| Tenet Healthcare Corporation (Tenet) is an investor-owned healthcare services company, whose subsidiaries and affiliates primarily operate general hospitals and related healthcare facilities, and also hold investments in other companies (including health care companies). All of Tenet's operations are conducted through its subsidiaries. During the year ended December 31, 2007, its subsidiaries operated 57 general hospitals, a cancer hospital and a critical access hospital, with a combined total of 15,244 licensed beds, serving urban and rural communities in 12 states. Of those general hospitals, 48 were owned by its subsidiaries and nine were owned by third parties and leased by Tenet's subsidiaries (including one facility it owned located on land leased from a third party). In August 2008, the Company announced that it has completed the previously disclosed sale of its entire interest in Broadlane, Inc. to TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P. |
