National Health Management Inc history

HMA added three more hospitals in 1987, leasing a facility in Van Buren, Arkansas, and buying hospitals in Durant, Oklahoma, and Hamlet, North Carolina.

Another hospital, located in Gaffney, South Carolina, was purchased in March 1988.

In January 1989, HMA purchased an Orlando psychiatric hospital and a year later added the second of the company's two psychiatric hospitals by acquiring a Tesquesta, Florida, facility.

In 1991, it bought 281-bed Riverview Regional Medical Center, located in Gadsden, Alabama, the company's largest facility to date.

Communities adopt different conceptions of health risk (Beck, 1992), and these notions of risk may be shaped by mass media representation of events.

In 1993, HMA acquired hospitals in Greater Haines City, Florida, and Natchez, Mississippi.

In April 1997, he was named HMA's president as well as chief administrative Officer and chief operating officer.

In 1999, HMA arranged to lease two more hospitals, located in Jackson, Mississippi, and Key West, Florida, and bought a third in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

In January 2001, Schoen, at 65 years of age, stepped down as CEO in favor of Vumbacco, some ten years younger, although he stayed on as chairman.

By 2008, nearly 70 percent of households in developing countries consumed adequately iodized salt.

An explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 led to enormous ecological and economic damage as well as loss of life.

Similarly, although the health issues associated with obesity and poor nutrition are well recognized, evidence-informed policy responses are relatively rare and systematic multisectoral approaches are absent (Sisnowski, 2015).