February 11, 2022 – Forbes announced that Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia secured the top spot on its list of America’s Best Large Employers 2022. Forbes partnered with market research company Statista to pinpoint the companies liked best by employees in our annual ranking.
“Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, also known as CHOP, has stood up a variety of programs to help employees navigate the uncertainty, including offering more flexibility in scheduling and split shifts, bringing back retired nurses and offering subsidized childcare through the YMCA,” Forbes said. “It also created a public health department with a hotline and town halls to help address employee questions around testing, vaccination and issues like returning to work and school for their families.”
Despite two years of challenges, including staffing shortages, supply chain issues and reductions in many outpatient and elective procedures, employees at several large hospitals expressed pride and purpose in their work and how their employers were handling the pandemic. Joining CHOP in the top 10 are Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (No. 4), Mayo Clinic (No. 7), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (No. 9) and MD Anderson Cancer Center (No. 10).
“It definitely has been an evolving process,” says Memorial Sloan Kettering’s vice president of human resources, legal and regulatory affairs, Leslie Ballantyne, when reflecting on the pandemic. “At all times we’ve looked at multiple dimensions of our employees’ lives: what they need for themselves, what they need for their families and what they need to do their work.”