Great company, but loyalty to their employed physicians is not spectacular - Employed Physician, Hospital Based HCA Healthcare Employee Review

1.0
2 Oct 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salary and benefits are just average but consistent with fair market value for specialty and region. Great hospitals. HCA has good inpatient quality initiatives. They are financially solid.

Cons

HCA is a financially robust company. However it is a for- profit healthcare company that will jettison an employed physician or physician group if a cheaper alternative is available. This has happened to emergency medicine, hospitalist, and intensivist groups in our HCA hospital over the past few years. For many of these physicians, non-compete restrictions in their employment agreements with HCA required them to either acquiesce to employment by a new entity that was chosen entirely by HCA without physician input or leave town to find a new job.

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5.0
25 June 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits, Opportunity for Growth, Community Outreach

Cons

Huge System, Lots of Change, Complicated oversight

1.0
11 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There some flexibility with scheduling and they let you pick up as many shifts as you want and pretty much your own schedule.

Cons

Very poorly managed, chronically understaffed but managers are dismissive and deny it. The support from staff is inconsistent, the staff nurses are either fresh new grads or very bitter nurses who don’t want to help and expect you to handle everything by yourself as a tech. Most nurses here are PRN’s on contracts that get floated so it’s really hard to expect consistency in the staff you work with and build trusting relationships. Management will promise to train you as a unit secretary but will never follow up. They also agree to help you get opportunities for learning and growth but refuse to follow up or forget about it altogether, despite reminders. It’s not a priority. If your goal is to grow and learn more this is not the place. It’s running on fumes at 95% of the time. Very high turnover, we struggle to keep staff. They’ll call you in to pick up when they’re understaffed with no incentive or something minimal like “swag” (some gear). Very poorly compensated and you will not be appreciated for the hard work you do. Also it took 2 months for them to get me started despite numerous attempts to reach the HR, Management etc.

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