Northern Health Named a Top Employer In B.C.
Prince George, B.C.- There is cause for celebration at Northern Health. The health authority has been named one of the top employers in the province of B.C.
The distinction comes in a special Vancouver Sun publication.
“It is very exciting to have Northern Health named as a top employer in B.C. as it recognizes the hard work of staff across the health authority,” said Health Minister Terry Lake. “Each day health care workers provide exceptional health services to northerners, and that is reflected in the leadership of the organization.”
The editors of Canada’s top 100 Employers were used to evaluate the employers from across B.C. using eight criteria. The criteria used in the evaluation were:
- Physical Workplace
- Work Atmosphere & Social
- Health, Financial & Family Benefits
- Vacation and Time Off
- Employee Communications
- Performance Management
- Training and Skills Development
“Our mission statement emphasizes that it is through Northern Health’s staff and physicians that we are able to deliver excellent health services in communities across northern B.C.,” said Cathy Ulrich, Northern Health’s president and chief executive officer. “Being named one of B.C.’s Top Employers for 2015 showcases the dedication and passion that our staff and physicians put into their work on a daily basis.”
Northern Health has over 7,000 employees in an area that covers two-thirds of the province from just south of Quesnel, north to the Yukon border, west to Haida Gwaii and east to the Alberta border.
Comments
Surely the union members were
not considered in the above article.
Understaffed
Over worked
Low staff moral
Under trained
Wage cuts
There are always two sides to every story.
My lady used to work for them, the atmosphere is toxic, hundreds off on stress leave. It’s not anywhere near a good employer let alone a top one.
In theory, maybe. What a joke!
this must be some kind of joke , really the worst on the map , and it is said to have delivered excellent HEALTH CARE , not so much , so many people had such bad stories to tell about hospital there .
Top employer? Top tax drain you mean. Socialist at work here.
Nurses allowed to make 800 a day cuz so many are off on holidays and sick leave. Half of them smoke. Half are in good shape.lol
Surely the union members were
not considered in the above article.
Understaffed
Over worked
Low staff moral
Under trained
Wage cuts
There are always two sides to every story.
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You appear to know very little about working at Northern Health. With very few exceptions, it is one of the cushiest gigs around.
“You appear to know very little about working at Northern Health. With very few exceptions, it is one of the cushiest gigs around.”
Besides teachers..
axeman I wish that your vision of Northern Health was true.
A great example of why our health care system is so expensive. Wages and benefits not seen anywhere, and all on the taxpayers dime.
Axman,one of the cushiest gigs..have you talked to or know anyone that works there… I can answer that for you.. NO you dont.
Its ran so poorly is disgusting, people jumping from team to team with no training. managers you dont see for months at a time. they change job descriptions as it suits their needs. It is a lousy place to work.
Northern health is trying to make it so they are in charge of the doctors.. if this happens we will lose many good doctors as they move or retire.
I went to northern health to get some forms filled out and I waited for over 45 minutes because no one knew how to do it… its just part of their job..even their manager couldnt figure it out.. was amazingly disgusting.
Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2015 @ 10:03 AM by P Val
Axman,one of the cushiest gigs..have you talked to or know anyone that works there… I can answer that for you.. NO you dont.
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That’s an incorrect assumption on your part.
Just because they didn’t know how to fill out your forms doesn’t lessen the “cushyness” of a lot of the positions. I doubt they really gave a rat’s butt about you and you forms.
axman, I agree wholeheartedly with your comment!
I have been to our local hospital, including the Emergency Department both to attend with family and to visit both family and friends. I have also on occasion visited friends in other hospitals within BC.
While I appreciate the work that our healthcare workers do in taking care of our loved ones, I have yet to see any healthcare worker working at anything more than a normal pace and in many cases at what one might consider a rather leisurely pace. I’ve yet to see anybody running to and fro at an exhausting speed, let alone a brisk pace, covered in sweat and completely disheveled.
However, especially when contract negotiations are coming up, our healthcare unions are screaming bloody murder about how totally over-worked and how exhausted their members are! Perhaps if I had actually seen anybody that looked exhausted and overworked, I might give some credibility to the Unions claims, but as I’ve yet to see it, I simply consider the Union’s statements to be nothing more than a bargaining ploy!
Well said Hart Guy!
Axman, guess you missed the part I posted of how many are on stress, because as you know people who have cushy jobs always are stressed out. Also hart guy, the hospital is just one small part of northern health. My treatment while in the hospital this year was very good, food sucked, but the doctors, nurses, etc where awesome.
Unless you work in healthcare, you don’t have a clue. What the public sees vs what the nursing staff actually does is very miniscule. How many of the public has jobs where one mistake can cost a person their life? Healthcare seems to be the only occupation where it has been allowed to become socially acceptable to verbally and physically assault the staff with no recourse….aside from law infor cement and corrections…..at least they are allowed to defend themselves. Yes the wages can be nice, because we’ve talen the time and energy to educate ourselves and are required to continually take educational courses to maintain our professional designation. You who have negative comments about our job, come do it for half a day. I challenge you. I challenge you to research how many hours a nurse works because they have to. When the clock rings for the end of your day you get to go home. If we are busy, we don’t go home at quoting time. Then we have to fight with our very overpriced management to get the overtime we have already worked. But if we left on time with tasks not done, the management would be the first to get on our case for it. NH management structure makes an average 1 1/2 to 2 times more than a nurse. Works about half the hours a nurse does in a week. So when you open your mouths to complain about the staff at NH, remember that you’d be complaining a whole lot more if we weren’t there. Keep that in mind.
PVal
Unless they got the forms that were printed in Swahili by accident, by using the block on top of their shoulders for something other than to hold their ears apart and reading fine print it is not hard to fill out any form, even a government one.
Most if not all employees working there have some type of post secondary education and they have to have their hand held while filling out a form, pathetic.
Hey sparrow. Come look at the amount of paperwork we need to fill out on a daily basis. Then tell me what each form is for. Then tell me how to chart it for legality reasons. Then come do the rest of the jobs we need to do on a daily basis. What is your occupation sparrow? How much schooling did you need to do? Are people’s lives at risk at your place of work?
Ive got two very close friends who are nurses and its quite funny to hear the two stories they tell depending on company they are with. The Friday night few glasses of wine tales of trading shifts to get double OT and how to work the system or the tales of woe and hardship at contract negotiation time.
And why is it that they figure they are the only ones in the world who have to work late sometimes? And why are they shocked that management makes more than them? This stuff happens every day in most other jobs too, its just the union mentally that cries about it all the time.
I would like to inform the public that not everyone that works at Nothern Health is either a doctor or a nurse.
I have heard the same stories interceptor, of workers gaming the system to get as much OT as possible.
And don’t forget, Northern Health isn’t just doctors and nurses, it’s an army of administrators and managers who push paper around. And by P Val’s account, they don’t even do that very well in many cases. But at least they’re getting top of the line benefits and wages.
Lol.. Their benefits are just average.. Vacation is good for sure. There are hundreds of workers in PG alone that are crammed into cubicles in numerous buildings around town. The majority of northern healthy employees are office wirkers, they don’t get much if any OT. My lady was averaging 4 hrs a year OT in her time there.
Stitch
So what you are saying is that you know what forms have to be filled out and when. Further that if you excercise proper due diligence when filling out and filing said forms there will be no legal issues. What I would call “Doing Your Job”.
@P Val, by ‘workers’ above, I was referring more to the nurses. I don’t know how much OT the office staff gets. Probably not a lot, as you indicate.
“@P Val, by ‘workers’ above, I was referring more to the nurses. I don’t know how much OT the office staff gets. Probably not a lot, as you indicate”.
Would there be a need for O.T ? After all staff apparently makes double what an R.N. would make.
Maverick, so you are saying the RNs only make $28,000. My lady was making $56,000 a year and that’s average for office workers. But each team consists of four members and each team has a manager. Then every four managers have a manager etc.. Huge waste of money in management as per usual.
Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2015 @ 10:43 AM by P Val
Axman, guess you missed the part I posted of how many are on stress, because as you know people who have cushy jobs always are stressed out.
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A great many of those on stress leave are milking it for all they can.
A lot of people seem to equate Northern Health employees with the front line nurses you see at the hospital. They are but a tiny segment of the bureaucracy that is Northern Health.
Look,up the word empathy axman and don’t be so Frikin ignorant.
One thing to remember is this rating was done by a newspaper, so it means nothing at all. Just gives the people running northern health a crumb to brag about
While I appreciate the work that our healthcare workers do in taking care of our loved ones, I have yet to see any healthcare worker working at anything more than a normal pace and in many cases at what one might consider a rather leisurely pace. I’ve yet to see anybody running to and fro at an exhausting speed, let alone a brisk pace, covered in sweat and completely disheveled.
So Hart guy is that how you work? In your above somewhat ignorant statement is that the person you want working on you?
“While I appreciate the work that our healthcare workers do in taking care of our loved ones, I have yet to see any healthcare worker working at anything more than a normal pace and in many cases at what one might consider a rather leisurely pace. I’ve yet to see anybody running to and fro at an exhausting speed, let alone a brisk pace, covered in sweat and completely disheveled”
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Hart Guy, I know you like to believe that you are an expert on absolutely every occupation in the world, but being covered in sweat and completely disheveled is not typically something you want to see in certain workplaces, especially those where people rely more on their brain than their brawn and where they have to be completely focused on the task at hand to ensure that people don’t die.
Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2015 @ 1:45 PM by P Val
Look,up the word empathy axman and don’t be so Frikin ignorant.
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No empathy required, these are my own shoes I’m walking in.
Axman, how many of these people on stress leave from northern health have you talked to? Do you treat these people ? Do you have any training in the healthcare field ? Or just been on stress leave and milked it for all its worth do everyone must..ah. That’s it right there.
Wow thanks for sharing V Pal I was quoting management staff I had no idea janitorial and other staff made that kind of money.
Somethings should be left hush,hush. Wonder how stressful pushing a broom at $27.00 hr would be.
Maverick, I have no idea how much the janitorial staff make no idea as its contracted out, would guess more like $12 if they make what the janitors we have contracted at my work. I was talking about office staff, ones working at pc stations etc.
Oh sorry P Val I didn’t realize your wife worked at Tim Hortons in the hospital. Thanks for clarifying.
Never said anything about having a wife, or her working Tim hortons, but what ever you are on.. Take another hit and enjoy your little made up world.. Lol
P Val
“My lady used to work for them, the atmosphere is toxic, hundreds off on stress leave. It’s not anywhere near a good employer let alone a top one”.
I guess I should have used lady instead of wife hey!
Yeah my wife worked as an R.N. and said it was very cushy, she preferred night shift because usually she could get a nap in before the end of her shift. Oh and that was when they had to look after more than 4 patents.
Maverick, please post the Heu position at Nortthern Health that shows a Tim Hortons, laundry, house keeper or a food service position that comes even close to making $27.00 an hour.
I would imagine “Walter199” that they would be making a union wage probably between $17 to $23 hr but quote me on that.
Mav caught shooting from the hip (again).
Maverick I would agree with those numbers but not $27.00
P Val
“Maverick, so you are saying the RNs only make $28,000. My lady was making $56,000 a year and that’s average for office workers. But each team consists of four members and each team has a manager. Then every four managers have a manager etc.. Huge waste of money in management as per usual”.
Yeah J.B. I just ran with it a little out of boredom.
When you’ve got the head of NH saying “we don’t put patients in hallways”
I would say the bureaucrats at NH have some serious issues about what goes on at PGRH.
I know the Laboratory had issues a while ago about keeping staffing levels up, and on’t think that’s changed. No wonder the waits are so long (Get there at 7, out by 9) but I’ve got a deep respect for the staff in the hospital, they do a damn good job amidst the crap the top sends down. Those emergency room folks are the best!
Not everything at NH is reason for celebration. I am one of those 10,000 who got a letter in the mail and I know more than half a dozen people who got one too! Obviously the Vancouver Sun did not hear about that incident in time when it made up the congratulatory story! I see that their printing presses have stopped for good! Perhaps just in time.
I did save the letter though. Hopefully it will not be needed.
Isn’t it odd how almost every comment posted that includes the word “union” is attached to an anti union comment? Isn’t it odd that almost every reason most employees in this country enjoy the benefits they have, do so because of a union?
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