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Can anybody tell me anything about working for a hospital owned by HCA? How are their staffing levels? Do they have nurse educators?

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Hi, I work for OU medical center as a Nurse Partner and they are with HCA. I can tell you they have educators and on the floor that I work on which is MEd-Surg they do team Nursing. 9 patients with 1 RN 1 LPN and 1 Tech. But I here it is different on some floors. I hope this helps. To me they seem to be big on education. I just started in December and I am still orientating.

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Hi, I work for OU medical center as a Nurse Partner and they are with HCA. I can tell you they have educators and on the floor that I work on which is MEd-Surg they do team Nursing. 9 patients with 1 RN 1 LPN and 1 Tech. But I here it is different on some floors. I hope this helps. To me they seem to be big on education. I just started in December and I am still orientating.
If you just started in Decmber, I would hope that you would still be orienting. My orientation period for a med/surg floor was 12 weeks.
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Specializes in Oncology RN.

We have a large group of hospitals in the KC area that are owned by HCA. They are among the worst hospitals to work for...so much that two hospitals have formed nurses unions, with others in the group following. HCA is for-profit...and it definitely shows.

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HCA facilities have mandated education and self learning practice tests each year. They must present all staff with an ethics class d/t the trouble they got into over medicare billing some years back. While they make a great deal of hoopla on educational opportunities, there really aren't that many they pay for or encourage outside of the focus of the facility where you work.

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I am new here, but I worked for 3 years in a HCA facility and it was the most UNethical place with the WORST administration and management. Run!!!

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

allright, i'm finally going to ask...what is hca???

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Specializes in Critical Care/ICU.

HCA = Healthcare Corporation of America. They have dozens of for-profit hospitals throughout the US. Several years back they were called something else (I can't remember what that was - Columbia?), they changed their name after getting popped by the feds for ripping off medicare. They ended up paying 3 hundred some million dollars in fines.

OP - you are the same one who asked about Tenet. With what I've read and heard, HCA is as good as Tenet.

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Specializes in Critical Care/ICU.

https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39432&highlight=Columbia

I knew there had to be something on this board somewhere.

It's all coming back to me now....

Bill Frist.

NOW I remember.

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