[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 16 (Monday, January 26, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 3748]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1800]


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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

[Dkt. C-3743]


Tenet Healthcare Corp.; Prohibited Trade Practices, and 
Affirmative Corrective Actions

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Consent order.

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SUMMARY: In settlement of alleged violations of federal law prohibiting 
unfair or deceptive acts or practices and unfair methods of 
competition, this consent order, among other things, requires Tenet 
Healthcare Corporation (``Tenet''), a California acute care hospital 
chain, to divest OrNda's French Hospital Medical Center and related 
assets and facilities by August 1, 1997. The consent order also 
requires Tenet to maintain the marketability and viability of French 
Hospital, pending the divestiture of French, and to notify the 
Commission before combining its acute care hospitals in San Luis Obispo 
County with any other acute care hospital in the area and before 
acquiring any Monarch stock.

DATES: Complaint and Order issued May 20, 1997.\1\

    \1\ Copies of the Complaint and the Decision and Order are 
available from the Commission's Public Reference Branch, H-130, 600 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20580.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Leibenluft, FTC/S-3115, 
Washington, DC 20580. (202) 326-3688.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On Wednesday, February 5, 1997, there was 
published in the Federal Register, 62 FR 5418, a proposed consent 
agreement with analysis In the Matter of Tenet Healthcare Corporation, 
for the purpose of soliciting public comment. Interested parties were 
given sixty (60) days in which to submit comments, suggestions or 
objections regarding the proposed form of the order.
    Comments were filed and considered by the Commission. The 
Commission has ordered the issuance of the complaint in the form 
contemplated by the agreement, made its jurisdictional findings and 
entered an order to divest, as set forth in the proposed consent 
agreement, in disposition of this proceeding.

(Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 U.S.C. 46. Interpret or apply sec. 5, 38 
Stat 719, as amended; sec. 7, 38 Stat. 731, as amended; 15 U.S.C. 
45, 18)
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-1800 Filed 1-23-98; 8:45 am]
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