On March 19, 2021, HCA Healthcare, Inc. filed a definitive proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders to vote against a shareholder proposal, requesting the board of directors undertake such steps as may be necessary to permit written consent by shareholders entitled to cast the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize the action at a meeting at which all shareholders entitled to vote thereon were present and voting, submitted by John Chevedden at the Company’s 2021 annual meeting of shareholders scheduled to be held on April 28, 2021.