Tenet Healthcare To Divest Units For Streamlining Operations
Zacks Investment Research | Dec 15, 2019 11:16PM ET
Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:THC) recently entered into an agreement with Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare to divest its hospitals and other operations in the Memphis area. This sale is expected to get completed in 2020, subject to closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
This deal includes the divestment of Saint Francis Hospital, Memphis and Saint Francis Hospital, Bartlett, the physician practices related to both hospitals, and six MedPost urgent care centers. Per the terms of the pact, post closure, Tenet’s Conifer Health Solutions unit will keep providing revenue cycle management services to the divested hospitals.
Tenet Healthcare has been divesting its non-core and unprofitable business units to repay its debt and maintain financial liquidity. A number of divestitures made in the past three years have streamlined its operations and generated funds to pay down debt. Its strategic priorities include completing hospital divestitures and allocating capital to higher-return investments across the capital structure. Tenet Healthcare sold nine Aspen facilities in the United Kingdom, eight hospitals in the United States during 2018 and three in the Chicago area in January 2019.
It recently announced that it will complete the spin-off of its Conifer business as an independent publicly traded company by the end of the second quarter of 2021. The company is likely to reduce its debt burden by using the proceeds from this transaction. These divestitures would help Tenet Healthcare focus on its core operations and would help the stock to turn around.
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