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HCA Healthcare Surpasses 100,000 Pounds of Collected Medication in Year Seven of Annual "Crush the Crisis"
NASHVILLE, Tenn., November 13, 2025--HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, today announced that it collected 19,846 pounds, approximately 13.6 million doses, of unused or expired medications during its seventh annual "Crush the Crisis" national prescription drug take back day. In total, the organization has now collected more than 108,500 pounds of medication since launching "Crush the Crisis" as an enterprise initiative in 2019.
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