What is the best hospital to work for in Washington,D.C.?

I prefer the mental health field but I will take any hospital job I can get in D.C. I'll be moving there on 1/20/08.

What is the best hospital to work for in Washington,D.C.?
Try Sibley Memorial Hospital if you are interested in mental health work. They mostly take the "easy" cases (for example, they try to avoid involuntary commitments). Sibley is in an upscale residential neighborhood on the border of Northwest DC and Montgomery County, and it is a clean, safe, "nice" place to work. Here is their Web link. http://www.sibley.org/





A larger hospital not far away that has a substantial number of mental health positions is Suburban Hospital in Montgomery County. They are the crisis center for the county with respect to mental health patients. That means, of course, that they get some of the more difficult patients, but it also means more jobs. Suburban also handles a lot of addiction cases. http://www.suburbanhospital.org/





Of course, DC's "official" mental hospital, St. Elizabeth's (universally called "St. E's") has the most jobs. But it also has the greatest turnover. It is located in a run-down part of town, it handles the toughest cases, and it is chronically underfunded. But if your definition of the "best" place to work means the place where you are most needed, St. E's would be for you. http://dmh.dc.gov/dmh/cwp/view,a,3,q,516...





And don't forget that the National Institute of Mental Health is located in the DC area (right across the street from Suburban Hospital, as it happens). They hire a lot of people, not just scientists. http://www.jobs.nih.gov/





Hope this helps. Good luck, and welcome to Washington!!
Reply:D.C. health care (esp emergency health care) stinks... I would suggest working in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins (see link below)





But you can also work for the department of mental health (link also below)
Reply:Sibley Memorial Hospital. Its top rated.