HCA Fact

In 2025, HCA Healthcare provided an estimated $4.6 billion for the delivery of charity care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated care, reinforcing the organization’s commitment to ensuring access to quality healthcare regardless of a patient’s ability to pay.

Sarah Cannon, the Cancer Institute of HCA Healthcare, provides state-of-the-art cancer care close to home for hundreds of thousands of patients, a number unmatched by any single cancer center.

HCA Healthcare employs 311,600 total colleagues, including 98,100 registered nurses and 46,950 physicians.

HCA Healthcare ranked 61st on the 2025 Fortune 500 list and has been a long-standing presence on the list.

Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. and other physicians wanted to raise capital and procure the latest medical technology for Nashville’s Park View Hospital in the mid-1960s, but couldn’t find a group that would be the right fit. The answer: HCA Healthcare, founded in 1968.

HCA caters for almost half of all private patients in London. HCA’s London hospitals include The Wellington Hospital, just north of London’s West End, which is the UK’s largest private hospital, along with The Portland Hospital, which is the only acute hospital of its kind in London.

Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. founded Park View Hospital in 1960 after was unable to admit his patients to the not-for-profit and church-affiliated hospitals that dominated Nashville in the 1950’s. He served as Park View’s CEO until 1968, when Park View became HCA’s first hospital.

HCA Healthcare became the largest, publicly owned, hospital management company in 1973, only four years after the company’s first IPO.

Since 2012, HCA Healthcare has hired more than 65,000 veterans, active-duty and reserve personnel, and military spouses. HCA Healthcare is committed to honoring those who have served by providing meaningful career opportunities that let them continue contributing to their communities.

HCA’s first initial public offering (1969) sparked a year of growth that saw HCA Healthcare more than double the number of hospitals it managed, going from 11 to 26. To date, HCA has gone public on three separate occasions.