HCA Healthcare founders Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., Dr. Thomas Frist Jr. and Jack Massey envisioned a healthcare company with the scale, resources and clinical expertise to provide care focused on the patient. Today, we are a leading provider of healthcare services in the United States and United Kingdom, committed to learning from millions of patient encounters each year to advance science and improve care in our facilities and beyond.
Learn more about a few of our significant milestones:
1968
Hospital Corporation of America (now HCA Healthcare) is founded, introducing a new model for hospital care in the United States.
1982
The HCA Healthcare Foundation is formed to fund philanthropic contributions to medical education, the arts and community service.
2005
The HCA Healthcare Hope Fund is formed. This colleague-run, colleague-supported 501(c)(3) nonprofit helps HCA Healthcare colleagues and families who face financial hardship due to natural disaster, illness or injury, domestic violence, death of a loved one or other unexpected situations.
2013
A comprehensive infection prevention study, known as REDUCE MRSA, is published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study is conducted exclusively at 43 HCA Healthcare hospitals in conjunction with investigators at several institutions, including Harvard, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study finds that using antimicrobial soap and ointment to decolonize all intensive care unit (ICU) patients reduces all bloodstream infections, including MRSA, by 44%.
2019
HCA Healthcare announces the development of an algorithm-driven, real-time system that more quickly identifies patients with sepsis. The technology, called SPOT (Sepsis Prediction and Optimization of Therapy), is estimated to save 8,000 lives from 2014-2019.
2020
HCA Healthcare treats over 122,000 COVID-19 inpatients, more than any other health system in the United States.
2021
HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud announce a multi-year partnership designed to provide actionable insights to help improve care and accelerate digital transformation. We continue to build on this partnership, announcing in 2023 work to use generative AI technology to improve workflows on time-consuming tasks like clinical documentation so physicians and nurses can focus more on patient care.
2024
The journal NEJM Evidence reports that a clinical trial by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, HCA Healthcare, UCI Health and the CDC identified a strategy to rapidly detect and respond to hospital outbreaks using algorithm-driven technology. An automated outbreak detection tool reduced the size of outbreaks by 64% during the trial period.
Today
HCA Healthcare is a leading provider of healthcare services in 20 U.S. states and the United Kingdom. Our network includes more than 180 hospitals and approximately 2,400 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding emergency rooms, urgent care clinics and physician practices. We look forward to expanding our global presence as we work to enhance our ability to drive operational excellence and innovation to support patient care.
* Data as of Dec. 31, 2023, unless otherwise noted.
