Dear Jewish Hospital and Frazier Rehab Team Members,
Over the past few weeks, I have written to you regarding the economic situation that our hospital faces. In addition, through our town hall meetings, I’ve had the chance to hear directly from you on your thoughts, concerns and ideas for addressing these situations. Your input has been essential to me in understanding the magnitude of opportunities that we have the ability to focus upon and I am grateful for the active engagement everyone has shown in supporting this effort.
The level of openness that we have had in this process has been a welcomed change that will serve us well as we carry forth our plans. However, with this openness we have also faced the challenge of reacting and responding to media inquiries about our communications and upcoming plans. From my perspective this is a good thing. Every organization is facing similar challenges in this economy, but not every company is dealing with their solutions in an open and transparent manner. While outcomes may be similar, I believe that involving everyone in the decision making process is an important step in developing an open culture that supports change done with you versus change done unto you.
Hundreds of ideas have been shared with me over the course of the last few weeks at the town halls and through emails, voicemails and blog comments. The suggestions varied from recommendations around compensation, benefit and pension changes to supply cost savings, “green” initiatives for our facility, and everything in between. Given the high numbers of suggestions, I have posted a summarized list of recommendations on my blog for all to view (www.hlifeblog.com). Please take a look at these ideas and feel free to continue to share your thoughts and comments.
From the comments we’ve gathered, I am confident that we will create a plan of action that will be fair, effective, and achieve our goal of protecting jobs as much as possible. As a result of your help, support, and input this plan will continue to keep our organization strong and healthy throughout this economic storm that our nation is weathering.
The ideas you have shared will be used to create our final action plan and I am reviewing these ideas with system leadership to finalize our collective recommendations. We will be sharing the final decisions around the plan to be implemented at the beginning of next week. I sincerely appreciate the engagement that all of our team members have shown during this time. Working together as a team does indeed make a difference!
Sincerely,
Martin J. Bonick
President & CEO
Jewish Hospital & Frazier Rehab Institute
3 comments:
Just to let you know, after the distribution of the letter this morning (5/4), all the RNs on our unit applied for positions at other hospitals. Thanks.
We work very hard to make our patients well cared to ensure their satisfaction while at our facility. It is a sad testiment of the appreciation showed by the organization to give us cups from Coca-Cola with plastic lids as they are donated by Coca-Cola for being customers. We already show our team-members appreciation on a day to day basis as management is rarely seen. However, management recieved bonues while team-members are having to deal with the rising cost of living without compensation from the organization. No wonder people are leaving and going to Norton's who offered a two dollar across the board pay raise. Someone should take heed!
that is true about Norton's giving their nurses a two dollar raise. but what makes this so bad is that jhsmh organization feels they can tell their employees anything about this and we're suppose to believe it. the truth is that right now jhsmh is doing bad and norton's is doing good.it goes bad and fourth with these hospitals, when norton's was doing bad and jh was on top.
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