Segment Information

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Segment Information [Abstract]

SEGMENT INFORMATION

16. SEGMENT INFORMATION

     The Company operates in three distinct operating segments, represented by hospital operations (which includes its general acute care hospitals and related healthcare entities that provide inpatient and outpatient healthcare services), home care agency operations (which provide in-home outpatient care), and hospital management services (which provides executive management and consulting services to non-affiliated acute care hospitals). Only the hospital operations segment meets the criteria as a separate reportable segment. The financial information for the home care agencies and hospital management services segments do not meet the quantitative thresholds for a separate identifiable reportable segment and are combined into the corporate and all other reportable segment.

     The distribution between reportable segments of the Company’s revenues and income from continuing operations before income taxes is summarized in the following tables (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended						Six Months Ended
	June 30,						June 30,
	2011			2010			2011			2010
Revenues:
Hospital operations	$	3,361,706		$	3,018,147		$	6,646,174		$	6,018,587
Corporate and all other		72,123			62,499			141,707			130,671
Total	$	3,433,829		$	3,080,646		$	6,787,881		$	6,149,258
Income from continuing operations before income taxes:
Hospital operations	$	184,426		$	171,711		$	362,539		$	331,010
Corporate and all other		(46,731	)		(40,571	)		(89,147	)		(75,964	)
Total	$	137,695		$	131,140		$	273,392		$	255,046