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Summit Orthopedics

Summit Orthopedics is run by some of the most strange, unhelpful, egotistical, and confusing individuals. Upon starting you receive minimal training and are told you won’t be paid for certain types of training and to “show up on weekends” to shadow. 
Overall very disorganized. You don’t feel valued or respected as an APP here. You are overworked and underpaid. You are never asked for input or suggestions before job changing decisions are made. It’s blatantly obvious you are doing the work the surgeons find boring or laughable. You have specific goals or parameters you have to meet in certain areas (hospital, urgent care, etc), that often have nothing to do with your role and are apparently what they use to gauge the bonus you will get at the end of the year. Though when asked what the bonus will be they have no idea or even range for you. 

They had an awful PA manager, and now are going through a bunch of changes and having random APPs take on leadership roles making it easy for problems to get lost in the crowd and never fixed. There is an egotistical spine surgeon that took on a leadership role that seems to think he is making groundbreaking improvements.

Many of the people are strange and confusing to talk to. Many of the clinic assistants and athletic trainers you work with are rude, unprofessional, and dress in leggings and have purple hair. 

Summit orthopedics is the type of company that will throw a pizza party instead of giving their employees the raises they deserve. I would maybe send my worst enemy here if they ticked me off enough. 

Summit Orthopedics is an awful organization. They 100% have favorites, work new providers to the bone, underpay significantly for the work you do. Leadership only cares about money and numbers. You will not feel adequately trained or supported. You will be told you are inflexible if you don’t do everything they want you to do. You will not be given any sort of handbook when you first start. There is no structure with day-to-day tasks, there is constant turnover of mid-level providers because they realize after 6 months to a year they hate their job at Summit. The surgeons have passive aggressive personalities and do not care an ounce about your learning or advancement as a person and provider. (Some surgeons are extremely nice, but only a few). Because they do not train incoming providers adequately, patient care suffers. Everyone went to school at bethel so are strange, uber-religious individuals. They want submissive people who enjoy being taken advantage of. Do not waste your time here.

- A typical day at work will consist of answering a twelve line telephone.
- schedule patient appointments
- Scan and file documents
- Enter patient data into the computer
- Write patient prescriptions
- Fax documents for physicians
- Generate specific documents at patients request.
From this job I learned how to maintain my patients, and smile no matter what happens.
- Management consist of one office manager and the seven physicians, everyone work really well together to have the office run at a smooth and steady pace.
- My coworkers and I work diligently to accomplish our daily goals and to complete task.
- The hardest part of the job is maintaining patients and composure when dealing with an irritate patients.
- The most enjoyable part of the job is that everyone at work gets along and works really well together.

I worked for Summit for 4 years.  Within that time frame I had 6 different managers and not one knew how to do my job.  The management would expect the world from you but give you very minimal direction.  Many decisions made by management was never "ran" past the people who actually did the work causing a lot more work and stress on the employees who did the actual work and didn't sit behind a desk. Summit doesn't understand the concept of work/home life balance.. It is all about Summit.  Summit is all about the money and can careless about the well being of their employees.  Their moto is to get to "YES" for the patients and never for their employees. Some of the doctors are great, but most could care less about their team and the workload that we had on our "plate".  I wouldn't waste your time applying for this company.

Worked for Summit for over 6 years.  It was hard to leave but the best choice I made for my career.  No advancement or appreciation from the managers or directors of surgery centers. Your voice will not be heard. Concerns are in one ear and out the other. They take advantage of their position and suck up to the surgeons.  It's a sad thing to see people change for money. 
Which made work environment very hostile.  They had no care of the long hours employees had to work or of the constant floating to different location. Which you will be notified the day before.  
There is a lack of communication. Broken promises and too much gossip. Short staff almost daily, causing staff to care for too many patients to one. The list goes on... 
How can a company give patients the best quality of care if they can't even do if for their employees?

Summit is a great place to start off at entry level & have some room to grow, but it feels nearly impossible with the structure of the company. I was hired at a specific location & was told I’d be there as my main location, while floating around occasionally. I cannot honestly remember the last time I was at my home base location from floating so much…It’s really exhausting at times because I could wake up at 6AM & have a message waiting for me telling me I’m needed 50 minutes away when my shift starts at 7AM. It even makes working harder at times because I’m so focused on needing to fit everything around my commute, & it’s stressful. Now to end with some positives, the work itself is very easy, the people are super nice (Both employees & patients), & they are definitely a good place to start a career path.

Like most surgical/orthopedic providers, it's all about the money. Summit has on several occasions, taken numerous shortcuts in safety, patient care, and employee protections. If you make a mistake as a nurse, you will be thrown under the bus without a second thought.  Staff often do not get full breaks, or any at all but Summit's justification is that breaks are paid and thus can be shortened if needed (which is almost every day). They offer few opportunities for employee development and progression and often hire/promote friends of managers/administration. The only redeeming quality is not working nights or weekends which is uncommon as a nurse. Apply with caution.

Summit Orthopedics is a typical for-profit private practice. There is nothing unique about working for this company. Most employees are overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated. All for the benefit of a select few. The communication from management to employees is abysmal, lack of collaborative decision making is constant and the primary focus is obvious: profits. There are several competitors in the area that have much better reputations than this company.

I was happy working for Summit Orthopedics up until my last couple of months. I did not enjoy going into work and did not feel that I could trust management. Overall I loved the position I was in and would do the same exact thing again. I believe it has a lot to do with who you work with. I learned a lot with this being my first real medical-based job after getting my degree, but there was also a lot of difficulty in growing in this position, because not many people that I worked with were open and approachable to really teach me. I was given 1 to 2 weeks of training for this position, when the average patient coordinator is given 6 to 8 weeks. I would recommend working for this company, as it was a good place for me to start.

I worked for Summit for a year and a half. There was a lot about my position that was not told to me at the time of hiring. Unfortunately for such a large corporation it was very poorly ran. It is a physician owned company so many times the physician's are able to trump company policy such as time off, hours etc. Made it nearly impossible to maintain any balance outside of work. It became a very stressful work environment. They have a lot of turn around in several areas and there's obviously a reason for that. If patients were aware of how management and physician's treated the employees it might have an impact on their desicion to receive care there. Not a great experience for me unfortunately.

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