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…