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Northwell ranked 19th in Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list

Rose Weldon
Northwell Health was ranked 19th to Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list. (Photo courtesy of Northwell Health)

New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health has been ranked 19th on Fortune magazine’s list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.

This marks the health system’s second time on the list, having jumped from 93rd place on last year’s list. It was one of nine health care organizations nationwide to make the list, the only one in New York State to be recognized, and the second-highest ranked health system on the list, surpassed only by nonprofit system Texas Health Resources at seventh place.

Fortune’s top 100 list is based on results from the magazine’s ongoing annual workforce study, representing more than 4.1 million employees in 2021 alone. Eighty-five percent of the evaluation is based on what employees report about their experiences, which are then analyzed relative to each organization’s size, workforce makeup, and what’s typical in the industry and region. Other factors considered include an assessment of employees’ daily experiences of the company’s values, people’s ability to contribute new ideas and the effectiveness of leaders.

Ninety percent of Northwell’s employee respondents in the Fortune survey reported being “proud to tell others” where they work and 84 percent said that “taking everything into account, they would say it is a great place to work,” a 2 percent increase from the previous year.

Fortune’s write-up of the system’s placement noted that in the middle of March last year, Northwell’s hospitals had only 100 COVID-19 patients, but that the number ballooned by the end of the month.

“Fast-forward to 2021 and the sprawling health system says it treated about 20% of New York’s COVID patients in the pandemic’s early days and by March of this year had treated more than 180,000 COVID patients,” the write-up reads. “The company was aggressive in its efforts to procure and provide protective equipment for its workers from the get-go and moved some 10,000 of its then 73,000-strong staff to work from home as soon as the outbreak hit. It has added another 3,000 employees since then.”

The Northwell entry on the list also notes that the system provides subsidized child care, compressed workweeks, fully paid sabbaticals, on-site gyms for employees, sick days for those working part time, college tuition reimbursement and student loan debt repayment, among others.

Northwell’s Best Companies to Work For recognition comes on the heels of the health system being named to Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Health Care & Biopharma list, earning the No. 2 spot for the category of large health care organization.

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