HCA Healthcare Appoints Hugh F. Johnston as New Independent Director
July 27 2021 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: HCA) today announced that its board
of directors has appointed Hugh F. Johnston as an independent
director, effective September 1, 2021. With his addition, HCA
Healthcare’s board of directors increases from 9 to 10 members. Mr.
Johnston will also serve as a member of HCA Healthcare’s audit and
compliance committee and finance and investments committee.
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Mr. Johnston is vice chairman and chief financial officer of
PepsiCo, Inc., a global food and beverage company that earned more
than $70 billion in net revenue in 2020 and boasts a product
portfolio with 23 brands generating more than $1 billion each in
estimated annual retail sales. He joined PepsiCo in 1987 and has
served in a variety of senior leadership positions. Mr. Johnston
also serves as an independent director on the Microsoft Corp. board
of directors.
“Hugh Johnston’s career-long commitment to excellence is
reflected in his more than three decades of experience at one of
the world’s leading food and beverage corporations,” said Sam
Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare. “Hugh’s financial, operational and
technological experience and expertise will greatly complement HCA
Healthcare’s patient-centered focus on the care and improvement of
human life. We are pleased to announce his addition to our
Board.”
Mr. Johnston holds a B.S. from Syracuse University and an M.B.A.
from the University of Chicago.
About HCA Healthcare Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is
one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services
comprising 187 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. 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 percent. HCA
Healthcare is a learning health system that uses its more than 32
million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve
patient care and save lives. Please click here to connect with HCA
Healthcare on social media.
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Healthcare, Inc. and its affiliates.
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