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Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:THC) today announced that Trevor Fetter, Tenet’s president and chief executive officer, and Biggs C.

Porter, chief financial officer, will speak at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Health Care Conference in New York on May 11, 2010 at 11:20 a.m. EDT.

The presentation will be available live by webcast and may be accessed through the investor relations section of Tenet’s Web site, www.tenethealth.com : .

Please access the Web site at least 15 minutes before the scheduled start time to download and install any necessary audio software.

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 : .

Some of the statements in this release may constitute forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on our current expectations and could be affected by numerous factors and are subject to various risks and uncertainties discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2009, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and periodic reports on Form 8-K. Do not rely on any forward-looking statement, as we cannot predict or control many of the factors that ultimately may affect our ability to achieve the results estimated. We make no promise to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of changes in underlying factors, new information, future events or otherwise.




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