I worked at Mission and St. Joes campuses for all of 12 years. I loved it there the first 10 years and then after JD showed up things went down hill. He promised that education budgets wouldn’t be cut and then nursing was the backbone of the facility. I took another job in Mission working in every department for nursing and slowly watched as old people that supported the staff were replaced with new people who were more corporate minded. Autonomy disappeared, morale began to dwindle. I left 3 years ago now and have not looked back. I was ridiculed for leaving and now people are constantly asking if I can help them get a job in my new facility. I am appalled at the changes that now affect friends and family that feel "stuck" there. When I go back to visit people seem so angry and dissatified with there jobs and it unfortunately shows in there work. Asheville deserves better and hopefully Mission can get back to the quality patient care that we all came to know years ago.
EmployeeSeptember 10, 2009 - 1:44 am
The morale is low because the "higher ups" specifically Joe Damore and his followers, they are on their way to ruining a good hospital. There has been much, much, money spent remodeling places that do not need it and have deprived employees of a raise. We got a 1.5% raise recently, this is not enough. They think this is going to stop the grumbling,.Think again. We are working short, patients are not getting the kind of care they are used to and need. I know of a nurse who had to lie to the Joint Commission to keep from losing her job. There have been mistakes made that have hurt patients because everyone is overworked. The people of the community need to step up and demand the Board get rid of Joe.
DumpDamoreSeptember 10, 2009 - 12:43 am
The comment about keeping the heat on is "right on." The future of Mission hangs in the balance right now–with the volunteer Board of Directors. It remains to be seen if they have the "guts and fortitude" to make the hard decisions needed (exiting current CEO,COO, VPHR, etc). If they don’t, then the awards and quality of care will be gone in less than a year as droves of talented care-giving professionals (all in high demand) will leave this floundering ship. A sad commentary but true–especially since Mission has survived nearly 125 years.
FiredSeptember 8, 2009 - 8:06 pm
The only people that Mission is hurting are the Pt’s that i would be taking care of. I hope that someone takes a close look at what the Hospital is doing to it’s employees.
AnonSeptember 8, 2009 - 4:24 pm
Unfortunately it appears that the "good ol boy" system has been working hard to help out Joe and his ASSistants called Vp’s. I have worked for many hospitals and can tell you that what passes for leadership at this hospital is ABYSMAL! This group of highly paid, hypocritical, ego maniacal, deceitful, MBA’s is embarrassing to anyone that has a shred of ethics or an ounce of common clinical sense. This community MUST step up and keep the heat on this board or YOUR community hospital will fall further behind and go from "Great to Crappy" under the JD regime!
Been ThereSeptember 8, 2009 - 11:46 am
Here’s to hoping all the MBA’s disappear and Mission gets back to just good patient care.
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I worked at Mission and St. Joes campuses for all of 12 years. I loved it there the first 10 years and then after JD showed up things went down hill. He promised that education budgets wouldn’t be cut and then nursing was the backbone of the facility. I took another job in Mission working in every department for nursing and slowly watched as old people that supported the staff were replaced with new people who were more corporate minded. Autonomy disappeared, morale began to dwindle. I left 3 years ago now and have not looked back. I was ridiculed for leaving and now people are constantly asking if I can help them get a job in my new facility. I am appalled at the changes that now affect friends and family that feel "stuck" there. When I go back to visit people seem so angry and dissatified with there jobs and it unfortunately shows in there work. Asheville deserves better and hopefully Mission can get back to the quality patient care that we all came to know years ago.
The morale is low because the "higher ups" specifically Joe Damore and his followers, they are on their way to ruining a good hospital.
There has been much, much, money spent remodeling places that do not need it and have deprived employees of a raise. We got a 1.5% raise recently, this is not enough. They think this is going to stop the grumbling,.Think again. We are working short, patients are not getting the kind of care they are used to and need. I know of a nurse who had to lie to the Joint Commission to keep from losing her job. There have been mistakes made that have hurt patients because everyone is overworked. The people of the community need to step up and demand the Board get rid of Joe.
The comment about keeping the heat on is "right on." The future of Mission hangs in the balance right now–with the volunteer Board of Directors. It remains to be seen if they have the "guts and fortitude" to make the hard decisions needed (exiting current CEO,COO, VPHR, etc). If they don’t, then the awards and quality of care will be gone in less than a year as droves of talented care-giving professionals (all in high demand) will leave this floundering ship. A sad commentary but true–especially since Mission has survived nearly 125 years.
The only people that Mission is hurting are the Pt’s that i would be taking care of. I hope that someone takes a close look at what the Hospital is doing to it’s employees.
Unfortunately it appears that the "good ol boy" system has been working hard to help out Joe and his ASSistants called Vp’s. I have worked for many hospitals and can tell you that what passes for leadership at this hospital is ABYSMAL! This group of highly paid, hypocritical, ego maniacal, deceitful, MBA’s is embarrassing to anyone that has a shred of ethics or an ounce of common clinical sense. This community MUST step up and keep the heat on this board or YOUR community hospital will fall further behind and go from "Great to Crappy" under the JD regime!
Here’s to hoping all the MBA’s disappear and Mission gets back to just good patient care.
I worked there sometime ago. Had no idea it was bad enough to warrant a editorial comic. For the most part I quite enjoyed my time there.