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Community First Medical Center

This hospital is in debt millions and millions of dollars. They cant afford to fix equipment around the facility. They stopped paying the BC/BS insurance premiums 2 different times when I worked there. Employees had no insurance during this time. They dont pay contractors so things take a long time to get repaired because they always need to find a new contractor that will do repairs. Most want money up front. They pay employees less than other hospitals do. Alot of new grad nurses and other healthcare professionals, come to work here right out of school to get experience, then move on to a better paying hospital. It's a revolving door. Management has no clue but they are good at letting people go so they can save money and dump that job on another employee or manager that has multiple different jobs already. Staff complained of no raise for going on over 5 years. Compliance is not a word in their vocabulary. Things need to be done to keep hospital in compliance but no money so they just put it off until IDPH or TJC writes them up. Scary hospital.
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working with different people with different diagnosis,different prognosis and different income levels. Working in a community hospital to help the needs of the community. Learned that in nursing ,one always learn something new everyday and each and every human being is unique in the disease process. Workplace culture ,happy workers produce best results and a positive atmosphere .Hardest part is   having some results that can be hard like losing a patient .enjoyable is to be empathetic and being able to be there for a person. Working with people from different backgrounds is interesting as I get to learn a lot because of  different experiences I get when providing care. I enjoy what I do as I get to show care empathy and understanding that listening to patients can go a long way in helping with healing ,and also  being an advocate for patients

community first medical ctr increased my knowledge base in various areas of the facility. the staff displayed non-team work abilities,because 85 percent of the Nursing Staff was new graduates nurses. Nurse Management was very helpful in assigning task base on each employee knowledge base and offered opportunity to increase knowledge allowing experienced personnel to assist with learned skills to share duties to educate beginners.The hospital closing of units threaten long term employment. Hospital policy mission statement was always demonstrated by all personal.The hardest aspect of the job was newly graduate nursing who shown little knowledge or ambitious to fulfill daily duties.

The hospital has a horrible reputation in the neighborhood, and not without good reason. The union means that there isn't a terrible ratio of nurses to patient, but it also means the hospital is only usually at 20% capacity. People board in the ER for days to weeks. No air conditioning. No supplies. There was a week last year with no IVs. The negligence of the staff is unlike anything I've ever seen. Constant turnover of upper management. The HR interviewer mostly talked about herself and didn't ask too many relevant questions. Very few employees actually come in a hold themselves to a higher standard. Management has no resources to fix any real problems so they nitpick random departments to look busy .

I worked very hard for this hospital though I had some praise from management it was very stressful, especially during covid. Some nurses you have to tell them more than once if someone is in pain. If something goes wrong they blame you. The scheduled me on Thursday for new years eve when I'm normally off Thursdays and didn't inform me til the charge nurse called me and informed I was supposed to work due to the holiday. I should have worked Friday which was still a holiday anyway. I did ask to be put down on Friday my normal shift, which they did but I still got penalized and a write up and they messed up my pay and overtime hours. I resigned that weekend. I now work for an amazing company called Senior Helpers 

The emergency room is a great place to get experience as a new grad nurse. You get to see and do a lot. That being said, the hospital is very janky and poorly run, equipment is constantly broken and we’re frequently running out of supplies. The air conditioning has been broken for 2 years. Again, a great place to learn how to use your resources wisely!  But it is often frustrating and easy to get burned out, so despite the strong sense of teamwork, especially on night shift, the turnover rate of nurses is very high. If you decide to come work here, take advantage of any and all education provided, EKG class, Ultrasound IV placement, etc. Get in, get your experience, and get out (unless you’re a glutton for punishment, then you might love it here). 

Unfortunately this hospital has not moved forward on the health care continuum.  The collaboration between physicians and nurses is poor.  Individuals lack autonomy.  The facility is poorly maintained from the inside and outside.  The garage is falling apart and is dangerous.  Safety is a real concern.  The infection rate is high.  The hospital was almost closed about 4 years ago due to lack of funding.  This hospital should be more of an urgent care facility or skilled nursing facility.  It is not state of the art.  They are not willing to change and are stuck in old ways.

All departments are managed terribly, and you cant even rely on HR because they are just as unorganized. The whole place requires new management and updated technology. Teamwork is non- existent in the pharmacy, no one enforces that duties are done which leads to everyone doing what they want. Scheduler never makes an effort to fill empty shifts even though there are more than enough techs. There are no opportunities for advancement because there are no specific positions for techs everyone has the same responsibility and yet nothing ever gets done. This department is in need of real management and real enforcement

Management
In general, managers at Community First Medical Center are just horrible. The management is really bad. You can practically do anything you want at this hospital. You get reprimanded when things don’t go well.

Culture
Collaboration with my colleagues at Community First Medical Center is was okay. They make it seem that the nurse are helpful but in your time of need no one will come to help you. You are on your on when it comes to worst case scenario.

Overall
My experience working at Community First Medical Center was the worst ever. I wish that I would have never worked here.

All equipment is broken making it hard to do your job efficiently. You need to buy your own thermometer. Imagine that no thermometer in a hospital smh. Old broken beds and limited to no supplies. Expected to do everyone else's job in addition to your's to pick up the pace for  irresponsible workers. Lack of communication, no one informs you of changes throughout the shift (changing assignments randomly) to benefit the favorites and takes advantage of new hires. No teamwork unfortunately. Owner of this hospital is to blame for all the mishaps of this "hospital". 

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