Tenet Hospitals in South Carolina Fully Operational Following Hurricane Florence
September 17 2018 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) today announced that
its four hospitals in South Carolina are fully operational
following Hurricane Florence and meeting the healthcare needs of
the communities they serve.
Coastal Carolina Hospital, East Cooper Medical Center and Hilton
Head Hospital, which are all located in areas impacted by the
storm, had no material damage. These hospitals resumed normal
operations over the weekend, and it is noteworthy that they
remained open during the storm. East Cooper Medical Center in Mt.
Pleasant, S.C., received an exception to the mandatory evacuation
order issued by the Governor of South Carolina and remained open
with reduced census and an operational emergency room. Piedmont
Medical Center was not directly impacted by the storm and remained
fully operational.
USPI has eight surgery centers in areas impacted by the storm.
Those facilities are in the process of rescheduling cancelled
cases, with plans in place to be operational as of today.
Ron Rittenmeyer, Tenet’s Executive Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, said, “We are incredibly proud and grateful for the
dedication of our employees and their selfless efforts to care for
patients at a time when many of them were facing uncertainty in
their personal lives. Active preparation, rapid response and swift
recovery are paramount to this organization, and I would also like
to express my gratitude to our emergency response team for their
diligence before, during and after the storm.”
Mr. Rittenmeyer continued, “As with any event like this, we
incurred additional costs to ensure the safety of our patients and
employees. We expect minimal disruption for patients who had
elective procedures scheduled during the storms as our teams are
currently working to reschedule all cancelled procedures. We
treated fewer patients in our ERs in South Carolina during the
storm, but we expect our ERs to be back to normal over the next
week as families return and businesses reopen. We will quantify
this further on our third quarter earnings call.”
About Tenet Healthcare
Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a diversified healthcare
services company with 115,000 employees united around a common
mission: to help people live happier, healthier lives. Through its
subsidiaries, partnerships and joint ventures, including United
Surgical Partners International, the Company operates general acute
care and specialty hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent
care centers and other outpatient facilities. Tenet’s Conifer
Health Solutions subsidiary provides technology-enabled performance
improvement and health management solutions to hospitals, health
systems, integrated delivery networks, physician groups,
self-insured organizations and health plans. For more
information, please visit www.tenethealth.com.
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