| Nashville-based HCA Healthcare announced Monday morning that Chairman and CEO R. Milton Johnson will retire at the end of the year, completing exactly five years as the company's top executive.  | Johnson will retire as CEO effective December 31. He will retire as chairman at the annual shareholders meeting in April.
| | The current president and COO will take over as CEO effective January 1.
| | The son of HCA's founder is expected to be named the company's next chairman at the annual shareholders meeting. |
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Pictured left to right: R. Milton Johnson, Sam Hazen, and Thomas F. Frist III (Courtesy of HCA Healthcare) | 
