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Formerly | HCA Holdings, Inc. |
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Company type | Public |
Industry | Health care |
Founded | 1968 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Founders | Thomas F. Frist Sr., Thomas F. Frist Jr., Jack C. Massey |
Headquarters | Nashville, Tennessee , U.S. |
Number of locations | 186 hospitals, approximately 2,000 sites of care located in 21 states and the United Kingdom[1] |
Area served | United States and the United Kingdom |
Key people | Sam Hazen (CEO) John Reay (CEO, HCA UK)[2] |
Revenue | US$60.23 billion (2022)[3] |
US$3.759 billion (2020)[4] | |
Number of employees | 309,000 (2024)[5] |
Website | hcahealthcare |
HCA Healthcare, Inc. is an American for-profit operator of health care facilities that was founded in 1968. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and, as of May 2020, owned and operated 186 hospitals and approximately 2,400 sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding emergency rooms, urgent care centers and physician clinics in 20 states and the United Kingdom.[6] As of 2024, HCA Healthcare is ranked #61 on the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.[7]
The company engaged in illegal accounting and other crimes in the 1990s that resulted in the payment of more than $2 billion in federal fines and other penalties, and the dismissal of the CEO Rick Scott by the board of directors.[8]