HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation's leading healthcare providers, today announced that 92 of its hospitals achieved the 2026 Patient Safety Excellence Award from Healthgrades for their commitment to safe, patient-centered care. This recognition is given to the top 10% of hospitals nationwide for patient safety.

"We are honored to be recognized, but even more proud of the work behind it," said Dr. Randy Fagin, senior vice president and chief quality officer of HCA Healthcare. "Learning from every patient and continuously strengthening the systems that help our caregivers deliver safe care, every day, is our commitment to earning and keeping the trust patients place in us."

Patient Safety Excellence Awards are based exclusively on patient outcomes. Healthgrades evaluated risk-adjusted complication and mortality rates from approximately 4,500 hospitals nationwide to determine this year's list.

Earlier this year, 44 HCA Healthcare hospitals were recognized on the Healthgrades America's 250 Best Hospitals list for 2026, including three that were among America's 50 Best Hospitals and 15 that were among America's 100 Best. Also based on patient outcomes, these lists recognize superior performance in providing care for conditions and procedures across multiple specialty lines and areas.

HCA Healthcare supports a culture in which patient safety is embedded in everyday care delivery. For more than a decade, the organization has operated a federally listed Patient Safety Organization (PSO) that partners with hospitals to strengthen clinical processes, advance evidence-based safety practices and facilitate enterprise-wide learning. Insights gained across facilities are systematically shared to promote consistency, advance adoption of proven practices and enhance the reliability of care across the organization.

In 2024, HCA Healthcare added to this work through a structured implementation of the National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety. Multidisciplinary teams of hospital leaders, physicians and frontline clinicians completed facility-level assessments of safety culture and patient safety systems and used that data to align local improvement efforts with enterprise goals, reinforce capability and sustain progress toward key safety priorities.

HCA Healthcare has a long history of advancing patient safety through collaboration with leading public and private institutions. Through research initiatives like REDUCE MRSA, ABATE, Swap Out, CLUSTER and INSPIRE the organization continues to contribute to evidence-based practices that advance infection prevention and strengthen the safety and reliability of care for patients.

About HCA Healthcare

Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services comprising 190 hospitals and approximately 2,500 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 19 states and the United Kingdom. With its founding in 1968, HCA Healthcare created a new model for hospital care in the United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals, deliver patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine. 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%. HCA Healthcare is a learning health system that uses its approximately 47 million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.

All references to "Company," "HCA" and "HCA Healthcare" as used throughout this document refer to HCA Healthcare, Inc. and its affiliates.

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92 HCA Healthcare Hospitals Earn Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award