HCA Healthcare Agrees To Buy 41 Urgent Care Centers From FastMed

HCA Healthcare, Inc. signed an agreement to purchase 41 urgent care centers in Texas from FastMed. The agreement includes 19 FastMed and 22 MedPost urgent care centers in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and El Paso. It does not include FastMed’s urgent care locations outside of Texas. The transaction is expected to close this summer. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Once completed, the transaction will expand significantly HCA Healthcare’s urgent care operations, which currently comprise 268 clinics. In Texas, HCA Healthcare has 45 hospitals, 395 physician practices, 92 urgent care centers, and numerous other sites of . . .