Steven L. Wylie

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.

RegionalCare Hospital Partners, Inc. engages in the provision of hospital and healthcare services. It focuses on healthcare delivery systems. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Brentwood, TN.

Essent is deeply committed to its hospitals, its communities and its people and is focused on long-term, disciplined, and intelligent growth. Essent will make acquisitions only when the strongest opportunities present themselves; the number of hospitals in the company's portfolio will not be the measure of its success.

Part of Community Health Systems, Inc., Rankin Medical Center is an acute care hospital. The company is based in Brandon, MS. Rankin Medical Center was acquired by Health Management Associates, Inc., part of Community Health Systems, Inc. from January 27, 2014 on January 07, 1997.