DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) has announced preliminary
results of the shareholder vote at its annual shareholder meeting held
today in Dallas. At the meeting, the company’s common stock holders
elected 12 nominees to the board of directors and approved the four
other proposals put forth by the company.
The common stock holders voted to elect all of the board’s nominees for
director:
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Trevor Fetter, chairman and chief executive officer, Tenet Healthcare
Corporation
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Brenda Gaines, retired president and chief executive officer, Diners
Club of America
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Karen Garrison, retired president, Pitney Bowes Business Services
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Edward Kangas, retired chairman and chief executive officer, Deloitte
Touche Tohmatsu
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J. Robert Kerrey, managing director, Allen & Company; executive
chairman of the Minerva Institute for Research and Scholarship; and
former United States Senator
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Freda C. Lewis-Hall, M.D., executive vice president and chief medical
officer, Pfizer, Inc.
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Richard R. Pettingill, retired president and chief executive officer,
Allina Hospitals and Clinics
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Matt Ripperger, partner, Glenview Capital Management
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Ronald R. Rittenmeyer, chairman and chief executive officer,
Millennium Health; and former chairman, president and chief executive
officer, Electronic Data Systems Corporation
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Tammy Romo, executive vice president and chief financial officer,
Southwest Airlines Co.
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Randy Simpson, partner, Glenview Capital Management
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James A. Unruh, principal, Alerion Capital Group LLC; and former
chairman, president and chief executive officer, Unisys Corporation
Each director was elected individually to serve a one-year term
concluding at the company’s 2017 annual shareholder meeting. Following
the annual meeting, the Tenet board of directors voted to reappoint
Trevor Fetter as chairman and Ed Kangas as lead independent director.
Additionally, the company’s common stock holders voted to approve the
advisory resolution on the compensation of the company’s Named Executive
Officers, to approve the company’s amended and restated stock incentive
plan, to approve the company’s amended and restated employee stock
purchase plan, and to ratify the selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as
the company’s independent registered public accountants for the year
ending December 31, 2016. The voting support in favor of the election of
each individual director exceeded 96% of the votes cast. Each other
proposal was supported by approximately 90% or more of the votes cast.
The final voting results will be disclosed in a Form 8-K to be filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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 (USPI), the company operates 79 general acute care
hospitals, 20 short-stay surgical hospitals and over 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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