Tanner Health System Careers, Benefits, Review

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Service

To be a great health system, we must be a great place to work.

To provide great care, we need a great team. And to offer our community a great team, every person on that team must be treated with compassion, dignity and respect. 

Everyone should feel accepted. Everyone should feel included. Everyone should feel respected. 

This not always simple, but it is vital to our mission. We must all:

• Feel empowered to contribute our ideas
• Be open to unfamiliar cultures and experiences
• Acknowledge and confront our biases
• Hold firm to our commitment to equity
• Feel secure being our authentic selves
• Keep our mission central to everything we do

Our community includes persons of different ethnicities, races, genders, identities, sexual orientations, ages and abilities. We are building and retaining a team that ensures our patients feel represented among their caregivers.

Everyone on our team deserves to work in an environment in which they can be themselves — including the full richness of their backgrounds and life experiences.

We’re a mission-driven community healthcare organization focusing on helping our neighbors live long, healthy and active lives.

Great care is a team effort. It takes compassionate clinicians, diligent environmental service professionals, culinary minded food and nutrition services staff and a host of others to help people heal.

At Tanner, you’ll feel engaged, valued and part of something unique in health care.

A career that matters

Health care is more than a career — it’s a calling. It’s a way to serve others, to help people through what may often be the most difficult or joyful times of their lives.

Everyone at Tanner is a healthcare professional — clinical and nonclinical alike. Here, we’re all working toward the same goal: improving health for the communities we serve.

How We #ExperienceTanner

Current Tanner Health System employees share their experiences of working for Tanner and explain why those who are interested in a career in healthcare should #ExperienceTanner for themselves.

What it means to #ExperienceTanner

Antoine Saunders, RN, with Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, shares what it's like to work for Tanner Health System and explains why those who are interested in a career in healthcare should #ExperienceTanner for themselves.

Watch the video to learn more now. 

You Can Make a Difference

At Tanner Health System, our volunteers are one of our greatest treasures. Each activity to which volunteers dedicate their time has a direct and positive impact on both our patients and community. By volunteering, you are providing not only a valuable service but giving the most precious gift you have to the community — your time.

In 2014, more than 300 volunteers donated more than 60,000 hours to help out at Tanner. Volunteers are needed for the auxiliaries on our hospital campuses in Carrollton, Villa Rica and Bremen — each serving the needs of its own hospital and community — as well as for Tanner Hospice Care, in Pastoral Care as a hospital chaplain and for the various healthy initiatives of Get Healthy, Live Well.

Volunteer as a Chaplain

A hospital stay can be a frightening, anxious and lonely experience. Tanner calls on a number of professional and lay clergy to provide spiritual and emotional support to our patients, as well as to their families and friends.

If you’re interested in extending your ministry to the patient care setting, call 770.812.9461.

Volunteer at Tanner Hospice Care

Tanner Hospice Care is our community’s only locally based, nonprofit hospice care provider. Hospice volunteers play an important role, making a difference in the lives of hospice patients and their families. To qualify to assist in patient care, volunteers must apply. A training program and background check are required, since the work involves close engagement in a patient’s home.

To learn more about volunteering with Tanner Hospice Care, visit www.tannerhospicecare.org. To apply online, click complete an online application. For inquiries or questions, call 770.214.2355.

Volunteer at a Tanner Hospital

The smiling faces of Tanner’s auxiliary members and volunteers can be seen throughout the hospital. Some assignments have a great deal of patient contact and interaction, while others have very limited patient contact. Auxilians and volunteers serve in multiple sites at each facility in a variety of roles. Whether serving at a hospital’s information desks, in our gift shops or in the transportation office, volunteers brighten the lives of our patients and are an important part of Tanner’s healthcare team.

There are volunteer opportunities for adults, college students, high school students and groups, as well as short-term opportunities, throughout Tanner’s healthcare facilities. So, whether you have a few hours to give or are available for a longer period, you’ll be able to make a difference.

Learn more at here. 

Just as our employees are dedicated to meeting the needs of each patient, our Tanner Advantage benefits program is designed to meet the needs of each Tanner team member. At Tanner, we are committed to providing a competitive benefits and compensation package that gives our employees the resources they need to grow in their careers, care for their own and their family's health and wellbeing, and prepare for their financial futures.

The Tanner Advantage program includes a variety of resources that allows our full-time employees (working 30 or more hours a week) to create a benefits package that is tailored to their needs:

• Health insurance – Three health plan options that provide comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage at a variety of deductible levels.
• Tanner Healthy Advantage program - Rewards employees for good health habits and maintaining a healthy lifestyle by providing premium credits toward the cost of health benefits.
• Dental insurance – Comprehensive coverage for a wide array of dental services
• Vision insurance – Comprehensive coverage for eye exams, lenses and more
• Flexible spending account (FSA) – Tax-saving reimbursement account that helps pay for healthcare expenses
• Health savings account (HSA) – Tax-saving account that allows employees to save for current and future healthcare expenses; includes generous employer contributions.
• Basic life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance – Provided at no cost to employee with option to purchase additional Voluntary Life and AD&D coverage at discounted group rates.
• Spouse basic life and dependent child life insurance – Provided at no cost to employee with option to purchase additional Voluntary Life and AD&D coverage at discounted group rates.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance – Affordable coverage that provides income replacement when most needed.
• Critical illness and accident insurance – Pays benefits directly to employee in the event of a covered illness or injury.
• Legal services plan – Offers consultations with attorneys on a variety of personal legal matters.
• Auto and home insurance – Discounted group rates and the convenience of payroll deduction.
• Paid time off (PTO) program – Provides flexibility to use time off for a variety of reasons.
• Extended illness bank (EIB) – Helps provide income protection for longer-term illness or injury.
• 401(k) retirement plan – Save for retirement through pre-tax or Roth contributions; generous dollar-for-dollar match on the first 4% and fifty cents for every dollar on the next 2% of pay contributed; 2-year vesting.
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance – Pays benefits directly to employee in the event of a covered hospital admission.
• Tuition reimbursement – Provides financial assistance to help reach educational goals.
• Child care discount program – 20% discount off tuition at Bridge Learning Centers/Sunbrook Academy.
• Quickcharge – Use of Tanner ID badge to make purchases in Tanner cafes, gift shops, and business office through payroll deduction.
• Work-life balance program – Comprehensive program which includes will preparation, childcare and eldercare referral, identity theft services, and emergency travel services.

Our part-time and PRN employees are critical to our success as well. We offer our part-time and PRN staff the ability to participate in Tanner’s retirement programs and receive the same generous match. In addition, all employees (full-time, part-time and PRN) receive the following benefits:

• Wellness programs – Well 4 Life program that provides a free annual Well Check, which includes a lipid profile, blood glucose test, and blood pressure screening, free health coaching, 24-hour exercise facilities and a variety of classes and programs.
• Employee assistance program (EAP) – Confidential resource and referral service; up to six free visits per year.
• Vision discount plan – Savings on eye exams, lenses and more.
• Cafeteria discounts – Savings at Tanner cafes throughout the system.
• Employee discount program – Offers savings on dining, entertainment, financial services, health and wellness, computers, wireless and more.
• Mammogram screenings – For employees and spouses; at Tanner facilities.
• Georgia Path2College 529 Plan – Convenient payroll deduction to help save for educational expenses.
• Direct deposit – Offers ability to automatically deposit to multiple checking and savings accounts.
• Associated Credit Union membership.
• Employee group activities and special events.
• Service awards – Recognition and rewards offered in five-year increments

Tanner Health System is also committed to providing physical activity and wellness opportunities for our employees. We were recognized as a 2016 Gold Level Recipient of the American Heart Association’s Fit-Friendly Worksites Recognition program.

And perhaps the most important benefit of all, you'll have the chance to work with some of the most caring and dedicated people you will find — the staff of Tanner Health System.

At Tanner Health System, our team members are Advancing Health. Simply put, this means Tanner is expanding the possibilities of health in our community, providing access to the advanced care our patients need. We know it takes much more than medicine. And we’re prepared to deliver it. Medicine beyond measure.

Watch the videos below to learn more about working at Tanner, where commitment to Advancing Health in our community is a priority.

Why Choose Nursing at Tanner?

Exceptional care starts with exceptional nurses

For generations, nurses at Tanner Health System have been part of a unique, patient-centered tradition of neighbors caring for neighbors.

Our nurses deliver high-quality care in an environment that recognizes compassion and rewards multidisciplinary teamwork. Nurses receive extremely competitive compensation and benefits, including specialty differential pay as well as weekend and night shift differential pay. Tanner’s human resources professionals routinely survey compensation packages throughout metro Atlanta to ensure the organization’s benefits and compensation programs are competitive to attract and retain top-tier nursing professionals.

Tanner is a local healthcare organization, but it is perennially ranked among the top healthcare organizations in the nation for quality care and patient satisfaction. Because when your patients are your neighbors, you provide medicine beyond measure.

To learn more about our nursing opportunities, visit www.tannercareers.org.