registered nurse

registered nurse - medical / surgical

medical assistant

nursing assistant

medical technologist

MyMichigan Health

Medical Assistant Duties:
Rooming patients, answering phones, scheduling/rescheduling/canceling appointments, performing point of care testing, giving immunizations, relaying patient results, faxing, photo copying, assisting providers with procedures/examinations, cleaning rooms and OTHER tasks as required by management. 

Get ready to be overworked, well rounded in other people's roles, and not paid what you are worth.

MyMichigan Health severely underpays staff; especially Medical Assistants. If you have no work experience and you live with someone else who can pay your bills then this is a good place to get your foot in the door. 

Starting wage for certified medical assistants is $15.20-$15.75. Apparently an Associate's degree and national certification as a CMA through the AAMA mean nothing. If you have experience of 3+ years, you will not pass the interview if you ask for $17 or more.

Starting wage for non-certified medical assistant is $15. No point in getting certified if the wage is so close to a certified medical assistant. 

Uniforms are expensive. There is no uniform allowance/assistance. You have a strict uniform color to follow by based on your job role which MUST be purchased from the hospital's distributer ONLY. The scrub material is poor quality so replacements are frequent if you do not know how to sew. You only get 2 tops and 2 bottoms to start for free. 

Yearly incentive (raises). Awful. You have what is called a JPR. Its a performance review with scores between 1-5 average. 1 being poor performer. 5 being amazing and no improvements. If you aren't friends with everyone, kiss your raise goodbye. If you are a top performer with a 5 rating score, your raise is about 1% or just under. You can be an amazing staff member but be rewarded as if you were an under achieving MA who got their training from behind a dumpster. 

The sad thing is that instead of investing in staffing and paying people what they are worth, higher ups constantly hire for people at low wages in hopes of "finding the right people to join the company". Meaning they're looking for pushovers who do not know their market value or know their worth. And they wonder why no one is applying for roles or accepting offers. 

Turn over is high due to poor wages and burn out. 
Most staffing from the hospital transfer to the clinics. 
Insurance plans are through Connect Care which are awful and barely cover anything. If your spouse has insurance or you are still under your parents, try to stay under them as long as possible. 
Dental Insurance is through Delta. 
Vision Insurance is a joke. 

Most of the money made goes into buildings and advertisement instead of staffing. Every now and then, you get a cheap trinket of sun glasses, pens, tote bags, etc with the company logo on it so that you can do some free advertisement. 

My department may have kind people but that's not enough to put food on my table and pay my bills. 

(I,T.) Are you seeking a fulfilling job where your efforts are valued, where you find genuine purpose, and where you can truly make a positive difference? Unfortunately, this workplace falls short in meeting these fundamental criteria. Here, your skills and potential may be overlooked as management often prioritizes personal agendas over employee development. Just as you begin to feel a sense of achievement, promises of advancement are deceitfully retracted, leaving you disillusioned and misled.

While there are some competent managers, their effectiveness is overshadowed by the prevalence of poor leadership. Moreover, despite ongoing discussions, the organization lacks a clear career advancement path, resulting in limited growth opportunities. Additionally, there is inadequate support and training from colleagues, contributing to a lack of comprehensive guidance in various areas.

Communication breakdowns between departments and between upper and lower management are apparent, and there is a noticeable absence of standardized procedures. Workplace conflicts persist without resolution, and trivialities in job duties prevail, fostering a toxic environment that elevates overall job stress. The lack of coworker support exacerbates the difficulties of navigating challenging situations, leaving employees feeling unsupported and disconnected.

In summary, it's advisable to steer clear of this workplace. It often feels like navigating in the dark with limited resources for career advancement. This can be particularly daunting, trapping individuals in roles they wish to leave but struggle to do so due to external constraints. MyMichigan Health lacks the maturity necessary to properly grow and lead their staff, resulting in dissatisfied employees. Perhaps they should prioritize employee growth and training instead of employing manipulative tactics to motivate (playing the game of leading a horse with a carrot.)


Don't do it! Just don't do it. No matter how desperate you are for a job, please don't do it! Like any place there are some cool people but the cons outweigh the pros by a mile. Benefits are laughable, compensation is a joke (universally $5-$9 under the regional market rate- almost insulting, really), and the supervisors and management are pretty universally inept and unqualified. I am not only talking about my department. I have personally come across supervision and management failures, biases, and incompetence in many scenarios. HR will not help you with problems. A co-worker can actually attack you and unless you have a witness, they won't even listen to you. Staff parking is a nightmare. The ER is constantly overflowing and nowhere capable of handling the demand being put on it. Patient transport is painfully and noticeably understaffed. The overall climate in this place is old-fashioned. Old, outdated physicians are miserable, verbally abusive, and unrealistically demanding, yet refuse to leave. Several of them are in their 80s! Young physicians are inexperienced and unsure, ordering so many unnecessary tests. I could go on and on and on. Don't say I didn't warn you!

If you can work elsewhere, do it. It's a clicky, toxic work environment with extremely poor management. Not somewhere you want to develop your career as there's no room for advancement. Yearly merit raises are not appropriate, or guaranteed. Benefits are extremely poor, no sick time provided, retirement fund is not good. Vested after 3 years and not really worth it to deal with the work environment and culture.
Employee parking is a joke, you can get wrote up for parking in the patient area, but employee parking is far away from where you work. You sometimes need to arrive 45 minutes ahead of time to find good parking.

You must clock in 5 minutes before hand and if you're 1 minute late you get wrote up. 

HR and management does not like to disclose the full benefits package during the interview/hiring process.
Hours promised are not guaranteed, nor is your schedule that they hire you in for. They will shift your schedule as seen fit. 

It is not an employee friendly work place.

Typical out patient setting, registering patients for lab studies, coordinating referrals to specialist as well as scheduling diagnostic imaging.

Was hired as part time but worked 40 hrs. a week for nearly 3 years. Recently hours reduced back to part time 16 hrs. week status due to budget cuts.

Workplace culture, do the job of 3 people, while giving excellent service and superb customer satisfaction. Which we strive to do everyday. The Medical field culture has changed in the 30 years I have been associated with it. Not able to give personal care like we use to, seems more about quotas and productivity than personal service.

I loved helping others feel better, be it through just a smile and simple conversation or getting them the physical help they need. Knowing that my interaction with them has some what lessened their burdens. 

Hardest part of my job is having hours cut and am no longer able to support my family even though I know it is not related to my job performance. I have great annual reviews, no discharges from employers, no unexcused absences, rarely late, always willing to stay over if needed.

A typical day includes working over your 8 hour scheduled day. I am a part-time employee working full time hours and every weekend. I have learned more about interacting with other departments and making managerial decisions because management is really absent in the day to day tasks. At least 3 times a week everyone is asked to cover other shifts or pull double shifts. This laboratory is severely understaffed and it is only getting worse as many current employees are retiring. The best thing about this laboratory is your coworkers because everyone is willing to help each other out as we all are experiencing healthcare burnout. The hardest part of this job is being appreciated for your experience and skills as there is no real advancement and forget about being financially compensated for your education and experience. I had over 8 years of experience with leadership skills and I was treated like a rookie right out of high school and the pay is a joke. This would be a good place to work for a student right out of college with no life outside of work but if you want to advance your career try another place.

While there are many hardworking staff members throughout the organization, my experience in clinic leadership was significantly impacted by inconsistent direction between providers, management, and senior leadership. Policies and workflows were not always applied consistently, which created operational challenges and made it difficult to effectively lead staff and maintain accountability. Concerns raised regarding professionalism, communication, and clinic operations often went unaddressed, contributing to a stressful and frustrating work environment.

The workload expectations placed on leadership staff were also difficult to sustain due to chronic staffing shortages and lack of organizational support. I frequently found myself covering multiple roles simultaneously while also attempting to manage clinic operations. There are good people within the organization, but stronger leadership alignment, clearer accountability, and better support for frontline management would greatly improve employee morale and workplace culture

I only recommend applying at the Mid Michigan Community Health Services, Houghton Lake location if you’re super desperate for a job like myself (I’m actively looking for a new job!) . Management is not supportive unless you are part of their small town clique that carries over to what goes on or what is excused inside the facility. Too much drama allowed through out departments and only outsiders of the clique are held accountable when a manager/supervisor decides they feel like doing something about it. Expectations are not clearly addressed in the beginning and the training leaves little to be desired, mine was never completed I had to figure it all out.  Job post states employee would be supervised by the appropriate department supervisor  when indeed that is not true. It is done by the departments “team lead”. I noticed that depending on what department you work for the supervisor seems nonexistent. Some employees are extremely judgmental and have no problem showing it to the person in front of them they are helping because they seem to never get held accountable. 

The last manager I had did not care to take care of anything! She did not like confrontation at all! She told you what you wanted to hear to calm you down and the other person the same. It created more problems. I also asked her to please put me at one of her other offices and she refused because I did not feel comfortable at this point in the office. There was bulling and when talking to Human Resources about these problems that were not addressed by my manager I was told that they have not hear of this before after telling her that I have go to my manager several times. My main reason for leaving is that I had a very sick child during my last year of work for them. I was put on probation due to having to stay home with him. I felt unsupported by my manager and her supervisor! My first four years I work many hours, always picked up, was always on time and at work! I was a dedicated worker! And in my time I was definitely not reward for my loyoty go this company. Also just heart broken because it starts off being my dream jobs in the ER until I entered the medical offices

Worked pharmacy for a few years. Job expects your social/out of work life in exchange for limited opportunities to advance and a million hoops to jump when those actuall happen. And even most of those options flaunt similar no life work schedules. Its toted amongst management that seniority doesnt affect their decision making on advancement/preference. Except for when it does, than they back pedal. All hiring or advancement decisions are made based on how easy the transition is for said management rather than the qualifications of the individual.  

This may make me sound biased and disgruntled, which isnt totally wrong but I really did try to play their system and its simply miserable. Never felt so undervalued as an employee somewhere that likes to advertise a family work atmosphere.

Should you be fortunate enough to end up on the preferred shift (morning) be prepared to play "the game". Which consists of a series of back stabbing and throat cutting that is openly promoted by management.

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