How HCA Healthcare—one of the country's largest hospital systems—is planning amid COVID-19

When it comes to knowing how COVID-19 will shape the future of healthcare, HCA Healthcare doesn't claim to have any special insight into how it will play out. Leaders of the Nashville, Tennessee-based healthcare giant went above and beyond to hedge their projections on an earnings call with analysts Tuesday, saying they'd withdrawn their guidance for the rest of the year. "Given this is an ongoing and unprecedented public health event, there are just too many unknowns to provide any specific estimates of the impact at this time," said HCA's Chief Financial Officer Bill Rutherford as the company posted its first-quarter results.