Kathi Whalen to retire after 27 years of service

HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, today announced that Wendy Warren, a more than 10-year veteran of HCA Healthcare, has been appointed senior vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer, effective March 3, 2025. Warren succeeds Kathi Whalen, who is retiring after 27 years with the company.

Warren will lead the company’s ethics, compliance and regulatory department ensuring the company continues the high standards of our code of conduct while supporting colleagues in delivering outstanding patient care.

“Wendy has demonstrated exceptional leadership, strategic insight and an unwavering commitment to support our efforts of improving more lives in more ways,” said Mike McAlevey, executive vice president and chief legal and administrative officer for HCA Healthcare. “I am confident her leadership will help our ethics, compliance and regulatory department continue to uphold high standards of integrity.”

Warren previously served as associate general counsel and vice president of payer contracting and alignment and Parallon. During that time, she provided operational leadership for the legal department and guidance on all aspects of HCA Healthcare’s relationships with managed care payers and spearheaded key responses to major regulatory and legislative initiatives. Prior to joining HCA Healthcare, Warren was a partner at Bass, Berry & Sims, specializing in litigation of commercial disputes.

Warren is a graduate of Fisk University and earned her Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from The University of Texas School of Law.

Whalen, who has been with HCA Healthcare since 1998, helped develop the company’s code of conduct, policies and procedures, annual training and education. In addition to serving as senior vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer, Whalen was also chair of HCA Healthcare’s Sustainability Steering Committee.

“It’s an honor to recognize Kathi for her 27 years of dedicated service to HCA Healthcare,” said McAlevey. “She has been a trusted leader to many and we will certainly miss her wise counsel. We wish her all the best in her retirement.”

About HCA Healthcare

Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services comprising 187 hospitals and approximately 2,400 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 more than 43 million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.

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