Atlanta Medical Center’s long-standing weight-loss program has been reaccredited as a Bariatric Center of Excellence® by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).

“Our program continues to build on its history of high-quality service,” said Bariatric Program Coordinator Faye Wimbish of the reaccreditation. “More than 5,000 bariatric procedures have been performed at Atlanta Medical Center since we began our program in 1999.”

The ASMBS Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence (BSCOE) designation helps identify facilities where patients can expect to receive safer and more effective surgical treatment. These centers must pass a thorough site inspection that includes a full review of the facilities; interviews with surgeons, staff and administrators; and a detailed review of medical charts. BSCOE hospitals and surgeons must meet stringent requirements that assess each facet of care specific to bariatric surgery patients.

Titus D. Duncan, M.D., is Medical Director of Atlanta Medical Center’s Bariatric Surgery Program. 

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Atlanta Medical Center, part of Tenet Georgia, is a 460-bed tertiary care hospital at 303 Parkway Drive in Atlanta.  Atlanta Medical Center has been serving the medical needs of the community and region since its founding in 1901.

Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) today announced that a subsidiary has entered into a new agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia effective July 1, 2010.  Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The new agreement covers Tenet’s five acute care hospitals in Georgia (Atlanta Medical Center, North Fulton Hospital, South Fulton Medical Center, Spalding Regional Medical Center and Sylvan Grove Hospital) as well as freestanding outpatient centers.  Tenet Physicians, Inc., which contracts for physicians employed by various Tenet subsidiaries, also is part of the new agreement.

Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a health care services company whose subsidiaries and affiliates own and operate acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and diagnostic imaging centers.  Tenet’s hospitals and related health care facilities are committed to providing high quality care to patients in the communities they serve.  For more information, please visit www.tenethealth.com.

Media:                                                       Investors:

David Matthews (469) 893-2640                     Thomas Rice (469) 893-2522

David.Matthews@tenethealth.com                 Thomas.Rice@tenethealth.com

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