PHILADELPHIA, April 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) announced today that both of its Philadelphia hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, have been selected to the company's 2008 Circle of Excellence.
The Circle of Excellence honors those Tenet hospitals that have performed at the highest levels in the past year in the areas of quality, service and operation performance. Key factors involved in the process include patient, physician and employee satisfaction scores, clinical quality scores and financial performance.
"The hard work and dedication of the employees at Hahnemann University Hospital and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children made 2007 a great year for both of the hospitals," said Stephen Newman, M.D., Tenet's chief operating officer. "I'm proud of all that they accomplished and am thrilled to honor them with Tenet's Circle of Excellence Award."
Dr. Newman also praised the hospital executive teams, led by Chief Executive Officer Mike Halter at Hahnemann and Chief Executive Officer Bernadette Mangan at St. Christopher's, for their hard work and leadership in the past year. "Health care is a business that requires dedication, passion and strong leadership skills to achieve positive results. The executive teams, employees and vitally important medical staff at Hahnemann and St. Christopher's performed incredibly well in 2007, and I congratulate them on their successes."
At Hahnemann, Halter, Chief Operating Officer James Burke, Chief
Financial Officer Brian Reilly and Chief Nursing Officer Stephanie Connors
helped lead the hospital to achieve the highest overall score of all Tenet
hospitals on balanced scorecard
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