HCA Reviews

Former Employee – worked at HCA full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Fast moving company , always on the move

Cons – Staffing issues on the physician practice side are very strict. Employees working for 3-4 years getting none or partial insignificant raises. Conservative company. They have directors and senior management who seem to be very disconnected with the operations in the ground and in clinics.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your staff .

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at HCA full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Managers/Sr Management resources helpful; good morale; good camaraderie. Management fosters an environment of teamwork.

Cons – Presence of union takes away from more productive and meaningful work. Not much opportunity for advancement in hospital even with advanced degree. Pay raises are very minimal. No differentiation in salary in regards to employee's combined experience and education.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to develop a succession plan or career development for current employees who are interested in moving up for better retention.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at HCA full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Many of the workers are great people, very committed to improving patient lives and helping make the company a better place.

Cons – The company offers limited opportunities for advancement and even more limited opportunities for industry standard compensation. Not competitive as far as compensation.

Advice to Senior Management – Value your people more than the bottom line.

Current Employee – been working at HCA full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great foot in the door and training is good and national access to jobs across the country

Cons – Medium on the salary scale

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the clicks

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at HCA

Pros – great benefits and culture. Great Pay

Cons – Lots of hours. Late nights

Current Employee – been working at HCA full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great professional interpersonal relationship comradory, on site nursery/pre-school and after work access to gymnasioum. Great clinical experience especially for new grads.

Cons – Sometimes it appears difficult to get time off utilizing PTO. Some of items needed for use within the cliinical areas eg gloves are sub-standard. they burst easily and many times when working wiith patient"s body fluid I find that I have to wear more than one pair of gloves at any given time. Not a lot of thank you and your hard work is appreciated is stated often enough.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide stronger gloves for use especially in the ICU/critical care areas. Be more personable,
and understanding of the employee needs.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at HCA full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good hometown/national company with lots of opportunities.

Cons – Change can be good, but too frequent just for the sake of change breeds chaos, confusion and dissatisfaction with employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Establish vision, create a roadmap to get there and then achieve goals before changing roadmap.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at HCA full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good compensation, growth, travel, technology

Cons – Politics, Internal posting process is very difficult

Advice to Senior Management – Recruit and offer opportunities within. Internal postings are very difficult

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at HCA full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great work environment - Pace is fairly slow.

Cons – subpar benefits (bade medical coverage, no sick time, must accrue time for vacation and holidays)

Advice to Senior Management – Improve communication flow. Often delayed and/or different than message to Operations

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at HCA full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – job security
lots of locations to work

Cons – went 3 years without a raise while they were posting double digit profits every quarter

Advice to Senior Management – stop knee jerk reactions

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company