Carle Foundation Hospital

KirbyEMT · Oct 10, 2009

Well, they haven't been giving pay raises for a few years, they are in a bit of financial turmoil, but some people seem to prefer Carle over provena. If you are L&D, I believe they are in a brand new state of the art facility.

TheChair1 · Aug 26, 2010

I know its been awhile since anyone has posted on this thread but I am curious ... is it true that the night time shift differential for Carle RN's is $1.00 and the weekend shift differential is $0.75? This is what I've heard and I was wondering if anyone actually knows for sure ....

greenguy04 · Feb 14, 2012

I've been at carle for 1 year now. I have also heard other people say that they had not been giving raises, although they did give one in 2011. 2% across-the-board. Which I think is bologna, personally. Carle has plenty of money, especially when compared to Provena, who I worked for before Carle. We say we are not-for-profit, but we basically are.

I can confirm that Carle does have a very nice, new L&D/Post-partum/Nursery and NICU.

How is Carle overall as an employer? About what you would expect. I'm not a needy person, and Carle does fine for me. It is a large corporation, really, so there is corporate BS that is always there, or that happens from time to time.

I'm actually not an RN, so I don't know if it's different for RN's, but here's what I know about shift differentials and whatnot:

Carle only has two shift differentials (as opposed to 3, which Provena has): Day shift, which you earn your base-rate, or evening/night shift, which you earn $1.00/hr more. Weekends are an additional $0.75/hr (i.e. on a weekend evening/night, you would earn an extra $1.75/hr total). (Provena is/was .75 for evening (3p-11p) or 1.50 for nights (11p-7a), 1.00 for weekends, base-rate for days (7a-3p))

I do know a lot of RN's that work at Carle, and I've heard that for RN's they also have tiers of acuity if you are asked to work extra. Like if they ask you to work extra because they are full/acute/busy or trying to cover a call-in, they have 3 tiers depending, tier 1 I think is the standard time-and-a-half for overtime, 2 is double-time, and 3 is double-time-and-half. And I'm sure if you're willing, the opportunities are there. Double-time and double-time-and-a-half shifts would really rake it in...