MountainStar part of HCA Healthcare, one of the 2024 World's Most Admired Companies

Utah’s MountainStar Healthcare, as part of HCA Healthcare, announced that it has been recognized on Fortune’s 2024 World’s Most Admired Companies list. This year, HCA Healthcare is ranked first overall in its industry.

To determine this year’s list, Fortune collaborated with Korn Ferry to analyze 660 companies across 52 industries in 29 countries. The top-rated companies were rated by executives, directors and analysts on nine criteria: innovation, people management, use of corporate assets, social responsibility, quality of management, financial soundness, long-term investment, quality of products and services, and global competitiveness.

“It’s exciting to be able to bring Utahns access to a leading national healthcare network that is so respected for its commitment to excellence,” said Evan Ray, MountainStar Healthcare’s president. “Every day in patient interactions from Logan to Payson, our teams deliver high-quality care that is enhanced by our connection to HCA Healthcare and its knowledge, data and best practices.”

MountainStar’s 80 sites of care are part of the HCA Healthcare network that serves more than 43 million annual patient encounters. The network’s 11 Utah hospitals and supporting care sites and teams employ more than 6,800 colleagues in Utah.

In 2023, HCA Healthcare recruited more than 116,500 colleagues, including 37,500 bedside nurses. To support its colleagues, HCA Healthcare offers a variety of programs, resources and opportunities, including education assistance, financial well-being programs and the HCA Healthcare Leadership Institute, which has graduated more than 21,200 colleagues since its inception in 2014.

HCA Healthcare strives to find new, innovative ways to elevate care delivery for its patients. The organization’s Care Transformation and Innovation (CT&I) team works closely with clinicians to refine tools, such as generative AI to assist care teams with time-consuming tasks like documentation and a scheduling and staffing solution for nurses, and to expand the use of technology throughout the organization. 

HCA Healthcare’s dedication to improve more lives in more ways extends beyond the walls of its hospitals. The organization’s environmental strategy includes both short- and long-term sustainability plans and centers on incorporating four key pillars into operations, including managing energy and water responsibly, enhancing climate resilience, sourcing and consuming efficiently and managing the environmental impact of capital programs.

MountainStar and HCA Healthcare have also demonstrated a commitment to transforming the healthcare talent pipeline in fast-growing Utah, including by opening a new Galen College of Nursing campus in Draper. They also launched a Caregivers of Tomorrow program to help current colleagues pursue clinical education opportunities and recently opened two HCA Healthcare Centers for Clinical Advancement to provide immersive, hands-on learning to existing care team members.