Reviews Received

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  March 4, 2023

   • Telemetry/Step-down

  Night shift staff on the Cardiac Stepdown unit were always super helpful and nice! Management, not so much. Lots of micromanaging. Lots of travelers. Area is nice and usually always able to find something to do!

• 
  March 4, 2023

   • Telemetry/Step-down

  Night shift staff on the Cardiac Stepdown unit were always super helpful and nice! Management, not so much. Lots of micromanaging. Lots of travelers. Area is nice and usually always able to find something to do!

• 
  January 16, 2023

   • Telemetry/Step-down

  Clicky staff. States they’re a level one but do not operate like one. The techs were awesome, the staff not so much. Lots of hostility towards travelers. Always given the heaviest assignments. Was often floated to another “PCU” that they would code as med-surg in order to give 1:8+ ratios with no tech or unit clerk and only another traveler with you to operate the unit. Management was not the nicest and only cared about white boards. Loved the area, it is a skip and jump from Bristol, TN which is such a fun town. Would only return for the area, but would never work there again.

• 
  December 18, 2022

   • Med-Surg

  Management and house supervisors were awful. Lots of travelers. Core staff was friendly and helpful. Building is old and dirty. Acuity was not high. Floors are going to 7:1. Overall wasn’t a bad experience but was great.

• 
  December 18, 2022

   • Other

  Worked at this NICU over a year, minimal orientation as a new grad RN. Not enough equipment or supplies to perform duties. Staffing ratios are ridiculous 6:1 sometimes!! NEVER safe staffing and management is horrible!!! Would never recommend working here even as a traveler!!

• 
  November 27, 2022

   • Telemetry/Step-down

• 
  September 28, 2021

  RN • Pediatrics

• 
  June 7, 2023

   • Surgical

• 
  September 12, 2024

   • Emergency Room

  Had worked here as staff years prior and returned as traveler. The building was desolate and nasty. The breakroom was over crowded with multiple holes in the walls. The were multiple bug covered sticky fly tapes hanging from the ceiling. The rooms were dirty and rarely cleaned. When I left as staff, ratios were 1:3, 1:4 max. Now suddenly ratios were as high as 1:8 in a Level 1 Trauma Teaching Facility. Code STEMI and Code STROKE patients in the hallways with no privacy, no monitors to place patients on. They do follow any ENA guidelines as their Trauma process was a joke. They had implemented RED SHIRTS who strictly assisted with and followed all traumas in the ED and trauma patients within the hospital. They would also be the ones to take your patient to CT Scan, X-ray, to the ICU/Floor. They also responded to any Code Blue/Rapid Response throughout the hospital. This hospital has no clue what a Level 1 Hospital is or how to run like one although they like to shove the fact that they are Level 1 down your throat. Literally patients, CRITICAL patients crammed in every nook of the ER. Standing room only in the lobby of patients checked in waiting to see a Dr, waiting more than 24 hours at times. Chest pains, Altered LOC/Likely Code Stroke waiting in lobby not being brought back. Security is a joke, as safety of staff is the further est thing from their mind. As traveler, you were given any crap that staff did not want to deal with. There were techs, but essentially for the STAFF RN’s. Developed COVID while there and diagnosed with Long COVID complications. Although had DR notes, provided all paperwork, and stayed in contact daily with management found out when attempted to resign ( yes I know this was stupid but had family there I needed to be near ) found out from agency that I had been placed as non-rehire for time missed with COVID although per guidelines I was not allowed to work. This place is a dangerous dumpster fire! Make sure you have no blinders on going into a Ballad Facility, and heed all the warnings. I never thought a facility I had once been so proud to work out at, had turned in to such a cess pool. Don’t believe me? Google Ballad Health …. Read the Facebook sites! They do NOT lie!