Segment Information

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2012

Segment Information [Abstract]

Segment Information Disclosure

15.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 net operating revenues and income from continuing operations before income taxes is summarized in the following tables (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
	2012		2011		2012		2011
Net operating revenues:
Hospital operations	$	3,178,229	$	2,929,038	$	6,401,326	$	5,813,368
Corporate and all other		64,745		71,789		138,683		141,542
Total	$	3,242,974	$	3,000,827	$	6,540,009	$	5,954,910
Income from continuing operations before income taxes:
Hospital operations	$	220,242	$	184,426	$	420,550	$	362,539
Corporate and all other		(68,556)		(46,731)		(123,327)		(89,147)
Total	$	151,686	$	137,695	$	297,223	$	273,392