Tenet Taps 6 Doctors as Chief Medical Officers

By Lisa Girion

April 16, 2004 12 AM PT

In an effort to improve medical care and rehabilitate its battered image, Tenet Healthcare Corp. said that it had tapped six physicians to serve as regional chief medical officers.

The newly created positions are part of a quality care and patient safety initiative launched by Tenet nine months ago in the wake of allegations that doctors at its Redding, Calif., hospital performed hundreds of allegedly unnecessary heart surgeries.

The medical officers will travel to hospitals, working with local doctors, nurses and administrators to carry out measures aimed at promoting safety and care.

-- Lisa Girion

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Lisa Girion

As an investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times, Lisa Girion produced many high-impact stories, including an investigation into alleged human rights abuses in Myanmar, which was anthologized in “Global Muckraking” (The New Press, 2014). Her investigation into the health insurance practice of dropping sick patients, known as rescission, was cited in the Affordable Care Act. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She left The Times in 2015.

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