HCA Healthcare scoops up MD Now Urgent Care’s 59 Florida clinics to support statewide investments
Fierce Healthcare January 4, 2022
HCA Healthcare announced Tuesday that it has acquired MD Now Urgent Care, the largest provider of urgent care services in the state of Florida, for an undisclosed sum.
The deal brings 59 new urgent care centers to the Nashville-based for-profit provider, which said it now operates over 170 such clinics in 19 markets.
HCA said the deal was completed before the end of 2021 but did not disclose any other terms.
The purchase furthers HCA’s expansion within Florida’s healthcare market.
Responding to the state’s growing population, HCA recently outlined plans to build three new hospitals in Gainesville, Fort Myers and The Villages nearby. These three hospitals would join the 47 others falling under the company’s HCA Florida Healthcare division, which...