Subsequent Events	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
Subsequent Events [Abstract]
Subsequent Events Disclosure	18. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS The Company evaluated all material events occurring subsequent to the balance sheet date for events requiring disclosure or recognition in the condensed consolidated financial statements. On April 29, 2016, the Company completed the spin-off of QHC and distributed, on a pro rata basis, all of the shares of QHC common stock to the Company’s stockholders of record as of April 22, 2016. These stockholders of record as of April 22, 2016 received a distribution of one share of QHC common stock for every four shares of Company common stock held as of the record date plus cash in lieu of any fractional shares. Immediately following the completion of the spin-off, the Company’s stockholders owned 100% of the outstanding shares of QHC common stock. Following the spin-off, QHC became an independent public company with its common stock listed for trading under the symbol “QHC” on the New York Stock Exchange. In connection with the spin-off, the Company and QHC entered into a separation and distribution agreement as well as certain ancillary agreements on April 29, 2016. These agreements allocate between the Company and QHC the various assets, employees, liabilities and obligations (including investments, property and employee benefits and tax-related assets and liabilities) that comprise the separate companies and govern certain relationships between, and activities of, the Company and QHC for a period of time after the spin-off. Pursuant to a special distribution paid by QHC to the Company as part of the series of transactions engaged in to complete the spin-off, the Company received approximately $1.2 billion in cash generated from the net proceeds of certain financing arrangements entered into by QHC as part of the separation. The Company has used approximately $194 million of such proceeds to repay a portion of its Term F Loans due 2018. In addition, on May 2, 2016, the Company commenced a cash tender offer for up to $900 million of its approximately $1.6 billion aggregate principal amount outstanding of 5⅛% Senior Secured Notes due 2018 as noted in a press release issued by the Company on such date. The Company intends to use remaining proceeds from such special distribution to repay other outstanding debt and to pay certain expenses incurred in connection with the spin-off and such debt repayment transactions. As part of the separation and distribution of QHC to the Company’s stockholders, the Company will record the distribution of the assets and liabilities of the QHC entities from its consolidated balance sheet on a historical cost basis as a dividend from stockholders’ equity, and no gain or loss will be recorded. On April 1, 2016, one or more subsidiaries of the Company completed the acquisition of an 80% interest in Physicians’ Specialty Hospital (20 licensed beds), a Medicare-certified specialty surgical hospital in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The total cash consideration paid at closing was approximately $13 million. On April 29, 2016, the Company entered into a definitive agreement with UHS to sell its unconsolidated minority equity interests in Valley Health System LLC, a joint venture with UHS representing four hospitals in Las Vegas, Nevada, in which the Company owns a 27.5% interest, and in Summerlin Hospital Medical Center LLC, a joint venture with UHS representing one hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada, in which the Company owns a 26.1% interest. The Company will receive $445 million in cash from UHS in return for the sale of its equity interests in the second quarter of 2016.

18. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

The Company evaluated all material events occurring subsequent to the balance sheet date for events requiring disclosure or recognition in the condensed consolidated financial statements.

On April 29, 2016, the Company completed the spin-off of QHC and distributed, on a pro rata basis, all of the shares of QHC common stock to the Company’s stockholders of record as of April 22, 2016. These stockholders of record as of April 22, 2016 received a distribution of one share of QHC common stock for every four shares of Company common stock held as of the record date plus cash in lieu of any fractional shares. Immediately following the completion of the spin-off, the Company’s stockholders owned 100% of the outstanding shares of QHC common stock. Following the spin-off, QHC became an independent public company with its common stock listed for trading under the symbol “QHC” on the New York Stock Exchange.

In connection with the spin-off, the Company and QHC entered into a separation and distribution agreement as well as certain ancillary agreements on April 29, 2016. These agreements allocate between the Company and QHC the various assets, employees, liabilities and obligations (including investments, property and employee benefits and tax-related assets and liabilities) that comprise the separate companies and govern certain relationships between, and activities of, the Company and QHC for a period of time after the spin-off.

Pursuant to a special distribution paid by QHC to the Company as part of the series of transactions engaged in to complete the spin-off, the Company received approximately $1.2 billion in cash generated from the net proceeds of certain financing arrangements entered into by QHC as part of the separation. The Company has used approximately $194 million of such proceeds to repay a portion of its Term F Loans due 2018. In addition, on May 2, 2016, the Company commenced a cash tender offer for up to $900 million of its approximately $1.6 billion aggregate principal amount outstanding of 5⅛% Senior Secured Notes due 2018 as noted in a press release issued by the Company on such date. The Company intends to use remaining proceeds from such special distribution to repay other outstanding debt and to pay certain expenses incurred in connection with the spin-off and such debt repayment transactions.

As part of the separation and distribution of QHC to the Company’s stockholders, the Company will record the distribution of the assets and liabilities of the QHC entities from its consolidated balance sheet on a historical cost basis as a dividend from stockholders’ equity, and no gain or loss will be recorded.

On April 1, 2016, one or more subsidiaries of the Company completed the acquisition of an 80% interest in Physicians’ Specialty Hospital (20 licensed beds), a Medicare-certified specialty surgical hospital in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The total cash consideration paid at closing was approximately $13 million.

On April 29, 2016, the Company entered into a definitive agreement with UHS to sell its unconsolidated minority equity interests in Valley Health System LLC, a joint venture with UHS representing four hospitals in Las Vegas, Nevada, in which the Company owns a 27.5% interest, and in Summerlin Hospital Medical Center LLC, a joint venture with UHS representing one hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada, in which the Company owns a 26.1% interest. The Company will receive $445 million in cash from UHS in return for the sale of its equity interests in the second quarter of 2016.