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HCA Healthcare, Inc. is an American for-profit operator of health care facilities that was founded in 1968. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and, as of May 2020, owned and operated 186 hospitals and approximately 2,400 sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding emergency rooms, urgent care centers and physician clinics in 20 states and the United Kingdom. [6]
Centerpoint opened in May 2007 and is the newest hospital in eastern Jackson County. It replaces Medical Center of Independence and Independence Regional Health Center in a new location. The hospital is at 39th & Little Blue Parkway just off of I-70 and east of the Independence Center. Its campus includes the medical center itself and a medical ...
The hospital, which was designed by Llewelyn Davies Weeks and built by Bovis Construction, opened in 1986. [1] It belongs, along with several other well-known private London hospitals, to HCA International , the largest private operator of health care facilities in the world.
A child playing congas in the Amy Grant Music Room at Target House, one of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's housing facilities. St. Jude has an International Outreach Program to improve the survival rates of children with catastrophic illnesses worldwide. [19] [20] St. Jude treats patients up to age 21 and for some conditions, up to age ...
The Sisters began raising the one million dollars estimated as necessary to build a new hospital. [2] In 1953 a group of physicians, led by Ramiro Fernandez, M.D., met with the sisters to see about building a new hospital. It was Dr. Fernandez's wife, Emily, who suggested the name St. Jude, the patron saint of desperate situations.
HCA is a health care juggernaut, with 182 hospitals and 125 surgery centers in the U.S. and U.K. But some HCA workers worry its profit focus imperils patient care.
This year, St. Jude’s Thanks and Giving campaign celebrates its 20th anniversary and passing the fundraising milestone of $1 billion to support the hospital’s efforts to provide free medical ...
The St. Jude Catholic Hospital, which opened in 1951, was the first integrated hospital in the southeastern United States, [6] [8] and the first hospital in the region to admit all patients regardless of color or creed. [9] It is also the birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King's two eldest children, Yolanda and Martin ...