
Bakersfield Heart Hospital
About this facility
Bakersfield Heart Hospital in Bakersfield, CA is not nationally ranked in any specialty.Details
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- •Short Term Acute Care
- •47 beds
1:4 Patient ratio
Verified by 17 Vivian users
Reviews
1 nurse recommends working here
Pros
Small hospital. Friendly, helpful and welcoming staff.
Cons
None
Recommends working here
Adventist Health
- •Accidental death/dismemberment
- •Time off to attend courses required to maintain licensure
- •Vacation
- •Educational assistance
- •Retirement benefits
- •Telecommuting, job sharing and flextime as appropriate
- •Short-term disability/extended sick leave
- •Leaves of absence for family care, funerals
- •Employee assistance programs
- •Continuing Education
- •Sick pay
- •Holiday Pay
- •Health savings account
- •Health Care FSA
- •403b retirement plan
- •Bereavement
- •Life insurance
- •401k retirement plan
- •Medical benefits
- •Dental benefits
- •Vision benefits
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The Devil's Flagship Center
If you don't understand a title, let me explain. For this to be a holy organization, they are the evilest of some of the institutions.I've worked for. It was so bad working there that people were jumping ship like rats on a sinking ship. The doctors were instructed not to authorize leave of absences. That's how many people were leaving this place. There's so much hostility and harassment from middle management, hR covers for them when you make complaints, there are complaints go to their main ranch and then comes right back down to the location in which you work. And complaining about a manager, it goes right back to that manager's desk. They hire based on favoritism, they do not post jobs to promote from to give everyone else a chance to apply for the job. Middle management allows harassment matter fact, they participate in it. If the doctors, some of them pretty good, but there's others that walk around. Like their kings and they make nurses cry. And if they can't make you cry, they start a witch hut out for you and making your days working there miserable. Some of the nurses don't know how to start. I vs so what they do is tape. The patient's arm so much, so just to hold, IV on the arm. Instead of restarting an IV so the bandages are covered, and the absolute medication are saline that they're supposed to be getting inside of their body is all on the outside of their body. And others who have I've gotten the ivs in, they don't want to change the IV. Because it's so hard to get it in, so they let the IV sit there longer than the 3 days. That's allowed some of the I. Vs are infiltrated, so there's a huge lump of whatever medication or treatment. It's supposed to be given to them is going underneath the skin and causing palms with the patient's skin and their recovery. The patient population, there is extremely difficult. Some of the patients fight each other. Some of the patients family within their family, going to the rooms and they fight each other husbands, hitting wives, daughters, cussing out Mother's. They don't respect the rules of restricted areas. When 1 person needs care they might bring 3-12 visitors with them to the hospital, they will rearrange the furniture and take over a whole waiting room. And not allow for other patients to have a seat. They speak loudly, i'm very aggressive with others. No matter how small the exam room or that?The patient is an adult in their thirties.They expect you to bring all twelve of them in the room and discuss the person's conditions or exam to the whole family, which is against the HIPPA privacy guidelines. As soon as they complain, the hospital or the middle management, instead of them standing behind these guidelines and the hospital policy, they turn on you and give you a disciplinary action. Because you follow the guidelines that we all have to follow. Those are phenomenal guidelines, and that starts the rest of the problem with working for Adventist Health. I almost had a stroke. The five years that I work for them, I would never work there again.I would never work in glendale.Again.That's how bad it is.
Review of Adventist Health on Jun 7, 2026