Health Management Associates, Inc. (NYSE: HMA) is an owner and operator of general acute care hospitals in non-urban communities located throughout the United States, primarily in the southeast.

Health Management's mission is to enable America's best local health care. We provide the people, processes, capital and expertise that we believe ensures our local hospitals can achieve their mission to deliver compassionate, high quality health care services that significantly improve the lives of the patients, physicians and communities they serve. In support of its mission, Health Management:

• Provides dynamic hospital and home office leadership
• Invests capital to renew hospital facilities
• Recruits physicians to expand a hospital's breadth of services in response to community needs
• Introduces proven hospital best practices that improve the quality of care, promote wise use of resources, and increase patient and physician satisfaction

Currently, Health Management has grown to include 66 hospitals located in 15 states, with a total of approximately 10,300 licensed beds and more than 40,500 dedicated Associates.

Founded in 1977, Health Management's common stock was owned by approximately 900 shareholders of record as of December 31, 2009, including several hundred institutional investors. More than 9.8 million shares were owned by Health Management's associates in their 401(k) plan accounts.