Statewide network proud to be part of HCA Healthcare, one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 25, 2024 – HCA Florida Healthcare announced today four of its hospitals are named to the 2024 Fortune/PINC AI 100 Top Hospitals list which recognizes the highest-quality performers and promotes continual improvement in the industry. According to Fortune/PINC AI, this year’s list is based on an analysis of Medicare data that reflect measures of clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, patient experience and financial health.
HCA Florida Healthcare hospitals on this year’s list include HCA Florida Brandon Hospital (Brandon), HCA Florida Kendall Hospital (Miami), HCA Florida North Florida Hospital (Gainesville) and HCA Florida Trinity Hospital (Trinity).
HCA Florida Healthcare offers more than 650 affiliated sites of care across the state, including hospitals, free-standing emergency rooms, surgery centers, urgent care clinics and physician practices. The network provided care for 11.6 million patient encounters in 2023 and made capital investments throughout the state in excess of $1.25 billion.
“As one of the state’s largest healthcare networks, HCA Florida Healthcare is driven to elevate the standards of care in our communities. When our individual hospitals are recognized for their commitment to that effort, it reinforces the strength of our statewide system and celebrates the hard work and dedication of our 84,000 colleagues across the state to care for and improve the lives of others,” said Richard Hammett, president, Atlantic Group, HCA Healthcare.
As a part of HCA Healthcare, HCA Florida Healthcare hospitals are also included as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies in 2024. To determine this year’s list, Fortune collaborated with Korn Ferry to analyze 660 companies across 52 industries in 29 countries. 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.
In 2023, HCA Healthcare recruited more than 116,500 colleagues, including 37,500 bedside nurses. Of those, more than 84,000 colleagues—including 11,100 physicians and 4,800 nurses—work in HCA Florida Healthcare facilities. To support its colleagues, HCA Healthcare offers a variety of programs, resources and opportunities, including education assistance, financial well-being programs and the HCA Healthcare Leadership Institute, which graduated 876 HCA Florida Healthcare colleagues last year.
HCA Healthcare strives to find new, innovative ways to elevate care delivery for its patients. The organization’s Care Transformation and Innovation (CT&I) team works closely with clinicians to refine tools, such as generative AI to assist care teams with time-consuming tasks like documentation and a scheduling and staffing solution for nurses, and to expand the use of technology throughout the organization.
HCA Healthcare’s dedication to improve more lives in more ways extends beyond the walls of its hospitals. The organization’s environmental strategy includes both short- and long-term sustainability plans and centers on incorporating four key pillars into operations, including managing energy and water responsibly, enhancing climate resilience, sourcing and consuming efficiently and managing the environmental impact of capital programs.
About HCA Florida Healthcare
HCA Florida Healthcare, a part of HCA Healthcare, is a family of more than 650 affiliated sites of care, including hospitals, physician practices, freestanding emergency rooms and urgent care centers. United as a statewide network in 2022, HCA Florida Healthcare includes approximately 11,100 experienced doctors and more than 84,000 colleagues working together to deliver equitable, evidence-based collaborative care through more than 11.6 million patient encounters each year. HCA Florida Healthcare is committed to improving more lives in more ways and giving back to the communities it serves. The network provides more than $903 million in uncompensated care and contributes nearly $2.2 million to community organizations across the state. In addition, HCA Florida Healthcare offers patients access to highly-trained specialists, including the state’s largest cardiovascular network. A strong advocate for the next generation of healthcare professionals, HCA Florida Healthcare is also a major supporter of university-based healthcare programs and residencies and fellowships throughout the Sunshine State. For more information, please visit HCAFloridaHealthcare.com.
About HCA Healthcare
Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services comprising 186 hospitals and approximately 2,400 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 20 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 more than 43 million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.
