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HCA Healthcare releases 2025 Impact Report
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Today, we are proud to release our annual Impact Report that reflects on the past year and highlights HCA Healthcare’s positive impact across the communities we serve.
“This annual Impact Report is a testament to the incredible resilience and work of our dedicated colleagues as we strive to reach new heights in pursuit of our mission,” said Sam Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare. “To our physicians, nurses, and all colleagues who show up every day for our patients, communities, and our company – thank you.”
The HCA Healthcare Impact Report highlights significant efforts of the organization in:
To read more about HCA Healthcare’s Impact in 2024, please visit HCAhealthcareimpact.com.
Advancing patient care
Our 190 hospitals are supported by approximately 2,400 sites of care in 20 states and the U.K., including physician practices, freestanding emergency rooms, surgery centers, behavioral health sites of care, home health and hospice agencies and urgent care clinics.
The pursuit of quality is a daily discipline at HCA Healthcare. Across our organization, HCA Healthcare integrates systems of care, leveraging technology and robust data sets with the intention of consistently delivering high-quality care and providing a safe environment for patients and colleagues. Earlier this year, 49 HCA Healthcare hospitals were recognized on the 2025 Healthgrades America’s 250 Best Hospitals list for being within the top 5% of hospitals in the country for clinical excellence.
HCA Healthcare analyzes data from our more than 9 million emergency room patient encounters to help develop best practices to improve patient care across the enterprise and the larger healthcare community. To help better prevent, treat and beat the potential clinical impacts of strokes, HCA Healthcare collaborates with the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the HCA Healthcare Foundation, to support the Getting to the Heart of Stroke initiative. The first 10 participating HCA Healthcare facilities in the initiative since 2022 improved identification of the cause of stroke by up to 63% through care team collaboration, best practice-sharing, and increased utilization of evidenced based diagnostic testing in 2024. As a next step, we plan to scale these learnings across HCA Healthcare.
HCA Healthcare also remains committed to providing access to life-saving transplants for patients in our communities and throughout the nation. As a leader in living donor kidney transplants, the organization performed 351 living kidney donor transplants in 2024, which was 5.5% of living kidney donor transplants performed nationally.
HCA Healthcare is advancing technology healthcare through our Digital Transformation and Innovation (DT&I) department, which leverages HCA Healthcare’s care delivery and data capabilities to create value through artificial intelligence (AI) and digital solutions fundamentally enhancing patient care and streamlining operations.
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HCA Healthcare strives to help shape the future of healthcare through clinical research that aims to advance patient care across our network and industry-wide. In 2024, the HCA Healthcare Research Institute, the multispecialty clinical research arm of the organization focused on advancing therapies for patients through affiliated network of providers and care sites, grew to 43 sites and enrolled approximately 3,000 patients in 416 active trials.
In 2024, HCA Healthcare provided the delivery of charity care, uninsured discounts and other uncompensated care at an estimated cost of approximately $4.4 billion.
Supporting our colleagues
HCA Healthcare aims to foster a culture where our approximately 316,000 colleagues can thrive. In 2024, we allocated $42.1 million to colleagues pursuing higher education, launched seven new workforce development programs and celebrated 10 years of our Leadership Institute.
With a strategic focus on skill-building and hands-on learning opportunities, HCA Healthcare continues to deepen our commitment to the continuous professional development of our more than 99,000 nurses through targeted educational experiences. While onboarding more than 12,000 new graduate nurses in 2024, HCA Healthcare leveraged tools including cutting-edge virtual reality training tools and connected classroom integrations, expanding interactive and immersive learning opportunities for new nurses.
HCA Healthcare has three nursing schools – Galen College of Nursing, Research College of Nursing and Mercy School of Nursing. HCA Healthcare’s Galen College of Nursing now has 22 campuses, having opened two in 2024 in Aurora (Denver), Colorado and Las Vegas, Nevada supported by HCA Healthcare investment. Since joining HCA Healthcare in 2020, Galen has opened 17 campuses. With more than 17,600 students enrolled across the country, over 4,700 of them are HCA Healthcare colleagues. In 2024, HCA Healthcare distributed $35 million to assist more than 11,500 colleagues pursue a nursing degree.
HCA Healthcare prioritizes physician input, clinical capabilities, growth and innovation, so physicians can focus more on what they do best: caring for patients. HCA Healthcare provides more than 44,000 active and affiliated physicians with the tools and resources needed to help deliver high-quality care.
training the next generation of America’s physicians.
HCA Healthcare is also the largest sponsor of Graduate Medical Education (GME) in the nation. For the 2024-2025 academic year, HCA Healthcare welcomed 1,846 new residents and fellows to GME programs across the nation and plans to increase program growth 28% by 2030.
HCA Healthcare continues to support the overall well-being of our colleagues through a variety of benefits and resources, including Nurse Care, a 24/7 free and confidential mental health program for the needs of HCA Healthcare hospital-based nurses, and Optum Wellbeing, which provides colleagues and their families with free in-person or virtual counseling sessions.
HCA Healthcare also shows up for our colleagues in times of need. In 2024, the HCA Healthcare Hope Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit run by colleagues, for colleagues, surpassed $115 million in grants, helping more than 56,000 families since its inception in 2005.
Investing in our communities
HCA Healthcare’s care extends beyond the walls of our facilities and into the communities we serve. In 2024, HCA Healthcare gave more than $48.5 million to community organizations. Additionally, HCA Healthcare colleagues volunteered 240,000 hours and gave more than $18 million to community organizations with HCA Healthcare matching.
In 2024, HCA Healthcare continued our longstanding collaboration with AHA, Girl Scouts of the USA, Musicians On Call and EVERFI. The organization also supported March of Dimes’ “It Starts With Mom” education and engagement platform, which provides families with educational information and resources during their pregnancy journey.
Additionally, the HCA Healthcare Foundation invested over $13 million through grants to 247 agencies and nonprofit organizations through its Middle Tennessee and Healthier Tomorrow Funds in 2024.
Through the Healthier Tomorrow Fund, the HCA Healthcare Foundation awarded a three-year, $1 million grant to the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations in 2024 to fund the Career Pathways to a Healthier Florida program. The program aims to help create and expand healthcare career pathways for underserved high school students across the state of Florida.
In times of crisis, HCA Healthcare’s ability to adapt and respond is a powerful example of the ways in which our scale and expansive network improve the care provided for patients and each other. The Enterprise Emergency Operations Program is made up of corporate, division and hospital-based clinicians, leaders and executives from numerous states across the organization who are trained annually on how to effectively respond to events impacting patient care or colleague wellness. In response to the devastation caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024, HCA Healthcare deployed more than 700 colleagues to areas impacted and gave more than $1.5 million to community organizations to aid in relief efforts.
Read the full HCA Healthcare Impact Report on HCAhealthcareImpact.com.
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About HCA Healthcare
HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services, is comprised of 190 hospitals and more than 2,400 ambulatory sites of care, in 20 states and the United Kingdom. Our more than 300,000 colleagues are connected by a single purpose — to give patients healthier tomorrows.
As an enterprise, we recognize the significant responsibility we have as a leading healthcare provider within each of the communities we serve, as well as the opportunity we have to improve the lives of the patients for whom we are entrusted to care. Through the compassion, knowledge and skill of our caregivers, and our ability to leverage our scale and innovative capabilities, HCA Healthcare is in a unique position to play a leading role in the transformation of care.
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