On March 15, 2024, HCA Healthcare, Inc announced that it has received a shareholder proposal from New York State Common Retirement Fund, requesting the Company?s Board of Directors to issue a public report detailing strategies and programs for improving maternal health outcomes. The report should include data collected from the more than 218,000 babies delivered annually at network hospitals and the programs and services being deployed to reduce the incidence of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidities (SMM), with details about how racial and ethnic disparities in this population of patients are being identified and eliminated. The report should be publicly disclosed to shareholders, be prepared at reasonable cost, and omit confidential or proprietary information.

In addition, the Company urged the shareholders to vote against the shareholder proposal at its annual general meeting of the Company scheduled to be held on April 25, 2024.