Health Management Announces New Board of Directors

NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Health Management Associates, Inc. (NYSE: HMA) today announced that a majority of its shareholders have appointed a new Board of Directors. An independent inspector of election has certified the written consents representing more than 50% of the Company’s outstanding shares delivered to the Company by Glenview Capital Management, L.P. As such, the eight nominees put forth by Glenview have been elected to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors. The new members of the Company’s Board of Directors are Steven Epstein, Mary Taylor Behrens, Kirk Gorman, Stephen Guillard, Joann Reed, John McCarty, Steven Shulman and Peter Urbanowicz. Biographical information for the new members of the Company’s Board of Directors will be provided in a Form 8-K to be filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.