[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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