Company Profile
HCA
Company Overview
One of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, HCA is made up of locally managed facilities that include 174 hospitals and 119 freestanding surgery centers located in 20 U.S. states and in the United Kingdom.
HCA stands for the best practices of medicine, using our reach, scale and stability to transform healthcare and help communities thrive.
- 27+ Million Patient Encounters Per year
- 8.4 Million Emergency room visits annually
- HCA names one of the "World's Most Ethical Companies" for 8 years in a row
- 106 HCA hospitals are on the Joint Commission's list of Top Performers on key Quality Measures
- Sarah Cannon, the global cancer institute of HCA, offers hundreds of clinical trails each year
- 240,000 Employees
- 37,000 Active physicians
- 80,000 Nurses
- Ranked 63rd in Fortune 500
$2.8 Billion invested last year in capital spending to expand or bring new services to the communities we serve
Company History
The way healthcare was intended®
From the beginning, HCA founders Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr., Dr. Thomas Frist, Jr. and Jack Massey envisioned creating a healthcare company with the scale, resources and clinical expertise to provide patient-focused care at a time when many communities were growing rapidly and needed more access to healthcare. In 1968, they formed Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) – one of the first hospital companies in the United States.
“Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do.”
Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Co-Founder
HCA worked closely with local physicians and used innovative business practices and access to capital to bring much-needed healthcare to growing areas throughout the country. HCA expanded rapidly, building new hospitals in under-served communities, buying and upgrading existing facilities, and collaborating to manage hospitals for other owners. Using its medical background, financial resources and management expertise, HCA built a core group of leading hospitals, an approach it continues to use nearly 50 years later.
“The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient’s family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual.”
Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Co-Founder
One of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, HCA is made up of locally managed facilities that include 174 hospitals and 119 freestanding surgery centers located in 20 states and the United Kingdom.
HCA uses its vast clinical knowledge, innovative operating strategies, scale and stability to transform healthcare and help communities thrive. By conducting large-scale clinical research with partners including Harvard Pilgrim Institute and the CDC, and using data from more than 27 million patient encounters each year, HCA has published several medical studies in peer-reviewed journals, including the groundbreaking REDUCE MRSA study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Research and clinical protocols developed by HCA physicians, nurses, pharmacists, data scientists and others are helping develop new standards of care and saving lives in hospitals across the country.
Benefits
Why choose a career at HCA?
In a word, diversity. Diversity in your settings, in your potential and in your teammates. HCA offers the widest variety of clinical and non-clinical settings to work in. Whether it’s a research hospital equipped with the latest technology, clinical trials testing groundbreaking medical procedures or a small-town setting that combines clinical excellence with the intimacy of a community hospital, you'll find what you are looking for in a career at HCA.
The HCA network includes more than 300 affiliate hospitals, outpatient centers and business offices across the country, offering you the opportunity for travel and relocation. Whatever your career goal in healthcare, HCA can help you achieve it.
Everyone impacts patient care
An HCA employee’s day is filled with meetings and deliverables, with aims toward improving efficiencies and finding ways to invest in the communities where we do business and have hospitals. The list of stories is long when seemingly ordinary tasks have a life-changing impact. A technical analyst locates a charger for an ER patient’s mobile phone so next of kin can be contacted; a nurse finds ways to make a procedure or hallway safer; a physician support coordinator teaches a doctor who wouldn't touch the computer on her desk six months ago to order prescriptions from her handheld device.
Throughout HCA’s nearly 50-year history a widely held belief among our founders, leaders, and each of our 241,000 employees is that every one of us impacts patient care, the quality delivery of which is our hallmark. Whether you report to work in Internal Audit, IT&S Service Management & Delivery, Clinical Services, Document Management Services, or the HCA's hrAnswers call center, we all play a part in putting patients first and caring for and improving human life.
Working for HCA is fun and challenging, exciting and tense. What's at stake makes each task worth doing right the first time – but we are a supportive bunch when missteps happen, and we work together to emerge stronger and deliver what we promise when we say we will, at the bedside or in the boardroom. Working for HCA is more than a job; it truly is a career.
Work/life
At HCA, our success depends on a Healthy Work Environment that places caregivers, staff, administrators, physicians and volunteers at the heart of a patients-first culture. We strive for an employee-empowered environment, where you can pursue a rewarding and fulfilling career in health care.
These five areas form the foundation of a Healthy Work Environment:
Culture
A culture dedicated to compassionate, top-quality patient care
Leadership
Accessible leaders who practice an "open door" policy
Voice
An open forum that gives you an unfettered voice
Compensation/rewards
Fair pay as part of a total compensation and rewards package
Staffing
A commitment to staffing that enables you to provide the highest quality care to patients, ensures your own safety and well-being and maintains your continuity of income