registered nurse

executive assistant

nurse

registered nurse - medical / surgical

social worker

Saint Anthony Hospital

Throughout my cancer journey, I expected compassion, understanding, and basic human decency from my employer — unfortunately, I received the opposite. From the moment I disclosed my diagnosis, there was little to no genuine effort to accommodate my medical needs, emotional well-being, or recovery process. I wasn’t asking for special treatment — only fairness, flexibility, and empathy.

Instead, I was met with micromanagement, scrutiny, and a lack of communication or reassurance. I continued showing up and doing my best despite immense physical and emotional exhaustion. Rather than being acknowledged for my resilience, I often felt like an inconvenience — a burden to be managed instead of a person to be supported.

Even after HR became involved and accommodations were formally approved, the team culture remained cold and unwelcoming. There were no check-ins, no simple “how are you doing,” and no genuine care beyond completing the required paperwork. It’s one thing to preach inclusion and compassion in company values, but it’s another to actually live them — especially when an employee’s health and life are at stake.

What hurt the most was realizing I was fighting for my health and my career at the same time. No one battling cancer should also have to fight their employer for basic respect, empathy, or the ability to heal without fear of losing their livelihood.

I hope sharing my experience sheds light on what happens when organizations forget the human side of leadership. A supportive workplace doesn’t just improve productivity — it can make the difference between surviving and truly healing. Compassion costs nothing, but its absence leaves a lasting mark.

I loved working at St. Anthony Hospital ICU. I learned a lot from my wonderful preceptor who was incredibly patient with me and undeniably, without a doubt, one of THE most hard-working nurses I've ever seen!  Not only that, the entire staff was just so awesome in every single department.  This is not my first hospital that I have worked as a nurse.  I loved my fellow nurses, Radiology team, Transportation Dept, super knowledgeable pharmacists, lab techs, EV, and all the doctors, Patient Relation Dept, Social Workers, Security Team, Linen team, pretty much everybody!!! I was surprised and grateful that they actually offered me more money than I asked for during the initial interview. When I informed my supervior/manager/director/boss about my intention to resign to become a nurse practitioner, she was 110% supportive of my decision and I truly appreciate her wishing me to succeed in my own career.  Looking back, St. Anthony really prepared me to become not just a better nurse, but a better working member of the society as a whole.  I have nothing but the fond memories at St. Anthony. 

I worked there because I thought it will be a great place to work. I loved working with patients and learned to allot but, it's awful how there was no professionalism All the Registrars were fairly young and created cliques. It felt like high school all over again. Drama, gossip was happening. I even saw how some lady was talking about me with other staff. I'm too old for all of that. It made it a place I didn't want to go anymore. 
Being a hospital where they should have a good computer system here, it failed too often.  They don't have a program where you can feel that you will advance in your work. It was frustrating how sometimes you need to take all the patient's information by hand or computer froze on you too many times and the patient waiting. Here, they don't have the proper tools for you to do your job. As far as management,  the manager relied on one person who often just tells her whatever she wants making you look bad.

The day begins and ends with a multi-discipline check-in keeping the organizing abreast and ahead of an potential issues.

I learned how to better think through planning of projects, purchasing of Technology & Equipment, critical thinking and problem solving.

While the hospital is focused in community health, it still manages to think Huge.  Saint Anthony Hospital is on the move and building a state of the future facility where the focus is the delivery of great quality community care.  Focal Point Chicago is an exciting concept that is taking hold in the Little Village community, but is reaching far beyond its local boundaries and making a great impact in Chicago's Southwest.

It won't be too long after that Focal Point Chicago will be the model for future community hospitals in the US.

Apply for the medical card for those patients who exhausted their medicare benefits, no health coverage, or the health insur terminated benefits. Apply for the ABE application for out inpatient(s), the All-kids application for Newborns up until the age of 19yrs old, The MPE application for pregnancies, Moms & babies for both a parent(s) & child(ren), Add-on(s) for those who have an Active case and need to add a family member. re-determination & re-instatement application, Request a Back-date for the date of service, Gender, Date of birth, Name changes and IDPA Spend-down/Spit-bill #2432(s), See all walk-in, receive payments and issue receipts, general ledger is issued daily showing all payments taken for that day and is placed in the security vault.

The community development departments' management team lacks actually "living and working by its mission" in which they so promote. Staff are a close knit team, within teams, and do have the family culture atmosphere at the Wellness site. However, no guidance, vague answers or support, political favoritism, and unorganized leaders. There were a couple managers who did provide support and guidance, who were not the direct managers, which was unfortunate. 
Job security based on who you know, not what you know. Politics and political affiliation is what runs this small hospital. 
Could be a great organization if upper management actually believed and lived by the mission they promote and tell the team to live by.

I see St.Anthony as a place that is culturally diverse yet everyone is very close knit. A typical day would be medium to fast paced in terms of calls and therapy. I have been at St. Anthony's for 9 yrs. and have come to learn a lot there. I find the management team very professional and assisting with their employees. St. Anthony's have a lot of employees who have been there a long time so we know one another well. I would say the hardest part of our jobs is when the hospital sometimes go on by-pass and its difficult to treat all the patients that we have. For me the most enjoyable part of the jobs is being able to treat and accommodate patients.

Working at Saint Anthony Hospital is a Stressful fast paced environment, Management is HORRIBLE. Administration is poorly ran. You are never appreciated for staying long hours or all your hard work. Patient Access Manager does not know ANYTHING that has to do with the department and will leave her employees alone short staffed to run the ER registration without out full training and no lunch coverage! Administration treats their employees horrible as if they were dogs. They hire people with no type of experience!

I was an intern for this company enjoyed myself very much. I work with all the departments that were part of the HIM department and got to learn everything that gets done in each department. I learned how the process of putting patients' information in the system and the procedures to ensure that everything was ket confidental. Management was great, she motivated every employee and she kept a friendly environment. The co-workers were just as motivating and friendly as management. The hardest and most enjoyable part was coding the patients' charts.

Working in the ED/ER

I have enjoyed being cross trained in the emergency department. My experience here can not emphasize how my experience and skills developed so rapidly. Everything in the ED is fast pace and you need to be ready for anything. Autonomy is much needed here and this is something I learned to master well. I learned how to use my time managements skills and learned how to prioritize my duties. I also learned to work, think, and delegate all at the same time in a timely manner. One thing that I learned from colleagues is to always remain calm and passive. I am thankful for this amazing opportunity.

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