HCA Healthcare Names Erica Rossitto as Chief Nurse Executive

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, today announced that Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC, has been promoted to senior vice president and chief nurse executive, effective February 1, 2026. In this role, Rossitto will lead the nursing agenda in advancing the practice of nursing among HCA Healthcare’s more than 100,000 nurses.

“Erica is an accomplished and respected leader who brings a deep understanding of nursing and clinical operations to this role,” said Sam Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare. “I’m confident her demonstrated ability to unite teams, strengthen nursing leadership and drive innovation will continue to help support nurses and elevate patient care.”

A 25-year veteran of the company, Rossitto began as a nurse at HCA HealthONE Swedish. Most recently, she served as senior vice president and assistant chief nurse executive for HCA Healthcare where she helped lead nurses across the organization’s operating groups, driving clinical excellence, and supporting their professional development. In this role, she oversaw the group operations support team responsible for improving emergency, trauma and surgical services, as well as the patient experience and leadership advocacy teams.

Rossitto holds a master’s degree of business administration with a focus in healthcare management, a bachelor’s degree in nursing and has earned a Nurse Executive Advanced Board Certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She currently sits on the boards of the HCA Healthcare Foundation’s Healthier Tomorrow Fund Grants Committee and the Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation.

Rossitto succeeds Sammie Mosier, DHA, MA, BSN, NE-BC, who served as HCA Healthcare’s senior vice president and chief nurse executive from 2021 until her sudden passing late last year.

About HCA Healthcare

Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services comprising 191 hospitals and approximately 2,500 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 20 states and the United Kingdom. With its founding in 1968, HCA Healthcare created a new model for hospital care in the United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals, deliver patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine. HCA Healthcare has conducted a number of clinical studies, including one that demonstrated that full-term delivery is healthier than early elective delivery of babies and another that identified a clinical protocol that can reduce bloodstream infections in ICU patients by 44%. HCA Healthcare is a learning health system that uses its approximately 44 million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.

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