HCA Healthcare Named a World’s Most Admired Company by Fortune for the 12th Consecutive Year

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 26, 2026--

HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, today announced that it has been named on Fortune’s 2026 World’s Most Admired Companies list. HCA Healthcare is ranked No. 1 in its industry again this year.

“We are proud to again be recognized on Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies list,” said Sam Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare. “I am grateful to our colleagues for the way they lead with compassion and the high standards they set across the organization as we work to improve outcomes and experiences for patients.”

Since 1997, Fortune has collaborated with Korn Ferry to determine the World’s Most Admired Companies list. This year 685 companies across 51 industries and 29 countries were analyzed. The top-rated companies were rated by executives, directors and analysts on nine criteria: innovation, people management, use of corporate assets, social responsibility, quality of management, financial soundness, long-term investment, quality of products and services, and global competitiveness.

HCA Healthcare strives to elevate the delivery of care through research and innovation. In 2025, HCA Healthcare Research Institute, the multispecialty clinical research arm of the company, grew to 54 sites across the country and enrolled more than 6,600 patients in more than 520 active research studies. HCA Healthcare’s Digital Transformation & Innovation department also continues to build upon technology platform investments to help improve patient outcomes, increase efficiency, strengthen the connection of the company’s care networks and create more time for what matters most: caring for patients.

HCA Healthcare also supports its colleagues and their continued education through its tuition assistance program that provided more than $40 million to more than 11,700 colleagues last year, with 24% of colleagues using their tuition assistance towards pursuing a nursing degree. With a strategic focus on skill-building and hands-on learning opportunities, HCA Healthcare is deeply committed to the continuous professional development of nursing staff through targeted educational experiences. The company also invests in its future leaders through the HCA Healthcare Leadership Institute, which provides leaders with the essential skills to lead teams, overcome business challenges and deliver value to patients and communities. Since inception, the Leadership Institute has graduated more than 40,140 colleagues from its programs, including more than 9,200 in 2025.

About HCA Healthcare

Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services comprising 190 hospitals and approximately 2,500 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 19 states and the United Kingdom. With its founding in 1968, HCA Healthcare created a new model for hospital care in the United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals, deliver patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine. HCA Healthcare has conducted a number of clinical studies, including one that demonstrated that full-term delivery is healthier than early elective delivery of babies and another that identified a clinical protocol that can reduce bloodstream infections in ICU patients by 44%. HCA Healthcare is a learning health system that uses its approximately 44 million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.

All references to “Company,” “HCA” and “HCA Healthcare” as used throughout this document refer to HCA Healthcare, Inc. and its affiliates.

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