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HCA Healthcare, Inc. is an American 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. [6]
The facility is owned by HCA−Hospital Corporation of America, and operated by their HCA Far West Division. [4] Los Robles means "The Oaks" in Spanish, and the name refers to the thousands of oak trees in surrounding Thousand Oaks. [5] It had 1,720 employees in 2016. [6]
In January 2011, the company formed a joint venture with Duke University Health System. [4] In 2005, Historic LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. merged with Province Healthcare Company to form the new public company, LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. [5]
HCA is a health care juggernaut, with 182 hospitals and 125 surgery centers in the U.S. and U.K. But some HCA workers worry its profit focus imperils patient care.
Over the past year, NBC News has interviewed scores of doctors, nurses, administrators and other HCA employees who say the company puts profits ahead of patients. The company’s staffing of ...
Disclaimer: I am an HCA employee. Christop79 19:13, 30 July 2012 (UTC) Made a couple other edits to add a couple of earlier events to the company history - first hospital, first IPO and first office space. I cited a photo on HCA's Facebook page for their first office space.
Prime counter-sued Kaiser and the Service Employees International Union, claiming that Kaiser owed it $100 million in unpaid medical claims and that Kaiser and the union conspired to keep Prime out of the market; [32] that suit was dismissed in 2012, [33] and Prime appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case in ...
Good Samaritan Health System also operated San Jose Medical Center and Gilroy's South Valley Hospital at the time of the HCA acquisition. Catholic Healthcare West bought South Valley Hospital in 1999 and relocated Saint Louise Hospital in Morgan Hill to the Gilroy location. [2] [3] San Jose Medical Center (503-bed) was closed in 2004. [4]