KishHealth System has been included in the annual list published by Becker’s Hospital Review and Becker’s ASC Review, “100 Great Places to Work in Healthcare.” KishHealth System and the other hospitals, health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, and physician groups included in this list offer robust benefit packages, positive work environments, excellent employee recognition programs and opportunities for professional development and continuing education. The Becker’s Hospital Review and Becker’s ASC Review editorial teams accepted nominations for the 2013 list and selected recipients based on nominations and thorough editorial research.
About KishHealth System
KishHealth System provides services to the greater DeKalb County area in northern Illinois. The system is comprised of two non-profit community hospitals and several other non-profit healthcare providers. Health system entities include Kishwaukee Community Hospital, DeKalb; Valley West Community Hospital, Sandwich; The Cancer Center at Kish Hospital, The Cancer Center at Valley West Hospital, DeKalb County Hospice, The Center for Family Health, KishHealth Foundation, and KishHealth Physician Group with locations in DeKalb, Sandwich, Genoa and Plano. The vision of KishHealth System is to be the best place for employees to work, the best place for physicians to practice and, most of all, the best place for patients to receive care.
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Breaking it down to local real time home economics I’d have to say KishHealth System is at the very top of the Great Places to Work list for DeKalb County. As you point out their top administrators compare favorably to even NIU. But right on down the list to cleaning service there are peer favorable comparisons in terms of total compensation including benefits.
But health care is expensive. As is education. As is government. Thank goodness we can buy from the $1 Menu at Mickey-D’s, ehhh Stephen? The prevailing notion among any Best Places to Work list is, all together now, if you want a quality workforce you’ve got to pay for it.
The conundrum is no one will pay for that standard of quality out of their own wallet if they can help it.
One last thing Kishwaukee Health System pays their CEO twice what they pay in property taxes. This shows just how broken our tax system is. We have tax breaks for not for profits but no controls over executive pay. These organizations can masquerade as charities and even solicite people to put them in their wills. Make no mistake there is no comparison with these organizations and the Salvation Army.
I have to wonder who nominated Kishwaukee Health Systems as a great place to work? Was it an administrator at Kish? I wonder if this Becker Hospital Review actually interviewed any of the employees? Workers there seem to lack basic rights in the workplace without union representation. Kish has forced workers to retire for no apparent reason. They make working there so bad that some quit. One that I know of hired a lawyer and received significant compensation because of the heavy handed behavior of the employer.
It certainly is a great place for it’s top executives to work. As the top two make nearly a million dollars per year. I don’t know what their many vice presidents are paid. As Kish has taken over the home health care nursing business in the country it hasn’t been as profitable for the nurses.
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I have contacted this Becker Hospital Review and they apparently make these awards without actually interviewing the employees at these “great places to work.” So this award means practically nothing in reality.