HCA

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.hcahealthcare.com
Employees: 191,000
Employee growth: 2.7%

The largest for-profit hospital operator in the US, HCA (also known as Hospital Corporation of America) operates about 170 acute care, psychiatric, and rehabilitation hospitals in the US and abroad. It also runs about 100 ambulatory surgery centers, as well as diagnostic imaging, cancer treatment, and outpatient rehab centers that form health care networks in many of the communities it serves. The company has facilities in about 20 states, with about three-quarters of its hospitals located in the southern US (about 70 are in Florida and Texas). The hospital giant's HCA International operates a handful of hospitals and clinics in the UK.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $28,374.0M
One year growth: 5.6%
Net income: $673.0M
Income growth: (23.0%)

Officers:
President, CEO, and Director: Richard M. Bracken
EVP and CFO: R. Milton Johnson
SVP and CIO: Noel Brown Williams

Competitors:
Adventist Health System
Ascension Health
Tenet Healthcare

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