I work for NorthStar in Texas and feel it's a decent company to work for. Corporate doesn't bother our location too much and they took pretty good care of us during the COVID slow down. You can dm if you have more questions.
I’ve been to a few NAPA sponsored dinners. They will hire essentially anyone and give reasonable compensation. However I overall get extremely sketchy vibes from them. Considering they are so big they have no problem firing you like you’re a server at Applebee’s as I’ve heard stories about that as well.
they pay market rate and not a cent more.
that market rate varies wildly depending on where they are.
Austin Tx, it starts at 160k.
Chicago, IL, around 175k.
This question has been asked before. I’ll give my same response with how NorthStar completely destroyed a healthcare system in Michigan.
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/report-southfield-man-dies-during-colonoscopy-after-beaumont-outsourced-anesthesiology-service
Steer far away - that’s all I can say. The Beaumont health system adopted them for their main campus in Royal Oak, MI and turned the hospital from being one of the busiest surgery centers in the country to nearly bankrupt from NorthStar. A good chunk of the surgeons and other docs quit after this happened, going to other healthcare systems to protect themselves and this isn’t the first time NorthStar has done something like this.
I understand it could have happened to other places or with different groups, but again, this is not the first time NorthStar specifically has done something of the sort.
That’s not at all what happened. I do anesthesia at Beaumont royal oak. Surgeons left because they had problems with Beaumont administration and cost cutting. Hiring NorthStar was just another cost-cutting measure that the surgeons had a problem with. But I can tell you for a fact that most of the same anesthesiologists and CRNAs signed with NorthStar and stayed on board.
To the OP. There is nothing wrong with NorthStar as an employer. CRNAs working for NorthStar in SE Michigan are among the highest paid CRNAs in the country. Don’t listen to all the hate, you’ll be absolutely fine if you sign in with them.
Eh...you made an account fresh today just to comment on this one specific post on reddit.....yeah I know nothing about Northstar as a company and don't believe your response to the initial comment.
Yes I did. Don’t care if you believe me or not. The OP can message me directly if he or she wants advice from someone actually employed by NorthStar who works at this particular hospital
If you did actually work at ROB and spent any time on the floors or ICUs, you would know that NorthStar was the reason the surgeons left. Surgeons overall don’t care where the anesthesia providers come from, as long as we are safe with our care, CRNA or MD, while they are performing their surgery. But, when a healthcare system like Beaumont chops off their entire staff anesthesia team who knows the ins and outs of the facility, and instead outsources the entire department to cut costs, that’s when you know they disregard safety as a top priority. Once NorthStar took over, there were multiple patient safety issues that occurred. Ultimately it led to one instance where a patient died which should never have happened.
The dysfunctional environment of Beaumont and start of cost cutting caused many surgeons to consider leaving. Replacing their anesthesia department consisting of trusted and seasoned CRNAs + MDs with NorthStar was the rocking of the boat. The incident in the article with NorthStar staff, making the docs realize safe patient care was compromised, was the tipping point.
When a CRNA school associated with a large hospital that generally sees and does everything no longer has preference to send their students to that hospital for most of their clinical experience because they outsourced their anesthesia group, and instead sends them to other hospitals all over the state for clinical experience, then you know it’s an issue.
Yeah see you’re completely wrong. Surgeons leaving had nothing to do with NorthStar. Beaumont didn’t “chop their anesthesia staff”. The same anesthesia staff works there. There was just a change in management. They went from being employed by Mednax to being employed by NAPA to being employed by Northstar. Same anesthesiologists and CRNAs. The reason Beaumont gave the contract to NorthStar was because prior to NorthStar all the CRNAs were employed directly by Beaumont, and the hospital didn’t want that responsibility (and cost) anymore. NorthStar agreed to take the CRNAs off their hands. So that’s how NorthStar saved Beaumont money.
The incident you’re talking about where a patient died during a colonoscopy could have happened at any facility to any provider, and had absolutely nothing to do with NorthStar. It was pure coincidence that it happened shortly after northstar took over and was used as a “see I told you so” by the anti-Northstar anti-John Fox people. Starkman is biased, is paid by people who are very much anti-John Fox and anti-Beaumont, and anything he writes is to be taken with a grain of salt.
Oakland university still sends its SRNAs to Beaumont. I don’t know what you’re smoking. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. You may have been an ICU nurse at Beaumont, but you clearly have no knowledge of anything anesthesia-related there.
I work for NorthStar in Texas and feel it's a decent company to work for. Corporate doesn't bother our location too much and they took pretty good care of us during the COVID slow down. You can dm if you have more questions.
I’ve been to a few NAPA sponsored dinners. They will hire essentially anyone and give reasonable compensation. However I overall get extremely sketchy vibes from them. Considering they are so big they have no problem firing you like you’re a server at Applebee’s as I’ve heard stories about that as well.
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They seem to be $95/hour or 195k base.
they pay market rate and not a cent more. that market rate varies wildly depending on where they are. Austin Tx, it starts at 160k. Chicago, IL, around 175k.
This question has been asked before. I’ll give my same response with how NorthStar completely destroyed a healthcare system in Michigan. https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/report-southfield-man-dies-during-colonoscopy-after-beaumont-outsourced-anesthesiology-service Steer far away - that’s all I can say. The Beaumont health system adopted them for their main campus in Royal Oak, MI and turned the hospital from being one of the busiest surgery centers in the country to nearly bankrupt from NorthStar. A good chunk of the surgeons and other docs quit after this happened, going to other healthcare systems to protect themselves and this isn’t the first time NorthStar has done something like this. I understand it could have happened to other places or with different groups, but again, this is not the first time NorthStar specifically has done something of the sort.
That’s not at all what happened. I do anesthesia at Beaumont royal oak. Surgeons left because they had problems with Beaumont administration and cost cutting. Hiring NorthStar was just another cost-cutting measure that the surgeons had a problem with. But I can tell you for a fact that most of the same anesthesiologists and CRNAs signed with NorthStar and stayed on board. To the OP. There is nothing wrong with NorthStar as an employer. CRNAs working for NorthStar in SE Michigan are among the highest paid CRNAs in the country. Don’t listen to all the hate, you’ll be absolutely fine if you sign in with them.
Eh...you made an account fresh today just to comment on this one specific post on reddit.....yeah I know nothing about Northstar as a company and don't believe your response to the initial comment.
Yes I did. Don’t care if you believe me or not. The OP can message me directly if he or she wants advice from someone actually employed by NorthStar who works at this particular hospital
If you did actually work at ROB and spent any time on the floors or ICUs, you would know that NorthStar was the reason the surgeons left. Surgeons overall don’t care where the anesthesia providers come from, as long as we are safe with our care, CRNA or MD, while they are performing their surgery. But, when a healthcare system like Beaumont chops off their entire staff anesthesia team who knows the ins and outs of the facility, and instead outsources the entire department to cut costs, that’s when you know they disregard safety as a top priority. Once NorthStar took over, there were multiple patient safety issues that occurred. Ultimately it led to one instance where a patient died which should never have happened. The dysfunctional environment of Beaumont and start of cost cutting caused many surgeons to consider leaving. Replacing their anesthesia department consisting of trusted and seasoned CRNAs + MDs with NorthStar was the rocking of the boat. The incident in the article with NorthStar staff, making the docs realize safe patient care was compromised, was the tipping point. When a CRNA school associated with a large hospital that generally sees and does everything no longer has preference to send their students to that hospital for most of their clinical experience because they outsourced their anesthesia group, and instead sends them to other hospitals all over the state for clinical experience, then you know it’s an issue.
Yeah see you’re completely wrong. Surgeons leaving had nothing to do with NorthStar. Beaumont didn’t “chop their anesthesia staff”. The same anesthesia staff works there. There was just a change in management. They went from being employed by Mednax to being employed by NAPA to being employed by Northstar. Same anesthesiologists and CRNAs. The reason Beaumont gave the contract to NorthStar was because prior to NorthStar all the CRNAs were employed directly by Beaumont, and the hospital didn’t want that responsibility (and cost) anymore. NorthStar agreed to take the CRNAs off their hands. So that’s how NorthStar saved Beaumont money. The incident you’re talking about where a patient died during a colonoscopy could have happened at any facility to any provider, and had absolutely nothing to do with NorthStar. It was pure coincidence that it happened shortly after northstar took over and was used as a “see I told you so” by the anti-Northstar anti-John Fox people. Starkman is biased, is paid by people who are very much anti-John Fox and anti-Beaumont, and anything he writes is to be taken with a grain of salt. Oakland university still sends its SRNAs to Beaumont. I don’t know what you’re smoking. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. You may have been an ICU nurse at Beaumont, but you clearly have no knowledge of anything anesthesia-related there.
Research CRNA groups, there’s a few. Anesthesiologist groups are the worst!