The Menninger Clinic reviews

It’s a beautiful campus.

Poor management and limited opportunity for advancement and professional growth. The hospital is being gutted by the current self-aggrandizing CEO and his cronies. Nursing leadership was jacked down to less than a handful of positions leaving no place for anyone to advance. There is a huge and constant overturn of staff leading the hospital to hire young, recent grads with zero psychiatric experience or understanding of milieu therapy. Staffing will call you every day, including days off, and guilt trip you to come work. The cafeteria food used to be fantastic and now they serve food right off the Cisco truck despite advertising they have a culinary master chef. If you go to leadership with a concern about a staff member, they will ask you to write a statement and then use your statement to approach that staff member causing issues amongst floor staff. The pay is below the average in Houston and once in they won’t give you adequate raises, instead they will hire someone with no experience and pay them more money. Zero respect for nursing staff as they are trying to fill the hospital with social work interns to do the work. Some of the directors and physicians of the programs had recently completed their fellowship and were I’ll equipped to handle the patient load. Imagine a psych doctor afraid of prescribing Thorazine for a violent psychotic? Yeah…that bad.

The campus and my co-workers.

The exorbitant Cigna health care plan and deductible costs for me to cover my family each year is in excess of $28,000. The Menninger Clinic Fidelity 403B Investment Plan had a base contribution rate of 5% upon my arrival; I was informed by my Human Resource representative during my interview that Menninger would be increasing their contribution to better align with their affiliate Baylor College of Medicine. I waited several years for the Fidelity Investment announcement to come and when it did instead of being raised to 8% matching BCM they lowered it to 3% stating there was a survey showing this to be the industry standard.

My coworkers are excellent and we have great teamwork.

The new CEO is gutting the facility. The reputation Menninger worked so hard to build is being destroyed by this new team. They are bringing in any kind of patient with a fat checkbook (we are supposed to be voluntary admission) and lying to them, which makes the patients want to discharge 24 hours later. The whole admissions department quit within a few weeks because it is run by a tyrant. Lots of staff have left since this new revamping which is supposed to be better yet is only lining the CEO’s wallet.

The food and free parking.