There is a significant shortage of minority graduate business school students choosing hospital and health care management as a career. At HCA, we face this issue every day as we recruit young talent into our executive development program. Recognizing this growing problem, Barbara and I wanted to make a personal commitment to increasing minority leadership in health care. Given that Fuqua has the premier MBA Health Sector Management program in the country, a scholarship program aimed at minority students seemed to us the best way to fulfill this commitment.
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We're not sure what this means, ... It has the smell of the HCA stock trading, and we just thought it was important to bring this to light.
It's possible that the reason he sold the HCA stock was to have money to pay off the debt, but he hasn't said that, ... There's a number of financial actions going on here which fairly raise several questions.... They all could be part of one pattern or be separate things going on.
Despite its best efforts, HCA hospitals experienced weaker profitable admissions, intensifying local competition, higher operating costs and fast-rising uninsured patient volumes. HCA's fourth-quarter performance showcases the hospital industry's increasingly turbulent and tumultuous environment.
He was asked the question (about HCA stock) frequently, ... The main point was, 'I put it into a blind trust and therefore I've ceded responsibility to the trustee.' ... He was trying to explain to people what exactly happened when he put his assets into blind trusts. Once you put them into the trust, he didn't have any information as to the day-to-day disposition of those assets.
I had no information about HCA or its performance that was not publicly available when I directed the trustees to sell the stock.
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Well, I think really for our viewers it should be understood that I put this into a blind trust. So as far as I know, I own no HCA stock
Despite not being required to do so, I later chose to place many of my investments in blind trusts, including my HCA stock. With these efforts, I have sought to guarantee that no conflict of interest existed. Review after review has found nothing wrong.
Despite not being required to do so, I sought and obtained two Ethics Committee opinions acknowledging that my ownership of HCA stock complied with Senate rules and did not present a conflict of interest with my Senate duties,