# HCA Healthcare

> HCA Healthcare is a Nashville-based, publicly traded healthcare operator whose network spans roughly 190 hospitals and about 2,500 ambulatory sites across 19 U.S. states and the United Kingdom. It earns most of its revenue by delivering inpatient, outpatient, emergency, surgical and specialty care, while its scale supports centralized purchasing, workforce education, clinical research and data-driven improvement. The company reported $75.6 billion in 2025 revenue and now describes itself as a learning health system built on approximately 47 million annual patient encounters.

- **Founded:** 1968
- **Headquarters:** Nashville, United States
- **Founders:** Dr. Thomas F. Frist Sr. (Co-founder and physician), Dr. Thomas F. Frist Jr. (Co-founder and physician), Jack C. Massey (Co-founder and businessman)
- **Team size:** Approximately 320,000 colleagues
- **Products:** Hospital and acute care, Ambulatory care network, Sarah Cannon Cancer Network, HCA Healthcare Research Institute, HealthTrust Performance Group
- **Notable:** Built a network of roughly 190 hospitals and about 2,500 ambulatory sites across 19 U.S. states and the United Kingdom., Reported $75.6 billion in revenue and $6.784 billion in net income for 2025., Ninety-two hospitals received Healthgrades' 2026 Patient Safety Excellence Award, which recognizes the top 10% of evaluated hospitals for patient safety.

## Products & services

- **Hospital and acute care** — General, acute, behavioral and specialty hospital services including emergency, surgical, intensive, cardiac, diagnostic and inpatient care.
- **Ambulatory care network** — Surgery centers, freestanding emergency rooms, urgent-care clinics, imaging and diagnostic centers, walk-in clinics and physician practices.
- **Sarah Cannon Cancer Network** — Oncology care and access to cancer research, including clinical trials supported by the Sarah Cannon Research Institute.
- **HCA Healthcare Research Institute** — Clinical research infrastructure that brings trials into community settings and turns network data into evidence for care improvement.
- **HealthTrust Performance Group** — A healthcare performance-improvement and supply-chain organization that uses purchasing scale, analytics and operator expertise.
- **MyHealthONE** — A patient portal for health records, appointments, payments and interaction with participating HCA Healthcare facilities.
- **Healthcare education** — Nursing and allied-health education through Galen College of Nursing, Research College of Nursing, HCA Florida Mercy College of Nursing and a pending acquisition of CHCP announced in 2026.

## Achievements

- Built a network of roughly 190 hospitals and about 2,500 ambulatory sites across 19 U.S. states and the United Kingdom.
- Reported $75.6 billion in revenue and $6.784 billion in net income for 2025.
- Ninety-two hospitals received Healthgrades' 2026 Patient Safety Excellence Award, which recognizes the top 10% of evaluated hospitals for patient safety.
- Forty-four hospitals appeared on Healthgrades' America's 250 Best Hospitals list for 2026.
- Recognized by Ethisphere as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 16th time in 2026.
- The REDUCE MRSA trial found that universal decolonization reduced bloodstream infections, including MRSA, by 44% among adult ICU patients and led HCA hospitals to adopt the protocol.
- Collected more than 108,500 pounds of unused or expired medication through seven years of the Crush the Crisis initiative.
- HCA colleagues recorded more than 350,000 volunteer hours during 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Second-quarter revenue rose 8.7% year over year to $20.230 billion; same-facility admissions rose 2.5%, while HCA revised full-year guidance to reflect payer-mix pressure and Medicaid supplemental payments.
- **2026-05** — HCA announced an agreement to acquire The College of Health Care Professions, which serves more than 8,000 students annually across 10 Texas campuses and online; terms were not disclosed and the deal remains subject to approvals.
- **2026-05** — Nearly 9,800 colleagues contributed more than 41,800 volunteer hours to 1,866 nonprofits during the company's annual days of service.
- **2026-03** — Ninety-two HCA hospitals received Healthgrades' 2026 Patient Safety Excellence Award.
- **2026-03** — Ethisphere named HCA one of the 2026 World's Most Ethical Companies, its 16th recognition.
- **2025-12** — HCA committed $4.8 million to help launch Pepperdine University's School of Nursing and provide clinical-learning opportunities.
- **2025-09** — HCA and its foundation committed $3.9 million to extend their American Heart Association stroke initiative.

## Links

- Website: https://www.hcahealthcare.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hca
- Twitter/X: https://www.twitter.com/hcahealthcare
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/hcahealthcare
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hcahealthcare/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HCACare

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Last updated: 2026-08-13