to financial issues and low census. I don't recommend them anyway. The other hospitals you mention are good. Valley and Skagit are small.

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I volunteer at Evergreen. I LOVE this hospital, its newer and clean. They are almost trippling in size by next year! Construction is under way.

I just transferred from the ER to Women's and Children's (intermediate neonatal) because of my school schedule. I love love love it!

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Specializes in ub-Acute/LTC, Home Health, L&D, Peds.

I was born in Seattle and raised in Kirkland where Evergreen Hospital is located. I lived there before Evergreen Hospital was even built. It has grown so much. It seems there is always some kind of construction going on or being planned. It is a good hospital in a very nice area. Lots of traffic though and a high cost of living (although that is true for anywhere in the Seattle area.) I did work at Stevens Hospital in L&D, oh gosh, it has been about 15 years now so I am sure many things have changed. I was happy there though. Good Luck!!;)

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Specializes in Postpartum.

I did my clinicals partly at Skagit hospital and was not impressed as a teaching facility with how most of the nurses treated the students, unless they were former students at my school. Also there was a lot of gossip there about how the staff was treated.

However, my fellow students that work there now like it and hope to facilitate changes and the hospital itself is growing a lot this year, so expect many changes if you go there.

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I just finished an assignment at Valley General in Monroe.... what an experience! I usually say things the way they are and I like it! I'm a California nurse with "hood experience"... UCI ER, UCSD ER, Pomona, HB, etc. The ER in VG Monroe was small but staffed with great, helpful nurses; Docs that are working there are also in Providence, in Everet. You have a new Doc in ER every day... The town is small so every body knows every body but hey, is not like you're working in Barby World ( read Newport Beach, CA). Good luck to you!

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What agency sent you to Valley General in Monroe? Do you know if there are other agencys besides your that staff there? Thanks..

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