HCA Healthcare

HCA Healthcare, Inc.
FormerlyHCA Holdings, Inc.
Company typePublic
IndustryHealthcare
Founded1968 (1968)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Founders
Headquarters
Nashville, Tennessee
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U.S.
Number of locations
186 hospitals, approximately 2,000 sites of care located in 21 states and the United Kingdom
Area served
United States and the United Kingdom
Key people
  • Sam Hazen (CEO)
  • John Reay (CEO, HCA UK)
ProductsHealth care
Health facility
Revenue US$70.603 billion (2024)
US$10.547 billion (2024)
US$5.760 billion (2024)
Total assets US$59.513 billion (2024)
Total equity US$(2.499) billion (2024)
Number of employees
316,000 (2024)
Divisions
  • Capital Division
  • Continental Division
  • Far West Division
  • MidAmerica Division
  • Mountain Division
  • North Carolina Division
  • South Atlantic Division
  • TriStar Division
  • Central and West Texas Division
  • Gulf Coast Division
  • North Texas Division
  • San Antonio Division
  • North Florida Division
  • West Florida Division
  • East Florida Division
Websitehcahealthcare.com
Footnotes / references
Financials as of June 30, 2025.

HCA Healthcare, Inc. (historically known as Hospital Corporation of America) is an American global 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. As of 2024, HCA Healthcare is ranked #61 on the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. In the 1990s, the company engaged in illegal accounting and other crimes 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.