Tenet Announces Completion of its Private Offering of Senior Secured Second Lien Notes

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Tenet Healthcare Corporation THC has completed its previously announced private offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured second lien notes maturing in 2022 (the "notes"). The net proceeds of the notes will be used, after payment of fees and expenses, to repay indebtedness outstanding under Tenet's senior secured revolving credit facility and for general corporate purposes.

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About Tenet Healthcare

Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a diversified healthcare services company with 130,000 employees united around a common mission: to help people live happier, healthier lives. Through its subsidiaries, partnerships and joint ventures, including United Surgical Partners International, the company operates 79 general acute care hospitals, 20 short-stay surgical hospitals and approximately 470 outpatient centers in the United States, as well as nine facilities in the United Kingdom. Tenet's Conifer Health Solutions subsidiary provides technology-enabled performance improvement and health management solutions to hospitals, health systems, integrated delivery networks, physician groups, self-insured organizations and health plans. For more information, please visit www.tenethealth.com.

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