Thomas Frist, Jr.
Thomas Fearn Frist Jr. is an American billionaire physician and businessman. He is a co-founder of HCA Healthcare, and the wealthiest person in Tennessee.
- Thomas Frist Jr., a former Air Force flight surgeon, founded Hospital Corp. of America with his father in 1968.
- He took it public for the third time in 2011 after two management buyouts.
- HCA owns and operates 185 hospitals and 1,800 sites of care in 21 states in the U.S. states and London.
- Frist Jr. doesn’t have an executive position at HCA, but his sons, Thomas Frist III and William Frist, are board members.
