HCA hosp corp am

<div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" lang="en">=<a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/05/06/coronavirus-hca-healthcare-nurse-union-busting">https://theintercept.com/2020/05/06/coronavirus-hca-healthcare-nurse-union-busting</a>= In 1998, Columbia/HCA was inducted into the Hall of Shame, prompting a three-year campaign to challenge its practice of taking over nonprofit and community-owned hospitals, dumping patients without insurance, and using its political clout to get away with these abuses. In 2000, Columbia/HCA <a href="http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/success/columbiahca-shamed-change" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">altered its policies and practices to limit its political role</a> [6], dramatically reducing its lobbying force and halting its election contributions."===HCA Inc.,

originally Hospital Corporation of America, is the largest for-profit

hospital chain the the U.S. It has about 170 hospitals in the U.S. and

overseas. Most of its hospitals are in the southern U.S. states,

especially Florida and Texas. In 2006, a group of investors, including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bain_Capital" title="Bain Capital">Bain Capital</a>, took the company private in a $30 billion leveraged buyout. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_note-0">[1]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_note-1">[2]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_note-2">[3]</a>

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<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#Political_contributions">1 Political contributions</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#Lobbying">2 Lobbying</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#Personnel">3 Personnel</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#Contact_details">4 Contact details</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#References">5 References</a></li></ul>

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<h2> Political contributions</h2>

HCA gave $209,769 to federal candidates in the 2006 election through its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee">political action committee</a> - 37% to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democrats" title="Democrats" class="mw-redirect">Democrats</a>, 62% to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party_%28USA%29" title="Republican Party (USA)">Republicans</a>, and 1% ($2,000) to independent <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joseph_Lieberman" title="Joseph Lieberman">Joseph Lieberman</a> (I-CT). <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_note-3">[4]</a>

<h2> Lobbying</h2>

The company spent $100,000 for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbying" title="Lobbying">lobbying</a> in the first half of 2007. All of the money went to one <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbying_firms" title="Lobbying firms">lobbying firm</a> - <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith-Free_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Smith-Free Group (page does not exist)">Smith-Free Group</a>. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_note-4">[5]</a>

<h2> Personnel</h2>

Key executives: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_note-5">[6]</a>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jack_O.Bovender,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jack O. Bovender, Jr. (page does not exist)">Jack O. Bovender, Jr.</a>, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_M.Bracken&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard M. Bracken (page does not exist)">Richard M. Bracken</a>, Chief Operation Officer and Director</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=R.Milton_Johnson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="R. Milton Johnson (page does not exist)">R. Milton Johnson</a>, Chief Financial Officer</li></ul>

Selected members of the Board of Directors: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_note-6">[7]</a>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christopher_J.Birosak&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christopher J. Birosak (page does not exist)">Christopher J. Birosak</a>, Managing Director with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Merrill_Lynch" title="Merrill Lynch">Merrill Lynch</a> Global Private Equity</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Connaughton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Connaughton (page does not exist)">John Connaughton</a>, Managing Director of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bain_Capital" title="Bain Capital">Bain Capital</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chris_Gordon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chris Gordon (page does not exist)">Chris Gordon</a>, Principal of Bain Capital</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_W.Michelson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael W. Michelson (page does not exist)">Michael W. Michelson</a>, Member of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co LLP (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/KKR" title="KKR">KKR</a>)</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_Pagliuca&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Steve Pagliuca (page does not exist)">Steve Pagliuca</a>, Managing Director at Bain Capital</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nathan_C._Thorne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nathan C. Thorne (page does not exist)">Nathan C. Thorne</a>, Senior Vice President of Merrill Lynch</li></ul>

<h2> Contact details</h2>

1 Park Plaza

Nashville, TN 37203

Phone: 615-344-9551

Fax: 615-344-2266

Web: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.hcahealthcare.com">http://www.hcahealthcare.com</a>

<h2> References</h2>

<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hoovers.com/hca/--ID15237--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml">HCA Profile</a>, Hoovers, accessed September 2007.</li><li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hoovers.com/bain-capital/--ID42844--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml">Bain Capital Profile</a>, Hoovers, accessed September 2007.</li><li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_ref-2">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hcahealthcare.com/CPM/hca-our%20history.pdf">History</a>, HCA, accessed September 2007.</li><li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_ref-3">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.asp?strID=C00067231&cycle=2006">2006 PAC Summary Data</a>, Open Secrets, accessed September 2007.</li><li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_ref-4">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/clientsum.asp?year=2007&txtname=HCA+Inc">HCA lobbying expenses</a>, Open Secrets.</li><li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_ref-5">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hoovers.com/hca/--ID__15237--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml">HCA Key People</a>, Hoovers, accessed September 2007.</li><li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HCA#cite_ref-6">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hcahealthcare.com/CustomPage.asp?guidCustomContentID=%7B8B66AE7C-1E07-4DEE-A47E-D48F4996D477%7D">Board of Directors</a>, HCA, accessed September 2007.</li></ol>

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