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.