biomedical equipment technician

biomedical technician

senior biomedical technician

field service technician

engineer

TRIMEDX

I filled a BMET III position at a local hospital for over 10 years, under 3 different companies, all of which where purchased by the succeeding company, the last one being Trimedx.

I truly enjoyed serving the customer. It was a great place for a young BMET III to learn the role of a lead senior tech. The climate was cool and the atmosphere was relaxed for the most part. PM demands and standards where high. We were told to test equipment to manufacture's specifications, but no manufacturer's training was provided. 

I started to feel my pay was stagnant as I was given very meager nominal annual raises, as my responsibilities were only getting greater, both personally and professionally. I asked for a salary renegotiation, and that went unanswered. Then I decided to apply for a different role within the organization, and that was denied. 

I found it disappointing that the local Management team could not or would not help compensate me, nor would they promote me for my knowledge and tenure for my loyal and excellent service to the customer. 

Eventually, I was hired on by a local competing hospital as an in-house BMET, they even gave me a 31% raise over Trimedx given my "experience and skills". 

The local Trimedx Management Team I worked under had little to no background in Biomed or Clinical Engineering. I feel they are mismanaging the account, and they will lose it if they do not value their staff and customer.

Upper management has no idea what they are doing. There are no opportunities available to move up in the company and the confidence that the employees have in their company is little to non-existent. 

Why listen to the people who are good at crunching numbers and micromanaging when you can listen to the people who have been in this industry for 15-20+ years and know what they're doing? They just throw them to the ground and listen to those who are great at crunching numbers instead of the ones who have been successful in this industry. 

Customer satisfaction should be their top priority but all it becomes is another number category that they have in their metrics. 

Their drive and motivation should be to support the professionals and give them the confidence and trust that they will be able to perform their duties to take care of the patients!!

Service of the Poor, Reverence, Integrity, Wisdom, Creativity, and Dedication? I have not seen ANY of that. There were some fundraisers that a co-workers kid wanted some support from to help out the community. Corporate shut that idea down real fast. 

Faith based organization? I fail to see any of that. All they care about is saving money and driving people who truly love their job out of this industry. Practice what you preach. 

TriMedx has far deviated from what their model was before. Their new website for hiring is called "www.numberstellourstory.com". Well I think THAT just sums it up. 

This will definitely become another MasterPlan. 

I started working for TriMedx when it was wholly owned by Ascension and was still going by the name Medxcel Global. During my time with the company, we became partially owned by Ascension and a private firm out of New York took over as the majority owner of the organization. During this time, we split one business unit out and flattened other parts of the organization into one company instead of three. 

With all of the changes going on, I felt that the company began to lose sight of some of it's original values. More focus on the business itself (which is a good thing) but less on the associates (which is a bad thing). I think there should be a balance, and I think they're still working to find what that right number is.

I enjoyed my time with the company and I felt like I was able to contribute a lot in terms of finding efficiencies within the organization, and I liked the people that were in my department that I interacted with. One of the most important things to me is being able to leave at the end of the day and feel like I've done something to make a difference and make someones life easier or better, and most days (especially in the beginning) I did feel this way. It became less and less though as we proceeded with the organizational structure changes.

I worked by myself as an MME representative for a suburban area hospital. I enjoyed the job as the duties I had were easily understood and were repetitive with little variance. 
If you are one who can be self-reliant with a good work ethic, be responsible and take steps to communicate with your management, you'll do well with this company. Management, direct or indirect, are very open with communication and work with you. Compensation & benefits are nice, everything you do can have a measure for potential rewards/perks.
Only downside I could state was, working alone, was a bit rough for needing time off or if you needed a sick day... you're the only one there so you may need to just bite the bullet & work through it, but the job is very low stress so it's manageable. A set 830-5 schedule with weekends off was great as well, and you'll almost never need to do anything for work when it wasn't originally scheduled. (ie: no overtime). 
Highly recommended for someone with great work ethic and/or a student/younger adult starting to get into the job market. 


Pros:
Decent work life balance
Flexible hours
Decent benefits

Cons: 
below average starting wages
Lack of bonuses and performance incentives

At my time at a location service at trimedx, I would say that working there is subpar. As previously mentioned, there are some glaring issues in terms of incentives for employees at trimedx. For example, any hope for any sort of fiscal incentive that is based on performance as a department or an employee is not present. Instead, you can send points that amount to only a couple of dollars to spend on trimedx approved items to other employees. Raises are infrequent, and fairly small. 

In terms of the site that I worked at, the work environment is in my opinion, VERY hostile. Towards anyone who is outside of the department. Many nurses have been called incompetent when they don't have the same knowledge as the techs. There were a LOT of hostile comments about LGBTQ people, whether they worked with the department or not. Because of this, it was an environment that I did not feel safe in, and it definitely affected the way I interacted with team members.

Poor management of their employees. 
Poor management of their customers medical equipment. 
Corporate office is only interested in the corporate office, despite their fancy words, and is not involved in the field enough therefore they fail to react properly to events in the field. They do not take advantage of the experience of the people out in the field. They develop everything around the corporate office environment/structure which does not fit the field environment/structure.
Culture and ethics are terrible. I would elaborate but I do not want to end up in court.
I could go on but I tire of reliving the pain of working there.
Pick an aspect of a company and just figure they mess it up some way.
If your desire or love is to work on medical equipment then there is a place for you  at Trimedx but reread the above a couple times and try to find somewhere else to work.

This is my point of view, take it as such. Do your homework before taking a job anywhere.

Very poor management, Zero prior experience in Imaging. 
Fresh out of school. 
Some engineers are great, while others are not helpful whatsoever. 
Would lie to you and say they didn't have service documentation for a particular system, when it was later proven that they DID. 
Engineers were always disgruntled with management. 
it was always a "watch your back culture". 
Great benefits, but not really worth all of the other negatives. 
if you notice, they have many job postings that have been open and re-posted for a verryyyyy long time.. and also under several different names, such as Perfomant Solutions, etc... because they cannot fill these positions. There is a reason for that!
Their open position numbers continue to grow. 
They are part owned by Ascension Healthcare network... 
Look up Nightengale program. 
Sharing Personal Healthcare information for gain. Guess HIPPA doesn't matter. 
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong... 
A real snake in the grass. 
Don,t get bitten! Might be poisonous. 
Would not recommend to anyone. 
If there was a Zero rating, some would have been that.

As a company, TRIMEDX is a solid and stable option for any field or operations position. They offer competitive and fair pay, a good benefits package, and the culture for operations is one of innovation and constant growth. I retained many of my connections to colleagues and overall there are good people drawn to clinical engineering as it directly supports patient care across the country. 

My experience in the HR department was met with disfunction. I can state that the manager I was working under is no longer with the company. That being said many of the issues with overall morale, culture, and work/life balance may have been addressed. At the time I worked for this company several of the HR employees also shared a sense of disappointment in the culture of the department. Several have since left also. HR has seen high turnover and that is something felt all the way through to operations. Something to consider if looking at a position with the organization.

I have been with Trimedix going on four years. Started in Illinois and absolutely thought Trimedix and the management team were fantastic. Was transferred to northern Florida and it has all gone downhill since. Management has absolutely no idea what their doing and does not understand at all Trimedix policies and procedures. Most are from a previous company Trimedix acquired two years ago. The work environment it hostile and toxic. You are allowed absolutely no overtime and if you do get overtime you required to flex, also several people not all are "on call not on call" 24 hours a day 7 days a week with no on call pay for those hours and must use PTO on a Friday to have a weekend off of on call. May I suggest to you Trimedix you get a team down here to evaluate this situation. As I said above I was extremely satisfied with the company and job before coming to northern Florida. 

I think that the Client Experience Coordinator department is great. I never feel dumb when asking a question and they help you as much as they could. The company overall has great benefits. The only thing I do wish Trimedx has is having atleast a couple of sick days rather than using PTO when you're sick.. Because I want to use PTO for vacation.. It is quite a repetitive job but every call you get can be so different. You're at your desk most times and you get allotted some time away from your desk when you need to step away for a bit. It's very professional and after training you are on probation like how most companies are then you are trusted to be on your own afterwards with biweekly meetings with your supervisor. I am beyond blessed that they hired me remotely and trained me remotely. There is potential for pay increase as well if you do well in your performance review. Hoping to grow or move departments someday within the company.

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