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Sovah Health

Horrible hospital! Patient safety is non-existent, health benefits are an absolute joke, they actually still use Internet Explorer, and a horribly outdated Meditech system. None of the stretches, hospital beds lock correctly, which is a no brainer patient safety issue that needed to be addressed years ago! One would think they should be embarrassed about how low they pay the staff! Clinical staff! That actually still have salary caps! The bonuses Life Point Tennessee gives the administration staff for saving money by not paying the actual people who are responsible for the most important jobs in the hospital must be quite high! They don't care able anything but their own salaries. HR is non-existent. Mental health insurance coverage is embarrassing for 2024. They cut the employees PTO hour  earnings for personal time off. People who have worked at this hospital for 40 plus years make less an hour than starting pay at other regional hospitals. Their answer to employees that want a fair raise is quit and work go work at another hospital. Some employees haven't had raises in over five years. Not everyone can commute to other hospitals due to the distance. This hospital needs to be condemned. 

Let me start off by saying the best thing that came out of this job as a registrar were some co- workers and some patients that I had the pleasure of meeting. The registration department is so unorganized and management most definitely shares a huge lack of leadership, listening skills and organization. They expect one person to do it all. I will not get into detail on it but if you know anyone who works in that department, I’m sure you have heard. This place definitely does not believe in work life balance not to mention if you put in your hard earned time to go in vacation, you have to find your own coverage. Honestly there are so many things that I could share about this place but I will not. I do appreciate the fact I was chosen to work here so that my lesson learned would be to warn anyone else of what they may walk into. I feel that if management there would stop choosing favoritism over experienced individuals for job positions there wouldn’t be so much turnover. At the end of the day a lot of hard work underpaid and being unappreciated. 

Very money hungry business. Over 37 employees have left the Case Mgmt. Dept. In 2 years. This is a major red flag. Corporate appears to not care about the reason for the high turnover or the case mgmt. staff. They provide minimal care and do not care. Sovah Hospital continues to lower its standards for health-care. Sovah only cares about the profit they receive.They see employees leaving a rapid rates yet offer no new employee benefits. The staff are only given 2 holidays. It is not paid as you are told Sovah provides paid holidays. You are required to use your own earned PTO.  If you get covid you have to use your own PTO, if you don't have enough PTO you don't get paid. This cannot be legal. OSHA should be notified. Additionally, earned PTO is accrued at a rate of 4 hours, not equal to a full work day. The work environment is stressful and not conducive to a balanced work and life. 

The position was enjoyable but the communication within the Pharmacy Department was off the page most of the time. While everyone worked as a team...it took awhile to get to that place. 
My advice to the next pharmacy technician that is employed there is to make sure you are trained in every area and aspect of the position so that you can be the best that you can be! 
If you are looking for a Pharmacy Technician position that credits being VA registered AND Nationally Certified (PTCB), it doesn't matter there because being Nationally Certified (PTCB) is not going to acquire you a higher pay rate. 

Hopefully that will change in the future just like the name did 
Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County to SOVAH




What is the best part of working at the company?
Helping members of the community.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Sovah has no vision and leadership that operates from within offices. There is minimal interaction with senior leadership, and it seems things are always changing. Also, the building is in disrepair as well as much of the equipment, but there are only efforts to fix the equipment that is used to bill patients and building repairs are generally just patch jobs. They claim to want to be a company people want to work for, but they keep outsourcing or contracting out entire departments. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Unsupportive, overworked, and blaming. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Constant stress with little direction or support from senior leaders.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The kindness from the staff and doctors. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Some situations can be stressful when assisting patients who require more assistance than usual. But with the proper tools and knowledge, a stressful situation can be resolved quickly.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The environment and culture is very diverse which I love.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Walking in not knowing what to expect. Learning something new every single day. Walking out feeling like I have accomplished my daily goal of I made my community a healthier place.

Favoritism runs amok. No transparency. Communication lacking. They can tell you that you’re one of their best workers and still get rid of you if they have a chance on paper, regardless of what circumstances you have going on like COVID or taking care of sick family via FMLA. 

Doesn’t pay enough for being at risk of health concerns and infections. Other departments can’t do much to help you if your own departments not communicating. 

This is an at-will for-profit hospital. Look elsewhere if you don’t want to lose your identity. 

Most of the people here are wonderful to work with overall and for that reason it can make it a little more tolerable. Unfortunately the staff is extremely understaffed and grossly underpaid. The employees do not feel valued and appreciated for all they do and the company clearly does not care by how poorly they compensate them.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The  patients ! They are very nice people ! Genuine!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Nursing leadership , they don’t follow hospital policy and are very clicky.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It’s a go along get along type of environment. You’ll be fine if your submissive to nursing leadership but if you rock there boat in any way then you are marked they will look at every avenue of your job to remove u . 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Good can get busy , for a year it was smooth sailing and then it wasn’t and nothing could change it back .

I began working at this facility while I was in respiratory school and was hired after my graduation.  So all of my knowledge and experience came from there.  Over the years I have been able to learn many skills and have sharpened my patient assessment skills which I do believe is key in any patient care situation.

My recent years was on nights and this is a more laid back environment, but not to say it was less busy, just less chaotic.

The hardest part for me was the lack of communication between physicians and patients and their families.  Some of this could be due to culture differences.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Scheduler 10 salaries reported	$33.00 per hour
Registered nurse 3 salaries reported	$29.00 per hour
Nurse 3 salaries reported	$31.67 per hour
Radiation therapist 2 salaries reported	$39.90 per hour
Neurodiagnostic technologist 2 salaries reported	$24.03 per hour

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