Segment Information

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

Segment Information [Abstract]

Segment Information Disclosure

15.  SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company operates in one distinct operating segment, represented by hospital operations (which includes its general acute care hospitals and related healthcare entities that provide inpatient and outpatient healthcare services).

Prior to the Company’s sale on December 31, 2016 of 80% of its ownership interest in the home care division, the Company also had an additional distinct operating segment represented by its home care agency operations (which provided in-home care). However, only the hospital operations segment met the criteria as a separate reportable segment due to the fact that the financial information for the home care agency segment did not meet the quantitative thresholds for a separate identifiable reportable segment and as such was 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, for the three months ended March 31, 2016, prior to the sale of an 80% ownership interest in the home care division, is summarized in the following tables (in millions):

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2016
Net operating revenues:
Hospital operations	$	4,944
Corporate and all other		55
Total	$	4,999
Income from continuing operations
before income taxes:
Hospital operations	$	143
Corporate and all other		(80)
Total	$	63