HCA Healthcare Completes Previously Announced Purchase of Majority Stake in Brookdale Health Care Services
Summary
“We view partnerships as foundational to our efforts to provide quality care to our patients, and we believe this joint venture will lead to improved care coordination,” said Sam Hazen, chief executive officer of HCA Healthcare. This joint venture adds approximately 80 sites of care and more than 4,000 colleagues to HCA Healthcare. HCA Healthcare purchased 80 percent equity of Brookdale Health Care Services for $400 million. Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services comprising 186 hospitals and approximately 2,000 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 20 states and the United Kingdom. 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 percent.