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The Motley Fool May 17, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	A Tenet of Faith Every few months for the past few years, I've read about some analyst or fund manager making a value call on Tenet Healthcare. Pull up a five-year chart, though, and you'll see that just about every one of those folks has gotten skewered by that call. Investors, beware.
The Motley Fool May 2, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Code Brown on HCA Under the current rules, running a hospital is virtually a no-win situation. HCA is likely a fine hospital operator, but this is an industry doomed to take body blows from almost every constituency it serves or interacts with.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2011 David Williamson	HCA Leads the Way HCA, the for-profit hospital company, returned to the publicly traded stock market in dramatic fashion earlier this month, and there has been much rejoicing by shareholders since.
The Motley Fool December 13, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Tenet: A Real Soap Opera The acute care hospital operator Tenet Healthcare sees bad news for quarters to come. With today's news, the stock is down almost 10% to under $11.
The Motley Fool July 26, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	HMA Is Sickly The HCA bid could confirm that negative hospital industry trends have reached their peak. HMA CEO Joseph Vumbacco also confirmed that his company was not in talks with private equity firms, not that the stock moved up in hopes that a deal was on the horizon.
The Motley Fool January 10, 2006 W.D. Crotty	LifePoint's Vital Signs Fall The hospital operator lowers earnings guidance, and sees shares slide. Conservative investors should step aside and watch from the sidelines.
The Motley Fool August 11, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Tenet Off the Respirator Tenet Healthcare is doing better, but still has a long road back to health. Investors who want to dabble here should be extra careful on their due diligence.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2011 Anders Bylund	Universal Health Services Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of hospital and care center operator Universal Health Services are taking a sick day today after falling as much as 10.9% on heavy volume.
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Triad Hospitals Still Ailing Better days could be ahead for Triad, but they're not here yet. Here's where investing gets tricky.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2005 W.D. Crotty	HCA's Strong Heartbeat The health care giant raises earnings guidance, but its vital signs bear watching.
The Motley Fool October 25, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Unpaid Bills Bedevil Triad Doubtful accounts were up to 11.2% after excluding self-pay discounts, and the company raised its allowance for doubtful accounts for the remainder of the year. This is a key problem for hospital operators. Investors, take note.
BusinessWeek August 14, 2006 Timothy J. Mullaney	Massive Buyout, Little Wiggle Room The $33 billion HCA deal will have to work perfectly to work at all.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Triad Tries for More Hospitals are still a lousy business. Simple ratio analysis doesn't get you too far in investing, but it does illustrate a point with hospital stocks like Triad.
The Motley Fool September 23, 2005 Seth Jayson	More Scrutiny of Senator's Good Fortune Federal prosecutors and the SEC want to know more about Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's timely stock sale of hospital operator HCA.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	HMA: A Healthy Value? Is the rural hospital operator recovering, or fading fast? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Tenet Can Start Healing Tenet Healthcare investors had a potentially serious threat dangling precariously over them. But a major settlement with the federal government should clear the decks.
BusinessWeek September 4, 2006 Roben Farzad	Sign Of An Apocalypse In Private Equity? In Private Equity? The notion of a Microsoft buyout may signal a market gone batty.
The Motley Fool December 10, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	Community Health Systems Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Shares of hospital operator Community Health Systems were looking mighty healthy after tacking on a 19% intraday gain.
BusinessWeek May 3, 2004 Dean Foust	Weaker Vital Signs At Hospitals The number of patients in default on their bills is off the charts
The Motley Fool November 16, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Clear Channel Signs Off The radio giant goes private amid a tough operating climate. Shareholders should be more than happy with the decision.
The Motley Fool March 10, 2004 J. Graham	Triad Hospitals' Balancing Act Triad Hospitals disappoints with negative earnings and aggressive accounting.
The Motley Fool April 18, 2011 Travis Hoium	Community Health Systems Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of hospital owner Community Health Systems fell 10% briefly this morning after the company changed its buyout offer for Tenet Healthcare.
CFO January 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland	Operating Room Rising hospital costs, a plague to most companies, have helped some health-care CFOs nurse profits back to health.
The Motley Fool March 22, 2007 Tom Taulli	Triad's Healthy Deal A peek at the proxy sheds light on Community Health System's $5.1 billion deal for Triad. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool November 15, 2006 Matt Koppenheffer	The Softer Side of Private Equity Today, leveraged buyout shops have reincarnated themselves under the uber-generic "private equity" moniker and in the past couple years have started a full frontal assault on the public markets. What does it mean for every-day investors?
The Motley Fool July 25, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Triad Hospitals Looking Healthy The rural hospital operator is in good shape. All the same, the current P/E looks a little robust for a company that will most likely grow in the mid-teens for the next few years.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Guidance Brings Zimmer to Its Knees Sales were a little light this quarter, and the company will have to hustle to meet full-year projections. Investors, tread carefully and only buy when there is a fitting margin of safety here.
CFO September 1, 2007 John Goff	Critical Condition Tenet Healthcare has been laid low by scandal, fraud, and cash-draining litigation. Can new CFO Biggs Porter help cure the ailing hospital operator?
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004	Health Care: The Patient Will Live, But... Employers and consumers will continue to get hammered by rising premiums, but health-care costs will rise a bit more slowly, which is good news for insurers.
BusinessWeek October 9, 2006 Joseph Weber	UnitedHealth vs. HCA: It's Ugly UnitedHealth's contract dispute is leaving patients and docs out in the cold.
The Motley Fool December 6, 2005	When Debt Is OK Is debt good or bad? The answer is that not all debt is alike -- and not all debt is bad. Along the same lines, as investors we shouldn't assume that any debt on a company's balance sheet is a bad thing.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2007 Brian D. Pacampara	A Rule Making Success Story: First Data The cash king agrees to be acquired by private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Rogers & Co. The deal represents a 26% premium over First Data's closing share price and about a 34% increase over the average price during the previous month.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2006 Aswath Damodaran	The Return of Leveraged Buyouts Investors, get up to speed on this resurgent financial trend. Several key consequences for investors, positive and negative, emerge from these buyouts.
The Motley Fool February 7, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Low Expectations Lift Premium Standard Wall Street expected little this quarter, and Premium Standard Farms delivered. This stock could be an interesting long-term idea.
The Motley Fool July 7, 2008 Alex Dumortier	KKR Wants Your Money A spate of new hires has left buyout giant KKR looking more corporate and less clubby, signaling an IPO could be in the cards once more.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2007 Tom Taulli	HealthStream Is More Like a Puddle A major technology transition is slowing the growth at this e-learning software developer for the health-care sector. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Health Care's Unique Risk Select Medical is just the latest to suffer from regulatory changes.
The Motley Fool May 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Shiny Happy Psychiatric Solutions The growth-through-consolidation story continues apace for Psychiatric Solutions. Investors, caution is warranted here.
The Motley Fool June 16, 2006 Mike Norman	Tune Out the Debt Doomsday Crowd Concerned about our astronomical national debt? You shouldn't be. Here's why.
The Motley Fool September 2, 2004 Rich Smith	Translating Your Doctor Bill A lawsuit is currently in the works aiming to overturn an unfunded federal mandate that requires federally funded hospitals, clinics, and doctors to make translators available to patients who speak limited English.
The Motley Fool May 3, 2006	Enterprise Value, Explained Enterprise value (EV) represents a company's economic value -- the minimum someone would have to pay to buy it outright. It's an important number to consider when you're valuing a stock.
The Motley Fool July 29, 2008 Alex Dumortier	How to Become a KKR Partner Legendary buyout firm KKR is going public. Why now?