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Reynold J. Jennings serves as Vice Chairman of Tenet Healthcare Corporation.
Jennings, 61, is involved in Tenet’s various growth initiatives, including its physician sales and service program and its physician alignment efforts and works closely with COO, Stephen L. Newman, MD.
Jennings has had extensive experience as a hands-on hospital operating executive for nearly 32 years. Before being named Vice Chairman in 2007, he was promoted to COO of Tenet in February 2004. He has also served as President of the company’s former Eastern Division, which consisted of 48 acute care hospitals and other facilities in 11 states. Prior to that, Jennings was Executive Vice President of Tenet’s former Southeast Division, where he was responsible for the overall management of 34 acute care hospitals and specialty facilities in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and the Carolinas. Jennings joined Tenet in 1999 as Senior Vice President of the company’s Gulf States Region.
Jennings began his health care career in 1972 at Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton, Georgia, starting as a pharmacist and rising to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. From 1983 to 1991, he served as Chief Executive Officer of a number of acute care hospitals, including Doctors Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., Clearwater Community Hospital in Clearwater, Fla., and Palms of Pasadena Hospital, a St. Petersburg, Florida facility.
In 1991, he was promoted to Senior Vice President responsible for the company’s
acute care hospitals in Texas, Missouri and West Florida. In 1993, he left Tenet to join Ramsay Health Care Inc. as a senior executive and played a key role in stabilizing the financial performance of that New Orleans-based hospital company.
He has a master of science degree in business administration from the University of South Carolina at Columbia and a bachelor of science degree in pharmacy from the University of Georgia.
Jennings is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a board member of the American Federation of Hospitals. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of two Tenet affiliate corporations Tenet Choices Inc., a Medicare HMO, and the Cleveland Clinic Hospital in Weston, Fla., which is jointly owned by Tenet and The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Additionally, Jennings is a past Chairman of the Florida League of Hospitals and the St. Petersburg, Fla., Hospital Council. | 