Segment Information

9 Months Ended

Sep. 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 September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2011			2010			2011			2010
Revenues:
Hospital operations	$	3,375,093		$	3,086,717		$	10,021,267		$	9,105,305
Corporate and all other		60,907			73,106			202,614			203,776
Total	$	3,436,000		$	3,159,823		$	10,223,881		$	9,309,081
Income from continuing operations before income taxes:
Hospital operations	$	176,903		$	164,870		$	539,442		$	495,880
Corporate and all other		(44,386	)		(33,542	)		(133,533	)		(109,506	)
Total	$	132,517		$	131,328		$	405,909		$	386,374