HCA

HCA Healthcare, Inc.

A healthcare services company that operates one of the country's largest networks of hospitals — around 190 general acute care, behavioral, and rehabilitation facilities, plus hundreds of outpatient surgery and endoscopy centers — serving patients across 19 states and England, with most care concentrated in Florida and Texas. It was founded in 1968 in Nashville by physician father-and-son Thomas Frist Sr. and Jr., along with businessman Jack Massey, who wanted to bring the economies-of-scale model of chain retail to hospital care. The idea reportedly struck Thomas Frist Jr. while rooming in college with the son of the founder of Holiday Inn, and HCA's earliest headquarters was a small white house near its first hospital.