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Dominion Hospital

What is the best part of working at the company?
The experience can be invaluable in expanding your clinical knowledge and skills. But it comes at a cost.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Hca as a whole wildly understands the units leading to safety risks for both staff and patients. I submitted multiple requests for additional staff and was ignored and gaslit by management despite being left to manage a caseload that was too large and unsafe as a result of the size alone.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
If you drink the Kool-aide and fall into their culture of corporate buzzwords with little meaning, you’ll do well. The nurses/techs/ therapists are amazing people who are for the most part there to help. But management is useless and doesn’t provide any support. The profit motive is very clear.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
If there is adequate staffing (which was not the case my entire 2 years) then it starts with rounds, then you usually have family/ patient meetings, and maybe lead a group. Every day has a similar structure but can be very different. When caseloads are manageable it’s not a bad time. But when theyre too large it is overwhelming, especially when management doesn’t account for acuity of patient needs. Some of your day is also chasing down doctors if they don’t bother to come to rounds or communicate as they are all contract and have other jobs during the day. Some of the doctors are marvelous! But some you have to try to track down to stay on top of the plan.

When I oriented, I was able to shadow and assist a few different RN's who were my preceptors. They did not rush me off of orientation, and it was thorough. As soon as I came off orientation, I was made to be charge nurse - there was A LOT of staff turnover. I felt supported by fellow employees and my nurse manager, but the management above that was the true reason a lot of employees left. We were consistently short on therapists and social workers, leaving the patients with far less therapy than they were paying for and deserved. Parents would call nursing upset that they hadn't heard from the therapists after a week of their child being there. It was truly a staffing issue - our therapists were very kind and helpful, just overworked. There should have been far more structure for the patients. We also had many situations of patients being inappropriately placed on our unit which was disruptive to the healing of others. We could voice our opinions, but not much would change. I thoroughly enjoyed my time here and learned a lot. There is room for growth and promotion within. I found the pay to be generally fair. It's a good stepping stone if you want  behavioral health experience. Beware of calling out though - the supervisors will grill you on the reason why and guilt trip you in attempt to get you to come in even if you are sick. 

Hospital has been under some frequent administrative turnover (every 1-2 years), but the team we have now is competent, forward-thinking, and intent on maintaining a productive and positive office culture. And as a result, everyone seems much more at ease and optimistic about being here. Every unit has staff that really care about patients, but also have staffing concerns which leads to some of the nurses becoming a little spread thin at times. Overall, pervasive on every unit, you find teammates who understand how their role helps to make patient's lives better, as well as how they contribute to the hospitals bottom line (it is a for-profit organization at the end of the day). Overall, been here 2 years and am pleased to be here.

Working at Dominion was nothing short than an awful experience. We are terribly overworked and understaffed. I’m exhausted in all levels and company’s work culture is repeatedly toxic. It baffles me that leadership places high expectations to deliver exceptional care to patients while also being treated so poorly. They place high value on company’s revenue and very low investment on actually taking effective measures to help patients. Management seem jaded and some directors are extreme Karens and are heavily condescending when a concern is brought up to them. I am still shocked that this place is up and running after so many years of failed management/leadership and actual patient care. What a shame.

I enjoy working in mental healthcare, it is difficult sometimes but rewarding. The problem I have with dominion is the staff is (mostly) terrible. There's an exception of about 10 people, other than that coworkers don't care about anyone outside of their clique, they talk badly about people behind their backs and are fake to your face. On top of coworkers being awful, the pay is even worse. The duties and responsibilities of a MHT can be difficult and sometimes traumatic. That being said, you can get the same amount hourly to be a receptionist somewhere.. the pay is just NOT equal to the amount and the importance of work being done. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Enployees are mostly friendly to each other

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Overworked, understaffed and unsafe environment to work at. Management doesn’t care about employees. Very disorganized and unstructured company. All about profit jeopardizing quality of care given to patients at unsafe level/ratio or Nurse to patient.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very poooooor work environment. It doesn’t seem like you work in American hospital. Culture is very warm and friendly.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Waiting for the shift to end.. Always exhausted

This overall company is designed to make profits at the expense of those that work in the front lines.  Management is totally aware that the hospital is short staffed, they are violating staffing rations, they are forcing nurses to work over 16 hours with adequate rest or breaks.  They are continually compromising patient safety while mixing COVID positive patients with non COVID positive patients.  They are aware of the EVS department being understaffed yet rooms, hallways, linens are not being adequately checked and cleaned for staff and patient safety.  The list go's on....

I worked at dominion as therapist for over a year and it was the worst place to work. People who work there are bullies, gossipy, cliquey and rude. If you don’t “fit in” with their mindset or personality they will do what they can to exclude you and make you feel like s***. Workers will do whatever they can to throw you under the bus at their own expense to dodge any accountability. Management will pretend  to hear you issues but turn a blind eye when issues arise. Management is a joke and the CEO and Directors don’t give a s*** about their workers and just in general awful people. I RETAINED MY SANITY AFTER LEAVING THAT PLACE!!!

What is the best part of working at the company?
The staff are amazing, they work incredibly hard and care about the patients 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not enough support, 8:1 ratio, unheard concerns, bad staff continue getting away with bad behaviors 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Teamwork environment for most part, just not much help from senior leadership 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Often not being able to take lunch, leaving drained. Often left thinking I did minimal for the patients as the schedule doesn’t allow it.

Working in the Admissions Office has been a valuable experience.  Being a part of this process and doing intake assessments with patients and families is very rewarding.  The best part of the job is helping someone in crisis access care. The Manager has created a toxic environment, does not support the staff and shows blatant favoritism of selected few. Fortunately it's a great group of people to work with and the only reason I have remained.  Worst Manager ever.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Clinical therapist 15 salaries reported	$37.69 per hour
Psychiatric nurse 6 salaries reported	$41.43 per hour
Registered nurse 1 salary reported	$42.36 per hour
Therapist 2 salaries reported	$34.21 per hour
Mental health technician 3 salaries reported	$17.99 per hour

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