Pay CAP too low - Cytotechnologist HCA Healthcare Employee Review

1.0
Jun 27, 2018
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Pros

When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, HCA Healthcare was there to help employees get through it.

Cons

Our hospital was taken over by HCA Healthcare last year. We were just told about our raises for this year, and I’m already at the pay cap for my position. I’ve only been working at this hospital for five years and took a low salary when accepting this offer. Now I can’t believe that I’ve already hit a pay cap. I planned on working at this hospital for another 20 years, now I don’t know what to do. Be cautious when working at an organization owned by this company, their salaries are really low.

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Pros

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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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