Here are four recent updates from Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, parent company of ASC chain United Surgical Partners International:
1. Tenet opened a new 54-bed hospital in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Sept. 4. Florida Coast Medical Center is the sixth standalone hospital in the Palm Beach Health Network, a subsidiary of Tenet. The $200 million, 180,000-square-foot facility offers 24-hour emergency care, neurosciences, orthopedics, spine, robotics, general surgery, urology, advanced cardiac care and diagnostic services.
2. Dallas-based Steward Health Care filed a lawsuit July 15 in bankruptcy court against its former chairman and CEO, Ralph de la Torre, MD, alleging insider transactions and mismanagement drained its assets and contributed to its financial collapse. Tenet Healthcare is also named in the lawsuit. In 2022, Steward purchased five Miami-area hospitals from Tenet for $1.1 billion, a deal now at the heart of the lawsuit. Steward contributed $209 million in cash, with the remainder financed by Medical Properties Trust, its real estate investment partner.
The lawsuit claims Steward originally valued the hospitals at $895 million but overpaid due to Dr. de la Torre’s personal ambitions to expand in Miami. It also alleges that the deal was rushed through before Steward could sell five Utah hospitals, which it needed to fund the Tenet acquisition.
3. Hillary Rosenfeld, MSN, RN, has been appointed COO of Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital in Tucson, Ariz. Ms. Rosenfeld’s experience spans critical care nursing and executive leadership in hospital operations.
4. Archie Drake, BSN, joined Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Sept. 8 as president of Methodist University Hospital. Mr. Drake joins Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare from Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, where he most recently served as CEO of Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit. He also previously served as COO at Tenet’s Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen, Texas.
5. Jennifer Opsut has been named CEO of Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital in Tucson, Ariz. Ms. Opsut most recently served as CEO of Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, according to her LinkedIn profile. Prior to that, she was the hospital’s COO.
