Segment Information (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2012

Schedule of Segment Reporting for Revenue and Continuing Operations Before Income Taxes [Table Text Block]



	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

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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