Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Dec. 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 provide in-home outpatient care).  However, only the hospital operations segment met the criteria as a separate reportable segment due to the fact that the home care agency segment did not meet the quantitative thresholds for a separate identifiable reportable segment and was combined into the corporate and all other reportable segment. Since 2017, the Company has only operated in one operating segment.

The distribution between reportable segments of the Company’s net operating revenues, (loss) income from continuing operations before income taxes, expenditures for segment assets and total assets as of and for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, prior to the Company’s sale of an 80% ownership interest in the home care division as noted above, is summarized in the following tables (in millions):

	Year Ended December 31,
	2016		2015
Net operating revenues:
Hospital operations	$	18,210	$	19,234
Corporate and all other		228		203
Total	$	18,438	$	19,437
(Loss) income from continuing operations
before income taxes:
Hospital operations	$	(1,418)	$	767
Corporate and all other		(297)		(356)
Total	$	(1,715)	$	411
Expenditures for segment assets:
Hospital operations	$	727	$	915
Corporate and all other		17		38
Total	$	744	$	953
			December 31, 2016
Total assets:
Hospital operations			$	20,582
Corporate and all other				1,362
Total			$	21,944