Jon Foster

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer HCA Healthcare

Last Reviewed: October 3, 2026

Executive Summary

Jon Foster has been Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of HCA Healthcare since January 2023. He joined HCA in 2001 as president and chief executive of St. David’s HealthCare in Austin, Texas, a role he held until 2011, and from 2006 also led HCA’s Central and West Texas Division. He was president of the Southwest Group from 2011 and of the American Group from 2013 to 2022, before becoming chief operating officer. Earlier in his career he held executive roles at Baptist Health System in Knoxville and The Methodist Hospital System in Houston. HCA’s 2026 proxy lists him among its named executive officers. He moved from running a hospital system to running operations across the company’s hospital groups.

Career Highlights

• Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of HCA Healthcare since January 2023.
• President of the American Group, 2013 to 2022.
• President of the Southwest Group, 2011 to 2013.
• President and CEO of St. David’s HealthCare in Austin, 2001 to 2011.
• Division President, Central and West Texas Division, 2006 to 2011.

Professional Journey

Foster held executive roles at Baptist Health System in Knoxville, Tennessee, and The Methodist Hospital System in Houston before joining HCA, according to its 10-K. He joined HCA in March 2001 as president and chief executive of St. David’s HealthCare in Austin, Texas, and served in that role until February 2011.

From January 2006 he was also division president for the Central and West Texas Division. He became president of the Southwest Group in February 2011 and president of the American Group in January 2013, a role he held until December 2022.

He was appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer effective 1 January 2023. HCA’s 2026 proxy lists him among its named executive officers, and its February 2026 incentive program filing names him with the chief financial officer as participants at the same target level. HCA Healthcare, based in Nashville, operated 190 hospitals at the end of 2025, 102 of them in Florida and Texas, along with outpatient facilities including 121 ambulatory surgery centers, and reported 2025 revenues of $75.6 billion, according to its 10-K.

Education

No education is established in the sources read for this profile, so the field is left empty rather than estimated.