Alan Shane Wells

Health Management Associates, Inc. through its subsidiaries owns and operates general acute care hospitals and other health care facilities in non-urban communities. The company provides various health services, such as general surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, emergency room care, radiology, oncology, diagnostic care, coronary care and pediatric services and also provides out patient services, such as one-day surgery, laboratory, x-ray, respiratory therapy, cardiology and physical therapy, cardiology, neuro-surgery, oncology, radiation therapy, computer-assisted tomography scanning, magnetic resonance imaging, lithotripsy and full-service obstetrics. The company was founded by Joseph Greene, Richard Schnatter, Jeff Jones and James Cheek in September 1977 and is headquartered in Naples, FL.

IASIS Healthcare LLC owns and operates acute care hospitals. It operates business through two segments: Acute Care and Health Choice. The Acute Care segment comprises of its hospitals, outpatient service facilities and physician clinics which offers a variety of medical and surgical services commonly available in hospitals, including emergency services, general surgery, internal medicine, cardiology, obstetrics, orthopaedics, psychiatry and physical rehabilitation. The Health Choice segment is a provider-owned, managed care organization and insurer. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

EmCare, Inc. operates as a physician practice management company, that provides outsourced facility-based physician services for clinicians, hospitals, health systems, and other healthcare clients in the United States. The firm offers integrating clinical services; emergency medicine services; and hospital medicine services, including 24/7 hospitalist coverage, help hospitals manage their purchasing programs, lengths of stay management, daily inpatient care management, discharge care coordination with providers, recruit/retain physicians, physician leadership training/education, post-discharge follow-up, access to intensivists, coding and billing services, and customizing financial and staffing models, as well as consultation and coverage for intensive care, psychiatric, medical, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, surgery, OB/GYN, and other units. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

IASIS Healthcare Corp. owns and operates community-focused hospitals. The company was founded in September 1994 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.