Nurses weigh in on best and worst hospitals to work for
A new national index showing levels of job satisfaction among nurses has Michigan Medicine and Houston Methodist tied for the top spot overall, at least within the “hospitals and health systems” subcategory.
On the other hand, the list comprises 200 of the largest entities employing nurses, and these include non-hospital employers.
When opened to display all entities, the index shows travel nursing companies dominating the leader board for the overall ratings.
Other employer categories include home healthcare providers, operators of senior living facilities and staffing agencies.
Drill-down categories, each of which has its own ratings, include organizational support, compensation, workload and toxicity of culture.
The index was compiled by researchers at MIT Sloan Management Review. The analysts arrived at the ratings by reviewing some 150,000 workplace reviews that nurses have posted in free text to Glassdoor.com.
The review period spanned from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to June 2023.
The authors note that, among nurses who quit during that time window, “toxic culture” was more than twice as predictive of overall job satisfaction as compensation or workload.
Here are the top 10 employers of nurses going by overall scores. Asterisks denote travel nursing agencies.
- Host Healthcare*
- Advantis Medical*, AB Staffing Solutions* (tie overall score)
- Triage Staffing*
- Medical Solutions*
- Michigan Medicine, Houston Methodist (tie)
- SnapNurse*, Sarasota Memorial Healthcare
- Aya Healthcare*, Northside Hospital, University of Utah Hospitals, Stanford Medicine (tie)
- Sharp Healthcare
- IntelyCare*
- New York-Presbyterian Healthcare, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYU Langone Health (tie)
Bringing up the bottom overall is Ballad Health.
Not faring much better are Prime Healthcare Services, Cape Fear Valley Health System, Wellpath, Genesis Healthcare and Acadia Health.
View the full index here.
Dave P. has worked in journalism, marketing and public relations for more than 30 years, frequently concentrating on hospitals, healthcare technology and Catholic communications. He has also specialized in fundraising communications, ghostwriting for CEOs of local, national and global charities, nonprofits and foundations.