Becker's Healthcare January 24, 2025
Sam Hazen, CEO of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, said that the system’s capacity growth in 2025 is primarily going to be through what he called “organic measures.”
“We add bed supply, we add outpatient facilities,” Mr. Hazen said on the health system’s Jan. 24 earnings call. “Those are central elements to our network development strategies and have proven to be very successful and have proven to be very productive from a capital return standpoint.”
He said they’ve added to their existing networks where possible.
“We’ve bought outpatient businesses,” Mr. Hazen said. “We’ve complemented our hospital networks with rural facilities and surgical facilities and so forth. And that will continue, I think, into 2025.”
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