radiologic technologist

registered nurse

child life specialist

hospitalist

nurse practitioner

Cabell Huntington Hospital

I worked for this company for over six years. In the beginning, it was honestly a great place to work, and even toward the end I still had some positive experiences. However, over the years the work environment changed significantly.

One of the biggest issues within the company is nepotism. There are supervisors and employees who do not handle emotions professionally and sometimes behave more like high school students than healthcare workers. Communication and professionalism have definitely declined compared to when the hospital was under Mountain Health Network and when Michael Mullins was CEO. Back then, employees seemed genuinely happy, management showed appreciation, and the company made efforts to recognize the hard work staff put in every day.

Unfortunately, that culture no longer exists. Employees often feel undervalued and unappreciated, and morale has noticeably declined. You can see it in the overall atmosphere and employee attitudes.

The Emergency Department, in particular, was one of the most difficult departments I have ever worked in. In my experience, there were staff members who seemed more focused on collecting a paycheck than providing quality patient care. It became frustrating to work in an environment where compassion and teamwork were lacking.

That said, there are still good people working there, and I’m grateful for the experience and the years I spent with the company. I just hope leadership takes employee concerns seriously and works toward rebuilding a healthier workplace culture.

Unmovable schedule. The work hours are decent. When you complete your assigned tasks, you are rewarded with other’s work. Since 2022, payment plan minimums were increased as we were told we “needed to bring more money in the door,” proof we do not have the patient’s best interest in mind. You will receive lots of angry calls from patients. We work a decent amount of accounts based on insurance carrier and arranged by an alphabetical split. You may be switched to a different team at a moments notice. Some supervisors are incredible, while others make you wonder how they landed the job. Your teammates are incredible people. Be warned, you are micro-managed. Supervisors are instructed to monitor how many accounts you work each day, counting the time you were on the account, what actions were made, and which accounts. For those looking for a remote job, be warned you can be ordered to return to the office to work in person at a moments notice. You are provided equipment, but it is typically not of the best quality and barely works. However, you do not have to pay anything for supplies. You do not earn paid vacation until you are employed for a year. Dental insurance is unavailable until you are employed for a year as well. 

There are a multitude of issues but I'll only touch base with the ones that really affected me. The pay scale is skewed & as an experienced RT,  a coworker with less than 1/2 the exp made substantially more than myself. HRs claims cost of living not the recent merger that caused recent pay rates to decrease. Also, setup of patients for treatments were not ideal. Setups should be reproducible with minimal imaging during treatments. Instead, multiple images and constant repositioning of patients for treatments are the norm. ALARA anyone? Despite the Rx to image 2x a week, pts are imaged 2 to 4x per treatment because of inferorior setups at CT sim. A prone breast treatment can take longer than an SRS treatment! Paperless? Nope, lots of paper still used here keeping paper mills in business. Suggestions of improvement are ignored from experienced therapists. If it's not broke why fix it or in this case why improve. The place is a revolving door for radiation therapist. Management knows the issues but prefers a hands off approach.

Their motto "That's the way we've always done it"

My typical day at work was working 3-11 shift. I have experience in multi-specialties as included on my resume. We had a daily goal of 100 minutes of dictation and an incentive program, however, no attention was given to fairly dividing the workload so that we all had an "even playing field" so to speak as far as our daily minute goal or even distribution of the more difficult dictations. I enjoyed working from home, but also enjoyed getting together with some of my co workers at staff meetings. The hardest part of the job was keeping up with the "latest" medical equipment and orthopedic replacement parts and as always the more difficult dictators. The most enjoyable part was that I have been a medical transcriptionist since graduating from high school. I have enjoyed the process since working with dictaphone "plastic belts" until the present time where dictation is electronic. It has been my second love and is always challenging and a constant learning process, which I found facinating.

Being a member of the surgery team can be very rewarding the management however, leaves a lot to be desired!! The department is very understaffed so you can count on working endless overtime and weekends. Management does not last more than a year at a time. Only long enough to come in, wreak havoc, changes rules, and then be fired. The management focuses on irrelevant aspects and not patient care centered. Most surgeons are really great to work with. The daily majority of cases are neuro and ortho with sub-specialities filling up the rest of the schedule. The benefits are excellent and the starting pay is equal to other local hospitals. Sadly, you get no recognition for being certified. A job in the surgery department here is a choice of the benefits outweighing the headaches. There is a lot of room to make more money with call and mandatory overtime. The on-call pay needs to greatly improve.

Center of Excellence. 2015 Top 100 Best places to work. I was very successful transforming the overall culture. Employees are now proud to be a part of this fast growing organization but there are significant trust issues within the organization in particular with new senior leaders and their management style. They don't take well to criticism for the sake oaf improvement in employee relations.

HR team was awarded in 2011 and 2015 Top Human Resource Team in the Country with a Stevie by the American Business Bureau.

The most difficult part of my job has always catered around dismissals. Knowing the profound impact this has on families who rely on the high income paid to staff who work for this organization.

As the lead on all organizational development activities I enjoyed the stand up mentoring and training of the high potentials within the organization.

Coming to work around 4p and leaving by either 9p or 12midnight was most of my shifts. Weekends took your entire day if you were not on morning shift which was by seniority if you got to work it or not. Pretty much just answering phones and dispatching calls to the correct departments and patient's rooms was a typical day. There were always two in the office and you worked independently most of the time. Worked as a team for calling codes and documenting the information. Job was pretty easy, just learned it was not for me and needed to make a career move. Short shifts in the evenings but long middle shift on weekends.  Was part time so a lot of the benefits and insurance did not apply to me.

What is the best part of working at the company?
My direct manager, she is phenomenal. Understanding, compassionate, reasonable and is the only reason I have stayed 11 years.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Working short staff with horrible benefits.  The pay is mediocre, health insurance and retirement are pitiful.  To work for a "not for profit" and they make billions of dollars and do not invest in their employees or community.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I enjoy the people I work directly with. Administration however does not cultivate an environment of safety or trust.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Dealing with unrealistic, entitled people every shift. No fault of the organization just the clientele of the population that is served.

Assess patients, then start med pass, dressing changes, charting. Would have to discharge and admit patients. Learned different things on each floor. Management was different on each floor. Some nurse managers would come to work in scrubs, and help if they could, and others would never come out of their offices. Some co-workers would work as teams, and other floors would leave you to your own patients. The hardest part of the job was not knowing a floor well, if you had not worked it much. The most enjoyable part was getting to know everyone in the hospital and getting to learn new things on different floors.

Worked for this company for 17 years. During this time I was encouraged to advance my career from my entry position as an L.P.N with 7 years L.T.C. experience, to obtaining an A.S.N. degree with placement in the organization after obtaining my R.N. The hospital hosted Mountain State University, partnering with them to promote advancement for interested R.N.'s in achieving their B.S.N.    For those R.N.'s that were interested in gaining and sharing knowledge, the Clinician1, Clinician2, and Clinician3 programs were designed to assist them in development of educational tools, i.e. in-services, poster-boards, and presentation/discussion of scientific articles.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Radiologic technologist 28 salaries reported	$24.61 per hour
Registered nurse 6 salaries reported	$40.70 per hour
Child life specialist 6 salaries reported	$24.23 per hour
Hospitalist 3 salaries reported	$277,000 per year
Nurse practitioner 1 salary reported	$135,543 per year

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