12 Facts About HCA Healthcare

1.

HCA Healthcare is an American for-profit operator of health care facilities that was founded in 1968.

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2.

HCA Healthcare began with Nashville's Park View Hospital, which the elder Frist had founded in 1960 with other doctors and where he was serving as chief executive.

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3.

In 1987, HCA Healthcare, which had grown to operate 463 hospitals, spun off HealthTrust, a privately owned, 104-hospital company.

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4.

In May 2010, HCA Healthcare announced that the corporation would go public with an expected $4.

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5.

In 2017, HCA Healthcare acquired the Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia.

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6.

In January 2020, HCA Healthcare acquired Valify, a healthcare cost-management company.

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7.

In recent years, HCA Healthcare has become a significant provider of clinical and medical education.

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8.

HCA Healthcare includes Research College of Nursing and Mercy School of Nursing, and has several advanced nursing simulation training centers.

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9.

Maternal mortality at HCA Healthcare hospitals was less than half the national rate in 2019.

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10.

In 2020 there was an outcry against HCA Healthcare following the deaths of two nurses Celia Yap-Banago and Rosa Luna who worked at HCA Healthcare hospitals in Kansas City and California and had contracted coronavirus, despite the alarm having been raised about the lack of PPE at work.

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11.

HCA Healthcare provides support for childhood and youth development programs, scholarships, community-based health clinics and the operating budgets of not-for-profit organizations.

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12.

HCA Healthcare settled the lawsuit in August 2007, agreeing to pay $20 million to the shareholders but admitting no wrongdoing, and no charges were brought.

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