Ft Lauderdale, Florida 3/12/2010 6:30:00 AM
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Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:THC) Hospitals Earn Blue Distinction by Local Blue Cross Blue Shield Companies

Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:THC) has announced that twenty of its hospitals have received the designation of Blue Distinction Centers for Spine Surgery and Blue Distinction Centers for Knee and Hip Replacement.  The distinctions were made by local Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies.  The Blue Distinction designation honors facilities meeting objective, evidence-based criteria for clinical quality, developed with input from physicians and medical organizations.  The designations are created by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.  They are awarded by local Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. 

 

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Tenet Healthcare Corporation (Tenet) is an investor-owned health care services company, which principally operates general hospitals and related ancillary health care businesses. As of December 31, 2009, Tenet’s subsidiaries operated 50 general hospitals and a critical access hospital, with a combined total of 13,601 beds, serving urban and rural communities in 12 states. Of those general hospitals, 45 were owned by Tenet’s subsidiaries and five were owned by third parties and leased by Tenet’s subsidiaries. Its subsidiaries also operated various related health care facilities, including a long-term acute care hospital, outpatient surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers, occupational and rural health care clinics, and a number of medical office buildings. In January 2009, it closed Irvine Regional Hospital and Medical Center. On March 31, 2009, Tenet completed the sale of USC University Hospital and USC Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital.

 

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