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EXHIBIT 24.1
HEALTH MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES, INC.
Officers' and Directors' Power of Attorney
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the undersigned, being Directors or
Officers of Health Management Associates, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Corporation"), which anticipates filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission"), under the provisions of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Act"), a Registration Statement on Form S-8 or a Post-
Effective Amendment to the Corporation's previously filed Registration Statement
on Form S-8 (collectively, the "Registration Statement") to reflect Amendment
No. 6 to the Health Management Associates, Inc. 1996 Executive Incentive
Compensation Plan, and to register under the Act all of the additional shares of
the Corporation's Class A Common Stock issuable as a result thereof, DO HEREBY
constitute and appoint Stephen M. Ray, Timothy R. Parry and Susan Mascette
Brandt, and each of them, the attorneys of the undersigned, with full power of
substitution, for and in the name, place and stead of the undersigned:
(1) to sign and file on behalf of the undersigned the Registration
Statement and any and all amendments thereto, any and all exhibits thereto and
any and all applications or other documents to be filed with the Commission
pertaining to the securities covered by the Registration Statement, with full
power and authority to do and perform any and all acts and things whatsoever
under and in accordance with the Act and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder by the Commission, hereby ratifying and approving the acts of such
attorney or attorneys, or any such substitute or substitutes; and
(2) to take any and all action which they may deem necessary or
desirable to register or qualify the Corporation and further to register or
qualify the securities of the Corporation under the Blue Sky or securities laws
of such states as they may deem necessary and desirable, and in connection
therewith to prepare, execute, acknowledge and file such applications,
certificates, affidavits, covenants, consents to service of process and other
documents as such attorney or attorneys may deem necessary or desirable.
This Instrument may be executed in several counterparts, each of which
shall be an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same
Instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands as of the
respective dates set forth below.
Dated: September 19, 2000 /s/ William J. Schoen
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William J. Schoen
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
Dated: September 19, 2000 /s/ Stephen M. Ray
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Stephen M. Ray
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer and Chief Accounting Officer
Dated: September 19, 2000 /s/ Kent P. Dauten
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Kent P. Dauten, Director
Dated: September 19, 2000 /s/ Robert A. Knox
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Robert A. Knox, Director
Dated: September 19, 2000 /s/ Charles R. Lees
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Charles R. Lees, Director
Dated: September 19, 2000 /s/ Kenneth D. Lewis
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Kenneth D. Lewis, Director
Dated: September 19, 2000 /s/ William E. Mayberry
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William E. Mayberry, Director
Dated: September 19, 2000 /s/ Randolph W. Westerfield
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Randolph W. Westerfield, Director
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State of Florida )
) ss:
County of Collier )
On this 19th day of September, 2000, before me personally came William J.
Schoen, to me known and known to me to be the individual described in, and who
executed the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged to me that he executed
the same.
/s/ Mary M. Pirro
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Notary Public
State of Florida )
) ss:
County of Collier )
On this 19th day of September, 2000, before me personally came Stephen M.
Ray, to me known and known to me to be the individual described in, and who
executed the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged to me that he executed
the same.
/s/ Mary M. Pirro
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Notary Public
State of Florida )
) ss:
County of Collier )
On this 19th day of September, 2000, before me personally came Kent P.
Dauten, to me known and known to me to be the individual described in, and who
executed the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged to me that he executed
the same.
/s/ Mary M. Pirro
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Notary Public
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State of Florida )
) ss:
County of Collier )
On this 19th day of September, 2000, before me personally came Robert A.
Knox, to me known and known to me to be the individual described in, and who
executed the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged to me that he executed
the same.
/s/ Mary M. Pirro
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Notary Public
State of Florida )
) ss:
County of Collier )
On this 19th day of September, 2000, before me personally came Charles R.
Lees, to me known and known to me to be the individual described in, and who
executed the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged to me that he executed
the same.
/s/ Mary M. Pirro
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Notary Public
State of Florida )
) ss:
County of Collier )
On this 19th day of September, 2000, before me personally came Kenneth D.
Lewis, to me known and known to me to be the individual described in, and who
executed the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged to me that he executed
the same.
/s/ Mary M. Pirro
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Notary Public
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State of Florida )
) ss:
County of Collier )
On this 19th day of September, 2000, before me personally came
William E. Mayberry, to me known and known to me to be the individual described
in, and who executed the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged to me that he
executed the same.
/s/ Mary M. Pirro
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Notary Public
State of Florida )
) ss:
County of Collier )
On this 19th day of September, 2000, before me personally came
Randolph W. Westerfield, to me known and known to me to be the individual
described in, and who executed the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged to
me that he executed the same.
/s/ Mary M. Pirro
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Notary Public
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