Segment Information

9 Months Ended

Sep. 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				Nine Months Ended
	September 30,				September 30,
	2012		2011		2012		2011
Net operating revenues:
Hospital operations	$	3,142,837	$	2,885,306	$	9,544,163	$	8,698,673
Corporate and all other		69,193		60,171		207,876		201,714
Total	$	3,212,030	$	2,945,477	$	9,752,039	$	8,900,387
Income from continuing operations before income taxes:
Hospital operations	$	142,336	$	176,903	$	562,886	$	539,442
Corporate and all other		(57,878)		(44,386)		(181,205)		(133,533)
Total	$	84,458	$	132,517	$	381,681	$	405,909