By far the worst healthcare system - Registered Nurse HCA Healthcare Employee Review

1.0
19 May 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Somehow, they still have some good staff left.

Cons

HCA is the worst example of how bad for profit healthcare can get. Everything is financially driven, there is no investment to hire or keep good staff, their charting system is archaic and shows how little they care about patient care and keeping up with evidence based practices. Their facilities are dirty, old and germ filled. I have worked at two of their facilities in Austin and the only part of the once hospital that was decent was the labor/delivery because it is necessary to make their $$. Patients delivering like to have choice. Patients who are hospitalized due to sickness don’t. In my last role, rather than give highly qualified and good RNs any raise they chose to hire new grads who know nothing or people from Nepal and Kenya. Great for them but the learning curve is so great and it is on the staff, who are already overloaded, to train these people up. Never let a loved one go into an HCA facility.

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5.0
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Pros

Work environment great positive coworker

Cons

over worked always under staffed

1.0
11 Jun 2026
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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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