Pros
Above average benefits for retirement and health insurance
Kontras
Providence views their employees as a financial tool to leverage and engineers layoffs to temporarily balance the books and save money. I was recruited (Providence spent a lot of money to hire me), and upon my hire I found out that they had already planned a department restructure to save money. Administration made the decision but lower level management was still able to fill the open position. My layoff was likely planned before my first day of service. Of course they kept me on for months after announcing they would eliminate my position when they no longer needed me. Essentially I was a locums position hired as a full time employee. I was only allowed to know a month at a time when I would ultimately be laid off. Providence re-opened the position a year later because the work load required it.