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As of 2020[update], HCA op­er­ated 186 hos­pi­tals and ap­prox­i­mately 1,800 sites of care, in­clud­ing surgery cen­ters, free­stand­ing ERs, ur­gent care cen­ters, and physi­cian clin­ics lo­cated in 21 U.S. states and in the United Kingdom.In July 2007, HCA sold its hos­pi­tals in Switzerland. As of 2018, HCA had 50 hos­pi­tals and 31 surgery cen­ters in Florida. In Texas, as of 2018 it had 53 hospitals.In Ten­nessee, where it began, it had 13 hos­pi­tals as of 2019. Be­tween 2003 and 2017...

United Kingdom

HCA International, the "UK arm" of Hos­pi­tal Cor­po­ra­tion of America, "caters for around half of all pri­vate pa­tients in London."The main hos­pi­tal sites within the United King­dom it op­er­ates in­clude: It opened ur­gent care walk-in cen­tres at Lon­don Bridge Hos­pi­tal and the Port­land Hos­pi­tal in March 2018. It claims that pa­tients, on av­er­age, wait just seven min­utes to see a nurse and 17 min­utes to see a doctor. The Princess Grace Hos­pi­tal spe­cial­izes in breast can­ce...

Medical education

In re­cent years, HCA Health­care has be­come a sig­nif­i­cant provider of clin­i­cal and med­ical ed­u­ca­tion. It is the largest spon­sor of grad­u­ate med­ical ed­u­ca­tion pro­grams in the U.S., with 56 teach­ing hos­pi­tals in 14 states, pri­mar­ily in re­gions with a deficit of physi­cian train­ing pro­grams. The com­pany in­cludes Re­search Col­lege of Nurs­ing and Mercy School of Nurs­ing, and has sev­eral ad­vanced nurs­ing sim­u­la­tion train­ing centers. In early 2020, it com­plete...

Stroke care

HCA Health­care treats ap­prox­i­mately 50,000 stroke pa­tients an­nu­ally at 31 rec­og­nized com­pre­hen­sive stroke cen­ters. The av­er­age time be­tween a pa­tient's ar­rival and re­ceiv­ing needed med­ica­tion as of No­vem­ber 2019 was 42 min­utes—30% faster than the na­tional standard.

Maternal safety

HCA Health­care de­liv­ers nearly one of every 17 ba­bies born in the United States, more than 219,000 in 2019. Ma­ter­nal mor­tal­ity at HCA Health­care hos­pi­tals was less than half the na­tional rate in 2019. March of Dimes is a na­tional part­ner of HCA Healthcare.

HCA Health­care sup­ports local com­mu­ni­ties through the HCA Health­care Foun­da­tion and HCA Health­care cor­po­rate spon­sor­ships, as well as through the grass­roots ef­forts of em­ploy­ees and affiliates.The com­pany pro­vides sup­port for child­hood and youth de­vel­op­ment pro­grams, schol­ar­ships, com­mu­nity-based health clin­ics and the...

In 1993, law­suits were filed against HCA by for­mer em­ploy­ees who al­leged that the com­pany had en­gaged in ques­tion­able Medicare billing practices. In 1997, with a fed­eral in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the FBI, the IRS and the De­part­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices in its early stages, the Co­lum­bia/HCA board of di­rec­tors forced Rick Scott to...