TENET HEALTHCARE CORP
S-3/A, 1997-01-24
GENERAL MEDICAL & SURGICAL HOSPITALS, NEC
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    AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JANUARY 24, 1997
    
                                                      REGISTRATION NO. 333-17907
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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                                AMENDMENT NO. 2
                                       TO
                                    FORM S-3
    
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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                          TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
 
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
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<S>                              <C>                            <C>
            NEVADA                           8062                  95-2557091
 (State or other jurisdiction    (Primary Standard Industrial   (I.R.S. Employer
              of                 Classification Code Number)     Identification
incorporation or organization)                                        No.)
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                               3820 STATE STREET
                        SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA 93105
                                 (805) 563-7000
              (Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
       including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)
 
                                 SCOTT M. BROWN
                             SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT,
                         GENERAL COUNSEL AND SECRETARY
                          TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
                               3820 STATE STREET
                        SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA 93105
                                 (805) 563-7000
           (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                   including area code, of agent for service)
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                        COPIES OF ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO:
 
          BRIAN J. MCCARTHY                         ALISON S. RESSLER
 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom              Sullivan & Cromwell
                 LLP                             444 South Flower Street
        300 South Grand Avenue                Los Angeles, California 90071
    Los Angeles, California 90071                     (213) 955-8000
            (213) 687-5000
 
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        APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC:
  As soon as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes effective.
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    If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered
pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following
box. / /
    If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on
a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of
1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest
reinvestment plans, check the following box. / /
    If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering
pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box
and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier
effective registration statement for the same offering. / /
    If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c)
under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act
registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement
for the same offering. / /
 
    If delivery of a prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434,
please check the following box. / /
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                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
    
 
   
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                                                             PROPOSED MAXIMUM    PROPOSED MAXIMUM       AMOUNT OF
        TITLE OF EACH CLASS OF              AMOUNT TO         OFFERING PRICE        AGGREGATE          REGISTRATION
     SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED          BE REGISTERED          PER UNIT       OFFERING PRICE(1)         FEE(2)
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Debt Securities.......................    $2,000,000,000           100%           $2,000,000,000         $606,060
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(1) Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee pursuant
    to Rule 457 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
    
   
(2) Of which $393,939 was previously paid and $212,121 is paid herewith.
    
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    THE REGISTRANT HEREBY AMENDS THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATE OR
DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANT SHALL
FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT WHICH SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION
STATEMENT WILL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(A) OF
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 OR UNTIL THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID SECTION 8(A),
MAY DETERMINE.
 
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                 SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED JANUARY 24, 1997
    
INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS SUBJECT TO COMPLETION OR AMENDMENT. A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT RELATING TO THESE SECURITIES HAS BEEN FILED WITH THE
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. THESE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD NOR MAY OFFERS TO BUY
BE ACCEPTED PRIOR TO THE TIME THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT BECOMES
EFFECTIVE. THIS PROSPECTUS SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR THE
SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY NOR SHALL THERE BE ANY SALE OF THESE SECURITIES
IN ANY STATE
IN WHICH SUCH OFFER, SOLICITATION OR SALE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL PRIOR TO
REGISTRATION OR QUALIFICATION UNDER THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY SUCH STATE.
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PROSPECTUS
            , 1997
 
   
                                     [LOGO]
 
                                 $2,000,000,000
                          TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
                    $400,000,000    % SENIOR NOTES DUE 2003
                    $900,000,000    % SENIOR NOTES DUE 2005
              $700,000,000    % SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2007
    
 
    The Senior Notes due 2003, the Senior Notes due 2005 (collectively, the
"Senior Notes") and the Senior Subordinated Notes due 2007 (the "Senior
Subordinated Notes" and, together with the Senior Notes, the "Notes") are being
offered by Tenet Healthcare Corporation ("Tenet" or the "Company"). The net
proceeds from the sale of the Notes offered hereby (the "Offering"), together
with borrowings under the New Credit Facility (as defined herein), will be used
to consummate the Refinancing (as defined herein) in connection with the
acquisition by the Company of OrNda HealthCorp ("OrNda"). The Offering is
contingent upon the consummation of such acquisition and the establishment of
the New Credit Facility. Interest on the Notes will be payable semi-annually on
January 15 and July 15 of each year, commencing July 15, 1997. The Senior Notes
will not be redeemable by the Company prior to maturity. The Senior Subordinated
Notes will be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole or from time to
time in part, at any time on or after January 15, 2002 at the redemption prices
set forth herein, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption. In
addition, upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event (as
defined herein), each holder of Notes may require the Company to repurchase such
Notes at 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest
to the date of repurchase. The Senior Notes due 2003, the Senior Notes due 2005
and the Senior Subordinated Notes have been approved for listing, subject to
official notice of issuance, on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"), under the
symbols "THC J03," "THC J05" and "THC 07," respectively.
 
   
    The Senior Notes will be general unsecured obligations of the Company
ranking senior to all subordinated indebtedness of the Company, including the
Senior Subordinated Notes, and PARI PASSU in right of payment with all other
unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company, including borrowings under the New
Credit Facility. On a pro forma basis, as of November 30, 1996, after giving
effect to the Merger (as defined herein) and the Refinancing, approximately $1.9
billion in principal amount of outstanding indebtedness of Tenet will by its
terms be subordinated to the Senior Notes. The Senior Subordinated Notes will be
general unsecured obligations of the Company, subordinated in right of payment
to all existing and future Senior Debt (as defined herein) of the Company,
including the Senior Notes and borrowings under the New Credit Facility. On a
pro forma basis, as of November 30, 1996, after giving effect to the Merger and
the Refinancing, Senior Debt of the Company would have been approximately $2.8
billion. In addition, the Notes will be effectively subordinated to all debt of
the Company's subsidiaries which, on a pro forma basis, as of November 30, 1996,
after giving effect to the Merger and the Refinancing, would have been
approximately $341.5 million (excluding trade payables of $451.7 million,
intercompany debt and other obligations).
    
 
    SEE "RISK FACTORS" BEGINNING ON PAGE 11 FOR A DISCUSSION OF CERTAIN FACTORS
THAT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BY PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS IN EVALUATING AN INVESTMENT
IN THE NOTES.
 
 THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE SECURITIES AND
      EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION NOR HAS THE
    SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION
           PASSED UPON THE ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS.
           ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
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                                                     PRICE        UNDERWRITING       PROCEEDS
                                                    TO THE        DISCOUNTS AND       TO THE
                                                   PUBLIC(1)     COMMISSIONS(2)     COMPANY(3)
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Per Senior Note due 2003......................         %                %                %
Total.........................................         $                $                $
Per Senior Note due 2005......................         %                %                %
Total.........................................         $                $                $
Per Senior Subordinated Note due 2007.........         %                %                %
Total.........................................         $                $                $
 
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(1) PLUS ACCRUED INTEREST, IF ANY, FROM THE DATE OF ISSUANCE.
(2) THE COMPANY HAS AGREED TO INDEMNIFY THE UNDERWRITERS AGAINST CERTAIN
    LIABILITIES, INCLUDING LIABILITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
    AMENDED. SEE "UNDERWRITING."
   
(3) BEFORE DEDUCTING EXPENSES PAYABLE BY THE COMPANY, ESTIMATED AT $2.6 MILLION.
    
 
    The Notes are offered by the Underwriters, subject to prior sale, when, as
and if issued to and accepted by the Underwriters, and subject to various prior
conditions. The Underwriters reserve the right to withdraw, cancel or modify any
such offer and to reject orders in whole or in part. It is expected that
delivery of the Notes will be made in New York, New York on or about
            , 1997, to investors in book-entry form through the facilities of
The Depository Trust Company against payment therefor in immediately available
funds.
 
DONALDSON, LUFKIN & JENRETTE
         SECURITIES CORPORATION
 
               GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.
                              MERRILL LYNCH & CO.
                                              J.P. MORGAN & CO.
                                                             SMITH BARNEY INC.
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                             AVAILABLE INFORMATION
 
    Tenet has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the "Registration
Statement") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"),
for the registration of the Notes offered hereby. This Prospectus, which
constitutes a part of the Registration Statement, does not contain all of the
information set forth in the Registration Statement, certain items of which are
contained in exhibits and schedules to the Registration Statement as permitted
by the rules and regulations of the Commission. For further information with
respect to the Company and the Notes, reference is made to the Registration
Statement, including the exhibits thereto and the financial statements and notes
filed as a part thereof. Any statements contained herein concerning the contents
of any contract, agreement or other document referred to herein, filed as an
exhibit to the Registration Statement or otherwise filed, are not necessarily
complete. With respect to each such contract, agreement or other document filed
with the Commission, reference is made to such filing for a more complete
description of the matter involved, and each such statement shall be deemed
qualified in its entirety by such reference.
 
    The Company is subject to the informational requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and, in accordance
therewith, files reports, proxy statements, registration statements and other
information with the Commission. Tenet has filed a registration statement on
Form S-4 with the Commission with respect to the Common Stock to be issued in
the Merger. The reports, proxy statements, registration statements and other
information filed by the Company with the Commission may be inspected and copied
at the public reference facilities maintained by the Commission at 450 Fifth
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549, and at the Commission's Regional Offices
at Citicorp Center, 500 West Madison Street, Suite 1400, Chicago, Illinois
60661-2511 and Seven World Trade Center, 13th Floor, New York, New York 10048.
Copies of such material may be obtained from the Public Reference Section of the
Commission at 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549, at prescribed
rates. The Commission also maintains a Web Site at http:// www.sec.gov. which
contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information
regarding registrants that file electronically with the Commission. The
Company's Common Stock is listed on the NYSE and the Pacific Stock Exchange (the
"PSE") under the symbol "THC." Reports, proxy statements and other information
filed by the Company may be inspected at the offices of the NYSE at 20 Broad
Street, New York, New York 10005 and at the offices of the PSE at 618 South
Spring Street, Los Angeles, California 90014 and 301 Pine Street, San Francisco,
California 94104.
 
                INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
 
    The following documents filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to
the Exchange Act (File No. 1-7293) are incorporated in this Prospectus by
reference and are made a part hereof:
 
    1.  Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 1996 (the
"Tenet 10-K"), filed on August 26, 1996;
 
    2.  The portions of Tenet's Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of
Shareholders held on September 25, 1996 that have been incorporated by reference
into the Tenet 10-K;
 
    3.  The portions of Tenet's 1996 Annual Report to Shareholders for the
fiscal year ended May 31, 1996 that have been incorporated by reference into the
Tenet 10-K;
 
    4.  Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended August
31, 1996 and November 30, 1996, filed on October 11, 1996 and January 13, 1997,
respectively; and
 
    5.  Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 16, 1996, filed on November 6,
1996.
 
    All documents filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this
Prospectus and prior to the termination of the offering of the securities made
hereby shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Prospectus and to
be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents. Any statement
contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated herein by
reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
Prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other
subsequently filed document which also is incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such
statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
or superseded, to constitute a part of this Prospectus.
 
    The Company will provide without charge to each person to whom this
Prospectus is delivered, upon oral or written request, a copy of any or all of
the documents incorporated herein by reference (other than exhibits to such
documents, unless such exhibits are specifically incorporated by reference in
such documents). Written or telephone requests should be directed to Tenet
Healthcare Corporation, 3820 State Street, Santa Barbara, California 93105,
Attention: Scott M. Brown, Esq., Senior Vice President, Secretary and General
Counsel (telephone (805) 563-7000).
 
    IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFERING, THE UNDERWRITERS MAY OVER-ALLOT OR EFFECT
TRANSACTIONS WHICH STABILIZE OR MAINTAIN THE MARKET PRICE OF THE NOTES AT LEVELS
ABOVE THOSE WHICH MIGHT OTHERWISE PREVAIL IN THE OPEN MARKET. SUCH TRANSACTIONS
MAY BE EFFECTED ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE OR OTHERWISE. SUCH STABILIZING,
IF COMMENCED, MAY BE DISCONTINUED AT ANY TIME.
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                     125 GENERAL HOSPITALS WITH 26,943 BEDS
 
    The following table sets forth certain information relating to each of the
125 general hospitals operated by the Company and by OrNda at November 30, 1996
(one of which was closed and one of which was sold in December 1996), two
general hospital acquisitions that were completed in December 1996 and one
general hospital acquisition that was completed in January 1997. Hospitals
operated by OrNda appear in italicized type.
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                                                                                    LICENSED
FACILITY                                                     LOCATION                 BEDS
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<C>        <S>                                               <C>                  <C>
 
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
   / /     Alvarado Hospital Medical Center                  San Diego                    231
    1
   / /     Century City Hospital                             Los Angeles                  190
    2
   / /     Encino Hospital                                   Encino                       151
    3
   / /     Garden Grove Hospital and Medical Center          Garden Grove                 167
    4
   / /     Garfield Medical Center                           Monterey Park                211
    5
   / /     Irvine Medical Center                             Irvine                       176
    6
   / /     John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital                 Indio                        130
    7
   / /     Lakewood Regional Medical Center                  Lakewood                     161
    8
   / /     Los Alamitos Medical Center                       Los Alamitos                 173
    9
   / /     Medical Center of North Hollywood                 North Hollywood              160
   10
   / /     Placentia Linda Community Hospital                Placentia                    114
   11
   / /     San Dimas Community Hospital                      San Dimas                     93
   12
   / /     South Bay Hospital                                Redondo Beach                201
   13
   / /     Tarzana Regional Medical Center                   Tarzana                      231
   14
   / /     USC University Hospital                           Los Angeles                  286
   15
    l      BROTMAN MEDICAL CENTER                            CULVER CITY                  438
   16
    l      CENTINELA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER                 INGLEWOOD                    400
   17
    l      CHAPMAN MEDICAL CENTER                            ORANGE                       135
   18
    l      COASTAL COMMUNITIES HOSPITAL                      SANTA ANA                    177
   19
    l      COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF HUNTINGTON PARK             HUNTINGTON PARK               99
   20
    l      FOUNTAIN VALLEY REGIONAL HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL
   21       CENTER                                           FOUNTAIN VALLEY              413
    l      GREATER EL MONTE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL               SOUTH EL MONTE               113
   22
    l      HARBOR VIEW MEDICAL CENTER                        SAN DIEGO                    156
   23
    l      MIDWAY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER                    LOS ANGELES                  225
   24
    l      MISSION HOSPITAL OF HUNTINGTON PARK               HUNTINGTON PARK              127
   25
    l      MONTEREY PARK HOSPITAL                            MONTEREY PARK                102
   26
    l      SANTA ANA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER                 SANTA ANA                     90
   27
    l      ST. LUKE MEDICAL CENTER                           PASADENA                     162
   28
    l      SUBURBAN MEDICAL CENTER                           PARAMOUNT                    184
   29
   *l      WESTERN MEDICAL CENTER                            SANTA ANA                    288
   30
   *l      WESTERN MEDICAL CENTER-ANAHEIM                    ANAHEIM                      193
   31
   **l     WESTSIDE HOSPITAL                                 LOS ANGELES                   68
   32
    l      WHITTIER HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER                  WHITTIER                     159
   33
    l      WOODRUFF COMMUNITY HOSPITAL                       LONG BEACH                    96
   34
OTHER CALIFORNIA
   / /     Community Hospital & Rehabilitation Center of
   35       Los Gatos                                        Los Gatos                    164
   / /     Doctors Hospital of Manteca                       Manteca                       73
   36
   / /     Doctors Hospital of Pinole                        Pinole                       137
   37
   / /     Doctors Medical Center of Modesto                 Modesto                      433
   38
   / /     Redding Medical Center                            Redding                      185
   39
   / /     San Ramon Regional Medical Center                 San Ramon                    123
   40
   / /     Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center              San Luis Obispo              199
   41
   / /     Twin Cities Community Hospital                    Templeton                     84
   42
    l      FRENCH HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER                    SAN LUIS OBISPO              147
   43
    l      VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL                         SANTA MARIA                   70
   44
SOUTH FLORIDA
   / /     Delray Community Hospital                         Delray Beach                 211
   45
   / /     Hialeah Hospital                                  Hialeah                      378
   46
   / /     Hollywood Medical Center                          Hollywood                    324
   47
   / /     North Ridge Medical Center                        Ft. Lauderdale               391
   48
 ***/ /    North Shore Medical Center                        Miami                        357
   49
   / /     Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center                 Palm Beach Gardens           204
   50
   / /     Palmetto General Hospital                         Hialeah                      360
   51
   / /     West Boca Medical Center                          Boca Raton                   185
   52
    l      CORAL GABLES HOSPITAL                             CORAL GABLES                 273
   53
    l      FLORIDA MEDICAL CENTER                            FT. LAUDERDALE               459
   54
    l      FLORIDA MEDICAL CENTER, SOUTH                     PLANTATION                   202
   55
    l      PARKWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER                   NORTH MIAMI                  699
   56
TAMPA/ST. PETERSBURG,
 FLORIDA AREA
   / /     Memorial Hospital of Tampa                        Tampa                        174
   57
   / /     Palms of Pasadena Hospital                        St. Petersburg               310
   58
   / /     Seven Rivers Community Hospital                   Crystal River                128
   59
   / /     Town and Country Hospital                         Tampa                        201
   60
    l      NORTH BAY MEDICAL CENTER                          NEW PORT RICHEY              122
   61
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA AREA
   / /     Doctors Hospital of Jefferson                     Metairie                     138
   62
   / /     Kenner Regional Medical Center                    Kenner                       300
   63
   / /     Meadowcrest Hospital                              Gretna                       200
   64
   / /     Memorial Medical Center Mid-City                  New Orleans                  272
   65
   / /     Memorial Medical Center Uptown                    New Orleans                  487
   66
   / /     Northshore Regional Medical Center                Slidell                      174
   67
   / /     St. Charles General Hospital                      New Orleans                  173
   68
PHOENIX/TUCSON, ARIZONA
    l      COMMUNITY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER                 PHOENIX                       59
   69
    l      MESA GENERAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER              MESA                         138
   70
    l      ST. LUKE'S MEDICAL CENTER                         PHOENIX                      276
   71
 
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FACILITY                                                     LOCATION                 BEDS
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<C>        <S>                                               <C>                  <C>
 
    l      TEMPE ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL                         TEMPE                         90
   72
    l      TUCSON GENERAL HOSPITAL                           TUCSON                       146
   73
DALLAS, TEXAS AREA
   / /     Doctors Hospital                                  Dallas                       268
   74
   / /     RHD Memorial Medical Center                       Dallas                       190
   75
   / /     Trinity Medical Center                            Carrollton                   149
   76
    l      GARLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL                        GARLAND                      113
   77
    l      LAKE POINT MEDICAL CENTER                         ROWLETT                       92
   78
HOUSTON, TEXAS AREA
   / /     Park Plaza Hospital                               Houston                      468
   79
   / /     Twelve Oaks Hospital                              Houston                      336
   80
    l      CYPRESS FAIRBANKS MEDICAL CENTER                  HOUSTON                      149
   81
    l      HOUSTON NORTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER                  HOUSTON                      498
   82
    l      SHARPSTOWN GENERAL HOSPITAL                       HOUSTON                      190
   83
OTHER TEXAS
   / /     Brownsville Medical Center                        Brownsville                  177
   84
   / /     Mid-Jefferson Hospital                            Nederland                    138
   85
   / /     Nacogdoches Medical Center                        Nacogdoches                  150
   86
   / /     Odessa Regional Hospital                          Odessa                       100
   87
   / /     Park Place Hospital                               Port Arthur                  236
   88
   / /     Providence Memorial Hospital                      El Paso                      471
   89
   / /     Sierra Medical Center                             El Paso                      365
   90
    l      SOUTH PARK HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER              LUBBOCK                      101
   91
    l      SOUTHWEST GENERAL HOSPITAL                        SAN ANTONIO                  286
   92
    l      TRINITY VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER                     PALESTINE                    150
   93
ALABAMA
   / /     Brookwood Medical Center                          Birmingham                   586
   94
   / /     Lloyd Noland Hospital                             Birmingham                   319
   95
ARKANSAS
   / /     Central Arkansas Hospital                         Searcy                       193
   96
   / /     Methodist Hospital of Jonesboro                   Jonesboro                    104
   97
   / /     National Park Medical Center                      Hot Springs                  166
   98
   / /     St. Mary's Regional Hospital                      Russellville                 170
   99
GEORGIA
   / /     North Fulton Regional Hospital                    Roswell                      167
   100
   / /     Spalding Regional Hospital                        Griffin                      160
   101
INDIANA
   / /     Culver Union Hospital                             Crawfordsville               120
   102
    l      WINONA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL                          INDIANAPOLIS                 317
   103
MISSOURI
   / /     Columbia Regional Hospital                        Columbia                     265
   104
  **/ /    Kirksville Osteopathic Medical Center             Kirksville                   119
   105
   / /     Lucy Lee Hospital                                 Poplar Bluff                 201
   106
   / /     Lutheran Medical Center                           St. Louis                    408
   107
    l      TWIN RIVERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER               KENNETT                      126
   108
NORTH CAROLINA
   / /     Central Carolina Hospital                         Sanford                      137
   109
   / /     Frye Regional Medical Center                      Hickory                      355
   110
OREGON
    l      EASTMORELAND HOSPITAL                             PORTLAND                     100
   111
    l      WOODLAND PARK HOSPITAL                            PORTLAND                     209
   112
SOUTH CAROLINA
   / /     East Cooper Community Hospital                    Mount Pleasant               100
   113
   / /     Hilton Head Hospital                              Hilton Head                   64
   114
   / /     Piedmont Medical Center                           Rock Hill                    268
   115
TENNESSEE
   / /     John W. Harton Regional Medical Center            Tullahoma                    137
   116
   / /     Medical Center of Manchester                      Manchester                    49
   117
   / /     Saint Francis Hospital                            Memphis                      890
   118
   / /     University Medical Center                         Lebanon                      261
   119
NINE ADDITIONAL STATES
   / /     Saint Joseph Hospital                             Omaha, NE                    374
   120
    l      DAVENPORT MEDICAL CENTER                          DAVENPORT, IA                150
   121
    l      MINDEN MEDICAL CENTER                             MINDEN, LA                   121
   122
    l      SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL                            WORCESTER, MA                432
   123
    l      GULF COAST MEDICAL CENTER                         BILOXI, MI                   189
   124
    l      LAKE MEADE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER                NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV          198
   125
    l      PUGET SOUND HOSPITAL                              TACOMA, WA                   160
   126
    l      PLATEAU MEDICAL CENTER                            OAK HILL, WV                  91
   127
    l      LANDER VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER                      LANDER, WY                   102
   128
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  * Pending acquisitions at November 30, 1996, acquired in December 1996.
 ** Westside Hospital was closed and Kirksville Osteopathic Medical Center was
    sold in December 1996.
***Pending acquisition at November 30, 1996, acquired in January 1997.
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                               PROSPECTUS SUMMARY
 
    THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY IS QUALIFIED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY, AND SHOULD BE READ IN
CONJUNCTION WITH, THE MORE DETAILED INFORMATION APPEARING ELSEWHERE IN THIS
PROSPECTUS OR INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE.
 
                                  THE COMPANY
 
    Tenet is the second largest investor-owned healthcare services company in
the United States. Tenet's subsidiaries own or operate general hospitals and
related healthcare facilities serving urban and rural communities in 13 states
and hold investments in other healthcare companies. At November 30, 1996,
Tenet's subsidiaries operated 76 general hospitals with 17,344 licensed beds.
Tenet's subsidiaries and affiliates also own or operate various ancillary
healthcare businesses, including outpatient surgery centers, home healthcare
programs, ambulatory, occupational and rural healthcare clinics, a health
maintenance organization with approximately 58,000 members, a preferred provider
organization and a managed care insurance company as well as a small number of
rehabilitation hospitals, specialty hospitals, long-term care facilities and
psychiatric facilities. Tenet intends to continue its strategic acquisitions of
and partnerships with additional general hospitals and related healthcare
businesses in order to expand and enhance its integrated healthcare delivery
systems. For the 12 months ended November 30, 1996, Tenet had net operating
revenues, EBITDA (as defined herein) and income from continuing operations,
adjusted to reflect acquisitions, divestitures and related adjustments, of $6.0
billion, $1.2 billion and $242.0 million, respectively. See "Pro Forma Financial
Information."
 
    On October 16, 1996, Tenet entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as
amended as of November 22, 1996, the "Merger Agreement") with OrNda, pursuant to
which OrNda will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Tenet (the "Merger"). OrNda
is the third largest investor-owned provider of healthcare services in the
United States, delivering a broad range of inpatient and outpatient healthcare
services to urban and suburban communities in 15 states. At November 30, 1996,
OrNda operated 49 general hospitals with a total of 9,599 licensed beds. OrNda
also owns or operates six surgery centers, numerous outpatient and specialty
clinics, one psychiatric hospital and a managed healthcare Medicaid plan (the
"Medicaid HMO") with approximately 34,000 participants. For the 12 months ended
November 30, 1996, OrNda had net operating revenues, EBITDA and income from
continuing operations, adjusted to reflect acquisitions and related adjustments,
of $2.8 billion, $419.6 million and $112.9 million, respectively. See "Pro Forma
Financial Information."
 
   
    Following the Merger, the Company will operate 125 general hospitals serving
urban and rural communities in 22 states, with a total of 26,943 licensed beds,
excluding transactions taking place after November 30, 1996. For the 12 months
ended November 30, 1996, on a combined basis adjusted to reflect acquisitions,
divestitures and related adjustments, including the pending acquisitions of
three hospitals subject to definitive agreements, two of which were acquired in
December 1996 and one of which was acquired in January 1997 (the "Pending
Acquisitions"), the Company's net operating revenues, EBITDA and income from
continuing operations, would have been approximately $8.8 billion, $1.6 billion
and $359.3 million, respectively. See "Pro Forma Financial Information." These
pro forma combined results do not give effect to certain cost savings that
management believes may be realized following the Merger. No assurances can be
made as to the amount of cost savings, if any, that actually will be realized.
    
 
    Tenet believes that the Merger represents an opportunity to acquire a
substantial portfolio of hospitals providing quality care responsive to the
current managed care environment. Many of OrNda's general hospitals are located
in geographic areas where Tenet currently operates hospitals, including southern
California and south Florida. The Merger will provide an opportunity for the
Company to coordinate the services it provides in these geographic areas with
the services provided by OrNda, which the Company believes will accelerate its
development of integrated healthcare delivery systems in these areas. The Merger
also expands the Company's operations into several new geographic areas,
including Arizona, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, Oregon, Washington,
West Virginia and Wyoming. The Company believes it will be able to integrate
effectively the operations of OrNda based on its successful integration of the
operations of American Medical Holdings, Inc. ("AMH"), which was acquired by
Tenet in March 1995.
 
    The Company's principal executive offices are located at 3820 State Street,
Santa Barbara, California 93105, and its telephone number is (805) 563-7000.
 
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                               BUSINESS STRATEGY
 
    The Company's strategic objective is to provide quality healthcare services
responsive to the current managed care environment. Tenet believes that
competition among healthcare providers occurs primarily at the local level.
Accordingly, the Company tailors its local strategies to address the specific
competitive characteristics of the geographic areas in which it operates,
including the number of facilities operated by Tenet, the nature and structure
of physician practices and physician groups, the extent of managed care
penetration, the number and size of competitors and the demographic
characteristics of the area. Key elements of the Company's strategy are:
 
    - to develop integrated healthcare delivery systems by coordinating the
      operations and services of the Company's facilities with other hospitals
      and ancillary care providers and through alliances with physicians and
      physician groups;
 
    - to reduce costs through enhanced operating efficiencies while improving
      the quality of care provided;
 
    - to develop and maintain its strong relationships with physicians and
      generally to foster a physician-friendly culture;
 
    - to enter into discounted fee for service arrangements, capitated contracts
      and other managed care contracts with third party payors; and
 
    - to acquire and enter into strategic partnerships with hospitals, groups of
      hospitals, other healthcare businesses, ancillary healthcare providers,
      physician practices and physician practice assets where appropriate to
      expand and enhance quality integrated healthcare delivery systems
      responsive to the current managed care environment.
 
    By providing Tenet with the opportunity to combine with a company having a
substantial portfolio of large, attractive urban and suburban hospitals known
for quality care and strong financial performance, the Merger supports major
strategic objectives of Tenet-to reinforce its position as a significant
provider of healthcare services in selected geographic areas throughout the
United States and enter attractive new geographic areas such as Arizona and
Massachusetts. Tenet believes that the Merger will create a stronger, more
geographically diverse company that will be better able to grow through
strategic acquisitions and partnerships. The combined company will continue to
emphasize the creation of strong integrated healthcare delivery systems.
 
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                                  THE OFFERING
 
   
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Notes Offered................  $400.0 million principal amount of   % Senior Notes due 2003
                               (the "Senior Notes due 2003"), $900.0 million principal
                               amount of    % Senior Notes due 2005 (the "Senior Notes due
                               2005" and, together with the Senior Notes due 2003, the
                               "Senior Notes") and $700.0 million principal amount of   %
                               Senior Subordinated Notes due 2007 (the "Senior Subordinated
                               Notes").
 
Maturity Dates...............  January 15, 2003 with respect to the Senior Notes due 2003,
                               January 15, 2005 with respect to the Senior Notes due 2005
                               and January 15, 2007 with respect to the Senior Subordinated
                               Notes.
 
Interest Payment Dates.......  January 15 and July 15, commencing July 15, 1997.
 
Mandatory Redemption.........  None.
 
Optional Redemption..........  The Senior Notes will not be redeemable by the Company prior
                               to maturity. The Senior Subordinated Notes will be
                               redeemable at the option of Tenet, in whole or from time to
                               time in part, at any time on or after January 15, 2002 at
                               the redemption prices set forth herein, plus accrued and
                               unpaid interest to the date of redemption. The terms of the
                               New Credit Facility will prohibit the Company from redeeming
                               or otherwise repurchasing the Senior Subordinated Notes
                               prior to the stated maturity thereof. See "Description of
                               Notes--Optional Redemption" and "Description of the New
                               Credit Facility--Covenants."
 
Change of Control............  Upon a Change of Control Triggering Event, each holder of
                               Notes will have the right to require Tenet to repurchase
                               such holder's Notes at 101% of the principal amount thereof,
                               plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of repurchase.
                               The terms of the New Credit Facility will prohibit the
                               Company from purchasing the Senior Subordinated Notes upon
                               the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event. The
                               indentures relating to the Senior Notes and the Existing
                               Senior Notes (as defined herein) of the Company also may
                               restrict the Company's ability to purchase Senior
                               Subordinated Notes upon the occurrence of a Change of
                               Control Triggering Event. See "Risk Factors--Possible
                               Inability to Repurchase Notes Upon a Change of Control,"
                               "Description of Notes--Repurchase at the Option of Holders
                               Upon a Change of Control" and "Description of the New Credit
                               Facility."
 
Ranking......................  The Senior Notes will be general unsecured obligations of
                               the Company ranking senior to all subordinated indebtedness
                               of the Company, including the Senior Subordinated Notes, and
                               PARI PASSU in right of payment with all other existing and
                               future unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company, including
                               the Existing Senior Notes and borrowings under the New
                               Credit Facility. The Senior Subordinated Notes will be
                               general unsecured obligations of the Company subordinated in
                               right of payment to all existing and future Senior Debt of
                               the Company, including the Senior Notes, the Existing Senior
                               Notes and borrowings under the New Credit Facility. On a pro
                               forma basis, as of November 30, 1996, after giving effect to
                               the Merger and the Refinancing, Senior Debt of the Company
                               would have been approximately $2.8 billion. See "Historical
                               and Pro Forma Capitalization," "Related Transactions,"
                               "Description of the New Credit Facility," "Description
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                               of Notes--General" and "--Subordination of Senior
                               Subordinated Notes." On a pro forma basis, as of November
                               30, 1996, after giving effect to the Merger and the
                               Refinancing, approximately $1.9 billion in principal amount
                               of outstanding indebtedness of Tenet will by its terms be
                               subordinated to the Senior Notes. In addition, both the
                               Senior Notes and the Senior Subordinated Notes will be
                               effectively subordinated to all of the outstanding debt of
                               the Company's subsidiaries which, on a pro forma basis, as
                               of November 30, 1996, after giving effect to the Merger and
                               the Refinancing, would have been approximately $341.5
                               million (excluding trade payables of $451.7 million,
                               intercompany debt and other obligations). See "Pro Forma
                               Financial Information." The indenture governing the Senior
                               Notes due 2003 (the "Senior Note due 2003 Indenture"), the
                               indenture governing the Senior Notes due 2005 (the "Senior
                               Note due 2005 Indenture") and the indenture governing the
                               Senior Subordinated Notes (the "Senior Subordinated Note
                               Indenture" and, together with the Senior Note due 2003
                               Indenture and the Senior Note due 2005 Indenture, the
                               "Indentures") will limit the ability of subsidiaries of
                               Tenet to incur additional indebtedness.
 
Certain Covenants............  The Indentures will contain certain covenants, including,
                               but not limited to, covenants limiting or prohibiting: (i)
                               the incurrence by the Company and its subsidiaries of
                               additional indebtedness; (ii) the payment of dividends on
                               and the redemption of capital stock by the Company; (iii)
                               the creation of liens securing indebtedness; (iv)
                               restrictions on the ability of subsidiaries to pay
                               dividends; (v) transactions with affiliates; and (vi) the
                               Company's ability to consolidate or merge with or into, or
                               to transfer all or substantially all of its assets to,
                               another person. See "Description of Notes--Certain
                               Covenants."
 
Use of Proceeds..............  The net proceeds to the Company from the sale of the Notes
                               are estimated to be approximately $1.96 billion (after
                               deducting estimated expenses and underwriting discounts and
                               commissions). The Company intends to use such net proceeds,
                               together with borrowings under the New Credit Facility, to
                               consummate the Refinancing and to pay related transaction
                               fees and expenses. See "Use of Proceeds" and "Related
                               Transactions."
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                              RELATED TRANSACTIONS
 
   
    In connection with the consummation of the Merger, the Company has
registered for issuance approximately 85.9 million shares of its common stock to
OrNda stockholders. In addition, Tenet intends to refinance approximately $525.0
million of OrNda's outstanding public debt securities through a tender offer to
repurchase such securities (the "OrNda Tender Offers") and to refinance the
existing credit facilities of Tenet and OrNda, which, on a pro forma basis to
reflect the Pending Acquisitions, at November 30, 1996 had outstanding balances
of $1.2 billion and $918.9 million, respectively, with the proceeds of the
Offering together with borrowings under a new credit facility (the "New Credit
Facility"), which will provide for aggregate commitments of up to $2.8 billion.
The refinancing transactions described above are herein collectively referred to
as the "Refinancing." The Refinancing extends the maturities of the Company's
indebtedness at favorable rates and positions the Company to take advantage of
future strategic acquisition and partnership opportunities. See "Risk
Factors--Certain Financing Considerations; Leverage" and "Historical and Pro
Forma Capitalization."
    
 
    The Offering is conditioned upon the consummation of the Merger and the
establishment of the New Credit Facility. See "Related Transactions."
 
                                  RISK FACTORS
 
    See "Risk Factors" for a discussion of certain factors that should be
considered by prospective purchasers in evaluating whether to make an investment
in the Notes offered hereby.
 
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               SUMMARY UNAUDITED PRO FORMA FINANCIAL INFORMATION
 
    The following table presents summary pro forma financial information that
was derived from the unaudited pro forma financial information included
elsewhere in this Prospectus and should be read in conjunction therewith and
with the related notes thereto. The following summary unaudited pro forma
financial information is presented assuming the Merger will be accounted for as
a pooling of interests, whereby Tenet will restate its historical consolidated
financial statements to include the assets, liabilities, shareholders' equity
and results of operations of OrNda. The statement of operations data included in
the summary unaudited pro forma financial information reflects the combination
of the historical as adjusted operating results of Tenet for the year ended May
31, 1996 and for the six months ended November 30, 1995 and 1996, with the
historical as adjusted operating results of OrNda for the year ended August 31,
1996 and for the six months ended November 30, 1995 and 1996, respectively.
Tenet reports its financial information on the basis of a May 31 fiscal year.
OrNda reports its financial information on the basis of an August 31 fiscal
year.
 
    The unaudited pro forma balance sheet data gives effect to the following
transactions and events as if they had occurred as of November 30, 1996: (i) the
January 1997 acquisition by Tenet of North Shore Medical Center; (ii) the
December 1996 acquisition by OrNda of the Western Medical Centers; and (iii) the
consummation of the Merger and the Refinancing.
 
    The unaudited pro forma statements of operations data of Tenet and OrNda for
the year ended May 31, 1996 and the six months ended November 30, 1995 and 1996
include the effects of the following transactions and events as if they had
occurred as of June 1, 1995 for the Tenet transactions and events and as of
September 1, 1995 for the OrNda transactions and events: (i) the August 1995
acquisition by Tenet of Memorial Medical Center (formerly known as Mercy+Baptist
Medical Center); the September 1995 acquisition by Tenet of Providence Memorial
Hospital; the October 1995 acquisition by Tenet of Medical Center of Manchester;
the November 1995 acquisition by Tenet of Methodist Hospital of Jonesboro; the
June 1996 acquisition by Tenet of Hialeah Hospital; the October 1996 acquisition
by Tenet of the Lloyd Noland Hospital and the January 1997 acquisition by Tenet
of North Shore Medical Center; (ii) the June 1995 sale by Tenet of its two
hospitals and related healthcare businesses in Singapore; the October 1995 sales
by Tenet of its interest in Australian Medical Enterprises, Inc. ("AME") and its
equity interest in a hospital in Malaysia; the February 1996 sale by Tenet of
its equity interest in a hospital in Thailand and the May 1996 sale by Tenet of
its equity interest in Westminster Health Care Holdings PLC ("Westminster");
(iii) the elimination of non-recurring gains on disposals of facilities and
long-term investments recorded by Tenet; (iv) Vencor, Inc.'s ("Vencor")
September 1995 acquisition of The Hillhaven Corporation ("Hillhaven") in which
Tenet held a significant equity interest; (v) the reduction of Tenet's equity
interest in Total Renal Care Holdings, Inc. ("TRC") in October 1995; (vi) the
November 1995 acquisition by OrNda of Universal Medical Center (subsequently
renamed Florida Medical Center-South); the January 1996 acquisition by OrNda of
a controlling equity interest in Houston Northwest Medical Center ("HNW"); the
July 1996 acquisitions by OrNda of Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center and Westside
Hospital; the August 1996 acquisition by OrNda of Centinela Hospital Medical
Center; the September 1996 acquisition by OrNda of The Saint Vincent Healthcare
System and the December 1996 acquisition by OrNda of the Western Medical
Centers; and (vii) the consummation of the Merger and the Refinancing.
 
    The summary unaudited pro forma financial information does not purport to
present the financial position or results of operations of Tenet had the
transactions and events assumed therein occurred on the dates specified, nor are
they necessarily indicative of the results of operations that may be achieved in
the future.
 
    The pro forma operating results do not give effect to certain cost savings
that management believes may be realized as a result of the Merger. There can be
no assurance that such cost savings, if any, will be achieved. See "Risk
Factors--Forward Looking Statements." The pro forma operating results also do
not reflect certain non-recurring costs expected to be incurred by Tenet in
connection with the Merger. See "Pro Forma Financial Information."
 
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                    SUMMARY PRO FORMA FINANCIAL INFORMATION
                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
                 (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
   
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                                                                                             YEAR ENDED        NOVEMBER 30,
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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS DATA:
Net operating revenues.....................................................................   $ 8,644.8   $ 4,199.7  $   4,351.5
Operating expenses:
  Salaries and benefits....................................................................     3,574.1     1,714.9      1,812.2
  Supplies.................................................................................     1,204.8       573.8        593.0
  Provision for doubtful accounts..........................................................       496.4       244.6        236.0
  Other operating expenses.................................................................     1,834.8       936.2        924.9
  Depreciation.............................................................................       342.0       176.4        179.3
  Amortization.............................................................................       104.8        52.9         54.7
  Impairment losses........................................................................        85.9      --          --
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Operating income...........................................................................     1,002.0       500.9        551.4
Interest expense, net of capitalized portion...............................................      (455.7)     (236.6)      (213.3)
Investment earnings........................................................................        23.1        12.6         12.3
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates............................................         3.4         1.7          1.3
Minority interests in income of consolidated subsidiaries..................................       (29.1)      (12.0)       (15.5)
Net gain on disposals of facilities and long-term investments..............................         0.5      --          --
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Income from continuing operations before income taxes......................................       544.2       266.6        336.2
Taxes on income............................................................................      (223.0)     (110.8)      (136.3)
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Income from continuing operations..........................................................   $   321.2   $   155.8  $     199.9
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Earnings per common share from continuing operations, fully diluted........................   $    1.10   $    0.53  $      0.66
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Weighted average number of shares outstanding, fully diluted (in 000s).....................     295,062     296,032      301,929
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Ratio of earnings to fixed charges (1).....................................................         2.0x        1.9x         2.3x
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OTHER OPERATING INFORMATION:
EBITDA (2).................................................................................   $ 1,534.7   $   730.2  $     785.4
EBITDA margin..............................................................................        17.8%       17.4%        18.0%
Ratio of EBITDA to net interest expense (3)................................................         3.5x        3.3x         3.9x
Ratio of total debt to EBITDA (4)..........................................................      --          --              3.2x
Capital expenditures.......................................................................   $   481.1   $   218.1  $     168.1
 
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BALANCE SHEET DATA:
Working capital....................................................................................................  $     823.6
Total assets.......................................................................................................     11,491.7
Long-term debt, net of current portion.............................................................................      4,940.9
Shareholders' equity...............................................................................................      3,444.8
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(1) The ratio of earnings to fixed charges is calculated by dividing income from
    continuing operations before income taxes plus fixed charges by fixed
    charges. Fixed charges consist of interest expense, including amortization
    of financing costs, and that portion of rental expense deemed to be
    representative of the interest component of rental expense.
 
(2) EBITDA represents operating income before depreciation, amortization and
    impairment losses. While EBITDA should not be construed as a substitute for
    operating income or a better indicator of liquidity than cash flows from
    operating activities, which are determined in accordance with generally
    accepted accounting principles, it is included herein to provide additional
    information with respect to the ability of the Company to meet its future
    debt service, capital expenditure and working capital requirements. EBITDA
    is not necessarily a measure of the Company's ability to fund its cash
    needs. See the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows of Tenet and OrNda and
    the related notes thereto included in this Prospectus. EBITDA is included
    herein because management believes that certain investors find it to be a
    useful tool for measuring the ability to service debt.
 
(3) Net of capitalized portion of interest expense and pro forma interest
    income.
 
   
(4) The ratio of pro forma combined total debt outstanding at November 30, 1996
    of $5,022.7 million to pro forma EBITDA of $1,576.1 million for the 12
    months ended November 30, 1996 was 3.2x.
    
 
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                                  RISK FACTORS
 
    IN ADDITION TO THE OTHER INFORMATION CONTAINED OR INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
IN THIS PROSPECTUS, PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS SHOULD CONSIDER CAREFULLY THE
FOLLOWING FACTORS BEFORE PURCHASING THE NOTES OFFERED HEREBY. THIS PROSPECTUS
CONTAINS, IN ADDITION TO HISTORICAL INFORMATION, "FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS"
UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995 (THE "REFORM ACT").
REFERENCES HEREIN TO TENET AFTER THE MERGER SHALL BE DEEMED TO INCLUDE TENET AND
ORNDA.
 
CERTAIN FINANCING CONSIDERATIONS; LEVERAGE
 
   
    As of November 30, 1996, Tenet had $3.4 billion of outstanding indebtedness,
which amounted to approximately 54.3% of its total capitalization including
short-term borrowings and notes and the current portion of long-term debt, and
OrNda had $1.4 billion of outstanding indebtedness, which amounted to
approximately 67.0% of its total capitalization including short-term borrowings
and notes and the current portion of long-term debt. In connection with the
Merger, Tenet is refinancing approximately $525.0 million of OrNda's public debt
securities and the existing credit facilities of Tenet and OrNda, which on a pro
forma basis to reflect the Pending Acquisitions, at November 30, 1996 had
outstanding balances of $1.2 billion and $918.9 million, respectively. On a pro
forma basis, as of November 30, 1996, after giving effect to the Merger and the
Refinancing, Tenet would have had $5.0 billion of outstanding indebtedness,
which would amount to approximately 59.3% of its total capitalization including
short-term borrowings and notes and the current portion of long-term debt, and
$3.4 billion of shareholders' equity. See "Historical and Pro Forma
Capitalization," "Related Transactions" and "Pro Forma Financial Information."
    
 
    Tenet anticipates that the New Credit Facility will include covenants
limiting, among other things, borrowings by, and liens on the assets of, Tenet
and its subsidiaries, investments, the sale of all or substantially all assets
and prepayment of subordinated debt, and prohibiting the repurchase of Tenet
stock or the payment of dividends, in addition to a minimum consolidated net
worth requirement and certain coverage ratio tests. In addition, the Indentures
will include, among other things, covenants limiting the incurrence of
additional debt and liens and the payment of dividends. Tenet's failure to
comply with any of these covenants could result in an event of default under its
indebtedness including the Notes and the New Credit Facility, which in turn
could cause an event of default to occur under substantially all of Tenet's
debt. An event of default could have a material adverse effect on Tenet's
business, financial condition and results of operations. See "--Possible
Inability to Repurchase Notes Upon a Change of Control," "Description of Notes"
and "Description of the New Credit Facility."
 
    The degree to which Tenet is leveraged and the covenants described above may
adversely affect Tenet's ability to finance its future operations and could
limit its ability to pursue business opportunities that may be in the interests
of Tenet and its securityholders. In particular, changes in medical technology,
existing, proposed and future legislation, regulations and the interpretation
thereof, and the increasing importance of managed care contracts and integrated
healthcare delivery systems may require significant investment in facilities,
equipment, personnel or services. Although Tenet believes that cash generated
from operations, amounts available under the New Credit Facility and its ability
to access capital markets will be sufficient to allow it to make such
investments, there can be no assurance that Tenet will be able to obtain the
funds necessary to make such investments. Furthermore, tax-exempt or
government-owned competitors have certain financial advantages such as
endowments, charitable contributions, tax-exempt financing and exemption from
sales, property and income taxes not available to Tenet, providing them with a
potential competitive advantage in making such investments. See "Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of
Tenet."
 
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RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH ACQUISITION STRATEGY
 
    Tenet's ability to continue to compete successfully for managed care
contracts or to expand and enhance its integrated healthcare delivery systems
may depend upon, among other things, Tenet's ability to increase the number of
its facilities and services offered. Part of Tenet's business strategy is to
expand its healthcare delivery systems and services through the acquisition of
and partnerships with hospitals, groups of hospitals, other healthcare
businesses, ancillary healthcare providers, physician practices and physician
practice assets. There can be no assurance that suitable acquisitions and
partnerships can be consummated on terms favorable to Tenet or that financing,
if necessary, can be obtained for such acquisitions. See "-- Certain Financing
Considerations; Leverage." Further, there is no assurance that, as Tenet
continues to acquire or enter into partnerships with additional facilities and
related healthcare service providers in the geographic areas in which it
currently operates, it will not face constraints on its ability to grow from
Federal and state regulatory agencies. In addition, there can be no assurance
that Tenet will be able to operate profitably any hospitals, facilities,
businesses or other assets it may acquire or enter into partnerships with,
effectively integrate the operations of such acquisitions or partnerships or
otherwise achieve the intended benefits of such acquisitions and partnerships.
While management believes that certain cost savings may be realized following
the Merger, there can be no assurance that any such savings will actually be
realized or as to the timing thereof. See "Business--Business Strategy."
 
COMPETITION
 
    The healthcare industry has been characterized in recent years by increased
competition for patients and staff physicians, excess capacity at general
hospitals, a shift from inpatient to outpatient treatment settings and increased
consolidation. New competitive strategies of hospitals and other healthcare
providers place increasing emphasis on the use of alternative healthcare
delivery systems (such as home health services, outpatient surgery and emergency
and diagnostic centers) that eliminate or reduce lengths of hospital stays. The
principal factors contributing to these trends are advances in medical
technology and pharmaceuticals, cost-containment efforts by managed care payors,
employers and traditional health insurers, changes in regulations and
reimbursement policies, increases in the number and type of competing healthcare
providers and changes in physician practice patterns. The revenues and operating
results of most of Tenet's hospitals are significantly affected by the
hospitals' ability to negotiate favorable contracts with managed care payors.
Tenet's future success will depend, in part, on the ability of Tenet's hospitals
to continue to attract and retain staff physicians, to enter into managed care
contracts and to organize and structure integrated healthcare delivery systems
with other healthcare providers and physician practice groups. There can be no
assurance that Tenet's hospitals will continue to be able to, on terms favorable
to Tenet, attract and retain physicians to their staffs, enter into managed care
contracts or organize and structure integrated healthcare delivery systems, for
which other healthcare companies with greater financial resources or a wider
range of services may be competing. See "Business--Competition."
 
LIMITS ON REIMBURSEMENT
 
    Tenet derives a substantial portion of its net operating revenues from
third-party payors, including the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Changes in
government reimbursement programs have resulted in limitations on, increases in,
and in some cases reduced levels of, reimbursement for healthcare services, and
additional changes are anticipated. Such changes are likely to result in further
limitations on reimbursement levels especially because, in order to reach a
balanced budget, the U.S. Congress and the President are in favor of legislating
savings under both the Medicare and Medicaid programs. In addition, private
payors, including managed care payors, increasingly are demanding discounted fee
structures or the assumption by healthcare providers of all or a portion of the
financial risk through prepaid capitation arrangements. Inpatient utilization,
average lengths of stay and occupancy rates continue to be negatively affected
by payor-required pre-admission authorization and utilization review and by
payor pressure to maximize outpatient and alternative healthcare delivery
services for less acutely ill patients. In addition, efforts to impose reduced
allowances, greater discounts and more stringent cost controls by government and
other payors are expected to continue. Although Tenet is unable to predict the
effect these changes
 
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will have on its operations, as the number of patients covered by managed care
payors increases, significant limits on the scope of services reimbursed and on
reimbursement rates and fees could have a material adverse effect on its
business, financial condition and results of operations.
 
EXTENSIVE REGULATION
 
    The healthcare industry is subject to extensive Federal, state and local
regulation relating to licensure, conduct of operations, ownership of
facilities, addition of facilities and services and prices for services. In
particular, Medicare and Medicaid antikickback, antifraud and abuse amendments
codified under Section 1128B(b) of the Social Security Act (the "Antikickback
Amendments") prohibit certain business practices and relationships that might
affect the provision and cost of healthcare services reimbursable under Medicare
and Medicaid, including the payment or receipt of remuneration for the referral
of patients whose care will be paid for by Medicare or other governmental
programs. Sanctions for violating the Antikickback Amendments include criminal
penalties and civil sanctions, including fines and possible exclusion from
government programs such as the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Pursuant to the
Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987, the Department
of Health and Human Services ("HHS") has issued regulations that describe some
of the conduct and business relationships permissible under the Antikickback
Amendments ("Safe Harbors"). The fact that a given business arrangement does not
fall within a Safe Harbor does not render the arrangement PER SE illegal.
Business arrangements of healthcare service providers that fail to satisfy the
applicable Safe Harbor criteria, however, risk increased scrutiny by enforcement
authorities. Because Tenet may be less willing than some of its competitors to
enter into business arrangements that do not clearly satisfy the Safe Harbors,
it could be at a competitive disadvantage in entering into certain transactions
and arrangements with physicians and other healthcare providers. See "--Certain
Legal Proceedings."
 
    The "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996," which
became effective January 1, 1997, amends, among other things, Title XI (42
U.S.C. 1301 ET SEQ.) to broaden the scope of current fraud and abuse laws to
include all health plans, whether or not they are reimbursed as a Federal
program.
 
    In addition, Section 1877 of the Social Security Act, which restricts
referrals by physicians of Medicare and other government-program patients to
providers of a broad range of designated health services with which they have
ownership or certain other financial arrangements, was amended effective January
1, 1995, to significantly broaden the scope of prohibited physician referrals
under the Medicare and Medicaid programs to providers with which they have
ownership or certain other financial arrangements (the "Self-Referral
Prohibitions"). Many states have adopted or are considering similar legislative
proposals, some of which extend beyond the Medicaid program to prohibit the
payment or receipt of remuneration for the referral of patients and physician
self-referrals regardless of the source of the payment for the care. Tenet's
participation in and development of joint ventures and other financial
relationships with physicians and others could be adversely affected by these
amendments and similar state enactments. The Company systematically reviews all
of its operations to ensure that it complies with the Social Security Act and
similar state statutes.
 
    Both Federal and state government agencies have announced heightened and
coordinated civil and criminal enforcement efforts. One pilot project, Operation
Restore Trust, is focused on investigating healthcare providers in the home
health and nursing home industries as well as on medical suppliers to these
providers in California, Florida, Texas, Illinois and New York. Tenet provides
home health and nursing home care in California, Florida and Texas.
 
    Some states require state approval for construction and expansion of
healthcare facilities, including findings of need for additional or expanded
healthcare facilities or services. Certificates of Need, which are issued by
governmental agencies with jurisdiction over healthcare facilities, are at times
required for capital expenditures exceeding a prescribed amount, changes in bed
capacity or services and certain other matters. Following a number of years of
decline, the number of states requiring Certificates of Need is once again on
the rise as state legislators once again are looking at the Certificate of Need
process as a way to contain rising healthcare costs. At November 30, 1996, Tenet
operated hospitals in 11 states, and OrNda
 
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operated hospitals in seven additional states, that require state approval under
Certificate of Need programs. Tenet is unable to predict whether it will be able
to obtain any Certificates of Need in any jurisdiction where such Certificates
of Need are required.
 
    Tenet is unable to predict the future course of Federal, state and local
regulation or legislation, including Medicare and Medicaid statutes and
regulations. Further changes in the regulatory framework could have a material
adverse effect on Tenet's business, financial condition and results of
operations. See "Business--Healthcare Reform, Regulation and Licensing."
 
HEALTHCARE REFORM LEGISLATION
 
    Healthcare is one of the largest industries in the United States and
continues to attract much legislative interest and public attention. Medicare,
Medicaid, mandatory and other public and private hospital cost-containment
programs, proposals to limit healthcare spending, proposals to limit prices and
industry competitive factors are highly significant to the healthcare industry.
In addition, the healthcare industry is governed by a framework of Federal and
state laws, rules and regulations that are extremely complex and for which the
industry has the benefit of little or no regulatory or judicial interpretation.
Although Tenet believes it is in compliance in all material respects with such
laws, rules and regulations, if a determination is made that the Company was in
material violation of such laws, rules or regulations, its business, financial
condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
 
    There continue to be Federal and state proposals that would, and actions
that do, impose more limitations on government and private payments to providers
such as Tenet and OrNda and proposals to increase co-payments and deductibles
from program and private patients. At the Federal level, both Congress and the
President have in the past, and are expected to in the future, propose
healthcare budgets that substantially reduce payments under the Medicare and
Medicaid programs. For example, in May 1996, both houses of Congress passed
bills that would have significantly reduced Medicare and Medicaid funding by
limiting future increases to the funding for such programs. Although President
Clinton vetoed those bills, the President's own proposals also propose to limit
or reduce increases in future Medicare and Medicaid payments.
 
    Many states have enacted or are considering enacting measures that are
designed to reduce their Medicaid expenditures and to make certain changes to
private healthcare insurance. Various states have applied, or are considering
applying, for a Federal waiver from current Medicaid regulations to allow them
to serve some of their Medicaid participants through managed care providers.
Tennessee has implemented such a revision and Texas has passed a law mandating
the state to apply for such a waiver. Louisiana also is considering wider use of
managed care for its Medicaid populations. California has created a voluntary
health insurance purchasing cooperative that seeks to make healthcare coverage
more affordable for businesses with five to 50 employees and, effective January
1, 1995, began changing the payment system for participants in its Medicaid
program in certain counties from fee-for-service arrangements to managed care
plans. Florida limits the amount by which a hospital's net revenues per
admission may be increased each year, has enacted a program creating a system of
local purchasing cooperatives and has proposed other changes that have not yet
been enacted. Florida has adopted, and other states are considering adopting,
legislation imposing a tax on revenues of hospitals to help finance or expand
those states' Medicaid systems. A number of other states are considering the
enactment of managed care initiatives designed to provide universal low-cost
coverage. These proposals also may attempt to include coverage for some people
who presently are uninsured.
 
    While Tenet anticipates that payments to hospitals will be reduced as a
result of future federal and state legislation, it is uncertain at this time
what legislation regarding healthcare reform may ultimately be enacted or
whether other changes in the administration or interpretation of governmental
healthcare programs will occur. There can be no assurance that future healthcare
legislation or other changes in the administration or interpretation of
governmental healthcare programs will not have a material adverse effect on
either Tenet's or OrNda's business, financial condition and results of
operations. A significant reduction in the amount of payments received by
hospitals under government programs such as Medicare
 
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and Medicaid could have a material adverse effect on Tenet's business, financial
condition and results of operations. See "Business--Healthcare Reform,
Regulation and Licensing."
 
CERTAIN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
 
    Tenet continues to defend a greater than normal level of litigation relating
to its subsidiaries' former psychiatric operations. The majority of the lawsuits
filed contain allegations of medical malpractice as well as allegations of fraud
and conspiracy against Tenet and certain of its subsidiaries and former
employees. Also named as defendants are numerous doctors and other healthcare
professionals. Tenet believes that the increase in litigation arose primarily
from advertisements made by certain lawyers seeking former psychiatric patients
in order to file claims against Tenet and certain of its subsidiaries. The
advertisements focused, in many instances, on Tenet's settlement of past
disputes involving the operations of its discontinued psychiatric business,
including Tenet's 1994 resolution of the Federal government's investigation and
a corresponding criminal plea agreement involving such discontinued psychiatric
business of Tenet. Among the suits filed during fiscal 1995 were two lawsuits in
Texas state court with approximately 740 individual plaintiffs at present who
purport to have been patients in certain Texas psychiatric facilities. During
fiscal 1996, 64 plaintiffs voluntarily withdrew from one of the lawsuits and
Tenet's motion to recuse the original trial judge in that lawsuit has been
granted. The cases of three of the 740 individual plaintiffs within one of the
lawsuits currently are set for trial in April 1997.
 
    During fiscal 1995 and 1996, lawsuits with approximately 210 plaintiffs at
present who purport to have been patients in certain Washington, D.C.
psychiatric facilities, containing allegations similar to those contained in the
Texas cases described above, were filed in the District of Columbia.
 
    In addition to the above, a purported class action was filed in Texas state
court in May 1995, containing allegations of fraud and conspiracy similar to
those described in the preceding paragraphs. The plaintiff purports to represent
all persons who were voluntarily admitted to one of 11 psychiatric hospitals in
Texas between January 1, 1981 and December 31, 1991, and satisfied certain other
criteria. In February 1996, this case was removed to Federal court. A motion by
the plaintiff to remand the case to Texas state court has been denied. A class
has not been certified and Tenet believes that a class is not capable of being
certified.
 
    Tenet expects that additional lawsuits with similar allegations will be
filed. Tenet believes it has a number of defenses to each of these actions and
will defend these and any additional lawsuits vigorously. Until the lawsuits are
resolved, however, Tenet will continue to incur substantial legal expenses.
Although, based upon information currently available to it, management believes
that the amount of damages, if any, in excess of the reserves Tenet has recorded
for unusual litigation costs that may be awarded in any of the foregoing
unresolved legal proceedings cannot reasonably be estimated, management does not
believe it is likely that any such damages will have a material adverse effect
on Tenet's business, financial condition and results of operations. There can be
no assurance, however, that the ultimate liability will not exceed such
reserves, which primarily represent the estimated costs of defending the
actions.
 
    Two additional Federal class actions filed in August 1993 were consolidated
into one action pending in the U.S. District Court in the Central District of
California captioned In re: National Medical Enterprises Securities Litigation
II. These consolidated actions are on behalf of a purported class of
shareholders who purchased or sold stock of Tenet between January 14, 1993 and
August 26, 1993, and allege that each of the defendants violated Section 10(b)
of the Exchange Act. Based on these claims, plaintiffs seek compensatory
damages, injunctive relief, attorneys' fees, interest and costs. Tenet believes
it has meritorious defenses to this action and will defend this litigation
vigorously.
 
    In connection with the merger of AMH with and into a subsidiary of Tenet in
March 1995, a total of nine purported class actions were filed in both Delaware
and California. Such class actions were settled in August 1996. Under the terms
of that settlement, Tenet agreed to pay $350,000 for the plaintiffs' attorneys
fees and agreed that for a period of one year following final approval of the
settlement it will not engage in any transaction that will be dilutive to
existing shareholders without that transaction being approved by a majority of
its outside directors. Tenet believes the Merger with OrNda will not be dilutive
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account the cost savings that management believes may be realized following the
Merger. Nevertheless, the Merger has been approved by the required majority of
Tenet's outside directors.
 
    In February 1996, OrNda's Midway Hospital Medical Center ("Midway") in Los
Angeles, California, which was acquired when OrNda acquired Summit Health Ltd.
("Summit") in April 1994, received an investigative subpoena from the Office of
the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human
Services (the "OIG"). The subpoena states that it was issued in connection with
an investigation being conducted by the OIG concerning possible violations of
Medicare rules and regulations (the "OIG Investigation"). Tenet understands that
OrNda believes that the basis for the investigative subpoena from the OIG that
was served on Midway was a civil qui tam action that had been filed in July 1995
against Midway Hospital Medical Center, Inc. (a subsidiary of OrNda which owns
Midway), Summit and OrNda in the United States District Court for the Central
District of California (the "California Action"). Tenet understands that the
California Action originally was filed under a court-ordered seal that
prohibited OrNda from disclosing the action prior to this time.
 
    The California Action alleges, among other things, that there were
violations of the federal False Claims Act and the federal fraud and abuse and
anti-kickback provisions of the Medicare and Medicaid laws in connection with
certain of Midway's compensation arrangements with its physicians. The
California Action alleges that as a result of this allegedly wrongful conduct,
the United States is entitled to monetary damages and penalties. The California
Action also alleges in a second cause of action violations of the fraud and
abuse, medical staff and wrongful discharge laws of the State of California and
claims as a result of such wrongful conduct compensatory as well as punitive
damages.
 
    Tenet understands that the OIG has expanded the California Action, which
initially related to only one of OrNda's hospitals (Midway, which was acquired
by OrNda from Summit), and the OIG Investigation to 11 other former Summit
hospitals owned by OrNda. In an apparently unrelated matter, the government has
requested and OrNda has provided records from a single hospital outside the
group acquired from Summit. Tenet understands that OrNda is fully cooperating
with the OIG. Tenet understands that OrNda and its outside counsel have held
numerous meetings with government attorneys with respect to this matter and, as
a result, OrNda believes that the OIG Investigation continues to be a civil
investigation focused primarily on arrangements between physicians and the
hospitals that may violate Medicare rules and regulations and not on the
hospitals' Medicare or Medicaid billing practices. If the outcome of the
California Action or OIG Investigation were unfavorable, OrNda could be subject
to fines, penalties and damages ("Monetary Payments") and also could be excluded
from Medicare and other government reimbursement programs, which Monetary
Payments or exclusion could have a material adverse effect on OrNda's financial
condition or results of operations. The result of the California Action, the OIG
Investigation and their impact, if any, cannot be predicted or estimated at this
time. Tenet understands that based on information currently available to OrNda,
however, management of OrNda believes that if the California Action and the OIG
Investigation remain primarily limited to physician arrangements, remain civil
in nature and, with the exception of only one of the hospitals, relate only to
the practices of the former Summit hospitals, the final outcome of the
California Action and the OIG Investigation will not have a material adverse
effect on OrNda's financial condition or results of operations. If any of the
foregoing matters was to have a material adverse effect on OrNda, it also could
have a material adverse effect on Tenet's business, financial condition and
results of operations following the Merger.
 
    Tenet understands that OrNda is not aware of any additional litigation or
investigations concerning the matters described above. There can be no
assurance, however, that in the event any such additional litigation or
investigation is instituted and there is an unfavorable outcome, such result
would not have a material adverse effect on OrNda's financial condition or
results of operations. If such result was to have a material adverse effect on
OrNda, it also could have a material adverse effect on Tenet's business,
financial condition and results of operations following the Merger. See
"Business--Legal Proceedings."
 
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POSSIBLE INABILITY TO REPURCHASE NOTES UPON A CHANGE OF CONTROL
 
    The New Credit Facility will prohibit Tenet from repurchasing Notes upon the
occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event. Any future credit agreements
or other agreements relating to indebtedness to which Tenet becomes a party may
contain similar restrictions and provisions. The indentures relating to the
Senior Notes and the Existing Senior Notes of Tenet also may restrict the
Company's ability to purchase the Senior Subordinated Notes upon a Change of
Control Triggering Event. Accordingly, Tenet may not be able to satisfy its
obligations to repurchase the Notes unless Tenet is able to refinance or obtain
waivers with respect to the New Credit Facility and certain other indebtedness,
including, in the case of the Senior Subordinated Notes, the Existing Senior
Notes and the Senior Notes. There can be no assurance that Tenet will have the
financial resources to repurchase the Notes in the event of a Change of Control
Triggering Event, particularly if such Change of Control Triggering Event
requires Tenet to refinance, or results in the acceleration of, other
indebtedness. See "--Certain Financing Considerations; Leverage" and
"Description of Notes--Repurchase at Option of Holder Upon a Change of Control."
 
SUBSIDIARY OPERATIONS; SUBORDINATION
 
    Both before and after consummation of the Merger, substantially all of the
Company's operations are and will be conducted, and substantially all of the
assets of Tenet are and will be owned, by its subsidiaries. Accordingly, the
Notes effectively will be subordinated to all existing and future obligations
and other liabilities (including trade payables) of Tenet's subsidiaries. Any
right of Tenet to the assets of any of its subsidiaries upon the liquidation,
reorganization or insolvency of such subsidiary (and the consequent right of the
holders of the Notes to participate in those assets) will be effectively
subordinated to the claims of the creditors (including trade creditors) and
preferred stockholders, if any, of such subsidiary, except to the extent Tenet
has a claim against such subsidiary as a creditor of such subsidiary. In
addition, in the event that claims of Tenet as a creditor of a subsidiary are
recognized, such claims would be subordinate to any security interest in the
assets of such subsidiary and any indebtedness of such subsidiary senior to that
held by Tenet. The ability of Tenet and its subsidiaries to incur certain
obligations is limited by certain of the restrictive covenants contained in the
New Credit Facility and in the Indentures governing the Notes. The Indentures
will limit the ability of Tenet's subsidiaries to incur additional indebtedness.
On a pro forma basis, as of November 30, 1996, after giving effect to the Merger
and the Refinancing, the outstanding indebtedness and other obligations of
Tenet's subsidiaries would have been approximately $341.5 million (excluding
trade payables of $451.7 million, intercompany debt and other obligations).
 
    In addition, Tenet's ability to make required principal and interest
payments with respect to Tenet's indebtedness, including the Notes, depends on
the earnings of its subsidiaries and on its ability to receive funds from such
subsidiaries through dividends or other payments. Since the Notes are
obligations of Tenet only, Tenet's subsidiaries are not obligated or required to
pay any amounts due pursuant to the Notes or to make funds available therefor in
the form of dividends or advances to Tenet.
 
    Further, the subordination provisions of the Senior Subordinated Note
Indenture will provide that the Company may not pay any principal of, premium,
if any, or interest on the Senior Subordinated Notes, or defease, repurchase,
redeem or otherwise acquire or retire Senior Subordinated Notes during the
continuance of a payment default with respect to any Designated Senior Debt
(which will include all borrowings under the New Credit Facility and, after the
repayment of the New Credit Facility, any other Senior Debt permitted under the
Senior Subordinated Note Indenture the principal amount of which is $100.0
million or more and that has been designated by the Company as "Designated
Senior Debt"), other than certain payments in the form of subordinated
securities or from a defeasance trust. In addition, if any non-payment default
occurs that would permit acceleration of any Designated Senior Debt, the holders
of such Designated Senior Debt may prohibit the Company from making any payment
upon or in respect of the Senior Subordinated Notes for a period of up to 179
days. Upon any liquidation or dissolution of the Company or in a bankruptcy,
reorganization, insolvency, receivership or similar proceeding relating to the
Company, holders of Senior Debt will be entitled to receive payment in full
prior to any payment to the holders of the Senior Subordinated Notes (other than
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securities or from a defeasance trust). See "Description of Notes--Subordination
of Senior Subordinated Notes."
 
NO PRIOR PUBLIC MARKET
 
    Although the Notes have been approved for listing, subject to official
notice of issuance, on the NYSE, the Notes are a new issue of securities with no
established trading market. The Company has been advised by the Underwriters (as
defined herein) that, following the completion of the Offering, the Underwriters
presently intend to make a market in the Notes as permitted by applicable laws
and regulations. However, the Underwriters are under no obligation to do so and
may discontinue any market making activities at any time at the sole discretion
of the Underwriters. There can be no assurance as to the liquidity of the market
that may develop for the Notes, the ability of holders of the Notes to sell
their Notes or the prices at which holders would be able to sell their Notes.
The Notes could trade at prices that may be higher or lower than the initial
offering price thereof depending on many factors, including prevailing interest
rates, the Company's operating results and the markets for similar securities.
See "Underwriting."
 
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
 
    Certain statements contained in this Prospectus, including, without
limitation, statements containing the words "believes," "anticipates,"
"intends," "expects" and words of similar import, constitute "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the Reform Act. Such forward-looking
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that
may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Tenet or OrNda or
industry results to be materially different from any future results, performance
or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such
factors include, among others, the following: general economic and business
conditions, both nationally and in the regions in which Tenet and OrNda operate;
industry capacity; demographic changes; existing government regulations and
changes in, or the failure to comply with, governmental regulations; legislative
proposals for healthcare reform; the ability to enter into managed care provider
arrangements on acceptable terms; changes in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement
levels; liability and other claims asserted against Tenet or OrNda; competition;
the loss of any significant customers; changes in business strategy or
development plans; the ability to attract and retain qualified personnel,
including physicians; the significant indebtedness of Tenet after the Merger;
the lack of assurance that the synergies expected from the Merger will be
achieved; the availability and terms of capital to fund the expansion of Tenet's
business, including the acquisition of additional facilities; and other factors
referenced in this Prospectus. Certain of these factors are discussed in more
detail elsewhere in this Prospectus, including without limitation under the
captions "Prospectus Summary," "Risk Factors," "Business" and "Pro Forma
Financial Information." GIVEN THESE UNCERTAINTIES, PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS ARE
CAUTIONED NOT TO PLACE UNDUE RELIANCE ON SUCH FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS. Tenet
disclaims any obligation to update any such factors or to publicly announce the
result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking statements contained
herein to reflect future events or developments.
 
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                              RELATED TRANSACTIONS
 
THE MERGER
 
    On October 16, 1996, Tenet, OHC Acquisition Co., a Delaware corporation and
a newly formed, wholly owned subsidiary of Tenet ("Merger Sub") and OrNda
entered into the Merger Agreement, pursuant to which, among other things, Merger
Sub will be merged with and into OrNda and OrNda will become a wholly owned
subsidiary of Tenet in a transaction to be accounted for as a pooling of
interests. As a result of the Merger, each share of common stock, par value $.01
per share, of OrNda (the "OrNda Common Stock") outstanding immediately prior to
the effective time (the "Effective Time") of the Merger (other than treasury
shares and shares held by Tenet or any subsidiary of Tenet or OrNda which will
be cancelled) will be converted into the right to receive 1.35 shares of common
stock, par value $0.075 per share, of Tenet (the "Tenet Common Stock"), and the
associated preferred stock purchase rights (the "Rights") issued in accordance
with the Rights Agreement, dated as of December 7, 1988, as amended from time to
time (the "Rights Agreement"), between Tenet and Bank of America NT&SA as
successor to Bankers Trust Company. Cash will be paid in lieu of any fractional
shares of Tenet Common Stock. As of November 30, 1996, OrNda had an aggregate of
approximately 64.0 million shares of OrNda Common Stock outstanding on a fully
diluted basis. Certain stockholders of OrNda (the "Consenting Holders") who hold
in the aggregate approximately 14.0% of OrNda's outstanding shares have executed
Stockholder Voting Agreements, pursuant to which such stockholders have agreed
to vote in favor of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated
thereby and against any proposals that would impede or delay the Merger. Tenet
has also granted registration rights to the Consenting Holders with respect to
the shares of Tenet Common Stock such holders will receive in the Merger.
 
    In addition, Tenet and OrNda have entered into stock option agreements,
pursuant to which OrNda has granted to Tenet an option to purchase up to
approximately 19.9% of the outstanding shares of OrNda Common Stock at a price
of $29.869 per share, and Tenet has granted to OrNda an option to purchase up to
approximately 10.5% of the Tenet Common Stock (on a fully diluted basis) at a
price of $22.125 per share, each under certain circumstances. The options are
exercisable in whole or in part upon the occurrence of certain "triggering
events" relating to an acquisition of the grantor by a third party. None of such
triggering events has occurred as of the date of this Prospectus. The options
will terminate upon the consummation of the Merger or upon termination of the
Merger Agreement for certain reasons.
 
THE REFINANCING
 
    As part of the Refinancing, Tenet has commenced tender offers to purchase
for cash any and all of OrNda's outstanding 12.25% Senior Subordinated Notes due
2002 (the "OrNda 12.25% Notes") and 11.375% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2004
(the "OrNda 11.375% Notes" and collectively, the "OrNda Debt Securities"). The
OrNda Debt Securities had an aggregate outstanding principal amount of
approximately $525.0 million at November 30, 1996.
 
    In connection with the OrNda Tender Offers, Tenet is soliciting consents
(the "Consent Solicitations") from the holders of the OrNda Debt Securities to
eliminate certain of the restrictive covenants in the indentures relating to
such securities, including restricted payment covenants that would limit Tenet's
access to the cash flow of OrNda following the Merger.
 
    Each of the indentures relating to the OrNda Debt Securities requires the
affirmative consent of holders of record of not less than 50% of the outstanding
principal amount of the securities issued thereunder in order to effect the
proposed amendments. The amendments will become effective upon the acceptance
for purchase and payment of the OrNda Debt Securities pursuant to the OrNda
Tender Offers. The obligation pursuant to the OrNda Tender Offers to purchase
securities of each issue properly tendered and not withdrawn is conditioned
upon, among other things, (i) the execution of a supplemental indenture with
respect to the applicable indenture providing for the proposed amendments, (ii)
the consummation of the Merger and (iii) the consummation of the Offering. In
addition, Tenet's obligation to make consent payments with respect to each issue
of the OrNda Debt Securities is conditioned upon Tenet's acceptance of
securities of such issue for purchase pursuant to the applicable OrNda Tender
Offer. The OrNda Tender Offers are subject to a number of additional conditions.
The OrNda Tender Offers are expected to expire
 
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on January 31, 1997. Tenet currently estimates that substantially all of the
OrNda Debt Securities will be tendered and repurchased pursuant to the OrNda
Tender Offers. If a lesser aggregate principal amount of OrNda Debt Securities
is tendered pursuant to the OrNda Tender Offers, Tenet currently intends to
permit the untendered securities to remain outstanding. Changes in the
assumptions regarding the aggregate amount of OrNda Debt Securities purchased
pursuant to the OrNda Tender Offers are not expected to have a significant
impact on Tenet's pro forma interest expense or consolidated indebtedness
following the Merger although the Notes will be effectively subordinated to any
untendered OrNda Debt Securities with respect to the assets of OrNda. The
Offering is not conditioned upon consummation of the OrNda Tender Offers.
 
    Tenet also intends to refinance the existing credit facilities of Tenet and
OrNda, which at November 30, 1996, on a pro forma basis to reflect the Pending
Acquisitions, had outstanding balances of $1.2 billion and $918.9 million,
respectively. Tenet intends to fund the Refinancing, together with fees and
expenses incurred in connection therewith, with the proceeds of the Offering
together with borrowings under the New Credit Facility. The Refinancing extends
the maturities of the Company's indebtedness at favorable rates and positions
the Company to take advantage of future strategic acquisition and partnership
opportunities.
 
SOURCES AND USES OF FUNDS
 
    The following table sets forth the sources and uses of funds to be used to
consummate the Refinancing assuming that (i) the Notes are sold at a price to
the public equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof and (ii) all of the
OrNda Debt Securities are properly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the
OrNda Tender Offers. The sources and uses of funds set forth below are based
upon amounts outstanding as of November 30, 1996, on a pro forma basis to
reflect the Pending Acquisitions, and the Company's best estimate of the results
of the OrNda Tender Offers and the other assumptions described above, which
estimates and assumptions are subject to change.
 
   
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                                                                               (DOLLARS IN
                                                                                MILLIONS)
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SOURCES:
  New Credit Facility....................................................     $       720.0
  Senior Notes due 2003..................................................             400.0
  Senior Notes due 2005..................................................             900.0
  Senior Subordinated Notes..............................................             700.0
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                                                                              $     2,720.0
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USES:
  Repurchase of the OrNda 12.25% Notes(1)................................     $       425.1
  Repurchase of the OrNda 11.375% Notes(1)...............................             144.1
  Refinancing of Tenet's existing credit facility........................           1,181.9
  Refinancing of OrNda's existing credit facility........................             918.9
  Estimated fees and expenses of the Refinancing.........................              50.0
                                                                                 ----------
                                                                              $     2,720.0
                                                                                 ----------
                                                                                 ----------
</TABLE>
    
 
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(1) Includes the balance of the OrNda Debt Securities that are expected to be
   repurchased and cancelled pursuant to the OrNda Tender Offers plus the
   respective premium and consent payment.
 
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<PAGE>
                                USE OF PROCEEDS
 
   
    Tenet intends to use the proceeds from the Offering, together with
anticipated initial borrowings of $720.0 million under the New Credit Facility,
as follows: (i) $425.1 million will be used to purchase the OrNda 12.25% Notes
pursuant to the OrNda Tender Offers (assuming 100% of the OrNda 12.25% Notes are
tendered); (ii) $144.1 million will be used to purchase the OrNda 11.375% Notes
pursuant to the OrNda Tender Offers (assuming 100% of the OrNda 11.375% Notes
are tendered); (iii) $1,181.9 million will be used to repay all of the
outstanding indebtedness under the existing Tenet credit facility (based upon
amounts outstanding as of November 30, 1996, on a pro forma basis to reflect the
Pending Acquisitions); (iv) $918.9 million will be used to repay all of the
outstanding indebtedness under the existing OrNda credit facility (based upon
amounts outstanding as of November 30, 1996, on a pro forma basis to reflect the
Pending Acquisitions); and (v) an estimated $50.0 million will be applied to pay
fees and expenses relating to the Refinancing, including underwriting discounts
and commissions, financial advisory fees and legal and accounting expenses. See
"Related Transactions."
    
 
    The OrNda 12.25% Notes mature on May 15, 2002. The OrNda 11.375% Notes
mature on August 15, 2004. Borrowings under the existing Tenet credit facility
bear interest at a floating rate per annum (a weighted average rate of 6.319% at
November 30, 1996) and have a scheduled maturity of March 1, 2001. Borrowings
under the existing OrNda credit facility bear interest at a floating rate per
annum (a weighted average rate of 6.568% at November 30, 1996) and have a
scheduled maturity of October 30, 2001.
 
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<PAGE>
                    HISTORICAL AND PRO FORMA CAPITALIZATION
 
    The following table sets forth, as of November 30, 1996, (i) the historical
capitalization of each of Tenet and OrNda, (ii) the capitalization of the
combined company, adjusted to reflect certain acquisitions, divestitures and
related adjustments and (iii) the capitalization of the combined company on a
pro forma basis to give further effect to the consummation of the Merger and the
Refinancing. See "Use of Proceeds" and "Related Transactions." This table should
be read in conjunction with the Pro Forma Financial Information and the related
notes thereto and the separate historical financial statements of Tenet and
OrNda and related notes thereto all included elsewhere in this Prospectus. See
"Pro Forma Financial Information."
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                             AS OF NOVEMBER 30, 1996
                                                               ---------------------------------------------------
                                                                                           ADJUSTED
                                                                                            TENET/         PRO
                                                               HISTORICAL    HISTORICAL      ORNDA        FORMA
                                                                  TENET        ORNDA       COMBINED     COMBINED
                                                               -----------  ------------  -----------  -----------
                                                                              (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                                            <C>          <C>           <C>          <C>
Short-term borrowings and notes..............................   $     2.8   $    --        $     2.8    $     2.8
Current portion of long-term debt............................        41.6          36.9         79.0(1)       79.0
                                                               -----------  ------------  -----------  -----------
      Total current debt.....................................        44.4          36.9         81.8         81.8
Long-term debt, net of current portion:
  New Credit Facility........................................      --            --           --            720.0
  Senior Notes due 2003......................................      --            --           --            400.0
  Senior Notes due 2005......................................      --            --           --            900.0
  Senior Subordinated Notes..................................      --            --           --            700.0
  Existing credit facilities.................................     1,131.5         792.6      2,100.8       --
  9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2002...............................       300.0        --            300.0        300.0
  8 5/8% Senior Notes due 2003...............................       500.0        --            500.0        500.0
  10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2005.................       900.0        --            900.0        900.0
  6% Exchangeable Subordinated Notes due 2005(2).............       320.0        --            320.0        320.0
  Other debt.................................................       181.0(3)       542.3(4)      725.9      200.9
                                                               -----------  ------------  -----------  -----------
      Total long-term debt, net of current portion...........     3,332.5       1,334.9      4,846.7      4,940.9
                                                               -----------  ------------  -----------  -----------
Shareholders' equity:
  Tenet common stock, par value $0.075, authorized
    450,000,000 shares; issued 219,232,999 shares,
    297,871,844 shares pro forma(5)..........................        16.5        --             22.2         22.2
  OrNda common stock, par value $0.01, authorized 200,000,000
    shares; issued 58,250,996 shares, no shares pro forma....      --               0.6       --           --
  Other shareholders' equity.................................     2,868.4         673.6      3,536.4      3,461.3(6)
  Less treasury stock, at cost, 2,676,091 shares.............       (38.7)       --            (38.7)       (38.7)
                                                               -----------  ------------  -----------  -----------
      Total shareholders' equity.............................     2,846.2         674.2      3,519.9      3,444.8
                                                               -----------  ------------  -----------  -----------
      Total capitalization(7)................................   $ 6,223.1   $   2,046.0    $ 8,448.4    $ 8,467.5
                                                               -----------  ------------  -----------  -----------
                                                               -----------  ------------  -----------  -----------
</TABLE>
    
 
- --------------------------
(1) Includes liabilities assumed (recorded at their estimated fair values) in
    connection with the October 1996 acquisition by Tenet of the Lloyd Noland
    Hospital and the January 1997 acquisition by Tenet of North Shore Medical
    Center, the September 1996 acquisition by OrNda of The Saint Vincent
    Heathcare System and the December 1996 acquisition by OrNda of the Western
    Medical Centers.
 
(2) Exchangeable into 8,301,067 shares of common stock of Vencor held by Tenet.
 
(3) Includes other notes payable, capitalized lease obligations and $70.4
    million of unamortized discounts related to several issues of debt,
    including Tenet's Existing Senior Notes, 2005 Senior Subordinated Notes (as
    defiend herein) and 2005 Exchangeable Subordinated Notes (as defined
    herein). See Note 5 of the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements of
    Tenet.
 
(4) Includes the OrNda Debt Securities, certain other secured and unsecured
    notes payable and capitalized lease obligations. See Notes 5 and 6 of the
    notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements of OrNda.
 
(5) Does not include 35,095,663 shares of Tenet Common Stock reserved for
    issuance upon exercise of Tenet options (including 7,007,118 shares related
    to the conversion of 5,190,458 OrNda options to Tenet options at a
    conversion ratio of 1.35 to 1).
 
(6) Includes estimated transaction costs in the amount of $30.0 million in
    connection with the Merger and the after-tax effect of $45.1 million related
    to tender premiums paid and the write-off of unamortized debt issuance
    costs. Does not reflect other charges expected to be incurred by Tenet and
    OrNda in connection with the Merger. These charges may include costs
    associated with the combination of Tenet and OrNda, primarily severance
    costs, costs of restructuring of benefit packages and charges related to
    reduction of corporate overhead costs and consolidation of duplicative
    services or facilities in certain markets.
 
(7) Includes short-term borrowings and notes and the current portion of
    long-term debt.
 
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<PAGE>
                        PRO FORMA FINANCIAL INFORMATION
 
    The following unaudited pro forma financial information is presented
assuming the Merger will be accounted for as a pooling of interests, whereby
Tenet will restate its historical consolidated financial statements to include
the assets, liabilities, shareholders' equity and results of operations of
OrNda.
 
    The statement of operations data included in the unaudited pro forma
financial information reflects the combination of the historical operating
results of Tenet for the years ended May 31, 1994 and 1995, with the historical
operating results of OrNda for the years ended August 31, 1994 and 1995 and the
historical as adjusted operating results of Tenet for the year ended May 31,
1996 and for the six months ended November 30, 1995 and 1996, with the
historical as adjusted operating results of OrNda for the year ended August 31,
1996 and for the six months ended November 30, 1995 and 1996, respectively.
Tenet reports its financial information on the basis of a May 31 fiscal year.
OrNda reports its financial information on the basis of an August 31 fiscal
year. The unaudited pro forma financial information does not reflect the results
of operations of AMH prior to its acquisition by the Company on March 1, 1995.
 
    The unaudited Condensed Combined Pro Forma Balance Sheet gives effect to the
following transactions and events as if they had occurred as of November 30,
1996: (i) the January 1997 acquisition by Tenet of North Shore Medical Center;
(ii) the December 1996 acquisition by OrNda of the Western Medical Centers; and
(iii) the consummation of the Merger and the Refinancing.
 
    The unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statements of Operations give
effect to the following transactions and events as if they had occurred as of
June 1, 1995 for the Tenet transactions and events and as of September 1, 1995
for the OrNda transactions and events: (i) the August 1995 acquisition by Tenet
of Memorial Medical Center (formerly known as Mercy+Baptist Medical Center); the
September 1995 acquisition by Tenet of Providence Memorial Hospital; the October
1995 acquisition by Tenet of Medical Center of Manchester; the November 1995
acquisition by Tenet of Methodist Hospital of Jonesboro; the June 1996
acquisition by Tenet of Hialeah Hospital; the October 1996 acquisition by Tenet
of the Lloyd Noland Hospital and the January 1997 acquisition by Tenet of North
Shore Medical Center; (ii) the June 1995 sale by Tenet of its two hospitals and
related healthcare businesses in Singapore; the October 1995 sales by Tenet of
its interest in AME and its equity interest in a hospital in Malaysia; the
February 1996 sale by Tenet of its equity interest in a hospital in Thailand and
the May 1996 sale by Tenet of its equity interest in Westminster; (iii) the
elimination of non-recurring gains on disposals of facilities and long-term
investments recorded by Tenet; (iv) Vencor's September 1995 acquisition of
Hillhaven in which Tenet held a significant equity interest; (v) the reduction
of Tenet's interest in TRC in October 1995; (vi) the November 1995 acquisition
by OrNda of Universal Medical Center (subsequently renamed Florida Medical
Center-South); the January 1996 acquisition by OrNda of a controlling equity
interest in HNW; the July 1996 acquisitions by OrNda of Cypress Fairbanks
Medical Center and Westside Hospital; the August 1996 acquisition by OrNda of
Centinela Hospital Medical Center; the September 1996 acquisition by OrNda of
The Saint Vincent Healthcare System and the December 1996 acquisition by OrNda
of the Western Medical Centers; and (vii) the consummation of the Merger and the
Refinancing.
 
    The unaudited pro forma financial information does not purport to present
the financial position or results of operations of Tenet had the transactions
and events assumed therein occurred on the dates specified, nor are they
necessarily indicative of the results of operations that may be achieved in the
future.
 
    The unaudited pro forma financial information does not give effect to
certain cost savings that Tenet management believes may be realized as a result
of the Merger. There can be no assurances that such cost savings, if any, will
be achieved. See "Risk Factors--Forward Looking Statements." The Unaudited Pro
Forma Condensed Combined Statements of Operations do not reflect certain
non-recurring costs expected to be incurred in connection with the Merger. These
costs are expected to include investment advisory fees and legal, accounting and
other professional fees and certain charges associated with the combination of
Tenet and OrNda, primarily severance costs, costs of restructuring of benefit
packages and charges related to reduction of corporate overhead costs and
consolidation of duplicative services or facilities in certain markets.
 
    The unaudited pro forma financial information is based on certain
assumptions and adjustments described in the Notes to the unaudited pro forma
financial information included in this Prospectus and should be read in
conjunction therewith and with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations of Tenet," "Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of
OrNda" and the consolidated financial statements of Tenet and OrNda and the
related notes thereto included herein.
 
    The Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statements of Operations for the
years ended May 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996 combines Tenet's Consolidated Statements
of Operations for the fiscal years ended May 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996 with
OrNda's Consolidated Statements of Operations for the fiscal years ended August
31, 1994, 1995 and 1996, respectively. The Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed
Combined Statements of Operations for the six months ended November 30, 1995 and
1996 combine the Consolidated Statements of Operations of Tenet and the
Consolidated Statements of Operations of OrNda for the same six-month periods.
 
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<PAGE>
                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
              UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED BALANCE SHEET
 
                            AS OF NOVEMBER 30, 1996
 
                             (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS)
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                    TENET                                  ORNDA
                                                  HOSPITAL                               HOSPITAL                 MERGER AND
                                   HISTORICAL    ACQUISITION   ADJUSTED   HISTORICAL    ACQUISITION   ADJUSTED   REFINANCING
                                      TENET          (A)         TENET       ORNDA          (B)         ORNDA    ADJUSTMENTS
                                   -----------  -------------  ---------  -----------  -------------  ---------  ------------
<S>                                <C>          <C>            <C>        <C>          <C>            <C>        <C>
ASSETS
Current assets:
  Cash and cash equivalents......   $    56.8     $            $    56.8   $    10.5     $            $    10.5  $
  Short-term investments, at cost
    which approximates market....       103.1                      103.1
  Accounts and notes receivable,
    less allowance for doubtful
    accounts.....................     1,006.3           1.0      1,007.3       415.6          26.9        442.5
  Inventories of supplies, at
    cost.........................       134.7           1.3        136.0        45.0           3.9         48.9
  Deferred income taxes..........       253.6                      253.6                                              43.9(c)
  Assets held for sale...........        11.5                       11.5
  Prepaid expenses and other
    current assets...............        69.8           0.3         70.1        88.1          10.7         98.8
                                   -----------       ------    ---------  -----------       ------    ---------  ------------
    Total current assets.........     1,635.8           2.6      1,638.4       559.2          41.5        600.7       43.9
Investments and other assets.....       505.9           0.5        506.4       172.1           2.0        174.1
Property and equipment, at cost
  less accumulated depreciation..     3,738.1          49.0      3,787.1     1,379.2          81.8      1,461.0
Intangible assets, at cost less
  accumulated amortization.......     2,692.7          10.5      2,703.2       501.7          56.2        557.9       50.0(d)
                                                                                                                     (31.0)(d)
                                   -----------       ------    ---------  -----------       ------    ---------  ------------
                                    $ 8,572.5     $    62.6    $ 8,635.1   $ 2,612.2     $   181.5    $ 2,793.7  $    62.9
                                   -----------       ------    ---------  -----------       ------    ---------  ------------
                                   -----------       ------    ---------  -----------       ------    ---------  ------------
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS'
  EQUITY
Current liabilities:
  Current portion of long-term
    debt.........................   $    41.6     $     0.5    $    42.1   $    36.9     $            $    36.9  $
  Short-term borrowings and
    notes........................         2.8                        2.8
  Accounts payable...............       266.7           6.0        272.7       155.7          23.3        179.0
  Accrued employee compensation
    and benefits.................       136.2           3.1        139.3        74.8           8.1         82.9
  Accrued interest payable.......        71.0                       71.0         7.4           1.9          9.3
  Income taxes payable...........        16.0                       16.0       (27.6)                     (27.6)     (30.1)(d)
                                                                                                                      43.9(c)
  Other current liabilities......       410.6           0.6        411.2       173.9           6.1        180.0       30.0(e)
                                   -----------       ------    ---------  -----------       ------    ---------  ------------
    Total current liabilities....       944.9          10.2        955.1       421.1          39.4        460.5       43.8
Long-term debt, net of current
  portion........................     3,332.5          50.4      3,382.9     1,334.9         128.9      1,463.8    2,720.0(d)
                                                                                                                  (2,625.8)(d)
 
Deferred income taxes............       424.5                      424.5        51.5                       51.5
Other long-term liabilities and
  minority interests.............     1,024.4           2.5      1,026.9       130.5          13.2        143.7
Shareholders' equity.............     2,846.2          (0.5)     2,845.7       674.2                      674.2      (30.0)(e)
                                                                                                                     (45.1)(d)
                                   -----------       ------    ---------  -----------       ------    ---------  ------------
                                    $ 8,572.5     $    62.6    $ 8,635.1   $ 2,612.2     $   181.5    $ 2,793.7  $    62.9
                                   -----------       ------    ---------  -----------       ------    ---------  ------------
                                   -----------       ------    ---------  -----------       ------    ---------  ------------
 
<CAPTION>
 
                                    PRO FORMA
                                    COMBINED
                                   -----------
<S>                                <C>
ASSETS
Current assets:
  Cash and cash equivalents......   $    67.3
  Short-term investments, at cost
    which approximates market....       103.1
  Accounts and notes receivable,
    less allowance for doubtful
    accounts.....................     1,449.8
  Inventories of supplies, at
    cost.........................       184.9
  Deferred income taxes..........       297.5
  Assets held for sale...........        11.5
  Prepaid expenses and other
    current assets...............       168.9
                                   -----------
    Total current assets.........     2,283.0
Investments and other assets.....       680.5
Property and equipment, at cost
  less accumulated depreciation..     5,248.1
Intangible assets, at cost less
  accumulated amortization.......     3,280.1
 
                                   -----------
                                    $11,491.7
                                   -----------
                                   -----------
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS'
  EQUITY
Current liabilities:
  Current portion of long-term
    debt.........................   $    79.0
  Short-term borrowings and
    notes........................         2.8
  Accounts payable...............       451.7
  Accrued employee compensation
    and benefits.................       222.2
  Accrued interest payable.......        80.3
  Income taxes payable...........         2.2
 
  Other current liabilities......       621.2
                                   -----------
    Total current liabilities....     1,459.4
Long-term debt, net of current
  portion........................     4,940.9
 
Deferred income taxes............       476.0
Other long-term liabilities and
  minority interests.............     1,170.6
Shareholders' equity.............     3,444.8
 
                                   -----------
                                    $11,491.7
                                   -----------
                                   -----------
</TABLE>
    
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
         UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
                        FOR THE YEAR ENDED MAY 31, 1996
                 (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                       HISTORICAL
                                           HISTORICAL                       TENET         ADJUSTED       ORNDA
                                             TENET          TENET       DIVESTITURES       TENET       YEAR ENDED
                                           YEAR ENDED      HOSPITAL          AND         YEAR ENDED    AUGUST 31,
                                          MAY 31, 1996   ACQUISITIONS    ADJUSTMENTS    MAY 31, 1996      1996
                                          ------------   ------------   -------------   ------------   ----------
<S>                                       <C>            <C>            <C>             <C>            <C>
Net operating revenues..................    $5,558.5      $ 341.0(f)     $ (50.4)(g)      $5,849.1      $2,147.2
Operating expenses:
  Salaries and benefits.................     2,194.3        139.2(f)       (22.6)(g)       2,310.9         935.4
  Supplies..............................       764.2         39.1(f)        (6.3)(g)         797.0         291.6
  Provision for doubtful accounts.......       289.7         30.2(f)        (0.2)(g)         319.7         141.8
  Other operating expenses..............     1,212.1         95.4(f)       (10.8)(g)       1,296.7         434.0
  Depreciation..........................       239.9         11.6(i)        (3.2)(g)         248.3          78.9
  Amortization..........................        80.4          0.9(j)        (0.4)(g)          80.9          24.9
  Impairment losses.....................        85.9                                          85.9
                                          ------------   ------------   -------------   ------------   ----------
Operating income........................       692.0         24.6           (6.9)            709.7         240.6
 
Interest expense, net of capitalized
  portion...............................      (311.9)        (0.2)(f)        0.3(g)         (315.4)       (107.2)
                                                            (16.8)(m)       13.2(n)
Investment earnings.....................        22.3                        (0.7)(g)          19.9           4.4
                                                                            (1.7)(p)
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated
  affiliates............................        19.4                        (7.4)(g)           3.4           5.1
                                                                            (8.6)(p)
Minority interests in income of
  consolidated subsidiaries.............       (22.0)        (0.1)(f)        2.2(g)          (19.9)         (7.8)
Net gain on disposals of facilities and
  long-term investments.................       346.2                      (346.2)(q)
                                          ------------   ------------   -------------   ------------   ----------
Income from continuing operations before
  income taxes..........................       746.0          7.5         (355.8)            397.7         135.1
Taxes on income.........................      (347.7)        (2.9)         168.4            (182.2)        (35.2)
                                          ------------   ------------   -------------   ------------   ----------
Income from continuing operations.......    $  398.3      $   4.6        $(187.4)         $  215.5      $   99.9
                                          ------------   ------------   -------------   ------------   ----------
                                          ------------   ------------   -------------   ------------   ----------
Earnings per common share from
  continuing operations, fully
  diluted...............................    $   1.86                                      $   1.01      $   1.72
                                          ------------                                  ------------   ----------
                                          ------------                                  ------------   ----------
Weighted average number of shares
  outstanding, fully diluted (in
  000s).................................     216,676                                       216,676        58,064
                                          ------------                                  ------------   ----------
                                          ------------                                  ------------   ----------
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges......         2.9x                                          2.1x          2.0x
                                          ------------                                  ------------   ----------
                                          ------------                                  ------------   ----------
 
<CAPTION>
                                                          ADJUSTED
                                                           ORNDA
                                             ORNDA       YEAR ENDED   MERGER AND
                                            HOSPITAL     AUGUST 31,   REFINANCING   PRO FORMA
                                          ACQUISITIONS      1996      ADJUSTMENTS   COMBINED
                                          ------------   ----------   -----------   ---------
<S>                                       <C>            <C>          <C>           <C>
Net operating revenues..................     $648.5(h)    $2,795.7     $            $8,644.8
Operating expenses:
  Salaries and benefits.................      327.8(h)     1,263.2                   3,574.1
  Supplies..............................      116.2(h)       407.8                   1,204.8
  Provision for doubtful accounts.......       34.9(h)       176.7                     496.4
  Other operating expenses..............      104.1(h)       538.1                   1,834.8
  Depreciation..........................       14.8(i)        93.7                     342.0
  Amortization..........................        4.6(j)        29.5         (5.6)(k)    104.8
  Impairment losses.....................                                                85.9
                                             ------      ----------   -----------   ---------
Operating income........................       46.1          286.7          5.6      1,002.0
Interest expense, net of capitalized
  portion...............................      (26.3)(l)     (133.5)        (5.6)(k)   (455.7)
                                                                           (1.2)(o)
Investment earnings.....................       (1.2)(h)        3.2                      23.1
 
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated
  affiliates............................       (5.1)(h)                                  3.4
 
Minority interests in income of
  consolidated subsidiaries.............       (1.4)(h)       (9.2)                    (29.1)
Net gain on disposals of facilities and
  long-term investments.................        0.5(h)         0.5                       0.5
                                             ------      ----------   -----------   ---------
Income from continuing operations before
  income taxes..........................       12.6          147.7         (1.2)       544.2
Taxes on income.........................       (6.1)         (41.3)         0.5(o)    (223.0)
                                             ------      ----------   -----------   ---------
Income from continuing operations.......     $  6.5       $  106.4     $   (0.7)    $  321.2
                                             ------      ----------   -----------   ---------
                                             ------      ----------   -----------   ---------
Earnings per common share from
  continuing operations, fully
  diluted...............................                  $   1.83                  $   1.10
                                                         ----------                 ---------
                                                         ----------                 ---------
Weighted average number of shares
  outstanding, fully diluted (in
  000s).................................                    58,064       78,386(r)   295,062
                                                         ----------   -----------   ---------
                                                         ----------   -----------   ---------
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges......                       1.9x                      2.0x
                                                         ----------                 ---------
                                                         ----------                 ---------
</TABLE>
    
 
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<PAGE>
                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
         UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
                   FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30, 1996
                 (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                           TENET                                 ORNDA                MERGER AND
                           HISTORICAL     HOSPITAL     ADJUSTED  HISTORICAL    HOSPITAL     ADJUSTED  REFINANCING   PRO FORMA
                             TENET      ACQUISITIONS    TENET      ORNDA      ACQUISITIONS   ORNDA    ADJUSTMENTS   COMBINED
                           ----------   ------------   --------  ----------   -----------   --------  -----------   ---------
<S>                        <C>          <C>            <C>       <C>          <C>           <C>       <C>           <C>
Net operating revenues...   $ 2,914.7    $  64.7(s)    $2,979.4  $  1,190.0     $182.1(t)   $1,372.1  $             $4,351.5
Operating expenses:
  Salaries and
    benefits.............     1,150.1       28.5(s)     1,178.6       539.8       93.8(t)      633.6                 1,812.2
  Supplies...............       395.1        6.5(s)       401.6       164.2       27.2(t)      191.4                   593.0
  Provision for doubtful
    accounts.............       153.2        4.9(s)       158.1        70.9        7.0(t)       77.9                   236.0
  Other operating
    expenses.............       641.9       20.6(s)       662.5       223.0       39.4(t)      262.4                   924.9
  Depreciation...........       127.0        0.6(i)       127.6        47.2        4.5(i)       51.7                   179.3
  Amortization...........        42.6        0.2(j)        42.8        14.5        1.6(j)       16.1     (4.2)(k)       54.7
                           ----------   ------         --------  ----------   -----------   --------  -----------   ---------
Operating income.........       404.8        3.4          408.2       130.4        8.6         139.0      4.2          551.4
 
Interest expense, net of
  capitalized portion....      (141.1)      (0.1)(s)     (144.2)      (58.0)      (6.3)(l)     (64.3)    (4.2)(k)     (213.3)
                                            (3.0)(m)                                                     (0.6)(o)
Investment earnings......        10.3                      10.3         2.1       (0.1)(t)       2.0                    12.3
Equity in earnings of
  unconsolidated
  affiliates.............         1.3                       1.3                                                          1.3
Minority interests in
  income of consolidated
  subsidiaries...........       (10.1)                    (10.1)       (5.4)                    (5.4)                  (15.5)
                           ----------   ------         --------  ----------   -----------   --------  -----------   ---------
Income from continuing
  operations before
  income taxes...........       265.2        0.3          265.5        69.1        2.2          71.3     (0.6)         336.2
Taxes on income..........      (116.0)      (0.1)        (116.1)      (19.5)      (0.9)        (20.4)     0.2(o)      (136.3)
                           ----------   ------         --------  ----------   -----------   --------  -----------   ---------
Income from continuing
  operations.............   $   149.2    $   0.2       $  149.4  $     49.6     $  1.3      $   50.9  $  (0.4)      $  199.9
                           ----------   ------         --------  ----------   -----------   --------  -----------   ---------
                           ----------   ------         --------  ----------   -----------   --------  -----------   ---------
Earnings per common share
  from continuing
  operations, fully
  diluted................   $    0.68                  $   0.68  $     0.82                 $   0.84                $   0.66
                           ----------                  --------  ----------                 --------                ---------
                           ----------                  --------  ----------                 --------                ---------
Weighted average number
  of shares outstanding,
  fully diluted (in
  000s)..................     220,096                   220,096      60,617                   60,617   81,833(r)     301,929
                           ----------                  --------  ----------                 --------  -----------   ---------
                           ----------                  --------  ----------                 --------  -----------   ---------
Ratio of earnings to
  fixed charges..........         2.5x                      2.5x        2.0x                     2.0x                    2.3x
                           ----------                  --------  ----------                 --------                ---------
                           ----------                  --------  ----------                 --------                ---------
</TABLE>
    
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
         UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
                   FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30, 1995
                 (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                       TENET
                                                     TENET HOSPI-     DIVES-                                ORNDA
                                        HISTORICAL   TAL ACQUISI-   TITURES AND   ADJUSTED  HISTORICAL     HOSPITAL     ADJUSTED
                                          TENET         TIONS       ADJUSTMENTS    TENET      ORNDA      ACQUISITIONS    ORNDA
                                        ----------   ------------   -----------   --------  ----------   ------------   --------
<S>                                     <C>          <C>            <C>           <C>       <C>          <C>            <C>
Net operating revenues................   $2,654.8    $    230.1(f)  $   (50.6)(g) $2,834.3   $  977.6       $387.8(h)   $1,365.4
Operating expenses:
  Salaries and benefits...............    1,046.9          92.6(f)      (22.6)(g)  1,116.9      406.8        191.2(h)      598.0
  Supplies............................      364.7          27.2(f)       (6.4)(g)    385.5      127.4         60.9(h)      188.3
  Provision for doubtful accounts.....      137.0          19.0(f)       (0.2)(g)    155.8       66.3         22.5(h)       88.8
  Other operating expenses............      578.3          61.3(f)      (11.1)(g)    628.5      238.7         69.0(h)      307.7
  Depreciation........................      122.7          10.9(i)       (3.2)(g)    130.4       35.7         10.3(i)       46.0
  Amortization........................       40.0           0.5(f)       (0.4)(g)     40.7       11.0          3.6(j)       14.6
                                                            0.6(j)
                                        ----------   ------------   -----------   --------  ----------      ------      --------
Operating income......................      365.2          18.0          (6.7)       376.5       91.7         30.3         122.0
 
Interest expense, net of capitalized
  portion.............................     (158.4)         (0.1)(f)       0.3(g)    (160.3)     (54.4)       (18.9)(l)     (73.3)
                                                          (11.6)(m)       9.5(n)
Investment earnings...................       12.7                        (0.2)(g)     10.8        2.1         (0.3)(h)       1.8
                                                                         (1.7)(p)
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated
  affiliates..........................       14.0                        (3.8)(g)      1.7        7.3         (7.3)(h)
                                                                         (8.5)(p)
Minority interests in income of
  consolidated subsidiaries...........      (10.6)                        2.2(g)      (8.4)      (1.3)        (2.3)(h)      (3.6)
Net gain on disposals of facilities...      311.9                      (311.9)(q)
                                        ----------   ------------   -----------   --------  ----------      ------      --------
Income from continuing operations
  before income taxes.................      534.8           6.3        (320.8)       220.3       45.4          1.5          46.9
Taxes on income.......................     (233.7)         (2.4)        138.7        (97.4)      (9.6)        (4.0)        (13.6)
                                        ----------   ------------   -----------   --------  ----------      ------      --------
Income from continuing operations.....   $  301.1    $      3.9     $  (182.1)    $  122.9   $   35.8       $ (2.5)     $   33.3
                                        ----------   ------------   -----------   --------  ----------      ------      --------
                                        ----------   ------------   -----------   --------  ----------      ------      --------
Earnings per common share from
  continuing operations, fully
  diluted.............................   $   1.41                                 $   0.59   $   0.71                   $   0.56
                                        ----------                                --------  ----------                  --------
                                        ----------                                --------  ----------                  --------
Weighted average number of shares
  outstanding,
  fully diluted (in 000s).............    216,175                                  216,175     59,153                     59,153
                                        ----------                                --------  ----------                  --------
                                        ----------                                --------  ----------                  --------
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges....        3.7x                                     2.1x       1.6x                       1.5x
                                        ----------                                --------  ----------                  --------
                                        ----------                                --------  ----------                  --------
 
<CAPTION>
 
                                         MERGER AND
                                        REFINANCING    PRO FORMA
                                        ADJUSTMENTS    COMBINED
                                        ------------   ---------
<S>                                     <C>            <C>
Net operating revenues................  $              $4,199.7
Operating expenses:
  Salaries and benefits...............                  1,714.9
  Supplies............................                    573.8
  Provision for doubtful accounts.....                    244.6
  Other operating expenses............                    936.2
  Depreciation........................                    176.4
  Amortization........................        (2.4)(k)     52.9
 
                                        ------------   ---------
Operating income......................         2.4        500.9
Interest expense, net of capitalized
  portion.............................        (2.4)(k)   (236.6)
                                              (0.6)(o)
Investment earnings...................                     12.6
 
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated
  affiliates..........................                      1.7
 
Minority interests in income of
  consolidated subsidiaries...........                    (12.0)
Net gain on disposals of facilities...
                                        ------------   ---------
Income from continuing operations
  before income taxes.................        (0.6)       266.6
Taxes on income.......................         0.2(o)    (110.8)
                                        ------------   ---------
Income from continuing operations.....  $     (0.4)    $  155.8
                                        ------------   ---------
                                        ------------   ---------
Earnings per common share from
  continuing operations, fully
  diluted.............................                 $   0.53
                                                       ---------
                                                       ---------
Weighted average number of shares
  outstanding,
  fully diluted (in 000s).............    79,857(r)     296,032
                                        ------------   ---------
                                        ------------   ---------
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges....                      1.9x
                                                       ---------
                                                       ---------
</TABLE>
    
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
         UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
                        FOR THE YEAR ENDED MAY 31, 1995
                 (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                          HISTORICAL
                                                           HISTORICAL       ORNDA
                                                             TENET        YEAR ENDED      PRO FORMA
                                                           YEAR ENDED     AUGUST 31,       MERGER      PRO FORMA
                                                          MAY 31, 1995       1995        ADJUSTMENTS    COMBINED
                                                          ------------  --------------  -------------  ----------
<S>                                                       <C>           <C>             <C>            <C>
Net operating revenues..................................   $  3,318.4     $  1,842.7    $              $  5,161.1
Operating expenses:.....................................
  Salaries and benefits.................................      1,366.8          803.1                      2,169.9
  Supplies..............................................        431.5          236.2                        667.7
  Provision for doubtful accounts.......................        137.5          122.2                        259.7
  Other operating expenses..............................        759.2          419.2                      1,178.4
  Depreciation..........................................        164.4           67.9                        232.3
  Amortization..........................................         30.6           17.3          (4.1)(k)       43.8
  Restructuring costs...................................         36.9                                        36.9
                                                          ------------  --------------    ------       ----------
Operating income........................................        391.5          176.8           4.1          572.4
Interest expense, net of capitalized portion............       (138.1)        (109.1)         (4.1)(k)     (251.3)
 
Investment earnings.....................................         27.5            4.6                         32.1
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates.........         28.4           14.0                         42.4
Minority interests in income of consolidated
  subsidiaries..........................................         (9.4)          (0.2)                        (9.6)
Net gain on disposals of facilities and long-term
  investments...........................................         29.5            1.0                         30.5
                                                          ------------  --------------    ------       ----------
Income from continuing operations before income taxes...        329.4           87.1                        416.5
Taxes on income.........................................       (135.0)         (15.8)                      (150.8)
                                                          ------------  --------------    ------       ----------
Income from continuing operations.......................   $    194.4     $     71.3    $              $    265.7
                                                          ------------  --------------    ------       ----------
                                                          ------------  --------------    ------       ----------
Earnings per common share from continuing operations,
  fully diluted.........................................   $     1.06     $     1.51                   $     1.08
                                                          ------------  --------------                 ----------
                                                          ------------  --------------                 ----------
Weighted average number of shares outstanding, fully
  diluted (in 000s).....................................      190,139         47,382        63,966(r)     254,105
                                                          ------------  --------------      ------     ----------
                                                          ------------  --------------      ------     ----------
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges......................          2.7 x          1.6  x                       2.2x
                                                          ------------  --------------                 ----------
                                                          ------------  --------------                 ----------
</TABLE>
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
         UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
                        FOR THE YEAR ENDED MAY 31, 1994
                 (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                         HISTORICAL
                                                          HISTORICAL       ORNDA
                                                            TENET        YEAR ENDED      PRO FORMA
                                                          YEAR ENDED     AUGUST 31,       MERGER      PRO FORMA
                                                         MAY 31, 1994       1994        ADJUSTMENTS    COMBINED
                                                         ------------  --------------  -------------  ----------
<S>                                                      <C>           <C>             <C>            <C>
Net operating revenues.................................   $  2,943.2     $  1,274.4    $              $  4,217.6
Operating expenses:
  Salaries and benefits................................      1,293.4          574.2                      1,867.6
  Supplies.............................................        339.4          158.9                        498.3
  Provision for doubtful accounts......................        107.0           86.2                        193.2
  Other operating expenses.............................        666.5          275.6                        942.1
  Depreciation.........................................        142.7           56.4                        199.1
  Amortization.........................................         18.1           10.4         (3.3)(k)        25.2
  Restructuring costs..................................         77.0            2.5                         79.5
  Merger expenses......................................       --               30.0                         30.0
                                                         ------------  --------------     ------      ----------
Operating income.......................................        299.1           80.2          3.3           382.6
Interest expense, net of capitalized portion...........        (70.0)         (83.4)        (3.3)(k)      (156.7)
Investment earnings....................................         27.7            2.9                         30.6
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates........         23.8            3.6                         27.4
Minority interests in income of consolidated
  subsidiaries.........................................         (8.2)          (4.0)                       (12.2)
Net gain (loss) on disposals of facilities.............         87.5          (45.3)                        42.2
                                                         ------------  --------------     ------      ----------
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income
  taxes................................................        359.9          (46.0)                       313.9
Taxes on income........................................       (144.0)          (1.0)                      (145.0)
                                                         ------------  --------------     ------      ----------
Income (loss) from continuing operations...............   $    215.9     $    (47.0)   $              $    168.9
                                                         ------------  --------------     ------      ----------
                                                         ------------  --------------     ------      ----------
Earnings (loss) per common share from continuing
  operations, fully diluted............................   $     1.23     $    (1.29)                  $     0.75
                                                         ------------  --------------                 ----------
                                                         ------------  --------------                 ----------
Weighted average number of shares outstanding, fully
  diluted (in 000s)....................................      181,087         37,879       51,137(r)      232,224
                                                         ------------  --------------     ------      ----------
                                                         ------------  --------------     ------      ----------
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges.....................          4.2x           0.5x                         2.4x
                                                         ------------  --------------                 ----------
                                                         ------------  --------------                 ----------
</TABLE>
 
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<PAGE>
                    NOTES TO PRO FORMA FINANCIAL INFORMATION
 
    The adjustments to arrive at the unaudited pro forma financial information
are as follows:
 
        (a) To reflect Tenet's January 1997 acquisition of substantially all of
    the assets of North Shore Medical Center. This transaction will be accounted
    for by the purchase method of accounting. The assets acquired and
    liabilities assumed in this transaction are recorded at their estimated fair
    values. The excess of the aggregate purchase price of $49.0 million over the
    aggregate estimated fair value of the net assets acquired is expected to be
    approximately $10.5 million. The acquisition of North Shore Medical Center
    was financed using Tenet's existing credit facility.
 
        (b) To reflect OrNda's December 1996 acquisition of substantially all of
    the assets of the Western Medical Centers, consisting primarily of two acute
    care hospitals and a skilled nursing facility. The transaction will be
    accounted for by the purchase method of accounting. The assets acquired and
    liabilities assumed in the transaction are recorded at their estimated fair
    values. The excess of the aggregate purchase price of $181.5 million over
    the aggregate fair value of the net assets acquired is approximately $56.2
    million. The acquisition of the Western Medical Centers was financed using
    OrNda's existing credit facility.
 
        (c) To reclassify OrNda's current deferred tax asset to conform to
    Tenet's presentation.
 
   
        (d) To reflect the Refinancing and the following related items: an
    increase to intangible assets of $19.0 million (reflecting estimated debt
    issuance costs of $50.0 million to be amortized over the lives of the Notes
    and the New Credit Facility less $31.0 million in unamortized issuance costs
    to be written off); and a tax benefit of $30.1 million related to the
    payment of estimated tender premiums and consent fees and the write-off of
    the unamortized issuance costs. The $45.1 million after-tax effect of the
    write-off, the tender premiums and the consent fees will be charged to
    operations as an extraordinary item in the period the Refinancing is
    completed.
    
 
        (e) To record estimated transaction costs in the amount of $30.0 million
    in connection with the Merger. The unaudited pro forma financial information
    does not reflect other charges expected to be incurred by Tenet and OrNda in
    connection with the Merger. These charges may include costs associated with
    the combination of Tenet and OrNda, primarily severance costs, costs of
    restructuring benefit packages and charges related to reduction of corporate
    overhead costs and the consolidation of duplicative services or facilities
    in certain markets.
 
        (f) To reflect the historical operations of the following facilities
    prior to their acquisition by Tenet to give effect to the transactions as if
    they had occurred as of the beginning of the respective period: the August
    1995 acquisition of Memorial Medical Center (formerly known as Mercy+Baptist
    Medical Center); the September 1995 acquisition of Providence Memorial
    Hospital; the October 1995 acquisition of Medical Center of Manchester; the
    November 1995 acquisition of Methodist Hospital of Jonesboro; the June 1996
    acquisition of Hialeah Hospital; the October 1996 acquisition of Lloyd
    Noland Hospital and the January 1997 acquisition of North Shore Medical
    Center.
 
        (g) To reflect the following sales by Tenet as if they had occurred as
    of the beginning of the respective period: the June 1995 sale of its two
    hospitals and related healthcare businesses in Singapore, the October 1995
    sales of its interest in AME and its equity interest in a hospital in
    Malaysia, the February 1996 sale of its equity interest in a hospital in
    Thailand and the May 1996 sale of its equity interest in Westminster.
 
        (h) To reflect the historical operations of the following facilities
    prior to their acquisition by OrNda to give effect to the transactions as if
    they had occurred as of the beginning of the respective period: the November
    1995 acquisition of Universal Medical Center (subsequently renamed Florida
    Medical Center-South); the January 1996 acquisition of a controlling equity
    interest in HNW; the July 1996 acquisitions of Cypress Fairbanks Medical
    Center and Westside Medical Center; the August 1996 acquisition of Centinela
    Hospital Medical Center; the September 1996 acquisition of The Saint Vincent
    Healthcare System and the December 1996 acquisition of the Western Medical
    Centers.
 
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        (i) To adjust depreciation expense to reflect the estimated fair values
    of the buildings and equipment acquired in the purchases of the general
    hospital facilities referred to in Notes (f) and (h) above.
 
        (j) To reflect the amortization of the excess of the purchase price of
    the general hospital facilities referred to in Notes (f) and (h) above over
    the estimated fair values of the net assets acquired using the straight-line
    method.
 
        (k) To reclassify OrNda's amortization of capitalized financing costs to
    interest expense in accordance with Tenet's accounting policy.
 
        (l) To reflect additional interest expense for the periods prior to the
    acquisitions described in Note (h) above ($26.3 million for the year ended
    August 31, 1996 and $6.3 million and $18.9 million for the six months ended
    November 30, 1996 and 1995, respectively) on $387.4 million of borrowings
    under OrNda's secured bank credit facility, based on an average historical
    interest rate of 7.08%.
 
       (m) To reflect additional interest expense for the periods prior to the
    acquisitions described in Note (f) above ($16.8 million for the year ended
    May 31, 1996 and $3.0 million and $11.6 million for the six months ended
    November 30, 1996 and 1995, respectively) on $511.0 million of borrowings
    under Tenet's credit facilities, based on an average historical interest
    rate of 6.5%.
 
        (n) To reflect the reduction in interest expense ($13.2 million for the
    year ended May 31, 1996 and $9.5 million for the six months ended November
    30, 1995) from the application of an aggregate of $536.1 million in net
    proceeds from the sale of certain of Tenet's international assets, as
    described in Note (g) above, and the $91.8 million proceeds from Hillhaven's
    redemption of its Series C and Series D Preferred Stock held by Tenet, as
    described in Note (p) below, to repay borrowings under its credit agreements
    with an average historical interest rate of 6.5%.
 
   
        (o) To adjust interest expense, including the amortization of deferred
    financing costs over the term of the related indebtedness, and to reflect
    income taxes at an assumed rate of 39.0% for the year ended May 31, 1996, as
    follows (dollars in millions):
    
 
   
<TABLE>
<S>                                                          <C>
To increase interest expense to give effect to the issuance
 of the Notes (aggregate principal of $2.0 billion) at a
 blended interest rate of 7.83%............................  $   161.7
To increase interest expense to give effect to anticipated
 borrowings under the New Credit Facility (aggregate
 principal of $720.0 million) at an interest rate of
 6.25%.....................................................       46.0
To reduce interest expense to give effect to the repurchase
 of the OrNda Debt Securities (aggregate principal of
 $525.0 million) and the repayment of borrowings under the
 existing credit facilities of Tenet and OrNda (aggregate
 principal of $2.1 billion) at a blended interest rate of
 7.87%.....................................................     (206.5)
                                                             ---------
Net increase in interest expense...........................  $     1.2
                                                             ---------
                                                             ---------
</TABLE>
    
 
       The adjustments made for the six months ended November 30, 1995 and 1996
       are equal to one half of the amounts above.
 
        (p) To reflect Vencor's acquisition of Hillhaven. Because Tenet owns
    less than 20.0% of Vencor and does not have the ability to exercise
    significant influence over Vencor, Tenet now accounts for its interest in
    Vencor in accordance with SFAS No. 115. Tenet had accounted for its interest
    in Hillhaven using the equity method of accounting for investments in
    unconsolidated subsidiaries. The Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined
    Statements of Operations reflect adjustments made to eliminate Tenet's
    equity in the earnings of Hillhaven ($7.2 million for the year ended May 31,
    1996 and $7.1 million for the six months ended November 30, 1995) that had
    been recognized by Tenet, as well as the dividends ($1.7 million) on the
    Hillhaven Series C and Series D Preferred Stock held by Tenet prior to their
    September 1995 redemption by Vencor.
 
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<PAGE>
        Also to reflect the dilution in Tenet's equity interest in TRC from an
    approximately 25.0% interest to an approximately 13.6% interest as a result
    of TRC's completion in October 1995 of an initial public offering of its
    common stock. Because Tenet owned less than 20.0% of TRC's common shares
    after the October 1995 stock sale by TRC, and does not have the ability to
    exercise significant influence over TRC, Tenet has been accounting for its
    investment in accordance with SFAS No. 115 since October 1995. Tenet's
    equity in the earnings of TRC recognized under the equity method amounted to
    $1.4 million for the year ended May 31, 1996 and the six months ended
    November 30, 1995.
 
        (q) To reflect the elimination of non-recurring gains on disposals of
    facilities and long-term investments in the amount of $346.2 million in the
    year ended May 31, 1996 and $311.9 million in the six months ended November
    30, 1995.
 
        (r) Represents the weighted average common shares and common equivalent
    shares that would have been outstanding in addition to Tenet's historical
    weighted average common shares as a result of the Merger.
 
        (s) To reflect the historical operations of Lloyd Noland Hospital prior
    to its acquisition by Tenet in October 1996 and the January 1997 acquisition
    of North Shore Medical Center, giving effect to both transactions as if they
    had occurred as of the beginning of the period.
 
        (t) To reflect the historical operations of the following facilities
    prior to their acquisition by OrNda, giving effect to the transactions as if
    they had occurred as of the beginning of the period: the July 1996
    acquisitions of Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center and Westside Medical
    Center; the August 1996 acquisition of Centinela Hospital Medical Center;
    the September 1996 acquisition of The Saint Vincent Healthcare System and
    the December 1996 acquisition of the Western Medical Centers.
 
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                         SELECTED OPERATING STATISTICS
 
    The following tables set forth certain historical operating statistics for
the domestic general hospitals operated by the Company and by OrNda for each of
the periods indicated.
 
                          TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                 SIX MONTHS
                                                                                                   ENDED
                                                            YEARS ENDED MAY 31,                 NOVEMBER 30,
                                                   -------------------------------------  ------------------------
                                                      1994         1995         1996         1995         1996
                                                   -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------
                                                            (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS, EXCEPT PER PATIENT DAY)
<S>                                                <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>
HISTORICAL OPERATING DATA:
  Number of hospitals (at end of period).........           35           70           74           75           76
  Licensed beds (at end of period)(1)............        6,873       15,622       16,666       16,827       17,344
  Net inpatient revenues.........................  $   1,568.4  $   1,937.9  $   3,440.4  $   1,626.7  $   1,742.7
  Net outpatient revenues........................  $     557.2  $     786.3  $   1,572.1  $     755.3  $     836.2
  Admissions.....................................      207,868      267,868      487,601      231,866      246,774
  Equivalent admissions(2).......................      271,004      358,664      689,619      323,251      357,199
  Average length of stay(3)......................          5.6          5.6          5.6          5.5          5.4
  Patient days...................................    1,154,030    1,507,865    2,710,062    1,280,367    1,342,531
  Equivalent patient days(4).....................    1,493,314    1,997,508    3,796,184    1,755,944    1,924,258
  Net inpatient revenues per patient day.........  $     1,359  $     1,285  $     1,269  $     1,270  $     1,298
  Net inpatient revenues per admission...........  $     7,545  $     7,235         7056  $     7,016  $     7,062
  Utilization of licensed beds(5)................        46.8%        46.4%        44.9%        43.1%        42.8%
  Outpatient visits..............................    1,472,258    2,293,586    5,609,550    2,666,656    3,156,690
</TABLE>
 
                                ORNDA HEALTHCORP
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                THREE MONTHS
                                                                                                   ENDED
                                                          YEARS ENDED AUGUST 31,                NOVEMBER 30,
                                                   -------------------------------------  ------------------------
                                                      1994         1995         1996         1995         1996
                                                   -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------
                                                            (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS, EXCEPT PER PATIENT DAY)
<S>                                                <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>
HISTORICAL OPERATING DATA:
  Number of hospitals (at end of period)(6)......           46           46           50           47           49
  Licensed beds (at end of period)(1)............        8,025        8,069        9,685        8,361       10,049
  Net inpatient revenues.........................  $     811.8  $   1,112.9  $   1,299.2  $     321.5  $     403.8
  Net outpatient revenues........................  $     389.5  $     615.3  $     705.9  $     142.4  $     198.0
  Admissions.....................................      179,085      204,204      237,669       53,275       60,628
  Equivalent admissions(2).......................      246,872      286,753      346,711       76,853       90,290
  Average length of stay(3)......................          4.9          5.3          5.0          5.1          5.2
  Patient days...................................      871,938    1,076,782    1,187,421      272,185      314,830
  Equivalent patient days(4).....................    1,201,980    1,512,070    1,732,203      392,656      468,862
  Net inpatient revenues per patient day.........  $       931  $     1,034  $     1,094  $     1,181  $     1,283
  Net inpatient revenues per admission...........  $     4,533  $     5,450  $     5,466  $     6,034  $     6,660
  Utilization of licensed beds(5)................        35.2%        36.4%        38.1%        35.8%        34.4%
  Outpatient visits..............................    1,367,016    1,824,099    2,767,994      569,911      830,027
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Aggregate number of beds at the end of the period that a facility has been
    granted approval to operate from the appropriate state licensing agency.
(2) Equivalent admissions represents actual admissions adjusted to include
    outpatient and emergency room services by multiplying actual admissions by
    the sum of gross inpatient revenue and gross outpatient revenue and dividing
    the result by gross inpatient revenue.
(3) Represents patient days divided by admissions.
(4) Equivalent patient days represents actual patient days adjusted to include
    outpatient and emergency room services by multiplying actual patient days by
    the sum of gross inpatient revenue and gross outpatient revenue and dividing
    the result by gross inpatient revenue.
(5) Represents average daily census for the period divided by the average number
    of licensed beds during the period.
(6) In all periods presented includes one psychiatric hospital.
 
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               SELECTED HISTORICAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF TENET
                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
    The following tables set forth selected historical financial information for
Tenet for each of the fiscal years in the five-year period ended May 31, 1996
and for the six months ended November 30, 1995 and 1996. The selected financial
information for each of the five fiscal years has been derived from the
consolidated financial statements of Tenet, which have been audited by KPMG Peat
Marwick LLP, independent auditors for Tenet, and from the underlying accounting
records of Tenet. The report of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP covering the consolidated
financial statements of Tenet refers to a change in the method of accounting for
income taxes in 1994. The selected financial information for the six-month
periods has been derived from unaudited condensed consolidated financial
statements of Tenet and reflects all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring
adjustments) that, in the opinion of the management of Tenet, are necessary for
a fair presentation of such information. Operating results for the six months
ended November 30, 1996 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may
be expected for fiscal 1997.
 
    All information included in the following tables should be read in
conjunction with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
and Results of Operations of Tenet" and with the condensed consolidated
financial statements and related notes of Tenet included herein. Certain amounts
derived from the consolidated statements of operations have been reclassified to
conform with the presentation below.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                     SIX MONTHS ENDED
                                                             YEAR ENDED MAY 31,                        NOVEMBER 30,
                                            -----------------------------------------------------  --------------------
                                              1992      1993(2)     1994      1995(3)     1996       1995       1996
                                            ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                          (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS, EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
<S>                                         <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>
Statement of Operations Data:(1)(4)
Net operating revenues....................  $ 2,934.3  $ 3,178.2  $ 2,943.2  $ 3,318.4  $ 5,558.5  $ 2,654.8  $ 2,914.7
Operating expenses:
  Salaries and benefits...................    1,328.1    1,464.8    1,293.4    1,366.8    2,194.3    1,046.9    1,150.1
  Supplies................................      318.9      349.2      339.4      431.5      764.2      364.7      395.1
  Provision for doubtful accounts.........      123.1      114.6      107.0      137.5      289.7      137.0      153.2
  Other operating expenses................      616.5      689.1      666.5      759.2    1,212.1      578.3      641.9
  Depreciation............................      122.4      141.8      142.7      164.4      239.9      122.7      127.0
  Amortization............................       18.4       18.6       18.1       30.6       80.4       40.0       42.6
  Restructuring charges(5)................       17.9       51.6       77.0       36.9     --         --         --
  Impairment losses(6)....................     --         --         --         --           85.9     --         --
                                            ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Operating income..........................      389.0      348.5      299.1      391.5      692.0      365.2      404.8
Interest expense, net of capitalized
  portion.................................      (89.4)     (75.3)     (70.0)    (138.1)    (311.9)    (158.4)    (141.1)
Investment earnings.......................       28.7       21.1       27.7       27.5       22.3       12.7       10.3
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated
  affiliates..............................        6.7       12.5       23.8       28.4       19.4       14.0        1.3
Minority interest expense.................       (6.8)     (10.0)      (8.2)      (9.4)     (22.0)     (10.6)     (10.1)
Net gain on disposals of facilities and
  long-term investments(7)................       31.0      121.8       87.5       29.5      346.2      311.9     --
                                            ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Income from continuing operations before
  income taxes............................      359.2      418.6      359.9      329.4      746.0      534.8      265.2
Taxes on income...........................     (141.0)    (155.0)    (144.0)    (135.0)    (347.7)    (233.7)    (116.0)
                                            ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Income from continuing operations.........  $   218.2  $   263.6  $   215.9  $   194.4  $   398.3  $   301.1  $   149.2
                                            ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                            ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Earnings per common share from continuing
  operations, fully diluted...............  $    1.19  $    1.49  $    1.23  $    1.06  $    1.86  $    1.41  $    0.68
                                            ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                            ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Cash dividends per common share...........  $    0.46  $    0.48  $    0.12     --         --         --         --
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges(8).....        3.5x       4.3x       4.2x       2.7x       2.9x       3.7x       2.5x
 
<CAPTION>
 
                                                                AS OF MAY 31,                       AS OF NOVEMBER 30,
                                            -----------------------------------------------------  --------------------
                                              1992       1993       1994       1995       1996       1995       1996
                                            ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                       (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                         <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>
Balance Sheet Data:
Working capital (deficit).................  $   223.9  $   155.9  $  (196.3) $   267.1  $   410.4  $   275.9  $   690.9
Total assets..............................    4,236.4    4,173.4    3,697.0    7,918.4    8,332.4    8,140.5    8,572.5
Long-term debt, excluding current
  portion.................................    1,066.2      892.4      223.1    3,273.4    3,191.1    3,254.9    3,332.5
Shareholders' equity......................    1,674.0    1,752.1    1,319.9    1,986.1    2,636.2    2,355.0    2,846.2
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Results of operations for all periods presented exclude Tenet's former
    psychiatric division which was discontinued as of November 30, 1993, but
    include, through the dates of their divestitures, other divested businesses
    that were not classified as discontinued operations.
 
(2) Results of operations for periods prior to April 1993 include, on a
    consolidated basis, the results of Westminster, the ownership of which was
    reduced from approximately 90% to 42% in April 1993 through a public
    offering of Westminster common stock.
 
(3) On March 1, 1995, Tenet acquired, in a transaction accounted for as a
    purchase, all the outstanding common stock of AMH for $1.5 billion in cash
    and 33.2 million shares of Tenet's Common Stock valued at approximately
    $488.0 million (the "AMH Merger").
 
(4) Results of operations for the periods presented include the results, through
    the respective dates of sale, of (i) the fiscal 1994 sale of 29 inpatient
    rehabilitation hospitals and 45 related satellite outpatient clinics; (ii)
    the fiscal 1994 sale to Hillhaven of 23 long-term care facilities; (iii) the
    August 1994 sale of an approximately 75% interest in TRC; (iv) the June 1995
    sale of two hospitals and related healthcare businesses in Singapore; (v)
    the October 1995 sales of its interest in AME and its equity interest in a
    hospital in Malaysia; (vi) the February 1996 sale of its equity interest in
    a hospital in Thailand and (vii) the May 1996 sale of its equity interest in
    Westminster. See Notes (g) and (p) of notes to the unaudited pro forma
    financial information.
 
(5) The restructuring charges for fiscal 1992 and fiscal 1993 relate to the
    combination of Tenet's rehabilitation hospital division into its general
    hospital division, a corporate overhead reduction program begun in April
    1993 and severance costs incurred in connection with a change in senior
    executive management. The restructuring charges for fiscal 1994 relate to a
    plan initiated by Tenet in April 1994 to significantly decrease overhead
    costs by reducing corporate and division staffing levels and selling Tenet's
    corporate headquarters building in Santa Monica, California. The
    restructuring charges for fiscal 1995 relate to severance payments and
    outplacement services for involuntary terminations of former employees and
    other related costs in connection with Tenet's relocation of substantially
    all of its hospital support activities previously located in southern
    California and Florida to new offices in Dallas, Texas following the AMH
    Merger.
 
(6) The impairment losses for fiscal 1996 relate to three rehabilitation
    hospitals, four general hospitals and a parcel of undeveloped land.
 
(7) The net after-tax effect of the gains from disposals of facilities and
    long-term investments was $181.1 million or $0.84 per share, fully diluted,
    for the year ended May 31, 1996 and $124.3 million or $0.82 per share, fully
    diluted, for the six months ended November 30, 1995.
 
(8) The ratio of earnings to fixed charges is calculated by dividing income from
    continuing operations before income taxes plus fixed charges by fixed
    charges. Fixed charges consist of interest expense, including amortization
    of financing costs, and that portion of rental expense deemed to be
    representative of the interest component of rental expense.
 
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                      MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
           OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS OF TENET
 
    Unless otherwise expressly indicated, all references to years are to fiscal
years, and all note references are to the accompanying notes to Consolidated
Financial Statements.
 
IMPACT OF THE MERGER
 
    On October 16, 1996, Tenet and OrNda entered into the Merger Agreement,
pursuant to which OrNda will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Tenet in a
transaction to be accounted for as a pooling of interests. Under the terms of
the Merger Agreement, each share of OrNda Common Stock outstanding immediately
prior to the Effective Time of the Merger will be converted into the right to
receive 1.35 shares of Tenet Common Stock and the associated Rights issued in
accordance with the Rights Agreement. In connection with the consummation of the
Merger, the Company has registered for issuance approximately 85.9 million
shares of its common stock to OrNda stockholders. The Merger is expected to
close in late January, 1997.
 
    Tenet's subsidiaries operated 76 general hospitals and OrNda's subsidiaries
operated 49 general hospitals at November 30, 1996. Management believes that
joining together Tenet's general hospitals and related healthcare operations
with OrNda's general hospitals and related healthcare operations will create a
stronger, more geographically diverse company that will be better able to
compete in certain key geographic areas, such as south Florida and southern
California, and to grow through strategic acquisitions and partnerships. The
healthcare industry has undergone, and continues to undergo, tremendous change,
including cost-containment pressures by government payors, managed care
providers and others, as well as technological advances that require increased
capital expenditures. The combined company will continue to emphasize the
creation of strong integrated healthcare delivery systems. The Merger is
expected to enable the combined company to realize certain cost savings. No
assurances can be made as to the amount of cost savings, if any, that actually
will be recognized.
 
   
    Following the Merger, the Company believes that its primary liquidity needs
will consist of capital expenditures, debt service and working capital.
Estimated capital expenditures for the combined entity, before any significant
acquisitions of facilities and other health care operations and before certain
commitments with respect to initial Saint Vincent Hospital, are expected to be
approximately $400 million to $500 million per year for each of the next three
fiscal years. The Company believes that cash generated by operations and amounts
available under the New Credit Facility will be sufficient to meet its liquidity
needs over the short term (up to 18 months) and the long term (18 months to
three years). The Company's strategy includes the pursuit of growth through
strategic acquisitions and partnerships, including the development of integrated
healthcare delivery systems in selected geographic areas. All or a portion of
such acquisitions may be financed through cash generated by operations,
available credit under the New Credit Facility or by accessing the capital
markets. At the closing of the Merger, the Company expects to have significant
unused borrowing capacity under the New Credit Facility. The New Credit Facility
and the Notes will include various affirmative, negative and financial covenants
with which the Company must comply, including among others, a requirement to
maintain certain financial ratios and limitations on the Company's ability to
incur additional indebtedness. In addition, the New Credit Facility will
prohibit dividends and stock repurchases prior to Tenet's senior long-term
unsecured debt being rated investment grade by Moody's (as defined herein) and
S&P (as defined herein).
    
 
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
 
  THREE MONTHS AND SIX MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30, 1996 COMPARED TO THREE MONTHS
    AND SIX MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30, 1995.
 
    Income before income taxes was $305.9 million in the quarter ended November
30, 1995, compared with $136.8 million in the current year quarter. The
prior-year quarter includes pre-tax net gains on disposals of assets of $188.4
million (approximately $.54 per share net of taxes, on a fully diluted basis).
Income before income taxes was $534.8 million in the six months ended November
30, 1995, compared
 
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with $265.2 million for the current six-month period. The prior-year six-month
results include pre-tax net gains on disposals of assets of $311.9 million
(approximately $.82 per share net of taxes, on a fully diluted basis). Excluding
these gains, pre-tax income for the six months ended November 30, 1995 was
$222.9 million.
 
    The following is a summary of operations for the three months and six months
ended November 30, 1995 and 1996:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                  THREE MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30,
                                                           ----------------------------------------------
                                                             1995       1996        1995         1996
                                                           ---------  ---------  -----------  -----------
                                                               (DOLLARS IN         (% OF NET OPERATING
                                                                MILLIONS)               REVENUES)
<S>                                                        <C>        <C>        <C>          <C>
NET OPERATING REVENUES:
  Domestic general hospitals.............................  $ 1,264.8  $ 1,342.1       92.3%        90.9%
  Other domestic operations(1)...........................       89.5      134.0        6.5          9.1
  International operations...............................       16.6     --            1.2        --
                                                           ---------  ---------      -----        -----
  Net operating revenues.................................    1,370.9    1,476.1      100.0%       100.0%
                                                           ---------  ---------      -----        -----
OPERATING EXPENSES:
  Salaries and benefits..................................     (544.7)    (581.4)      39.7         39.4
  Supplies...............................................     (186.0)    (204.1)      13.6         13.8
  Provision for doubtful accounts........................      (69.7)     (78.7)       5.1          5.3
  Other operating expenses...............................     (296.7)    (320.2)      21.6         21.7
  Depreciation...........................................      (61.3)     (63.8)       4.5          4.3
  Amortization...........................................      (21.2)     (21.7)       1.5          1.5
                                                           ---------  ---------      -----        -----
  Operating income.......................................  $   191.3  $   206.2       14.0%        14.0%
                                                           ---------  ---------      -----        -----
                                                           ---------  ---------      -----        -----
 
<CAPTION>
 
                                                                   SIX MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30,
                                                           ----------------------------------------------
                                                             1995       1996        1995         1996
                                                           ---------  ---------  -----------  -----------
                                                               (DOLLARS IN         (% OF NET OPERATING
                                                                MILLIONS)               REVENUES)
<S>                                                        <C>        <C>        <C>          <C>
NET OPERATING REVENUES:
  Domestic general hospitals.............................  $ 2,440.0  $ 2,631.4       91.9%        90.3%
  Other domestic operations(1)...........................      164.3      283.3        6.2          9.7
  International operations...............................       50.5     --            1.9        --
                                                           ---------  ---------      -----        -----
  Net operating revenues.................................    2,654.8    2,914.7      100.0%       100.0%
                                                           ---------  ---------      -----        -----
OPERATING EXPENSES:
  Salaries and benefits..................................   (1,046.9)  (1,150.1)      39.4         39.5
  Supplies...............................................     (364.7)    (395.1)      13.7         13.5
  Provision for doubtful accounts........................     (137.0)    (153.2)       5.2          5.3
  Other operating expenses...............................     (578.3)    (641.9)      21.8         22.0
  Depreciation...........................................     (122.7)    (127.0)       4.6          4.3
  Amortization...........................................      (40.0)     (42.6)       1.5          1.5
                                                           ---------  ---------      -----        -----
  Operating income.......................................  $   365.2  $   404.8       13.8%        13.9%
                                                           ---------  ---------      -----        -----
                                                           ---------  ---------      -----        -----
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Net operating revenues of other domestic operations consist primarily of
    revenues from (i) physician practices; (ii) the Company's rehabilitation
    hospitals, long-term care facilities and psychiatric hospitals that are
    located on or near the same campuses as the Company's general hospitals;
    (iii) healthcare joint ventures operated by the Company; (iv) subsidiaries
    of the Company offering health maintenance organizations, preferred provider
    organizations and indemnity products; and (v) revenues earned by the Company
    in consideration of the guarantees of certain indebtedness and leases of
    third parties.
 
    Operating income increased by $39.6 million (or 10.8%) to $404.8 million for
the six months ended November 30, 1996 from $365.2 million for the prior year
six-month period. The operating margin for the
current six-month period increased to 13.9% from 13.8% a year ago.
 
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    The table below sets forth certain selected historical operating statistics
for the Company's domestic general hospitals.
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                            THREE MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30,                SIX MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30,
                                      --------------------------------------------  --------------------------------------------
                                                                       INCREASE                                      INCREASE
                                          1995           1996         (DECREASE)        1995           1996         (DECREASE)
                                      -------------  -------------  --------------  -------------  -------------  --------------
<S>                                   <C>            <C>            <C>             <C>            <C>            <C>
Number of hospitals (at end of
 period)............................           75             76             1*              75             76             1*
Licensed beds (at end of period)....       16,827         17,344           3.1%          16,827         17,344           3.1%
Net inpatient revenues (in
 millions)..........................  $     839.4    $     884.5           5.4%     $   1,626.7    $   1,742.7           7.1%
Net outpatient revenues (in
 millions)..........................  $     390.0    $     425.7           9.2%     $     755.3    $     836.2          10.7%
Admissions..........................      120,363        124,564           3.5%         231,866        246,774           6.4%
Equivalent admissions...............      166,564        179,602           7.8%         323,251        357,199          10.5%
Average length of stay (days).......          5.5            5.4          (0.1)*            5.5            5.4          (0.1)*
Patient days........................      661,141        677,525           2.5%       1,280,367      1,342,531           4.9%
Equivalent patient days.............      894,989        968,680           8.2%       1,755,944      1,924,258           9.6%
Net inpatient revenue per patient
 day................................  $     1,270    $     1,305           2.8%     $     1,270    $     1,298           2.2%
Net inpatient revenue per
 admission..........................  $     6,974    $     7,101           1.8%     $     7,016    $     7,062           0.7%
Utilization of licensed beds........         43.4%          43.2%         (0.2)%*          43.1%          42.8%         (0.3)%*
Outpatient visits...................    1,387,899      1,615,945          16.4%       2,666,656      3,156,690          18.4%
</TABLE>
 
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*   The change is the difference between 1995 and 1996 amounts shown.
 
    The table below sets forth certain selected operating statistics for the
Company's domestic general hospitals on a same-store basis:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                            THREE MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30,                SIX MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30,
                                      --------------------------------------------  --------------------------------------------
                                                                       INCREASE                                      INCREASE
                                          1995           1996         (DECREASE)        1995           1996         (DECREASE)
                                      -------------  -------------  --------------  -------------  -------------  --------------
<S>                                   <C>            <C>            <C>             <C>            <C>            <C>
Number of hospitals.................           69             69          --                 69             69          --
Average licensed beds...............        15,282         15,268         (0.1    )%       15,285        15,269         (0.1    )%
Patient days........................       606,616        608,787          0.4    %    1,211,416      1,207,608         (0.3    )%
Net inpatient revenue per patient
 day................................  $      1,305   $      1,326          1.6    % $      1,290   $      1,317          2.1    %
Admissions..........................       111,158        111,756          0.5    %      220,534        221,961          0.6    %
Net inpatient revenue per
 admission..........................  $      7,122   $      7,221          1.4    % $      7,085   $      7,167          1.2    %
Outpatient visits...................     1,293,724      1,438,239         11.2    %    2,545,430      2,829,764         11.2    %
Average length of stay (days).......           5.5            5.4         (0.1    )*          5.5           5.4         (0.1    )*
</TABLE>
 
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*   The change is the difference between 1995 and 1996 amounts shown.
 
    There continue to be increases in inpatient acuity and intensity as less
intensive services shift from inpatient to outpatient settings or to alternative
healthcare delivery services because of technological improvements and continued
pressures by payors to reduce admissions and lengths of stay.
 
    The Medicare program accounted for 38.4% of the net patient revenues of the
Company's domestic general hospitals for the quarter and six months ended
November 30, 1995, compared with 41.7% and 40.0% for the quarter and six months
ended November 30, 1996, respectively. Historically, rates paid under Medicare's
prospective payment system for inpatient services have increased, but such
increases have been less than cost increases. Payments for Medicare outpatient
services presently are cost reimbursed, but there are certain proposals pending
that would convert Medicare reimbursement for outpatient services to a
prospective payment system which, if implemented, may result in reduced
payments. Medicaid programs in certain states in which the Company operates also
are undergoing changes that will result in reduced payments to hospitals.
 
    The Company has implemented hospital cost-control programs and overhead
reductions and is forming integrated healthcare delivery systems to address the
prospect of reduced payments. Pressures to
 
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control healthcare costs have resulted in an increase in the percentage of
revenues attributable to managed care payors. The Company anticipates that its
managed care business will increase in the future.
 
    The general hospital industry in the United States and the Company's general
hospitals continue to have significant unused capacity, and thus there is
substantial competition for patients. Inpatient utilization, average lengths of
stay and occupancy rates continue to be negatively affected by payor-required
pre-admission authorization and by payor pressure to maximize outpatient and
alternative healthcare delivery services for less acutely ill patients.
Increased competition, admission constraints and payor pressures are expected to
continue. The Company's general hospitals have been improving operating margins
in a very competitive environment, due in large part to enhanced cost controls
and efficiencies being achieved throughout the Company.
 
    Net operating revenues from the Company's other domestic operations was
$89.5 million for the three months ended November 30, 1995, compared to $134.0
million for the three months ended November 30, 1996, representing an increase
of $44.5 million. Net operating revenues for the six months ended November 30,
1995 were $164.3 million, compared with $283.3 million for the current year
six-month period, representing an increase of $119.0 million. This increase
primarily reflects continued growth of physician practices and National Health
Plans, the Company's HMO and insurance subsidiary.
 
    Net operating revenues from the Company's former international operations
were $16.6 million and $50.5 million for the quarter and six months ended
November 30, 1995, respectively. During and subsequent to the August 31, 1995
fiscal quarter, the Company sold all of its interests in hospitals and related
healthcare businesses in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Australia.
 
    Operating expenses, which include salaries and benefits, supplies, provision
for doubtful accounts, depreciation and amortization, and other operating
expenses, were $1,179.6 million for the quarter ended November 30, 1995 and
$1,269.9 million for the current year quarter. Operating expenses for the prior
and current year six months ended November 30, 1995 and 1996 were $2,289.6
million and $2,509.9 million, respectively. Operating margins for the prior and
current year quarters ended November 30, 1995 and 1996 were 14.0%. Operating
margins for the prior and current year six-month periods were 13.8% and 13.9%,
respectively.
 
    Salaries and benefits expense as a percentage of net operating revenues was
39.7% in the quarter ended November 30, 1995 and 39.4% in the three months ended
November 30, 1996. Salaries and benefits expense as a percentage of net
operating revenues for the prior and current six-month periods were 39.4% and
39.5%, respectively. These improvements resulted from the cost reduction efforts
discussed earlier herein.
 
    Supplies expense as a percentage of net operating revenues was 13.6% in the
quarter ended November 30, 1995 and 13.8% in the three months ended November 30,
1996. Supplies expense as a percentage of net operating revenues for the prior
and current six-month periods were 13.7% and 13.5%, respectively.
 
    The provision for doubtful accounts as a percentage of net operating
revenues was 5.1% for the quarter ended November 30, 1995, and 5.3% in the three
months ended November 30, 1996. The provision for doubtful accounts as a
percentage of net operating revenues for the prior and current six-month periods
were 5.2% and 5.3%, respectively. The increases primarily related to new
acquisitions.
 
    Other operating expenses as a percentage of net operating revenues was 21.6%
for the quarter ended November 30, 1995 and 21.7% in the three months ended
November 30, 1996. Other operating expenses as a percentage of net operating
revenues for the prior and current year six-month periods were 21.8% and 22.0%,
respectively.
 
    Depreciation and amortization expense as a percentage of net operating
revenues was 6.0% in the quarter ended November 30, 1995 and 5.8% in the three
months ended November 30, 1996. Depreciation and amortization expense as a
percentage of net operating revenues for the prior and current six-month periods
were 6.1% and 5.8%, respectively.
 
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    Interest expense, net of capitalized interest, was $81.3 million in the
quarter ended November 30, 1995 and $70.1 million in the three months ended
November 30, 1996. Interest expense, net of capitalized interest, for the prior
and current six-month periods was $158.4 million and $141.1 million,
respectively. The reduction is due to lower borrowings and interest rates in the
quarter and six months ended November 30, 1996.
 
    Investment earnings were $5.4 million in the quarter ended November 30, 1995
and $5.5 million in the three months ended November 30, 1996. Investment
earnings for the prior and current six-month periods were $12.7 million and
$10.3 million, respectively. Investment earnings are derived primarily from
notes receivable and investments in debt and equity securities.
 
    Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates was $7.1 million in the
quarter ended November 30, 1995 and $0.7 million in the three months ended
November 30, 1996. Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates for the prior
and current year six-month periods was $14.0 million and $1.3 million,
respectively. The prior year quarter and six-month period included $6.2 million
and $12.3 million, respectively, in earnings from two unconsolidated affiliates
that were sold during fiscal 1996 and two that are no longer accounted for on
the equity method of accounting because the Company's ownership interest has
been reduced below 20%. These latter two investments now are carried in the
Company's balance sheet at their fair value.
 
    Minority interests in the income of consolidated subsidiaries was $5.0
million during the quarter ended November 30, 1995, compared to $5.5 million in
the three months ended November 30, 1996. Minority interests in the income of
consolidated subsidiaries for the prior and current year six-month periods was
$10.6 million and $10.1 million, respectively.
 
    Taxes on income as a percentage of income before income taxes were 43.7% in
the six months ended November 30, 1995 and 1996. The difference between the
Company's effective income tax rate and the statutory federal income tax rate is
shown below:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                             NOVEMBER 30,
                                                                            -----------------------------------------------
                                                                                     1995                     1996
                                                                            -----------------------  ----------------------
                                                                             AMOUNT      PERCENT      AMOUNT      PERCENT
                                                                            ---------  ------------  ---------  -----------
                                                                                   (IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND AS A
                                                                                       PERCENT OF PRETAX INCOME)
<S>                                                                         <C>        <C>           <C>        <C>
Tax provision at statutory federal rate...................................  $   187.2       35.0%    $    92.8       35.0%
State income taxes, net of federal income tax benefit.....................       19.7        3.7          10.9        4.1
Goodwill amortization.....................................................       10.9        2.0          11.4        4.3
Gains on sales of foreign subsidiary's assets.............................       16.3        3.1        --          --
Other.....................................................................       (0.4)      (0.1)          0.9        0.3
                                                                            ---------        ---     ---------        ---
Taxes on income and effective tax rates...................................  $   233.7       43.7%    $   116.0       43.7%
                                                                            ---------        ---     ---------        ---
                                                                            ---------        ---     ---------        ---
</TABLE>
 
    Amortization of the goodwill resulting from the Company's March 1995
acquisition of AMH of approximately $32.0 million ($0.15 per share) for the six
months ended November 30, 1996 is a noncash charge and provides no income tax
benefits.
 
  FISCAL YEARS ENDED MAY 31, 1996, 1995 AND 1994
 
    On March 1, 1995, in a transaction accounted for as a purchase, the Company
acquired AMH for $1.5 billion in cash and 33.2 million shares of the Company's
common stock valued at approximately $488.0 million. In connection with the AMH
Merger, the Company also repaid $1.8 billion of debt. The acquisition and debt
retirements were financed by borrowings under Tenet's then existing credit
agreement and the public issuance of $1.2 billion in new debt securities.
 
    Prior to the AMH Merger, the Company operated 33 domestic general hospitals
with 6,620 licensed beds in six states and a small number of skilled nursing
facilities, rehabilitation hospitals and psychiatric hospitals located on or
near its general hospital campuses. With the AMH Merger, the Company acquired 37
domestic general hospitals with 8,831 beds, bringing its total number of
domestic general hospitals to
 
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70 hospitals with 15,451 licensed beds in 13 states. The acquisition also
included ancillary facilities at or nearby many of AMH's hospitals, including
outpatient surgery centers, rehabilitation units, long-term-care facilities, a
psychiatric hospital, home healthcare programs and ambulatory, occupational and
rural healthcare clinics.
 
    Management believes that the AMH Merger has strengthened the Company in its
existing markets and enhanced its ability to deliver quality, cost-effective
healthcare services in new markets. The consolidation of the two companies has
resulted in certain cost savings, estimated to be at least $60.0 million in the
fiscal year ended May 31, 1996. These savings are before any severance or other
costs of implementing certain efficiencies and have been realized through (i)
the elimination of duplicate corporate overhead expenses, (ii) reduced supplies
expense through the incorporation of the acquired facilities into the Company's
existing group-purchasing program, (iii) the achievement of lower information
system costs through consolidation and outsourcing and (iv) improved collection
of the acquired AMH facilities' accounts receivable.
 
    The Company's income from continuing operations before income taxes was $746
million in 1996, compared with $329 million and $360 million in 1995 and 1994,
respectively. The most significant transactions affecting the results of
continuing operations were (i) the acquisition of AMH, (ii) the financing of the
acquisition, which added more than $250 million annually in interest expense and
(iii) a series of divestitures during fiscal 1996, 1995 and 1994.
 
    Fiscal 1996 includes the sales of the Company's interests in its hospitals
and related healthcare businesses in Singapore, Australia, Malaysia and
Thailand, its interest in Westminster, the sale of the Company's investment in
preferred stock of Hillhaven, and the exchange of its interest in the common
stock of Hillhaven for 8,301,067 shares of common stock of Vencor. Fiscal 1995
includes the sale of a 75% interest in TRC. Fiscal 1994 includes the sale of all
but six of the Company's rehabilitation hospitals and related outpatient clinics
and the sale to Hillhaven of all but seven of the Company's long-term-care
facilities, all of which had been leased to Hillhaven. These transactions and
other unusual pretax items relating to impairment losses and restructuring
charges are shown below:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                             1994       1995       1996
                                                                           ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS
                                                                              EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
<S>                                                                        <C>        <C>        <C>
Gain (loss) on sales of facilities and long-term investments.............  $      88  $      (2) $     329
Gain on sales of subsidiary's common stock...............................     --             32         17
Impairment losses........................................................     --         --            (86)
Restructuring charges....................................................        (77)       (37)    --
                                                                           ---------        ---  ---------
Net unusual pretax items (after tax-$0.04 fully diluted per share in
 1994, ($0.03) in 1995 and $0.59 in 1996)................................  $      11  $      (7) $     260
                                                                           ---------        ---  ---------
                                                                           ---------        ---  ---------
</TABLE>
 
    Income from continuing operations before income taxes, excluding the unusual
items in the table above, was $486 million in 1996, $336 million in 1995 and
$349 million in 1994 and fully-diluted earnings per share from continuing
operations was $1.27, $1.09 and $1.19, respectively.
 
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    The following is a summary of continuing operations revenues for the past
three fiscal years:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                           1994       1995       1996        1994         1995         1996
                                         ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------  -----------  -----------
                                              (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS)           (% OF NET OPERATING REVENUES)
<S>                                      <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>          <C>          <C>
NET OPERATING REVENUES:
  Domestic general hospitals...........  $   2,133  $   2,777  $   5,133       72.5%        83.7%        92.3%
  Other domestic operations(1).........        275        310        375        9.4          9.3          6.8
  International operations.............        175        214         51        5.9          6.5          0.9
  Divested operations(2)...............        360         17     --           12.2          0.5        --
                                         ---------  ---------  ---------      -----        -----        -----
                                         $   2,943  $   3,318  $   5,559      100.0%       100.0%       100.0%
                                         ---------  ---------  ---------      -----        -----        -----
OPERATING EXPENSES:
  Salaries and benefits................  $  (1,293) $  (1,367) $  (2,194)      43.9%        41.2%        39.5%
  Supplies.............................       (339)      (432)      (764)      11.5         13.0         13.7
  Provision for doubtful accounts......       (107)      (137)      (290)       3.6          4.1          5.2
  Other operating expenses.............       (667)      (759)    (1,212)      22.7         22.9         21.8
  Depreciation.........................       (143)      (164)      (240)       4.9          5.0          4.3
  Amortization.........................        (18)       (31)       (81)       0.6          0.9          1.5
  Impairment losses....................     --         --            (86)     --           --             1.6
  Restructuring charges................        (77)       (37)    --            2.6          1.1        --
                                         ---------  ---------  ---------      -----        -----        -----
Operating income.......................  $     299  $     391  $     692       10.2%        11.8%        12.4%
                                         ---------  ---------  ---------      -----        -----        -----
                                         ---------  ---------  ---------      -----        -----        -----
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Net operating revenues of other domestic operations consist primarily of
    revenues from (i) the Company's rehabilitation hospitals, long-term care
    facilities and psychiatric hospitals which have not been divested; (ii)
    healthcare joint ventures operated by the Company; (iii) subsidiaries of the
    Company offering health maintenance organizations, preferred provider
    organizations and indemnity products; and (iv) revenues earned by the
    Company in consideration of the guarantees of certain indebtedness and
    leases of Vencor and other third parties.
 
(2) Net operating revenues of divested operations consist of revenues from (i)
    TRC prior to the August 1994 sale of the Company's approximately 75% equity
    interest; (ii) 29 rehabilitation hospitals and 45 related satellite
    outpatient clinics prior to their sales to HealthSouth Rehabilitation
    Corporation in January and March of 1994; and (iii) lease income from
    long-term care facilities prior to their sales to Hillhaven in fiscal 1994.
 
    Net operating revenues were $5.6 billion in 1996, compared with $3.3 billion
in 1995 and $2.9 billion in 1994. The current year includes revenues
attributable to facilities acquired in the AMH Merger for the entire fiscal
year. The prior year includes three months of revenues attributable to the
facilities acquired in the AMH Merger.
 
    Operating income before impairment losses and restructuring charges
increased 81.8% to $778 million in 1996 from $428 million in 1995 and $376
million in 1994. The operating margin on this basis increased to 14.0% from
12.9% in 1995 and 12.8% in 1994. The increase in the operating margin is due
primarily to effective cost-control programs in the hospitals and the
implementation of overhead reduction plans.
 
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    The table below sets forth certain selected historical operating statistics
for the Company's domestic general hospitals:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                         INCREASE
                                                                                                        (DECREASE)
                                                                                                      ---------------
                                                                1994          1995          1996       1995 TO 1996
                                                            ------------  ------------  ------------  ---------------
<S>                                                         <C>           <C>           <C>           <C>
DOMESTIC GENERAL HOSPITALS OPERATING DATA:
Number of hospitals (at end of period)....................            35            70            74           4
Licensed beds (at end of period)..........................         6,873        15,622        16,666         6.7%
Net inpatient revenues (in millions)......................  $    1,568.4  $    1,937.9  $    3,440.4        77.5%
Net outpatient revenues (in millions).....................  $      557.2  $      786.3  $    1,572.1       100.0%
Admissions................................................       207,868       267,868       487,601        82.0%
Equivalent admissions.....................................       271,004       358,664       689,619        92.3%
Average length of stay (days).............................           5.6           5.6           5.6        --
Patient days..............................................     1,154,030     1,507,865     2,710,062        79.7%
Equivalent patient days...................................     1,493,314     1,997,508     3,796,184        90.0%
Net inpatient revenues per patient day....................  $      1,359  $      1,285  $      1,269        (1.2)%
Utilization of licensed beds..............................          46.8%         46.4%         44.9%       (1.5)%*
Outpatient visits.........................................     1,472,258     2,293,586     5,609,550       144.6%
</TABLE>
 
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*   The change is the difference between the 1995 and 1996 amounts shown.
 
    The table below sets forth certain selected operating statistics for the
Company's domestic general hospitals, including those facilities acquired from
AMH, on a same-store basis:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                         INCREASE
                                                                                                        (DECREASE)
                                                                              1995          1996       1995 TO 1996
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ---------------
<S>                                                                       <C>           <C>           <C>
Number of hospitals.....................................................            68            68
Average licensed beds...................................................        15,227        15,218        (0.1)%
Patient days............................................................     2,533,785     2,506,668        (1.1)%
Net inpatient revenues per patient per day..............................  $      1,245  $      1,282         3.0%
Admissions..............................................................       441,310       451,134         2.2%
Net inpatient revenues per admission....................................  $      7,149  $      7,125        (0.3)%
Outpatient visits.......................................................     4,231,726     5,225,621        23.5%
Average length of stay (days)...........................................           5.7           5.6        (0.1)*
</TABLE>
 
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*   The change is the difference between the 1995 and 1996 amounts shown.
 
    There continue to be increases in inpatient acuity and intensity of services
as less-intensive services shift from an inpatient to an outpatient basis or to
alternative healthcare delivery services because of technological improvements
and continued pressures by payors to reduce admissions and lengths of stay.
 
    The Company continues to experience an increase in Medicare revenues as a
percentage of total patient revenues. The Medicare program accounted for
approximately 40% of the net patient revenues of the domestic general hospitals
in 1996 and 39% and 36% in 1995 and 1994, respectively. Historically, rates paid
under Medicare's prospective payment system for inpatient services have
increased, but such increases have been less than cost increases. Payments for
Medicare outpatient services are presently cost-reimbursed, but there are
certain proposals pending that would convert Medicare reimbursement for
outpatient services to a prospective payment system which, if implemented, may
result in reduced payments. Medicaid programs in certain states in which the
Company operates also are undergoing changes that will result in reduced
payments to hospitals.
 
    The Company has implemented hospital cost-control programs and overhead
reductions and is forming integrated healthcare delivery systems to address the
reduced payments. Pressures to control healthcare costs have resulted in an
increase in the percentage of revenues attributable to managed care payors. The
percentage of the Company's net operating revenues attributable to managed care
was
 
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approximately 28.6% in 1996, 26.7% in 1995, and 23.9% in 1994. The Company
anticipates that its managed care business will continue to increase in the
future.
 
    The general hospital industry in the United States and the Company's general
hospitals continue to have significant unused capacity, and thus there is
substantial competition for patients. Inpatient utilization continues to be
negatively affected by payor-required pre-admission authorization and by payor
pressure to maximize outpatient and alternative healthcare delivery services for
less acutely ill patients. Increased competition, admission constraints and
payor pressures are expected to continue. The Company's general hospitals have
been improving operating margins in a very competitive environment, due in large
part to enhanced cost controls and efficiencies being achieved throughout the
Company.
 
    Net operating revenues from the Company's other domestic operations
increased 21.0% to $375 million in 1996, compared with $310 million in 1995 and
$275 million in 1994. This increase primarily reflects continued growth of
National Health Plans, the Company's HMO and health insurance subsidiary, and
the growth of joint ventures and physician practices.
 
    The $163 million decrease in net operating revenues from the Company's
international operations for the current fiscal year compared to the prior
fiscal year is attributable to the sales of the Company's hospitals and related
healthcare businesses in Singapore and Australia. Net operating revenues and
operating profits of the sold international facilities for the period from June
1, 1995 through the dates of sales were $51 million and $7 million,
respectively.
 
    Operating expenses, which include salaries and benefits, supplies, provision
for doubtful accounts, depreciation and amortization, impairment losses,
restructuring charges and other operating expenses, were $4.9 billion in 1996,
$2.9 billion in 1995 and $2.6 billion in 1994. Operating expenses for the
current year include 12 months of operating expenses from the facilities
acquired in the AMH Merger and the prior year includes three months of operating
expenses from the facilities acquired in the AMH Merger, and to that extent, the
current and prior-year periods are not comparable. Fiscal 1995 and 1994 also
include the operating expenses of the international and other divested
operations discussed above.
 
    Salaries and benefits expense as a percentage of net operating revenues was
39.5% in 1996, 41.2% in 1995 and 43.9% in 1994. The improvement in 1996 is
attributable primarily to reductions in staffing levels in the hospitals and
corporate offices, implemented following the AMH Merger.
 
    Supplies expense as a percentage of net operating revenues was 13.7% in
1996, 13.0% in 1995 and 11.5% in 1994. The increase over the prior year is
attributable primarily to a higher supplies expense in the facilities acquired
in the AMH Merger and subsequent thereto. The increase is also attributable to
the sales of the Company's international operations. Supplies expense as a
percentage of net operating revenues at the international facilities was
substantially less than supplies expense as a percentage of net operating
revenues at the domestic general hospital operations. The Company expects to
continue to reduce supplies expense through incorporating acquired facilities
into the Company's existing group-purchasing program.
 
    The provision for doubtful accounts as a percentage of net operating
revenues was 5.2% in 1996, 4.1% in 1995 and 3.6% in 1994. The increase is
attributable primarily to higher bad debt experience at the facilities acquired
in the AMH Merger and subsequent thereto. The Company, through its collection
subsidiary, Syndicated Office Systems ("SOS"), has been establishing improved
follow-up collection systems by consolidating the collection of accounts
receivable in all the Company's facilities.
 
    Other operating expenses as a percentage of net operating revenues were
21.8% in 1996, 22.9% in 1995 and 22.7% in 1994. The improvement in 1996 reflects
the effects of the cost-control programs and overhead-reduction plans mentioned
herein.
 
    Depreciation and amortization expense increased from 1995 and 1994 primarily
due to the AMH Merger. Goodwill amortization associated with the AMH Merger is
approximately $64 million annually.
 
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    Impairment losses representing noncash charges of $86 million were recorded
in fiscal 1996 in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
No. 121, under which the carrying value of property, plant and equipment and
intangible assets at four general hospitals and three rehabilitation hospitals
and the cost of one undeveloped parcel of land have been written down to their
fair values.
 
    Restructuring charges of $37 million in fiscal 1995 were recorded in
connection with the AMH Merger. These charges included severance payments and
outplacement services for involuntary terminations of approximately 890 former
employees of the Company and other costs related to consolidating the operations
of the two companies. Restructuring charges of $77 million in fiscal 1994 were
recorded in connection with a plan to significantly decrease overhead costs
through a reduction in corporate and divisional staffing levels and to review
the resulting office space needs of all corporate operations.
 
    Interest expense, net of capitalized interest, was $312 million in 1996,
compared with $138 million in 1995 and $70 million in 1994. The increase between
1995 and 1996 was due primarily to the acquisition of AMH and the senior notes
and bank loans used to finance the acquisition and to retire debt in connection
with the AMH Merger.
 
    Investment earnings were $22 million in 1996, $27 million in 1995 and $28
million in 1994, and were derived primarily from notes receivable and
investments in debt and equity securities.
 
    Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates was $20 million in 1996, $28
million in 1995 and $23 million in 1994. Substantially all of the decrease
between 1995 and 1996 is due to the exchange of the Company's investment in
Hillhaven for common stock in Vencor. During 1995 the Company's equity in the
earnings of Hillhaven was $16 million. In 1996 it was $7 million through the
date of the exchange and nothing thereafter. The Company's equity in the
earnings of Westminster was $6 million in 1995 and $7 million in 1996. The
Company sold its investment in Westminster in May 1996.
 
    Minority interest in income of consolidated subsidiaries increased in the
current year due to improved operating results at consolidated, but not
wholly-owned facilities and to the effects of minority interests recorded at
facilities acquired in the AMH Merger. Minority interest expense was $22 million
in 1996, $9 million in 1995 and $8 million in 1994.
 
    Taxes on income as a percentage of pretax income from continuing operations
were 47% in 1996, 41% in 1995 and 40% in 1994. The Company's effective tax-rate
increase in 1996 is primarily due to (i) additional amortization of goodwill
resulting from the AMH Merger and (ii) gains from the sales of international
operations. The amortization expense arising from the AMH Merger is a noncash
charge but provides no income tax benefits.
 
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
 
    The Company's liquidity has been derived principally from the cash proceeds
of operating activities, borrowings under the Company's unsecured revolving bank
credit agreement and, for the year ended May 31, 1996, from disposals of assets
and investments, the public issuance of debt securities, realization of tax
benefits associated with losses from its discontinued psychiatric business and
proceeds from the exercises of performance investment plan options. During the
six months ended November 30, 1996, net cash used in operating activities was
$14.2 million after expenditures of $30.0 million for discontinued operations
and restructuring charges. For the prior year six-month period, net cash
provided by operating activities was $11.1 million after expenditures of $73.4
million for discontinued operations and restructuring charges. Net cash provided
by operating activities for the year ended May 31, 1996 was $195.0 million after
net expenditures of $97.0 million for discontinued operations and restructuring
charges. Cash flows from operating activities during the six months ended
November 30, 1996 were adversely affected primarily because of (i) billing
delays due to conversions of patient accounting systems at several hospitals;
(ii) delays in cash flows at recently acquired facilities where accounts
receivable were not purchased; (iii) temporary slowdowns in the collection of
Medicare receivables due to changes in fiscal intermediaries for recently
acquired facilities; and (iv) a general slowdown of payments received from other
payors. Management
 
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<PAGE>
believes that cash flow from operating activities in the future will return to
the Company's historically positive levels. The Company's liquidity, along with
the availability of credit under the Company's unsecured revolving bank credit
agreement, should be adequate to meet debt service requirements and to finance
planned capital expenditures, acquisitions and other known operating needs over
the short-term (up to 18 months) and the long-term (18 months to three years).
 
    The Company's cash and cash equivalents at November 30, 1996 were $56.8
million, a decrease of $32.4 million from May 31, 1996. The ratio of total debt
to equity was 1.2 to 1.0 at November 30, 1996 and May 31, 1996. Working capital
at November 30, 1996 was $690.9 million, compared to $410.3 million at May 31,
1996. At November 30, 1996 the current portion of long-term debt was $41.6
million compared to $60.0 million at May 31, 1996.
 
    Cash proceeds from the sale of property and equipment in the six months
ended November 30, 1996 were $40.3 million, primarily from the sale of the
Company's former corporate headquarters building in Santa Monica, California.
Proceeds from the sales of facilities, investments and other assets were $548.0
million in the year ended May 31, 1996. During 1996 the Company sold its two
hospitals and related businesses in Singapore, its interests in a hospital in
Malaysia and in a hospital in Thailand and its interest in a company owning nine
hospitals and a pathology business in Australia. The net cash proceeds from all
of these sales aggregated approximately $324.0 million. In May 1996 the Company
sold its interest in Westminster for approximately $120.0 million. Also during
1996, the Company received $91.8 million for the redemption of its Hillhaven
preferred stock.
 
    Cash payments for property and equipment were $95.4 million in the six
months ended November 30, 1996, compared to $160.5 million in the six months
ended November 30, 1995. They were $370.0 million in the year ended May 31, 1996
and $264.0 million in 1995. Capital expenditures for the Company, before any
significant acquisitions of facilities and other healthcare operations, are
expected to be approximately $300.0 million to $400.0 annually. Such capital
expenditures relate primarily to the development of healthcare services networks
in selected geographic areas, design and construction of new buildings,
expansion and renovation of existing facilities, equipment additions and
replacements, introduction of new medical technologies and various other capital
improvements.
 
    During fiscal 1996, the Company spent $410.0 million for purchases of new
businesses. These included six general hospitals (or interests in hospitals) and
a number of physician practices. During the six months ended November 30, 1996,
the Company spent $159.7 million for purchases of new business. These included
two general hospitals and a number of physician practices.
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
 
    The challenge facing the Company and the healthcare industry as a whole is
to continue to provide quality patient care in an environment of rising costs,
strong competition for patients and a general reduction of reimbursement rates
by both private and public payors. Because of national, state and private
industry efforts to reform healthcare delivery and payment systems, the
healthcare industry faces increased uncertainty. The Company is unable to
predict whether any healthcare legislation at the federal or state level will be
passed in the future, but it continues to monitor all proposed legislation and
analyze its potential impact in order to formulate the Company's future business
strategies.
 
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               SELECTED HISTORICAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF ORNDA
                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
    The following tables set forth selected historical financial information for
OrNda for each of the fiscal years in the five-year period ended August 31, 1996
and for the three months ended November 30, 1995 and 1996. The selected
financial information for each of the five annual periods has been derived from
the audited consolidated financial statements of OrNda, which have been audited
by Ernst & Young LLP, independent auditors for OrNda, and from the underlying
accounting records of OrNda. The selected financial information for the
three-month periods has been derived from unaudited condensed consolidated
financial statements of OrNda and reflects all adjustments (consisting of normal
recurring adjustments) that, in the opinion of the management of OrNda, are
necessary for a fair presentation of such information. Operating results for the
three months ended November 30, 1996 are not necessarily indicative of the
results that may be expected for fiscal 1997.
 
    All information included in the following tables should be read in
conjunction with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
and Results of Operations of OrNda" and with the audited consolidated financial
statements and related notes of OrNda included herein. Certain amounts derived
from the consolidated statements of operations have been reclassified to conform
with the presentation below.
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                            THREE MONTHS
                                                                                                         ENDED NOVEMBER 30,
                                                                 YEAR ENDED AUGUST 31,
                                                 -----------------------------------------------------  --------------------
                                                   1992       1993       1994       1995       1996       1995       1996
                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                               (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS, EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
<S>                                              <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>
STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS DATA:
Net operating revenues.........................  $   808.5  $   961.8  $ 1,274.4  $ 1,842.7  $ 2,147.2  $   493.6  $   637.1
Operating expenses:
  Salaries and benefits........................      393.7      443.0      574.2      803.1      935.4      210.4      291.8
  Supplies.....................................      101.5      112.5      158.9      236.2      291.6       64.9       87.9
  Provision for doubtful accounts..............       52.4       63.9       86.2      122.2      141.8       33.2       32.7
  Other operating expenses.....................      179.0      210.3      275.6      419.2      434.0      112.2      123.5
  Depreciation.................................       35.6       43.3       56.4       67.9       78.9       17.8       24.4
  Amortization.................................        4.4        4.4       10.4       17.3       24.9        5.6        7.3
  Merger transaction expenses(1)...............     --         --           30.0     --         --         --         --
  Restructuring charges(2).....................       13.0     --            2.5     --         --         --         --
                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Operating income...............................       28.9       84.4       80.2      176.8      240.6       49.5       69.5
Interest expense, net of capitalized portion...      (40.2)     (68.7)     (83.4)    (109.1)    (107.2)     (27.2)     (30.6)
Interest income................................        3.2        3.4        2.9        4.6        4.4        1.2        1.2
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated
  affiliates(3)................................       (8.2)       0.2        3.6       14.0        5.1        3.8     --
Minority interest expense......................       (7.6)      (4.6)      (4.0)      (0.2)      (7.8)      (1.4)      (2.3)
Net gain (loss) on disposals of facilities and
  long-term investments........................      (44.9)    --          (45.3)       1.0     --         --         --
                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Income (loss) from continuing operations before
  income taxes.................................      (68.8)      14.7      (46.0)      87.1      135.1       25.9       37.8
Taxes on income................................        1.3        1.1        1.0       15.8       35.2        6.0       11.3
                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Income (loss) from continuing operations.......  $   (70.1) $    13.6  $   (47.0) $    71.3  $    99.9  $    19.9  $    26.5
                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Earnings (loss) per common share from
  continuing operations, fully diluted(4)......  $   (2.32) $    0.34  $   (1.29) $    1.51  $    1.72  $    0.39  $    0.44
                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Cash dividends per common share................     --         --         --         --         --         --         --
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges(5)..........     --           1.2x       0.5x       1.6x       2.0x       1.7x       2.0x
</TABLE>
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                        AS OF NOVEMBER 30,
                                                                  AS OF AUGUST 31,
                                                -----------------------------------------------------  --------------------
                                                  1992       1993       1994       1995       1996       1995       1996
                                                ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                             <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>
BALANCE SHEET DATA:
Working capital...............................  $    46.7  $    26.2  $     6.8  $     5.4  $    88.1  $   184.7  $   138.1
Total assets..................................      994.4    1,205.1    1,846.5    1,946.4    2,466.5    2,107.9    2,612.2
Long-term debt, excluding current portion.....      571.0      705.4    1,067.1    1,013.4    1,229.9      996.7    1,334.9
Shareholders' equity..........................      185.9      212.1      328.1      393.1      640.4      601.3      674.2
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Merger transaction expenses for fiscal 1994 relate to the merger with
    American Healthcare Management Inc. ("American Healthcare") on April 19,
    1994.
 
(2) The restructuring charges for fiscal 1992 include $6.1 million for special
    executive compensation related to the employment of Charles N. Martin, Jr.,
    OrNda's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and $6.9 million
    related to employee severance and relocation expenses related to relocating
    the corporate office from Dallas, Texas to Nashville, Tennessee.
    Restructuring charges for fiscal 1994 relate to $2.5 million of special
    executive compensation related to the issuance of options to purchase stock
    to certain executives at prices below market.
 
(3) HNW is a 498-bed acute care facility located in Houston Texas. Effective
    January 1, 1996, OrNda purchased the controlling equity interests in HNW.
    Prior to January 1996, OrNda's investments in HNW consisted of (i) two
    classes of mandatorily redeemable preferred stock; (ii) a mortgage note
    receivable; and, (iii) prior to February 28, 1994, an investment in HNW's
    common stock. In applying the equity method of accounting for the investment
    prior to February 28, 1994, OrNda's investment in mandatorily redeemable
    preferred stock of HNW was considered an advance to HNW and was combined
    with the common stock. As a result, 100% of HNW's losses attributable to its
    common stock were recognized as losses to OrNda and reduced OrNda's combined
    investments in HNW. On February 28, 1994, OrNda irrevocably transferred its
    investment in common stock of HNW to the HNW Employee Stock Ownership Plan
    and HNW for nominal consideration. The effect of this transfer eliminated
    the requirement for OrNda to apply the equity method of accounting
    subsequent to February 28, 1994. Beginning March 1, 1994, OrNda's method of
    income recognition for its investments in HNW's mandatorily redeemable
    preferred stock was accretion of the HNW mandatorily redeemable preferred
    stock, recognition of cash dividends paid by HNW and accrual of cumulative,
    compounded, mandatorily redeemable dividend not paid by HNW.
 
(4) Per share information for the years ended August 31, 1992, 1993 and 1994 is
    based on primary shares because earnings per share assuming full dilution is
    anti-dilutive.
 
(5) The ratio of earnings to fixed charges is calculated by dividing income from
    continuing operations before income taxes plus fixed charges by fixed
    charges. Fixed charges consist of interest expense, including amortization
    of financing costs, and that portion of rental expense deemed to be
    representative of the interest component of rental expense. Earnings were
    inadequate to cover fixed charges by $68,836 for the year ended August 31,
    1992.
 
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                      MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
           OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS OF ORNDA
 
    To provide prospective purchasers of the Notes with certain additional
information about OrNda, set forth below is the Management's Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of OrNda substantially
in the form included in OrNda's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
ended November 30, 1996 and Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
August 31, 1996.
 
    MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS.  OrNda's recent operating results were
significantly affected by mergers, acquisitions and divestitures as discussed
below. As discussed in Note 2 to the accompanying consolidated financial
statements at August 31, 1995 and 1996 and for each of the three years in the
period ended August 31, 1996 (the "Audited Consolidated Financial Statements"),
OrNda completed the American Healthcare and Summit mergers on April 19, 1994.
The American Healthcare merger was accounted for as a pooling-of-interests and,
accordingly, the operations of American Healthcare and OrNda have been combined
in the accompanying consolidated financial statements. The Summit Merger was
accounted for as a purchase and, accordingly, its operations have been included
since the date of the merger. The discussion herein is based upon the combined
operations of OrNda and American Healthcare for all periods presented in the
accompanying consolidated financial statements and including Summit Health
effective April 19, 1994. To enhance understandability, discussion and analysis
of financial condition and results of operations of the separate companies is
included, where necessary. For purposes of "Management's Discussion and Analysis
of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of OrNda," references herein to
OrNda include the operations of the combined entity of OrNda and American
Healthcare, unless the context requires otherwise.
 
    In addition to the American Healthcare and Summit mergers, OrNda'a results
of operations have been impacted by the August 1994 acquisition of Fountain
Valley Regional Hospital and Medical Center ("Fountain Valley") and related
businesses in Fountain Valley, California, the February 1995 acquisition of
three hospitals and related businesses that comprise the St. Luke's Health
System ("St. Luke's") in Arizona, the January 1996 acquisition of HNW, the July
1996 acquisition of Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center in Houston, Texas ("Cypress
Fairbanks"), the August 1996 acquisition of Centinela Medical Center in
Inglewood, California ("Centinela") and the September 1996 acquisition of St.
Vincent's Healthcare System in Worcester, Massachusetts ("St. Vincent's").
 
    Cost in excess of net assets acquired ("Goodwill"), net of amortization,
increased approximately $179.8 million in fiscal 1996 primarily from goodwill
associated with the acquisitions of HNW ($100.0 million), Cypress Fairbanks
($24.4 million) and Centinela ($52.1 million). Goodwill, net of amortization,
increased approximately $43.9 million in fiscal 1995 primarily from the
acquisition of St. Luke's of $4.0 million; adjustments associated with the
acquisition of Fountain Valley of $2.9 million; in connection with the buy out
of a joint venture at one of OrNda's hospitals of $11.5 million; and, final
adjustments to the acquisition of Summit of $31.6 million. The adjustments to
the Summit goodwill resulted principally from the finalization of appraisals on
fixed assets acquired, resolution of certain assumed litigation, and receipt of
actuarial estimates on termination of pension plans.
 
    DIVESTITURES.  Effective in the third quarter of fiscal 1994, OrNda's
management decided upon a plan of disposition to sell Decatur Hospital in
Decatur, Georgia. During the fourth quarter of fiscal 1994, OrNda's management
also entered into plans to dispose of Lewisburg Community Hospital in Lewisburg,
Tennessee, Gibson General Hospital in Trenton, Tennessee, and Pasadena General
Hospital in Pasadena, Texas. These four hospitals have a total of 486 licensed
beds. OrNda consummated the sale of the Decatur Hospital in June 1994 and the
sale of the Gibson Hospital effective October 31, 1994. Effective December 31,
1994, OrNda sold Ross Hospital, a 92-bed psychiatric facility in Kentfield,
California.
 
    OrNda sold the hospital in Lewisburg on March 1, 1995 and had definitive
agreements to lease the Pasadena General Hospital real property and sell the
operations of Pasadena General Hospital to the lessee. The lessee assumed
ownership of operations and began leasing Pasadena General Hospital on March 3,
1995. On or about March 27, 1995, OrNda became aware that the buyer/lessee of
Pasadena had failed to perform under its contractual agreement. On March 31,
1995, OrNda re-assumed management of
 
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the facility until the facility was closed on May 14, 1995. On July 7, 1995,
OrNda entered into a definitive agreement to sell the real property of Pasadena
General Hospital to a third party. The sales price resulted in an additional
loss on sale of $5.7 million which was recorded in the third quarter of fiscal
1995. The above noted divestitures did not have a significant impact on
subsequent operations.
 
    GEOGRAPHIC CONCENTRATION.  OrNda operates hospitals in greater southern
California, south Florida, Arizona and Texas which generated the following
percentages of OrNda's total revenue for the three months ended November 30,
1995 and 1996, respectively:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                    PERCENTAGE OF                 PERCENTAGE OF
                                                       NUMBER OF     1995 TOTAL      NUMBER OF     1996 TOTAL
                                                       HOSPITALS       REVENUE       HOSPITALS       REVENUE
                                                     -------------  -------------  -------------  -------------
<S>                                                  <C>            <C>            <C>            <C>
Southern California................................           15          33.6%             16          29.0%
South Florida......................................            5          17.2%              4          14.2%
Arizona............................................            6          10.7%              6           7.6%
Texas..............................................            6          10.5%              8          17.8%
</TABLE>
 
    The following percentages are for the fiscal years ended August 31, 1995 and
1996, respectively:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                        NUMBER      PERCENTAGE OF     NUMBER      PERCENTAGE OF
                                                          OF         FISCAL 1995        OF         FISCAL 1996
                                                       HOSPITALS    TOTAL REVENUE    HOSPITALS    TOTAL REVENUE
                                                     -------------  -------------  -------------  -------------
<S>                                                  <C>            <C>            <C>            <C>
Southern California................................           15          34.8%             17          31.6%
South Florida......................................            5          19.3%              5          16.5%
Arizona............................................            6           8.9%              6           9.7%
Texas..............................................            6          10.2%              8          16.0%
</TABLE>
 
    To the extent favorable or unfavorable changes in regulations or market
conditions occur in these areas, such changes would likely have a corresponding
impact on OrNda's results of operations.
 
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
 
    GENERAL TRENDS.  During the periods discussed below, OrNda's results of
operations were affected by certain industry trends, changing components of
total revenue, and changes in OrNda's debt structure. OrNda's results of
operations have also been impacted by the mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
discussed above.
 
    INDUSTRY TRENDS.  Outpatient services accounted for 32.9%, 30.7%, 31.3% and
28.8% of actual gross patient revenue for the three months ended November 30,
1995 and 1996 and for the years ended August 31, 1996 and 1995, respectively,
reflecting the industry trend towards greater use of outpatient services and the
expansion of OrNda's outpatient services primarily achieved through the opening
of new outpatient clinics in key markets in fiscal 1996 and 1995. OrNda expects
the industry trend towards outpatient services to continue as procedures
currently being performed on an inpatient basis become available on an
outpatient basis through technological and pharmaceutical advances. OrNda plans
to provide quality health care services as an extension of its hospitals through
a variety of outpatient activities including surgery, diagnostics, physician
clinics and home health.
 
    As discussed below, excluding the effect of the acquisitions and the
divestitures noted above ("same-hospitals basis"), total revenues have
increased, reflecting higher utilization of outpatient and ancillary services,
increased acuity of patients admitted, and an increase in admissions for
inpatient procedures. The impact on revenue of increased patient acuity and
general price increases has been partially offset by the increasing proportion
of revenues derived from Medicare, Medicaid and managed care providers. These
major payors substantially pay on a fixed payment rate on a per patient or a per
diem basis instead of a cost or charge reimbursement methodology. Fixed payments
limit the ability of OrNda to increase revenues through price increases. While
these fixed payment rates have increased annually, the increases have
historically been at a rate less than OrNda's increases in costs, and have been
inadequate to reflect increases in costs associated with improved medical
technologies. OrNda has been able to mitigate such
 
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inflationary pressures through cost control programs, as well as utilization
management programs which reduce the number of days that patients stay in the
hospital and the amount of hospital services provided to the patient. The
average length of stay has decreased from 5.3 days for the year ended August 31,
1995 to 5.0 days for the year ended August 31, 1996. OrNda has programs designed
to improve the margins associated with the revenues derived from government
payors and managed care providers. In addition, OrNda has programs designed to
enhance overall hospital margins.
 
THREE MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30, 1996 COMPARED WITH THE THREE MONTHS ENDED
  NOVEMBER 30, 1995
 
    Total revenue for the three months ended November 30, 1996, increased over
the same period in the prior year by $143.5 million or 29.1% to $637.1 million.
The 29.1% increase is a result of the acquisitions discussed above as well as an
increase in same hospitals revenue as discussed below. The increase in total
revenue attributable to acquisitions was $140.6 million. Net income applicable
to common shares for the quarter ended November 30, 1996, was $26.4 million, or
$0.44 per share, compared to $19.6 million, or $0.40 per share, in the same
period last year.
 
    Operating expenses in the quarter ended November 30, 1996, increased 27.4%
($115.3 million) compared to the same period in the prior year primarily as a
result of the acquisitions discussed above and the increase in same hospital
revenues and volumes discussed below.
 
    On a same hospitals basis, total revenue increased 0.6% ($2.9 million)
primarily as a result of a 0.1% increase in admissions and a 1.5% increase in
gross outpatient revenue. On a same hospitals basis, salaries and benefits
increased as a percent of total revenue from 42.7% in 1995 to 43.8% in 1996
primarily as a result of performing certain patient services internally versus
contracting with third parties. Supplies expense decreased 0.5% ($0.3 million)
and as a percentage of total revenue decreased from 13.4% in 1995 to 13.2% in
1996. Purchased services decreased 5.2% ($2.6 million) and as a percentage of
total revenue decreased from 10.2% in 1995 to 9.6% in 1996 due to the
elimination of contracting with third parties as noted above. The provision for
doubtful accounts decreased 28.0% ($9.3 million) and decreased from 6.9% of
total revenue for 1995 to 4.9% for 1996 primarily due to collections of patient
accounts receivable that were reserved in prior periods during system
conversions. Other operating expenses increased 1.9% ($1.1 million) and as a
percentage of total revenue was 11.8% in 1995 and 11.9% in 1996.
 
    The effect of price increases implemented by OrNda's hospitals was nominal
as gross revenue from fixed reimbursement third party payors represented
approximately 82.4% of OrNda's total gross revenue in the quarter ended November
30, 1996. Over the last several years, the portion of OrNda's total revenue
derived from fixed reimbursement third party payors has increased while rates of
increases from these payors have generally been less than medical-related
inflation, resulting in increased efforts by OrNda to implement cost containment
initiatives and re-evaluate hospital programs for adequacy of profitability.
Since these trends are likely to continue, OrNda's ability to improve operating
results at its existing hospitals is dependent on its continues effectiveness in
reducing its costs of services. OrNda's operations may also be enhanced through
strategic acquisitions. OrNda intends to pursue strategic acquisitions of health
care providers in geographic areas and with service capabilities that will
facilitate the development of integrated networks.
 
    Depreciation and amortization for the quarter ended November 30, 1996,
increased 35.1% ($8.2 million) over the prior period primarily as a result of
the acquisitions of HNW, Cypress Fairbanks, Centinela and St. Vincent's. The
increase in depreciation and amortization attributable to acquisitions was $5.9
million. In addition, amortization on intangibles increased $2.0 million as a
result of new business units.
 
    Interest expense for the three months ended November 30, 1996, as compared
to the same period last year, increased 12.4% ($3.4 million) primarily as a
result of an increase in debt to fund recent acquisitions. This increase was
partially offset by improved pricing under OrNda's existing credit facility. Of
OrNda's total indebtedness of $1.4 billion at November 30, 1996, approximately
$767.3 million bears interest at rates that fluctuate with market rates, such as
the Prime Rate or LIBOR. Increases in market interest rates will adversely
affect OrNda's net income.
 
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    Minority interest, which represents the amounts paid or payable to
physicians pursuant to OrNda's joint venture arrangements, increased $1.0
million in 1996 as compared to 1995, primarily as a result of a $9.4 million
exchange of minority interest ownership in two hospitals for minority interest
investment in two group physician practices in the first quarter of fiscal 1996
and the acquisition of HNW which has several specialty joint ventures.
 
    OrNda recorded income of $3.8 million in the quarter ended November 30, 1995
related to its investments in HNW, which primarily represented non-cash income
related to OrNda's investment in HNW redeemable preferred stock. Effective
January 1, 1996, OrNda acquired HNW from the hospital's ESOP. Following the
transaction, HNW became a wholly owned subsidiary of OrNda.
 
    OrNda accounts for income taxes in accordance with Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes" (SFAS No. 109). The
majority of OrNda's deferred tax assets related to approximately $187.0 million
of tax loss and credit carryforwards at November 30, 1996, which OrNda has
available to offset future taxable income. The AHM merger caused an "ownership
change" within the meaning of Section 382(g) of the Internal Revenue Code (the
"IRC") for both OrNda and AHM. Consequently, allowable federal deductions
relating to tax attribute carryforwards of OrNda and AHM arising in periods
prior to the AHM merger are thereafter subject to annual limitations (OrNda --
$19.0 million; AHM -- $16.0 million). For AHM, such tax attribute carryforwards
can only be applied against the prospective taxable income of the entities that
previously comprised AHM. These limitations may be increased for
"built-in-gains", as defined under the IRC, recognized during a five-year period
following the date of the merger. Management assesses the realizability of the
deferred tax assets on at least a quarterly basis and currently is satisfied,
despite the annual limitations, that it is more likely than not that the
deferred tax assets recorded at November 30, 1996, net of the valuation
allowance, will be realized through reversal of deferred tax liabilities.
 
    For the quarter ended November 30, 1996, OrNda recorded income tax expense
of $11.3 million on pre-tax income of $37.8 million, an amount less than the
statutory rate, primarily due to the availability of net operating loss
carryforwards.
 
  YEAR ENDED AUGUST 31, 1996 COMPARED WITH THE YEAR ENDED AUGUST 31, 1995.
 
    Total revenue for the year ended August 31, 1996 increased over the same
period in the prior year by $304.5 million or 16.5% to $2.1 billion. The 16.5%
increase is primarily a result of the acquisitions discussed above as well as an
increase in same hospitals revenue as discussed below. The increase in total
revenue attributable to acquisitions, net of divestitures, was $179.9 million.
Net income applicable to common shares for the year ended August 31, 1996 was
$99.5 million, or $1.73 per share, compared to $69.3 million, or $1.53 per
share, in the same period last year.
 
    Operating expenses in the year ended August 31, 1996 increased 14.1% ($222.1
million) compared to the same period in the prior year primarily as a result of
acquisitions and the increase in same hospital revenues and volumes discussed
below.
 
    On a same-hospitals basis, total revenue increased 7.6% ($124.6 million)
primarily as a result of a 2.9% increase in admissions and a 13.5% increase in
gross outpatient revenue. On a same-hospitals basis, salaries and benefits
increased as a percent of total revenue from 45.3% in fiscal 1995 to 45.4% in
fiscal 1996. Supplies expense increased 11.4% ($24.1 million) and as a
percentage of total revenue increased from 12.8% in fiscal 1995 to 13.3% in
fiscal 1996. Purchased services decreased 5.6% ($10.6 million) and as a
percentage of total revenue decreased from 11.6% in fiscal 1995 to 10.2% in
fiscal 1996 primarily due to a reclassification in fiscal 1996 of the supply
component of major contracts from purchased services to supplies expense. The
provision for doubtful accounts increased 1.1% ($1.3 million) but decreased from
7.1% of total revenue for the year ended August 31, 1995 to 6.7% for the year
ended August 31, 1996. Other operating expenses increased 7.0% ($9.5 million)
and as a percentage of total revenue was 8.3% in fiscal 1995 and 1996.
 
    The effect of price increases implemented by OrNda's hospitals was nominal
as gross revenue from fixed reimbursement third-party payors represented
approximately 87.5% of OrNda's total gross revenue
 
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in 1996. Over the last several years, the portion of OrNda's total revenue
derived from fixed reimbursement third-party payors has increased while rates of
increases from these payors have generally been less than medical-related
inflation, resulting in increased efforts by OrNda to implement cost containment
initiatives and re-evaluate hospital programs for adequacy of profitability.
Since these trends are likely to continue, OrNda's ability to improve operating
results at its existing hospitals is dependent on its continued effectiveness in
reducing its costs of services. OrNda's operations may also be enhanced through
strategic acquisitions as was particularly evident in fiscal 1994 and fiscal
1995 with the mergers with American Healthcare and Summit and the individual
hospital acquisitions. OrNda intends to pursue strategic acquisitions of health
care providers in geographic areas and with service capabilities that will
facilitate the development of integrated networks.
 
    Depreciation and amortization for fiscal 1996 increased 21.9% ($18.7
million) over the prior year primarily as a result of the acquisitions of St.
Luke's, HNW, Cypress Fairbanks and Centinela. The increase in depreciation and
amortization attributable to acquisitions, net of divestitures, was $11.1
million. In addition, amortization on intangibles increased as a result of new
business units.
 
    Interest expense for fiscal 1996 as compared to the same period last year
decreased 1.7% ($1.9 million) primarily as a result of a decline in the average
debt balance outstanding and improved pricing under the existing credit
facility. Such decrease was partially reduced by the effect of a $2.2 million
reduction in interest expense in the third quarter of fiscal 1995 related to an
interest rate swap agreement. Of OrNda's total indebtedness of $1.3 billion at
August 31, 1996, approximately $692.2 million bears interest at rates that
fluctuate with market rates, such as the Prime Rate or LIBOR. Increases in
market interest rates will adversely affect OrNda's net income.
 
    Minority interest, which represents the amounts paid or payable to
physicians pursuant to OrNda's joint venture arrangements, increased $7.5
million in fiscal 1996 as compared to fiscal 1995, primarily as a result of a
$9.4 million exchange of minority interest ownership in two hospitals for
minority interest investment in two group physician practices in the first
quarter of fiscal 1996 and the acquisition of HNW which had existing joint
ventures.
 
    In fiscal 1996, OrNda recorded income of $5.1 million, compared to $14.0
million in fiscal 1995, related to its investments in HNW which primarily
represented non-cash income related to OrNda's investment in HNW redeemable
preferred stock. Effective January 1, 1996, OrNda acquired HNW from the
hospital's ESOP. Following the transaction, HNW became a wholly owned subsidiary
of OrNda. See Note 2 to the accompanying Audited Consolidated Financial
Statements for further discussion of OrNda's investments in HNW as well as the
acquisition of HNW.
 
    OrNda accounts for income taxes in accordance with Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes" ("SFAS No. 109").
The majority of OrNda's deferred tax assets related to approximately $198.9
million of tax loss and credit carryforwards at August 31, 1996, which OrNda has
available to offset future taxable income. The American Healthcare merger (see
Note 2 to the Audited Consolidated Financial Statements) caused an "ownership
change" within the meaning of Section 382(g) of the Internal Revenue Code (the
"IRC") for both OrNda and American Healthcare. Consequently, allowable federal
deductions relating to tax attribute carryforwards of OrNda and American
Healthcare arising in periods prior to the merger are thereafter subject to
annual limitations (OrNda - $19.0 million; American Healthcare - $16.0 million).
For American Healthcare, such tax attribute carryforwards can only be applied
against the prospective taxable income of the entities that previously comprised
American Healthcare. These limitations may be increased for "built-in-gains," as
defined under the IRC, recognized during a five-year period following the date
of the merger. Management assesses the realizability of the deferred tax assets
on at least a quarterly basis and currently is satisfied, despite the annual
limitations, that it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets
recorded at August 31, 1996, net of the valuation allowance, will be realized
through reversal of deferred tax liabilities.
 
    For the year ended August 31, 1996, OrNda recorded income tax expense of
$35.2 million on pre-tax income of $135.1 million, an amount less than the
statutory rate, primarily due to the availability of net operating loss
carryforwards.
 
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  YEAR ENDED AUGUST 31, 1995 COMPARED WITH THE YEAR ENDED AUGUST 31, 1994.
 
    Total revenue for the year ended August 31, 1995, increased over the prior
year by $568.3 million or 44.6% to $1.8 billion. The 44.6% increase is primarily
a result of the Summit merger and other hospital acquisitions discussed above.
The increase in total revenue attributable to acquisitions, net of divestitures
was $496.5 million. Net income applicable to common shares for the year ended
August 31, 1995, was $69.3 million, or $1.53 per share compared to a net loss of
$61.2 million, or $(1.62) per share in prior year.
 
    Operating expenses for the year ended August 31, 1995, increased 44.4%
($485.8 million) over the prior year primarily as a result of the acquisitions
discussed above. Actual salaries and benefits as a percentage of total revenue
declined from 45.1% in fiscal 1994 to 43.6% in fiscal 1995 mainly as a result of
reductions in corporate office personnel attained in combining the OrNda and
American Healthcare corporate offices and due to labor efficiencies achieved at
certain facilities.
 
    Actual other operating expenses increased 35.2% ($55.1 million). This
category of expense increased at a rate greater than other categories due to the
1994 acquisition of Summit, which owns a Medicaid HMO that includes the majority
of its non-salary expenses in other operating expense. In addition, the St.
Luke's acquisition in fiscal 1995 also included a Medicaid HMO. Operating
expenses for the year ended August 31, 1995, increased approximately $17.4
million for claims payments made by the Medicaid HMO to third-party providers.
In addition, other operating expenses increased $12.3 million for rent expense
related to acquisitions financed through leasing agreements with third parties.
 
    On a same-hospitals basis, total revenue increased 6.9% ($71.9 million)
primarily as a result of a 3.9% increase in admissions and a 18.7% ($105.2
million) increase in gross outpatient revenue. On a same-hospitals basis,
salaries and benefits increased 8.7% ($41.7 million) primarily due to
inflationary increases and an increase in same hospital revenue. Supplies
expense increased 3.9% ($5.0 million) and as a percentage of total revenue
decreased from 12.4% in fiscal 1994 to 12.1% in fiscal 1995, primarily as a
result of favorable reductions in expenses under supply contracts in
pharmaceuticals and other areas. Purchased services increased 3.5% ($4.0
million) but as a percentage of total revenue remained at 14.4% in fiscal 1994
and fiscal 1995 primarily as a result of increases in marketing and rent
expenses. Other operating expenses increased 10.1% ($9.2 million) and as a
percentage of total revenue increased from 8.8% in fiscal 1994 to 9.0% in fiscal
1995, primarily as a result of increases in marketing and rent expenses. The
provision for doubtful accounts increased 17.0% ($12.4 million) and increased
from 7.0% of total revenue in 1994 to 7.6% in 1995. In connection with the
American Healthcare and Summit mergers, during the year ended August 31, 1994,
OrNda changed the methodologies used by the previously separate companies to
calculate the allowance for doubtful accounts to conform to a single method for
OrNda and American Healthcare which resulted in a $3.3 million favorable impact
on the provision for doubtful accounts in 1994.
 
    Depreciation and amortization for the year ended August 31, 1995, increased
27.6% ($18.4 million) over the prior year primarily as a result of the Summit
merger and other acquisitions discussed previously. The increase in depreciation
and amortization attributable to acquisitions, net of divestitures, was $19.1
million.
 
    Interest expense increased 30.8% ($25.7 million) as a result of additional
indebtedness incurred to finance the acquisitions discussed above as well as
increases in market interest rates. Such increase was partially offset by a
decrease in interest expense of $2.2 million related to an interest rate swap
agreement in the third quarter of fiscal 1995. Of OrNda's total indebtedness of
$1.1 billion at August 31, 1995, approximately $480.2 million bore interest at
rates that fluctuate with market rates, such as the Prime Rate or LIBOR. Market
interest rates increased from 1994 to 1995 causing OrNda's interest expense to
increase.
 
    Minority interest, which represents the amounts paid or payable to
physicians pursuant to OrNda's joint venture arrangements, decreased 94.0% ($3.8
million) in fiscal 1995 as compared to fiscal 1994, primarily as a result of the
repurchase of joint venture interests and a decline in operations at certain of
OrNda's joint ventures.
 
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    In fiscal 1995, OrNda recorded income of $14.0 million, compared to $3.6
million in fiscal 1994, related to its investments in HNW which primarily
represented non-cash income related to OrNda's investment in HNW redeemable
preferred stock. See Note 2 to the accompanying Audited Consolidated Financial
Statements for further discussion of OrNda's investments in HNW.
 
    For the year ended August 31, 1995, OrNda recorded income tax expense of
$15.8 million on pretax income of $87.1 million, an amount less than the
statutory rate, primarily due to the availability of net operating loss
carryforwards.
 
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
 
    At November 30, 1996, OrNda had working capital of $138.1 million, of which
$10.5 million was cash, compared with $88.1 million of working capital at August
31, 1996. OrNda's cash portion of working capital is primarily managed through a
revolving credit arrangement, whereby excess cash generated through operations
or otherwise is generally used to reduce the outstanding revolving credit
facility. When cash requirements arise, the revolving credit facility is drawn
upon as needed. On November 26, 1996, OrNda executed an amendment to its credit
agreement (the "Credit Facility") which increased the borrowing capacity under
the revolving commitment from $440.0 million to $773.8 million. As of November
30, 1996, $767.3 million was outstanding under the Credit Facility and
commitment availability had been reduced by $25.3 million as a result of issued
letters of credit. The Credit Facility still matures on October 30, 2001.
 
    OrNda's operating activities provided cash of $32.3 million for the quarter
ended November 30, 1996. Cash from operations was used for the $14.2 million
increase in patient accounts receivable, net of the provision for doubtful
accounts. The increase in patient accounts receivable resulted primarily from
delays in payment from certain state Medicaid/Medicare programs and due to the
acquisition and start up of new business units. Cash from operations includes
$19.5 million received as a refund of funds remitted in fiscal 1996 to defease
indebtedness of Centinela in connection with the acquisition of Centinela. Cash
from operations was used for income tax payments of $11.9 million and interest
payments of $38.7 million.
 
    Net cash used in investing activities of $110.8 million during the three
months ended November 30, 1996, consisted primarily of capital expenditures of
$26.1 million and $82.0 million for the acquisitions of hospitals and related
assets, primarily St. Vincent's hospital. OrNda's management currently expects
to incur approximately $125.0 million of capital expenditures in fiscal 1997 for
replacement equipment and construction at existing facilities.
 
    Net cash provided by financing activities for the quarter ended November 30,
1996, of $71.6 million resulted primarily from the $72.3 million excess of long
term debt borrowings over principal payments on long term debt.
 
    OrNda believes that the cash flows generated by operations together with
availability of credit under OrNda's Credit Facility will be sufficient to meet
OrNda's short and long-term cash needs. However, OrNda's net
debt-to-total-capitalization ratio at November 30, 1996 is 66.9%. Such leverage
may limit the amount of additional indebtedness available to OrNda for
acquisitions requiring capital in excess of amounts currently available under
the Credit Facility.
 
    As of November 30, 1996, OrNda had approximately $767.3 million of debt
outstanding under the Credit Facility with an interest rate of LIBOR plus 1.0%.
Interest rates in the future may be subject to upward and downward adjustments
based on OrNda's leverage ratio. To the extent that interest rates increase in
the future, OrNda may experience higher interest rates on such debt. A 1%
increase in the prime rate or LIBOR would result in approximately a $7.7 million
increase in annual interest expense based upon OrNda's credit facility
indebtedness outstanding at November 30, 1996.
 
    The ratio of earnings to fixed charges and preferred stock dividends was
1.72 and 1.99 for the three months ended November 30, 1995 and 1996,
respectively. The ratio of earnings to fixed charges and preferred stock
dividends is calculated by dividing earnings before income taxes plus fixed
charges by the sum of fixed charges which consists of interest expense,
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dividends, and the portion of rental expense which is deemed to be
representative of the interest component of rental expense. The ratio of
earnings to fixed charges and preferred stock dividends is an indication of
OrNda's ability to pay interest expense and other fixed charges.
 
    In recent years the IRS was examining the federal income tax returns for
fiscal 1984, 1985 and 1986 of Summit Health, which became a wholly-owned
subsidiary of OrNda in April 1994 and merged into OrNda in September 1994.
Summit Health received a revenue agent's report from the IRS with proposed
adjustments for the years 1984 through 1986 aggregating as of August 31, 1996
approximately $16.6 million of income tax, $66.4 million of interest on the tax,
$43.9 million of penalties and $25.6 million of interest on the penalties. After
receiving the revenue agent's report, Summit Health filed a protest contesting
the proposed adjustments. On October 28, 1996, OrNda entered into a Closing
Agreement on Final Determination with the IRS for the above audit period, by
agreeing and paying additional tax of $647,000 and interest of $888,000 to close
the audit of Summit Health for the fiscal years 1984 through 1986.
 
    INFLATION.  A significant portion of OrNda's operating expenses are subject
to inflationary increases, the impact of which OrNda has historically been able
to substantially offset through charge increases, expanding services and
increased operating efficiencies. To the extent that inflation occurs in the
future, OrNda may not be able to pass on the increased costs associated with
providing health care services to patients with government or managed care
payors, unless such payors correspondingly increase reimbursement rates.
 
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                                    BUSINESS
 
GENERAL
 
    Tenet is the second largest investor-owned healthcare services company in
the United States. Tenet's subsidiaries own or operate general hospitals and
related healthcare facilities serving urban and rural communities in 13 states
and hold investments in other healthcare companies. At November 30, 1996,
Tenet's subsidiaries and affiliates operated 76 general hospitals with 17,344
licensed beds. Tenet's subsidiaries also own or operate various ancillary
healthcare businesses, including outpatient surgery centers, home healthcare
programs, ambulatory, occupational and rural healthcare clinics, a health
maintenance organization with approximately 58,000 members, a preferred provider
organization and a managed care insurance company as well as a small number of
rehabilitation hospitals, specialty hospitals, long-term care facilities and
psychiatric facilities. Tenet intends to continue its strategic acquisitions of
and partnerships with additional general hospitals and related healthcare
businesses in order to expand and enhance its integrated healthcare delivery
systems. For the 12 months ended November 30, 1996, Tenet had net operating
revenues, EBITDA and income from continuing operations, adjusted to reflect
acquisitions, divestitures and related adjustments, of $6.0 billion, $1.2
billion and $242.0 million, respectively. See "Pro Forma Financial Information."
 
    At November 30, 1996, Tenet's investments in other healthcare companies
included: (i) an approximately 12.1% interest in Vencor, which operates nursing
homes and other healthcare businesses, (ii) an approximately 11.6% interest in
TRC, which operates kidney dialysis units and certain related healthcare
businesses and (iii) an approximately 23% interest in Health Care Property
Partners ("HCPP"). See "--Investments."
 
    As a result of the Merger, OrNda will become a wholly owned subsidiary of
the Company. OrNda is the third largest investor-owned provider of healthcare
services in the United States, delivering a broad range of inpatient and
outpatient healthcare services to urban and suburban communities in 15 states.
At November 30, 1996, OrNda operated 49 general hospitals with a total of 9,599
licensed beds, six surgery centers, numerous outpatient and specialty clinics,
one psychiatric hospital and a Medicaid HMO with approximately 34,000
participants. For the 12 months ended November 30, 1996, OrNda had net operating
revenues, EBITDA and income from continuing operations, adjusted to reflect
acquisitions and related adjustments, of $2.8 billion, $419.6 million and $112.9
million, respectively. See "Pro Forma Financial Information."
 
   
    Following the Merger, the Company will operate 125 general hospitals serving
urban and rural communities in 22 states, with a total of 26,943 licensed beds,
excluding transactions taking place after November 30, 1996. For the 12 months
ended November 30, 1996, on a combined basis adjusted to reflect acquisitions,
divestitures and related adjustments, including the Pending Acquisitions, two of
which were acquired in December 1996 and one of which was acquired in January
1997, the Company's net operating revenues, EBITDA and income from continuing
operations, would have been approximately $8.8 billion, $1.6 billion and $359.3
million, respectively. See "Pro Forma Financial Information." These pro forma
combined results do not give effect to certain cost savings that management
believes may be realized following the Merger. No assurances can be made as to
the amount of cost savings, if any, that actually will be realized.
    
 
    Tenet believes that the Merger represents an opportunity to acquire a
substantial portfolio of hospitals providing quality care responsive to the
current managed care environment. Many of OrNda's general hospitals are located
in geographic areas where Tenet currently operates hospitals, including southern
California and south Florida. The Merger will provide an opportunity for the
Company to coordinate the services it provides in these geographic areas with
those services provided by OrNda, which the Company believes will accelerate its
development of integrated healthcare delivery systems in these areas. The Merger
also expands the Company's operations into several new geographic areas,
including Arizona, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, Oregon, Washington,
West Virginia and Wyoming. The Company believes it will be able to integrate
effectively OrNda's operations based on its successful integration of the
operations of AMH, which was acquired by Tenet in March 1995.
 
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BUSINESS STRATEGY
 
    The Company's strategic objective is to provide quality healthcare services
responsive to the current managed care environment. Tenet believes that
competition among healthcare providers occurs primarily at the local level.
Accordingly, the Company tailors its local strategies to address the specific
competitive characteristics of the geographic areas in which it operates,
including the number of facilities operated by Tenet, the nature and structure
of physician practices and physician groups, the extent of managed care
penetration, the number and size of competitors and the demographic
characteristics of the area. Key elements of the Company's strategy are:
 
    - to develop integrated healthcare delivery systems by coordinating the
      operations and services of the Company's facilities with other hospitals
      and ancillary care providers and through alliances with physicians and
      physician groups;
 
    - to reduce costs through enhanced operating efficiencies while improving
      the quality of care provided;
 
    - to develop and maintain its strong relationships with physicians and
      generally to foster a physician-friendly culture;
 
    - to enter into discounted fee for service arrangements, capitated contracts
      and other managed care contracts with third party payors; and
 
    - to acquire and enter into strategic partnerships with hospitals, groups of
      hospitals, other healthcare businesses, ancillary healthcare providers,
      physician practices and physician practice assets where appropriate to
      expand and enhance quality integrated healthcare delivery systems
      responsive to the current managed care environment.
 
    DEVELOP INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS.  In each geographic area it
serves, the Company has established or is developing an integrated healthcare
delivery system to offer a full range of quality patient care responsive to the
current managed care environment by coordinating the services offered by its
hospitals and related facilities with the services offered by other providers.
The Company believes that general hospitals will serve as the hubs for the
development of integrated healthcare delivery systems due to their highly
developed infrastructure, extensive service base, sophisticated equipment and
skilled personnel.
 
    The Company's strategy is implemented in a number of ways depending upon the
characteristics of the local area. In areas where there is significant managed
care penetration or in which the Company anticipates such penetration, the
Company encourages physicians practicing at its hospitals to form independent
physician associations ("IPAs"). As part of its strategy, the Company intends to
form physician hospital organizations ("PHOs") that bring together its hospitals
and IPAs, physicians or physician groups under a variety of arrangements to
negotiate for managed care contracts, including capitated contracts. Tenet has
formed a PHO for the New Orleans area and is in the process of forming PHOs in
several other geographic areas. The Company also has formed management service
organizations ("MSOs"), which provide management and administrative services to
physicians, physician group practices and IPAs, and which enter into managed
care contracts on behalf of these groups and, in certain circumstances in the
future, PHOs. Where appropriate, the Company also purchases physician and
physician group practices and employs such physicians or purchases the assets of
those practices and manages such practices through its MSOs or otherwise.
 
    The Company uses various combinations of one or all of the foregoing methods
in each geographic area to create a community of interest between its hospitals
and the physicians who practice there, to which it adds additional resources,
where necessary, to create an integrated healthcare delivery system capable of
providing a full range of healthcare services to the community. One example of
how this integrated delivery strategy is being implemented is the Company's
Redding Medical Center, a tertiary care hospital located in a primarily rural
area in northern California, around which hospital the Company is developing
such a system, with the hospital itself acting as the hub. Affiliations with
physician practices, non-Tenet primary care hospitals, an outpatient surgery
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affiliated ancillary care providers in the surrounding area enable this system
to provide a full range of healthcare services. In addition, the Company has
introduced its HMO product to this geographic area. The Company believes that
the development of such integrated healthcare delivery systems will enhance its
ability to contract with payors in those areas that have experienced or will
experience a high degree of managed care penetration.
 
    The Company believes that the Merger will enhance its ability to expand and
enhance its integrated healthcare delivery systems. In south Florida, Tenet will
be able to expand its existing Tenet South Florida HealthSystem with the
inclusion of OrNda's four existing general hospitals and related healthcare
operations with Tenet's eight existing general hospitals and related heathcare
operations. In southern California, Tenet plans to continue to develop and
expand its existing healthcare delivery system, which would combine OrNda's 19
existing general hospitals and related healthcare operations with Tenet's 15
existing general hospitals and related healthcare operations. These systems will
provide a full range of services over a large geographic area. In addition, the
Merger will extend the Company's operations into several additional geographic
areas, some of which do not yet exhibit (and in some cases are not expected to
exhibit in the near term) the high degree of managed care penetration
experienced in California and in certain other parts of the country.
 
    REDUCE COSTS THROUGH ENHANCED OPERATING EFFICIENCY WHILE IMPROVING THE
QUALITY OF CARE.  The Company continues to position itself as a provider of
quality healthcare services responsive to the current managed care environment
by enhancing operating efficiencies at the hospital, regional and corporate
levels. For example, the Company has implemented programs at the hospital level
to monitor and adjust staffing levels in response to patient acuity and hospital
census, and to improve service and the quality of outcomes while reducing
operating expenses through the reengineering of the delivery of patient care in
its hospitals. At several of the Company's hospitals, job functions have been
redefined and services have been moved directly to the patient floors. Tenet
believes that increasing the amount of patient care delivered at the bedside
will increase patient satisfaction while reducing costs. This initiative also
has enhanced the ability of professionals to focus their attention on higher
levels of patient care.
 
    In order to reduce costs and achieve economies of scale at the regional
level, the Company has combined the hospital business offices of facilities
located in close geographic proximity. Consolidating business offices allows the
Company's hospitals to reduce staffing levels while enhancing the effectiveness
of their billing and collection efforts. The Company also has reduced costs and
achieved economies of scale at the hospital, regional and corporate levels by
consolidating the collection of accounts receivable through SOS and negotiating
purchase contracts that take greater advantage of its group purchasing program.
In addition, management believes that certain cost savings may be realized
following the Merger. No assurances can be made as to the amount of cost
savings, if any, that actually will be realized.
 
    DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN STRONG RELATIONSHIPS WITH PHYSICIANS.  Tenet believes
that its success will depend in large part on maintaining strong relationships
with physicians, including physicians previously associated with OrNda. To
better serve the needs of its patients, Tenet has devoted substantial management
effort and resources to establishing and maintaining such relationships and to
fostering a physician-friendly culture at each of its hospitals. The Company
attracts physicians to its hospitals by equipping its hospitals with
technologically advanced equipment, sponsoring training programs to educate
physicians on advanced medical procedures, using governing boards for each
hospital, the primary voting members of which are physicians and community
members and otherwise creating an environment within which physicians prefer to
practice. The Company often is at the forefront in introducing new services,
medical equipment and medical technologies designed to improve patient care and
assist physicians. These efforts serve the dual purposes of developing and
maintaining strong relationships with physicians and better serving the needs of
patients.
 
    The Company looks to physicians to play an active role in the governance of
its hospitals. For example, each of the Company's hospitals has a governing
board, the only voting members of which are physicians who are active members of
the medical staff and local community members. The Company has no voting
representatives on any of its hospitals' governing boards. These boards develop
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long-term plans for the hospitals and review and approve, as appropriate,
actions of the medical staff, including staff appointments, credentialing, peer
review and quality assurance. The Company also maintains a physician advisory
board that provides advice to the Company with respect to long-term strategy,
emerging technologies, training programs and significant hospital operational
issues. This advisory board serves as another vehicle through which physicians
on the staffs of the Company's hospitals can communicate their views to the
Company.
 
    ENTER INTO MANAGED CARE CONTRACTS.  The Company believes that its extensive
experience operating in California, which has a high degree of managed care
penetration, will enhance its ability to compete successfully in other
geographic areas that are experiencing an increase in managed care. Pressures to
control healthcare costs have resulted in a continuing increase in the
percentage of the United States population that is covered by managed healthcare
plans. To increase the cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery, managed care
payors have introduced new utilization review systems, increased the use of
discounted and capitated fee arrangements and have attempted, where appropriate,
to direct patients to less intensive alternatives along the continuum of patient
care. Managed care payors typically require members or provide financial
incentives for members to utilize only those healthcare providers that have
contracted with such payors to provide care on a discounted or capitated basis.
Accordingly, in order to maintain and increase their patient base as managed
care penetration increases, it is important for providers to enter into such
contracts. In determining with which providers to contract, payors consider,
among other factors, the quality of care provided, the range of services, the
geographic coverage and the cost-effectiveness of the care provided. Tenet
believes that the development and expansion of its integrated healthcare
delivery systems will enable it to better compete for managed care contracts,
which, in turn, should allow it to expand its patient volume and cash flow,
notwithstanding the reduced rates at which services may be provided under such
contracts.
 
   
    PURSUE STRATEGIC ACQUISITIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS.  The Company intends to
continue to pursue aggressively strategic acquisitions of and partnerships with
hospitals, other healthcare businesses, ancillary healthcare providers,
physician practices and physician practice assets, where appropriate, to expand
and enhance its integrated healthcare delivery systems. Examples of recent
strategic acquisitions are the Company's June 1996 acquisition of Hialeah
Hospital, a 378-bed general hospital located in Hialeah, Florida and the January
1997 acquisition of North Shore Medical Center, a 357-bed general hospital
located in Miami, Florida. Hialeah Hospital's location in Hialeah and North
Shore Medical Center's location in Miami, both in north Dade County, have
enhanced the geographic coverage of the Tenet South Florida HealthSystem and
increased the number of general hospitals in that system to nine. Tenet believes
that significant opportunities exist to enter into additional partnerships and
make strategic acquisitions, including partnerships with and acquisitions of
tax-exempt hospitals and physician groups or physician practice assets, where
appropriate. On a pro forma basis, immediately following the Merger and the
Refinancing the Company expects to have approximately $2.1 billion available
under the New Credit Facility to take advantage of strategic acquisition and
partnership opportunities.
    
 
DOMESTIC HEALTH CARE OPERATIONS
 
    As a result of the Merger, the Company will operate 125 general hospitals
serving communities in 22 states, excluding transactions taking place after
November 30, 1996. On a combined basis, Tenet's and OrNda's 125 general
hospitals had a total of 26,943 licensed beds at November 30, 1996. In addition,
the Company and OrNda operate numerous ancillary healthcare facilities,
including a small number of rehabilitation hospitals, long-term care facilities
and psychiatric facilities located on the same campus as, or nearby, their
general hospitals, and operated all or a substantial part of 141 medical office
buildings as of November 30, 1996. With the exception of one general hospital
that was acquired in fiscal 1996 and is in the process of becoming accredited
for the first time, each of the Company's and OrNda's facilities that is
eligible for accreditation is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations ("JCAHO"), the Commission on
Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (in the case of the rehabilitation
hospitals) or another appropriate accreditation agency. With such accreditation,
the Company's and OrNda's hospitals are eligible to participate in the Medicare
and Medicaid programs.
 
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    Each of Tenet's and OrNda's general hospitals offers acute care services and
most offer operating and recovery rooms, radiology services, intensive care and
coronary care nursing units, pharmacies, clinical laboratories, respiratory
therapy services, physical therapy services and outpatient facilities. A number
of the hospitals also offer tertiary care services such as open heart surgery,
neonatal intensive care, neuroscience, orthopedics services and oncology
services. Three of the Company's hospitals, Memorial Medical Center (formerly
known as Mercy+Baptist Medical Center), USC University Hospital and Sierra
Medical Center, offer quartenary care in such areas as heart, lung, liver and
kidney transplants and USC University Hospital and Sierra Medical Center also
offer gamma knife brain surgery.
 
    Technological developments permitting more procedures to be performed on an
outpatient basis, in conjunction with pressures to contain healthcare costs,
have led to a shift from inpatient care to ambulatory or outpatient care. Tenet
has responded to this trend by enhancing its hospitals' outpatient service
capabilities, including (i) establishing freestanding outpatient surgery centers
at or near certain of its hospital facilities, (ii) reconfiguring certain
hospitals to more effectively accommodate outpatient treatment by, among other
things, providing more convenient registration procedures and separate
entrances, and (iii) restructuring existing surgical capacity to allow a greater
number and range of procedures to be performed on an outpatient basis. Tenet's
facilities will continue to emphasize those outpatient services that can be
provided on a quality, cost-effective basis and that the Company believes will
experience increased demand. The patient volumes and net operating revenues at
both the Company's general hospitals and its outpatient surgery centers are
subject to seasonal variations caused by a number of factors, including but not
necessarily limited to, seasonal cycles of illness, climate and weather
conditions, vacation patterns of both patients and physicians and other factors
relating to the timing of elective procedures.
 
    In addition, inpatient care is continuing to move from acute care to
sub-acute care, where a less-intensive level of care is provided. Tenet has been
proactive in the development of a variety of sub-acute inpatient services to
utilize a portion of its unused capacity, thereby retaining a larger share of
overall healthcare expenditures. By offering cost-effective ancillary services
in appropriate circumstances, Tenet is able to provide a continuum of care where
the demand for such services exists. For example, in certain hospitals the
Company has developed transitional care, rehabilitation and long-term care
sub-acute units. Such units utilize less intensive staffing levels to provide
the range of services sought by payors with a lower cost structure.
 
    Tenet has acquired nine general hospitals (or interests in general
hospitals) since June 1, 1995. In July 1995, Tenet acquired a one-third interest
(which subsequently was increased to a 50% interest) in the 82-bed St. Clair
Hospital located outside of Birmingham, Alabama, which formerly was a
not-for-profit general hospital. In August 1995, Tenet acquired Memorial Medical
Center (formerly known as Mercy+Baptist Medical Center), formerly a
not-for-profit system, consisting of two general hospitals with an aggregate of
759 licensed beds located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and related physician
practices. In September 1995, Tenet acquired Providence Memorial Hospital
located in El Paso, Texas, which also was a not-for-profit general hospital.
Providence is licensed for 471 general hospital beds (34 of which may be used as
skilled nursing beds) and is licensed for 30 additional rehabilitation and
subacute care beds. In October 1995, Tenet entered into a long-term lease of the
49-bed Medical Center of Manchester and its home health business, in central
Tennessee. In November 1995, Tenet acquired the 104-bed Methodist Hospital of
Jonesboro, a not-for-profit general hospital located in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
That hospital now is owned by a limited liability company of which Tenet owns
95% and is the manager and Tenet's not-for-profit partner St. Vincent
TotalHealth Corporation, owns 5%. In June 1996, Tenet acquired the 378-bed
Hialeah Hospital in Hialeah, Florida. In October 1996, Tenet acquired the
319-bed Lloyd Noland Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. In January 1997, Tenet
acquired the 357-bed North Shore Medical Center in Miami, Florida. In the fourth
quarter of fiscal 1996, Tenet converted the Jo Ellen Smith general hospital in
New Orleans, Louisiana, into a specialty hospital. See "Pro Forma Financial
Information." In August 1995, Tenet entered into an agreement with the Cleveland
Clinic Florida to develop a new 150-bed general hospital in western Broward
County, Florida. Completion of that project is subject to governmental
approvals.
 
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    During the same period, OrNda has completed the acquisition of eight general
hospitals (or interests in general hospitals). OrNda acquired Universal Medical
Center (subsequently re-named Florida Medical Center-South) in November 1995, a
controlling equity interest in Houston Northwest Medical Center in January 1996,
Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center and Westside Medical Center in July 1996,
Centinela Hospital Medical Center in August 1996, The Saint Vincent Healthcare
System in September 1996 and the Western Medical Center and the Western Medical
Center-Anaheim in December 1996. See "Pro Forma Financial Information."
 
    The Company also has been actively pursuing the acquisition and management
of physician practices and physician practice assets where doing so would
enhance the Company's goal of expanding and enhancing its integrated healthcare
delivery systems. During fiscal 1996, the Company acquired or assumed the
management of physician practices in many key geographic areas, such as Alabama,
Arkansas, southern California, South Carolina, south Florida, the greater New
Orleans, Louisiana area and Texas. Tenet also has established the Tenet
Physician Services department, based at its Dallas Operations Center, to plan
Tenet's strategy for and coordinate its efforts towards developing innovative
ways of working with physicians. The Company has developed and is continuing to
expand information systems for more efficiently managing all aspects of
physician practices, including billing, medical records, tracking managed care
contracts and accounting.
 
    During the last three fiscal years, Tenet and OrNda have spent an aggregate
of approximately $705.3 million and $222.2 million, respectively, on capital
expenditures at their domestic hospitals to expand and upgrade the facilities
and to acquire medical equipment. The Company expects to continue to make the
capital expenditures necessary to maintain and improve the Tenet and OrNda
facilities. See "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations of Tenet-- Liquidity and Capital Resources" and
"Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations of OrNda--Liquidity and Capital Resources." Management believes that
the Tenet and OrNda hospitals are well-positioned to compete effectively in the
rapidly evolving healthcare environment. The Company continually analyzes
whether each of its hospitals fits within its strategic plans and has and will
continue to analyze ways in which such assets may best be used to maximize
shareholder value.
 
DOMESTIC PROPERTIES
 
    The following table sets forth certain information relating to each of the
125 hospitals (26,943 licensed beds) operated by the Company and by OrNda at
November 30, 1996 (one of which was closed and one of which was sold in December
1996) as well as two hospitals which were acquired in December 1996 and one of
which was acquired in January 1997. Hospitals operated by OrNda appear in
italicized type.
 
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Southern California          Alvarado Hospital Medical Center             San Diego                    231    Owned
                             Century City Hospital (1)                    Los Angeles                  190    Leased
                             Encino Hospital (1)(2)                       Encino                       151    Leased
                             Garden Grove Hospital and Medical Center     Garden Grove                 167    Owned
                             Garfield Medical Center                      Monterey Park                211    Owned
                             Irvine Medical Center (1)                    Irvine                       176    Leased
                             John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital            Indio                        130    Owned
                             Lakewood Regional Medical Center             Lakewood                     161    Owned
                             Los Alamitos Medical Center                  Los Alamitos                 173    Owned
                             Medical Center of North Hollywood            North Hollywood              160    Owned
                             Placentia Linda Community Hospital           Placentia                    114    Owned
                             San Dimas Community Hospital                 San Dimas                     93    Owned
                             South Bay Hospital (1)                       Redondo Beach                201    Leased
                             Tarzana Regional Medical Center (1)(2)       Tarzana                      231    Leased
                             USC University Hospital (3)                  Los Angeles                  286    Leased
                             BROTMAN MEDICAL CENTER                       CULVER CITY                  438    OWNED
                             CENTINELA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER            INGLEWOOD                    400    OWNED
                             CHAPMAN MEDICAL CENTER (1)                   ORANGE                       135    LEASED
                             COASTAL COMMUNITIES HOSPITAL (4)             SANTA ANA                    177    OWNED
                             COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF HUNTINGTON PARK (1)    HUNTINGTON PARK               99    LEASED
                             FOUNTAIN VALLEY REGIONAL HOSPITAL AND
                               MEDICAL CENTER                             FOUNTAIN VALLEY              413    OWNED
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   GEOGRAPHIC AREA/STATE                      FACILITY                         LOCATION            BEDS        STATUS
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<S>                          <C>                                          <C>                  <C>            <C>
Southern California          GREATER EL MONTE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL          SOUTH EL MONTE               113    OWNED
  (cont'd)
                             HARBOR VIEW MEDICAL CENTER                   SAN DIEGO                    156    OWNED
                             MIDWAY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER               LOS ANGELES                  225    OWNED
                             MISSION HOSPITAL OF HUNTINGTON PARK          HUNTINGTON PARK              127    OWNED
                             MONTEREY PARK HOSPITAL                       MONTEREY PARK                102    OWNED
                             SANTA ANA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (1)        SANTA ANA                     90    LEASED
                             ST. LUKE MEDICAL CENTER                      PASADENA                     162    OWNED
                             SUBURBAN MEDICAL CENTER (1)                  PARAMOUNT                    184    LEASED
                             WESTERN MEDICAL CENTER (5)                   SANTA ANA                    288    PENDING
                             WESTERN MEDICAL CENTER - ANAHEIM (5)         ANAHEIM                      193    PENDING
                             WESTSIDE HOSPITAL (6)                        LOS ANGELES                   68    OWNED
                             WHITTIER HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER             WHITTIER                     159    OWNED
                             WOODRUFF COMMUNITY HOSPITAL                  LONG BEACH                    96    OWNED
Northern and Other           Community Hospital & Rehabilitation Center
  California                   of Los Gatos (1)                           Los Gatos                    164    Leased
                             Doctors Hospital of Manteca                  Manteca                       73    Owned
                             Doctors Hospital of Pinole (1)               Pinole                       137    Leased
                             Doctors Medical Center of Modesto            Modesto                      433    Owned
                             Redding Medical Center                       Redding                      185    Owned
                             San Ramon Regional Medical Center            San Ramon                    123    Owned
                             Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center         San Luis Obispo              199    Owned
                             Twin Cities Community Hospital               Templeton                     84    Owned
                             FRENCH HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER               SAN LUIS OBISPO              147    OWNED
                             VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (1)                SANTA MARIA                   70    LEASED
South Florida                Delray Community Hospital                    Delray Beach                 211    Owned
                             Hialeah Hospital                             Hialeah                      378    Owned
                             Hollywood Medical Center                     Hollywood                    324    Owned
                             North Ridge Medical Center                   Ft. Lauderdale               391    Owned
                             North Shore Medical Center (7)               Miami                        357    Pending
                             Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center (1)        Palm Beach Gardens           204    Leased
                             Palmetto General Hospital                    Hialeah                      360    Owned
                             West Boca Medical Center                     Boca Raton                   185    Owned
                             CORAL GABLES HOSPITAL (4)                    CORAL GABLES                 273    OWNED
                             FLORIDA MEDICAL CENTER (4)                   FT. LAUDERDALE               459    OWNED
                             FLORIDA MEDICAL CENTER, SOUTH                PLANTATION                   202    OWNED
                             PARKWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER (8)          NORTH MIAMI                  699    OWNED
Tampa/St. Petersburg,        Memorial Hospital of Tampa                   Tampa                        174    Owned
  Florida Area               Palms of Pasadena Hospital                   St. Petersburg               310    Owned
                             Seven Rivers Community Hospital              Crystal River                128    Owned
                             Town and Country Hospital                    Tampa                        201    Owned
                             NORTH BAY MEDICAL CENTER                     NEW PORT RICHEY              122    OWNED
New Orleans,                 Doctors Hospital of Jefferson (1)            Metairie                     138    Leased
  Louisiana Area             Kenner Regional Medical Center               Kenner                       300    Owned
                             Meadowcrest Hospital                         Gretna                       200    Owned
                             Memorial Medical Center Mid-City             New Orleans                  272    Owned
                             Memorial Medical Center Uptown               New Orleans                  487    Owned
                             Northshore Regional Medical Center (1)       Slidell                      174    Leased
                             St. Charles General Hospital                 New Orleans                  173    Owned
Phoenix/Tucson, Arizona      COMMUNITY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER            PHOENIX                       59    OWNED
                             MESA GENERAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (1)     MESA                         138    LEASED
                             ST. LUKE'S MEDICAL CENTER (1)                PHOENIX                      276    LEASED
                             TEMPE ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL (1)                TEMPE                         90    LEASED
                             TUCSON GENERAL HOSPITAL                      TUCSON                       146    OWNED
Dallas, Texas Area           Doctors Hospital                             Dallas                       268    Owned
                             RHD Memorial Medical Center (1)              Dallas                       190    Leased
                             Trinity Medical Center (1)                   Carrollton                   149    Leased
                             GARLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL                   GARLAND                      113    OWNED
                             LAKE POINT MEDICAL CENTER                    ROWLETT                       92    OWNED
Houston, Texas Area          Park Plaza Hospital (9)                      Houston                      468    Owned
                             Twelve Oaks Hospital                         Houston                      336    Owned
                             CYPRESS FAIRBANKS MEDICAL CENTER             HOUSTON                      149    OWNED
                             HOUSTON NORTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER             HOUSTON                      498    OWNED
                             SHARPSTOWN GENERAL HOSPITAL                  HOUSTON                      190    OWNED
Other Texas                  Brownsville Medical Center                   Brownsville                  177    Owned
                             Mid-Jefferson Hospital                       Nederland                    138    Owned
                             Nacogdoches Medical Center                   Nacogdoches                  150    Owned
                             Odessa Regional Hospital (10)                Odessa                       100    Owned
                             Park Place Hospital                          Port Arthur                  236    Owned
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<S>                          <C>                                          <C>                  <C>            <C>
                             Providence Memorial Hospital                 El Paso                      471    Owned
                             Sierra Medical Center                        El Paso                      365    Owned
                             SOUTH PARK HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER         LUBBOCK                      101    OWNED
                             SOUTHWEST GENERAL HOSPITAL                   SAN ANTONIO                  286    OWNED
                             TRINITY VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER                PALESTINE                    150    OWNED
Alabama                      Brookwood Medical Center                     Birmingham                   586    Owned
                             Lloyd Noland Hospital                        Birmingham                   319    Owned
                             St. Clair Hospital (1)(11)                   Birmingham                    82    Leased
Arkansas                     Central Arkansas Hospital                    Searcy                       193    Owned
                             Methodist Hospital of Jonesboro (12)         Jonesboro                    104    Owned
                             National Park Medical Center                 Hot Springs                  166    Owned
                             St. Mary's Regional Hospital                 Russellville                 170    Owned
Georgia                      North Fulton Regional Hospital (1)           Roswell                      167    Leased
                             Spalding Regional Hospital                   Griffin                      160    Owned
Indiana                      Culver Union Hospital                        Crawfordsville               120    Owned
                             WINONA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL                     INDIANAPOLIS                 317    OWNED
Missouri                     Columbia Regional Hospital (13)              Columbia                     265    Owned
                             Kirksville Osteopathic Medical Center (14)   Kirksville                   119    Leased
                             Lucy Lee Hospital (1)                        Poplar Bluff                 201    Leased
                             Lutheran Medical Center                      St. Louis                    408    Owned
                             TWIN RIVERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER          KENNETT                      126    OWNED
North Carolina               Central Carolina Hospital                    Sanford                      137    Owned
                             Frye Regional Medical Center (1)             Hickory                      355    Leased
Oregon                       EASTMORELAND HOSPITAL                        PORTLAND                     100    OWNED
                             WOODLAND PARK HOSPITAL (3)                   PORTLAND                     209    LEASED
South Carolina               East Cooper Community Hospital               Mount Pleasant               100    Owned
                             Hilton Head Hospital (15)                    Hilton Head                   64    Owned
                             Piedmont Medical Center                      Rock Hill                    268    Owned
Tennessee                    John W. Harton Regional Medical Center       Tullahoma                    137    Owned
                             Medical Center of Manchester (1)             Manchester                    49    Leased
                             Saint Francis Hospital                       Memphis                      890    Owned
                             University Medical Center                    Lebanon                      261    Owned
Nine additional states       Saint Joseph Hospital                        Omaha, NE                    374    Owned
                             DAVENPORT MEDICAL CENTER                     DAVENPORT, IA                150    OWNED
                             MINDEN MEDICAL CENTER                        MINDEN, LA                   121    OWNED
                             SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL                       WORCESTER, MA                432    OWNED
                             GULF COAST MEDICAL CENTER                    BILOXI, MI                   189    OWNED
                             LAKE MEADE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER           NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV          198    OWNED
                             PUGET SOUND HOSPITAL                         TACOMA, WA                   160    OWNED
                             PLATEAU MEDICAL CENTER                       OAK HILL, WV                  91    OWNED
                             LANDER VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER (4)             LANDER, WY                   102    OWNED
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 (1) Leased from a third party.
 
 (2) Leased by a partnership in which Tenet's subsidiaries own a 75% interest.
 
 (3) On leased land.
 
 (4) Joint venture with minority interests owned by physicians.
 
 (5) The acquisition of this facility was pending pursuant to a definitive
    agreement at November 30, 1996. The acquisition was completed in December
    1996.
 
 (6) This facility was closed in December 1996.
 
 (7) The acquisition of this facility was pending pursuant to a definitive
    agreement at November 30, 1996. The acquisition was completed in January
    1997.
 
 (8) Effective September 1, 1996, the 352 bed license of Golden Glades Medical
    Center was combined with the license of this nearby hospital resulting in
    this hospital's licensed beds increasing to 699 licensed beds.
 
 (9) Excludes the 38-bed Plaza Specialty Hospital in Houston, Texas, the
    financial results of which are combined with Park Plaza Hospital.
 
(10) Owned by a partnership in which Tenet's subsidiaries own an 83% interest.
 
(11) A Tenet subsidiary owns a 50% interest in the limited liability company
    that leases this hospital. This hospital's financial results are not
    consolidated with Tenet's financial results and it is not included in the
    count of the total number of hospitals owned or leased by Tenet because
    Tenet does not manage or control the management of this hospital.
 
(12) Owned by a limited liability company of which Tenet owns 95% and is the
    managing member.
 
(13) Excludes the 64-bed Keller Memorial Hospital in Columbia, Missouri, the
    financial results of which were combined with the Columbia Regional
    Hospital. The lease for Keller Memorial Hospital was terminated during the
    first quarter of fiscal 1996.
 
(14) Tenet sold its lease of this hospital in December 1996.
 
(15) Owned by a partnership in which Tenet's subsidiaries own a 70% interest.
 
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GEOGRAPHIC AREA DISCUSSION
 
    By providing Tenet with the opportunity to combine with a company having a
substantial portfolio of large, attractive urban and suburban hospitals known
for quality care and strong financial performance, the Merger supports major
strategic objectives of Tenet--to reinforce its position as a significant
provider of healthcare services in selected geographic areas throughout the
United States and enter attractive new geographic areas such as Arizona and
Massachusetts. Tenet believes that the Merger will create a stronger, more
geographically diverse company that will be better able to grow through
strategic acquisitions and partnerships. The combined company will continue to
emphasize the creation of strong integrated healthcare delivery systems. The
Merger also expands the Company's operations into several new geographic areas,
including Arizona, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, Oregon, Washington,
West Virginia and Wyoming. The following discussion summarizes the Company's
strategy in two of the principal geographic areas where the OrNda hospitals
being acquired pursuant to the Merger will complement Tenet's existing
integrated systems.
 
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.  Southern California is geographically large and
densely populated. Los Angeles and Orange counties alone had a combined
population of over 11.3 million people in 1990 according to the United States
Bureau of the Census. For healthcare services companies, southern California is
a highly competitive environment characterized by an increasingly high degree of
managed care penetration.
 
    Tenet's strategy in southern California is to develop and expand its
integrated healthcare delivery system by combining its general hospitals and
related healthcare businesses with physicians, physician groups and ancillary
healthcare providers where appropriate in order to compete more effectively for
managed care contracts. Furthermore, Tenet intends to continue to join with
physicians and physician groups to form IPAs, PHOs or other appropriate
organizations that will enhance the ability of Tenet and its partners to enter
into additional managed care contracts, including capitated contracts under
which Tenet receives a fixed monthly payment per covered person in exchange for
which Tenet meets the healthcare needs of those covered by such contracts.
 
    The Merger provides Tenet with the opportunity to expand and enhance its
integrated healthcare delivery system by adding OrNda's 19 existing southern
California hospitals and related healthcare operations to Tenet's 15 existing
hospitals and related healthcare operations. Following the Merger, Tenet will be
the largest integrated healthcare provider in southern California and will have
the widest geographical representation in the area. Tenet's southern California
general hospitals will include four tertiary hospitals (Centinela Hospital
Medical Center, Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and Medical Center, Tarzana
Regional Medical Center and Western Medical Center) and one quartenary hospital
(USC University Hospital), offering heart, liver and lung transplants as well as
gamma knife brain surgery.
 
    The table below sets forth, on a historical combined basis, certain selected
historical operating statistics for those hospitals operated by Tenet and OrNda
in the southern California area.
 
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                                                                            FISCAL YEARS(1)
                                                                   ----------------------------------
                                                                      1994        1995        1996
                                                                   ----------  ----------  ----------
                                                                         (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                                                <C>         <C>         <C>
Number of hospitals (at end of period)...........................          28          29          31
Licensed beds (at end of period).................................       5,090       5,266       5,623
Net operating revenues...........................................  $  1,280.1  $  1,589.4  $  1,595.3
Admissions.......................................................     138,501     165,992     171,654
Equivalent admissions............................................     179,300     218,967     228,961
Patient days.....................................................     702,576     848,174     846,565
Equivalent patient days..........................................     908,164   1,104,840   1,119,859
Total outpatient visits..........................................     811,129     934,490   1,302,480
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(1) For purposes of the above, financial and operating data for each of Tenet's
    fiscal years ended May 31 of the respective years has been combined with
    financial and operating data for each of OrNda's fiscal years ended August
    31 of such year. Excludes one facility which has been deconsolidated for
    financial reporting purposes.
 
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    SOUTH FLORIDA.  South Florida is a rapidly expanding metropolitan area that
encompasses Palm Beach, Broward and Dade counties. Those counties had a combined
population of approximately 4.1 million people in 1990 according to the United
States Bureau of the Census. The highly competitive south Florida healthcare
environment is characterized by an increasingly high degree of managed care
penetration.
 
    The Tenet South Florida HealthSystem is an integrated healthcare delivery
system that currently consists of eight general hospitals, four of which are
tertiary care hospitals, and numerous related healthcare operations, including a
physical rehabilitation facility, a psychiatric hospital, two skilled nursing
facilities, over 50 owned or managed physician practices and outpatient surgery,
diagnostic, workers' compensation occupational therapy and health and fitness
centers. The Merger will enhance Tenet's ability to compete for managed care and
other contracts by adding OrNda's four existing south Florida general hospitals,
one of which is a tertiary care hospital, and related healthcare businesses to
the Tenet South Florida HealthSystem and expanding the system's geographic reach
further south to Miami and Coral Gables. Tenet recently further strengthened the
network with its January 1997 acquisition of North Shore Medical Center in
Miami. Tenet intends to continue to acquire or manage physician practices and to
join with physicians and physician groups to form IPAs, PHOs or other
appropriate organizations that will enhance the ability of Tenet and its
partners to enter into more managed care contracts, including capitated
contracts.
 
    The table below sets forth, on a historical combined basis, certain selected
historical operating statistics for those facilities operated by Tenet and OrNda
in the south Florida area.
 
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                                                                            FISCAL YEARS(1)
                                                                   ----------------------------------
                                                                      1994        1995        1996
                                                                   ----------  ----------  ----------
                                                                         (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                                                <C>         <C>         <C>
Number of hospitals (at end of year).............................           9           9          10
Licensed beds (at end of year)...................................       3,197       3,197       3,328
Net operating revenues...........................................  $    834.2  $    911.3  $    956.3
Admissions.......................................................      86,519      92,309      96,239
Equivalent admissions............................................     115,724     126,604     133,907
Patient days.....................................................     500,081     507,097     514,436
Equivalent patient days..........................................     644,053     686,503     709,607
Total outpatient procedures......................................     827,383   1,116,929   1,154,080
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(1) For purposes of the above, financial and operating data for each of Tenet's
    fiscal years ended May 31 of the respective years has been combined with
    financial and operating data for each of OrNda's fiscal years ended August
    31 of such year.
 
OTHER DOMESTIC OPERATIONS
 
    At November 30, 1996, Tenet's subsidiaries owned or operated a small number
of rehabilitation hospitals, specialty hospitals, long-term care facilities and
psychiatric facilities as well as various ancillary healthcare businesses,
including outpatient surgery centers, home healthcare programs, ambulatory,
occupational and rural healthcare clinics, a health maintenance organization, a
preferred provider organization and a managed care insurance company. OrNda's
subsidiaries also own or operate extensive ancillary healthcare operations
similar to those of Tenet.
 
INVESTMENTS
 
    At November 30, 1996, Tenet held as investments (i) 8,301,067 shares of
Vencor, representing an approximately 12.1% interest in Vencor, which operates
nursing homes and other healthcare businesses, (ii) 3,000,000 shares of TRC,
representing an approximately 11.6% interest in TRC, which operates kidney
dialysis units and certain related healthcare businesses, and (iii) an
approximately 23% interest in HCPP, a partnership originally formed by the
Company and Health Care Property Investors, Inc. for the purpose of acquiring
from and leasing back to the Company 21 long-term care facilities, two general
hospitals and one psychiatric facility. Since that time, the Company has
assigned to Vencor (as successor to Hillhaven), and other third parties its
leasehold interests in the 21 long-term care facilities and the psychiatric
hospital, but
 
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remains contingently liable for the lease payments on those facilities. The
Company continues to lease the two general hospitals from HCPP. HCPP does not
own any properties other than those originally purchased from the Company.
 
    In connection with the September 1995 merger transaction in which Vencor
acquired Hillhaven, Tenet received 8,301,067 shares of Vencor common stock in
exchange for its 8,878,147 shares of Hillhaven common stock. As part of that
transaction, Tenet also received approximately $91.8 million for the redemption
of its Hillhaven Series C Preferred Stock and Hillhaven Series D Preferred
Stock. In January 1996, Tenet sold $320 million principal amount of its 6%
Exchangeable Subordinated Notes due 2005, which Notes are exchangeable into
Tenet's 8,301,067 shares of Vencor common stock.
 
COMPETITION
 
    Tenet's general hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, specialty hospitals,
long-term care facilities, psychiatric facilities, outpatient surgery centers
and other ancillary businesses operate in competitive environments. A facility's
competitive position within the geographic area in which it operates is affected
by such competitive factors as the quality of care provided, including the
number, quality and specialties of the physicians, nurses and other healthcare
professionals on staff, the quality of services provided by the hospital to
patients and their physicians, its reputation, the number of competitive
facilities, the state of its physical plant, the quality and the state of the
art of its medical equipment, its location and its charges for services.
Tax-exempt competitors may have certain financial advantages such as endowments,
charitable contributions, tax-exempt financing and exemption from sales,
property and income taxes not available to Tenet facilities. The length of time
a facility has been a part of the community and the availability of other
healthcare alternatives also are competitive factors.
 
    One factor of ever-increasing importance in the competitive position of
Tenet's facilities is the ability of those facilities to obtain managed care
contracts. The importance of obtaining managed care contracts has increased over
the years and is expected to continue to increase as employers, private and
government payors and others turn to the use of managed care in an attempt to
control rising healthcare costs. In fact, the revenues and operating results of
most of the Company's hospitals' are significantly affected by the hospitals'
ability to negotiate favorable contracts with managed care payors. Under such
contracts, healthcare providers agree to provide services on a discounted-fee or
capitated basis in exchange for the payors agreeing to send some or all of their
members/employees to those providers. With capitated contracts, a healthcare
provider such as Tenet receives specific fixed periodic payments from a health
maintenance organization, preferred provider organization or employer based on
the number of members of such organization being serviced by the provider. In
return, the provider agrees to provide healthcare services to such members
regardless of the actual costs incurred and services provided. A healthcare
provider's ability to compete for such contracts is affected by many factors,
such as the competitive factors referred to above, the scope, breadth and
quality of services a hospital offers in a given geographic area, its ability to
form its own, or to join with other healthcare providers to form, integrated
healthcare delivery systems and the scope, breadth and quality of services
offered by competing healthcare providers and/or systems. Tenet evaluates
changing circumstances in each geographic area on an ongoing basis and positions
itself to compete in the managed care market by forming its own or joining with
others to form integrated healthcare delivery systems, such as the Tenet South
Florida HealthSystem in south Florida, Sierra Providence Health Network in El
Paso, Texas and Tenet Louisiana HealthSystem in the greater New Orleans area,
that actively pursue and enter into managed care contracts. Tenet's integrated
healthcare delivery systems also compete for traditional fee-for-service
patients and contracts with traditional health insurers.
 
    The healthcare industry also has been characterized in recent years by
increased competition for patients and staff physicians, significant excess
capacity at general hospitals, a shift from inpatient to outpatient treatment
settings and increased consolidation. New competitive strategies of hospitals
and other healthcare providers place increasing emphasis on the use of
alternative healthcare delivery systems (such as home health services,
outpatient surgery and emergency and diagnostic centers) that eliminate or
reduce lengths of hospital stays. The principal factors contributing to these
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technology and pharmaceuticals, cost-containment efforts by managed care payors,
employers and traditional health insurers, changes in regulations and
reimbursement policies, increases in the number and type of competing healthcare
providers and changes in physician practice patterns. Tenet's future success
will depend, in part, on the ability of the Company's hospitals to continue to
attract and retain staff physicians, enter into managed care contracts and
organize and structure integrated healthcare delivery systems, including those
with other healthcare providers and physician practice groups.
 
    The Company's hospitals, and the healthcare industry as a whole, also face
the challenge of continuing to provide quality patient care while dealing with
strong competition for patients and with pressure on reimbursement rates not
only by private payors, but also by government payors. National and state
efforts to reform the United States healthcare system may further impact
reimbursement rates. Changes in medical technology, existing and future
legislation, regulations and interpretations and competitive contracting for
provider services by payors may require changes in the Company's facilities,
equipment, personnel, procedures, rates and/or services in the future.
 
    Inpatient admissions, average lengths of stay and average occupancy at
general hospitals, including the Company's general hospitals, continue to be
adversely affected by payor-required pre-admission authorization and utilization
review and payor pressure to maximize outpatient and alternative healthcare
delivery services for less acutely ill patients. Increased competition,
admissions constraints and payor pressures are expected to continue. Inpatient
acuity and intensity of services continue to increase as less intensive services
shift from an inpatient to an outpatient basis or to alternative healthcare
delivery services because of technological improvements and as payors continue
to limit or reduce payments. Those pressures imposed by government and private
payors and the increasing percentage of business negotiated with purchasers of
group healthcare services are expected to continue to put pressure on the
per-patient revenues received by the Company. To meet these challenges, the
Company (i) has expanded or converted many of its general hospitals' facilities
to include distinct outpatient centers, (ii) offers discounts to private payor
groups, (iii) enters into capitation contracts in some service areas, (iv)
upgrades facilities and equipment, (v) offers new programs and services, (vi)
has been reducing its costs, for example, through the implementation of a case
management system designed to maximize efficiency by identifying cost-per-
procedure variables among physicians performing the same procedures,
standardizing supplies used and negotiating volume discounts for purchases and
(vii) has developed a computerized outcomes management system that contains
clinical and demographic information from the Company's hospitals and physicians
and allows users to identify "best practices" for treating specific diagnostic
related groups. Nevertheless, there can be no assurance that these measures will
be successful or, if successful, will serve to compensate for the reduction in
inpatient admissions, average lengths of stay and average occupancy, and the
consequent reductions in per-patient revenue, resulting from the payor pressures
referred to above.
 
    As noted above, the Company also is responding to these changes by forming
integrated healthcare delivery systems. Components of these systems include: (i)
encouraging physicians practicing at its hospitals to form IPAs, (ii) having the
Company join with those IPAs, physicians and physician group practices to form
PHOs to contract with managed care and other payors and (iii) forming MSOs to
(A) purchase physician practices or their assets, as appropriate, (B) provide
management and administrative services to physicians, physician group practices
and IPAs and (C) enter into managed care contracts both on behalf of those
groups and, in certain circumstances, on behalf of PHOs.
 
    In large part, a hospital's revenues, whether from managed care payors,
traditional health insurance payors or directly from patients, depends on the
quality and scope of practices of physicians on staff. Physicians refer patients
to hospitals on the basis of the quality of services provided by the hospital to
patients and their physicians, the hospital's location, the quality of the
medical staff affiliated with the hospital and the quality and state of the art
of the hospital's facilities, equipment and employees. The Company attracts
physicians to its hospitals by equipping its hospitals with technologically
advanced equipment, sponsoring training programs to educate physicians on
advanced medical procedures, using governing boards for each hospital, the sole
voting members of which are physicians and community members, to develop short
and long-term plans for the hospital and review and approve, as appropriate,
actions of the medical staff, including staff appointments, credentialing, peer
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and otherwise creating an environment within which physicians prefer to
practice. While physicians may terminate their association with a hospital at
any time, Tenet believes that by striving to maintain and improve the level of
care at its hospitals and by maintaining ethical and professional standards, it
will attract and retain qualified physicians with a variety of specialties.
 
    There has been significant consolidation in the hospital industry over the
past decade due, in large part, to continuing pressures on payments from
government and private payors and increasing shifts away from the provision of
traditional in-patient services. Those economic trends have caused many
hospitals to close and many to consolidate either through acquisitions or
affiliations. Tenet's management believes that these cost-containment pressures
will continue and will lead to further consolidation in the hospital industry.
 
    Tenet and its hospitals strive, on terms favorable to the Company, to
attract and retain physicians to their staffs, enter into managed care
contracts, organize and structure integrated healthcare delivery systems,
organize and structure integrated healthcare delivery systems, acquire hospitals
or other healthcare facilities and acquire or assume the management of physician
practices. Other healthcare companies with greater financial resources, with
more facilities in a given geographic area or offering a wider range of services
may be competing in each of these areas. These competitive factors may result in
Tenet and its hospitals being less successful than they would hope to be in
accomplishing one or more of these goals.
 
MEDICARE, MEDICAID AND OTHER REVENUES
 
    Tenet receives payments for patient care from private insurance carriers,
Federal Medicare programs for elderly and disabled patients, HMOs, preferred
provider organizations ("PPOs"), state Medicaid programs for indigent and cash
grant patients, the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed
Services ("CHAMPUS"), employers and patients directly. In general, Medicare
payments for general hospital outpatient services, psychiatric care, physical
rehabilitation and nursing home care are based on the lower of charges and
allowable costs, subject to certain limits. General hospital inpatient services
are reimbursed under Medicare based on a prospective payment system, discussed
below. Payments from state Medicaid programs are based on reasonable costs or
are at fixed rates. Substantially all Medicare and Medicaid payments are below
retail rates for Tenet facilities. Payments from other sources usually are based
on the hospital's established charges, a percentage discount or all-inclusive
per diem rates.
 
    The approximate percentages of Tenet's net patient revenue by payment
sources for Tenet's general hospitals are as follows:
 
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                                                                                          YEARS ENDED MAY 31,
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                                                                           1992       1993       1994       1995       1996
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Medicare...............................................................       32.1%      33.9%      35.9%      38.9%      39.7%
Medicaid...............................................................        6.4        7.5        8.5        7.2        6.7
Private and Other......................................................       61.5       58.6       55.6       53.9       53.6
                                                                         ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Totals.................................................................      100.0%     100.0%     100.0%     100.0%     100.0%
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(1) Fiscal year 1995 includes twelve months of results for general hospitals
    owned by Tenet prior to its March 1, 1995 acquisition of AMH and three
    months of results for the general hospitals acquired by Tenet in connection
    with the AMH Merger.
 
    The following table presents the percentage of net patient revenues of the
general hospitals of OrNda for fiscal years 1994, 1995 and 1996 under each of
the following programs:
 
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                                                                                             1994       1995       1996
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Medicare.................................................................................       42.3%      36.4%      36.6%
Medicaid.................................................................................       12.3       11.0       12.5
Private and Other........................................................................       45.4       52.6       50.9
                                                                                           ---------  ---------  ---------
Totals...................................................................................      100.0%     100.0%     100.0%
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    Medicare payments for general hospital inpatient care are based on a
prospective payment system ("PPS") that generally has been applicable to Tenet's
facilities since 1984. Under the PPS, a general hospital receives for each
Medicare patient a fixed amount for operating costs based on each Medicare
patient's assigned diagnostic related group ("DRG"). DRG payments do not
consider a specific hospital's costs, but are adjusted for area wage
differentials. As discussed below, DRG payments exclude the reimbursement of (a)
capital costs, including depreciation, interest relating to capital
expenditures, property tax and lease expenses and (b) outpatient services.
 
    For several years the percentage increases to the DRG rates have been lower
than the percentage increases in the cost of goods and services purchased by
general hospitals. The index used by the Health Care Financing Administration to
adjust the DRG rates gives consideration to the cost of goods and services
purchased by hospitals as well as non-hospitals (the "Market Basket"). The
increase in the Market Basket for the year beginning October 1, 1996, was 2.5%.
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 ("OBRA '93") provides that the DRG
rates for urban hospitals will be adjusted by the annual Market Basket
percentage change: (1) minus 2.5%, effective October 1, 1994, (2) minus 2.0%,
effective October 1, 1995, (3) minus .5%, effective October 1, 1996, and (4)
without reduction, effective October 1, 1997 and each year thereafter, unless
altered by subsequent legislation (which legislation Tenet believes has become
more likely in light of the stated desire of both the current Administration and
Congress to balance the Federal budget). There was an increase of 2.0% in the
DRG rates for Federal fiscal year 1997 over what they were for Federal fiscal
year 1996. Congress is in the process of establishing the healthcare budget for
future periods, including Federal fiscal year 1997. Tenet anticipates that
payments to hospitals will be reduced as a result of future legislation but is
unable to predict what the amount of the final reduction will be.
 
    Medicare reimburses general hospitals' capital costs separately from DRG
payments. Beginning in 1992, a prospective payment system for Medicare
reimbursement of general hospitals' inpatient capital costs ("PPS-CC") generally
became effective with respect to the Company's general hospitals. During Tenet's
fiscal year ended May 31, 1996, Tenet's hospitals in the aggregate received
reimbursement for approximately 95% of their actual capital costs under the
PPS-CC. Tenet anticipates that future legislation may reduce the aggregate
reimbursement received, but is unable to predict what the amount of the final
reduction will be.
 
    Outpatient services provided at general hospitals, physical rehabilitation
hospitals and psychiatric facilities generally are reimbursed by Medicare at the
lower of customary charges or 94.2% of actual cost. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, Congress has established additional limits on the reimbursement of
the following outpatient services: (i) clinical laboratory services, which are
reimbursed based on a fee schedule and (ii) ambulatory surgery procedures and
certain imaging and other diagnostic procedures, which are reimbursed based on a
blend of the hospital's specific cost and the rate paid by Medicare to
non-hospital providers for such services.
 
    Hospitals exempt from the PPS, such as qualified psychiatric facilities and
physical rehabilitation hospitals, are reimbursed by Medicare on a cost-based
system wherein target rates for each facility are used in applying various
limitations and incentives. Tenet's exempt facilities received a Market Basket
increase of 3.4% in target rates effective for cost reporting periods commencing
in Federal fiscal year 1996. Based on OBRA '93, the target rates for Tenet's
hospitals exempt from the PPS will be adjusted in cost reporting years through
1997 by the applicable annual Market Basket percentage change minus 1%.
Proposals have been made that would change the method of payment for services
provided at these facilities to a prospective payment system. The Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1990 requires the Department of Health and Human Services
to develop a proposal to modify the current target rate system or to replace it
with a prospective payment system. It is not known if any such proposals will be
implemented.
 
    OBRA '93 provides for certain budget targets through Federal fiscal year
1997, which, if not met, may result in adjustments in payment rates. Both
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healthcare budgets that reduce Federal payments to hospitals and other
providers. The Company anticipates that payments to hospitals will be reduced as
a result of future legislation but is unable to predict what the amount of the
final reduction will be.
 
    The Medicare, Medicaid and CHAMPUS programs are subject to statutory and
regulatory changes, administrative rulings, interpretations and determinations,
requirements for utilization review and new governmental funding restrictions,
all of which may materially increase or decrease program payments as well as
affect the cost of providing services and the timing of payments to facilities.
The final determination of amounts earned under the programs often requires many
years, because of audits by the program representatives, providers' rights of
appeal and the application of numerous technical reimbursement provisions.
Management believes that adequate provision has been made for such adjustments.
Until final adjustment, however, significant issues remain unresolved and
previously determined allowances could become either inadequate or more than
ultimately required.
 
HEALTHCARE REFORM, REGULATION AND LICENSING
 
    CERTAIN BACKGROUND INFORMATION.  Healthcare, as one of the largest
industries in the United States, continues to attract much legislative interest
and public attention. Medicare, Medicaid, mandatory and other public and private
hospital cost-containment programs, proposals to limit healthcare spending,
proposals to limit prices and industry competitive factors are highly
significant to the healthcare industry. In addition, the healthcare industry is
governed by a framework of Federal and state laws, rules and regulations that
are extremely complex and for which the industry has the benefit of little or no
regulatory or judicial interpretation. Although the Company believes it is in
compliance in all material respects with such laws, rules and regulations, if a
determination is made that the Company was in material violation of such laws,
rules or regulations, its operations and financial results could be materially
adversely affected.
 
    There continue to be Federal and state proposals that would, and actions
that do, impose more limitations on government and private payments to providers
such as Tenet and proposals to increase co-payments and deductibles from program
and private patients. Tenet's and OrNda's facilities also are affected by
controls imposed by government and private payors designed to reduce admissions
and lengths of stay. Such controls, including what is commonly referred to as
"utilization review," have resulted in fewer of certain treatments and
procedures being performed. Utilization review entails the review of the
admission and course of treatment of a patient by a third party. Utilization
review by third-party peer review organizations ("PROs") is required in
connection with the provision of care paid for by Medicare and Medicaid.
Utilization review by third parties also is a requirement of many managed care
arrangements.
 
    Many states have enacted or are considering enacting measures that are
designed to reduce their Medicaid expenditures and to make certain changes to
private healthcare insurance. Various states have applied, or are considering
applying, for a Federal waiver from current Medicaid regulations to allow them
to serve some of their Medicaid participants through managed care providers.
Tennessee has implemented a revision and Texas has passed a law mandating the
State to apply for such a waiver. Louisiana is considering wider use of managed
care for its Medicaid populations. California has created a voluntary health
insurance purchasing cooperative that seeks to make healthcare coverage more
affordable for businesses with five to 50 employees and, effective January 1,
1995, began changing the payment system for participants in its Medicaid program
in certain counties from fee-for-service arrangements to managed care plans.
Florida limits the amount by which a hospital's net revenues per admission may
be increased each year, has enacted a program creating a system of local
purchasing cooperatives and has proposed other changes that have not yet been
enacted. Florida also has adopted, and other states are considering adopting,
legislation imposing a tax on revenues of hospitals to help finance or expand
those states' Medicaid systems. A number of other states are considering the
enactment of managed care initiatives designed to provide universal low-cost
coverage. These proposals also may attempt to include coverage for some people
who presently are uninsured.
 
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    CERTIFICATE OF NEED REQUIREMENTS.  Some states require state approval for
construction and expansion of healthcare facilities, including findings of need
for additional or expanded healthcare facilities or services. Certificates of
Need, which are issued by governmental agencies with jurisdiction over
healthcare facilities, are at times required for capital expenditures exceeding
a prescribed amount, changes in bed capacity or services and certain other
matters. Following a number of years of decline, the number of states requiring
Certificates of Need is once again on the rise as state legislators once again
are looking at the Certificate of Need process as a way to contain rising
healthcare costs. At November 30, 1996, Tenet operated hospitals in 11 states
and OrNda operated hospitals in seven additional states that require state
approval under Certificate of Need Programs. Tenet is unable to predict whether
it will be able to obtain any Certificates of Need in any jurisdiction where
such Certificates of Need are required.
 
    ANTIKICKBACK AND SELF-REFERRAL REGULATIONS.  The healthcare industry is
subject to extensive Federal, state and local regulation relating to licensure,
conduct of operations, ownership of facilities, addition of facilities and
services and prices for services. In particular, the Antikickback Amendments
prohibit certain business practices and relationships that might affect the
provision and cost of healthcare services reimbursable under Medicare and
Medicaid, including the payment or receipt of remuneration for the referral of
patients whose care will be paid for by Medicare or other government programs.
Sanctions for violating the Antikickback Amendments include criminal penalties
and civil sanctions, including fines and possible exclusion from government
programs such as the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Pursuant to the Medicare
and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987, HHS has issued
regulations that describe Safe Harbors under the Antikickback Amendments. The
fact that a given business arrangement does not fall within a Safe Harbor does
not render the arrangement PER SE illegal. Business arrangements of healthcare
service providers that fail to satisfy the applicable Safe Harbor criteria,
however, risk increased scrutiny by enforcement authorities. Because Tenet may
be less willing than some of its competitors to enter into business arrangements
that do not clearly satisfy the Safe Harbors, it could be at a competitive
disadvantage in entering into certain transactions and arrangements with
physicians and other healthcare providers.
 
    The "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996," which
became effective January 1, 1997, amends, among other things, Title XI (42
U.S.C. 1301 ET SEQ.) to broaden the scope of current fraud and abuse laws to
include all health plans, whether or not they are reimbursed as a Federal
program.
 
    In addition, Section 1877 of the Social Security Act, which restricts
referrals by physicians of Medicare and other government-program patients to
providers of a broad range of designated health services with which they have
ownership or certain other financial arrangements, was amended effective January
1, 1995, to significantly broaden the scope of prohibited physician referrals
under the Medicare and Medicaid programs to providers with which they have
ownership or certain other financial arrangements. Many states have adopted or
are considering similar legislative proposals, some of which extend beyond the
Medicaid program to prohibit the payment or receipt of remuneration for the
referral of patients and physician self-referrals regardless of the source of
the payment for the care. Tenet's participation in and development of joint
ventures and other financial relationships with physicians could be adversely
affected by these amendments and similar state enactments. The Company
systematically reviews all of its operations to ensure that it complies with the
Social Security Act and similar state statutes.
 
    Both Federal and state government agencies have announced heightened and
coordinated civil and criminal enforcement efforts. One pilot project, Operation
Restore Trust, is focused on investigating healthcare providers in the home
health and nursing home industries as well as on medical suppliers to these
providers in California, Florida, Texas, Illinois and New York. The Company
provides home health and nursing home care in California, Florida and Texas.
 
    Tenet is unable to predict the future course of Federal, state and local
regulation or legislation, including Medicare and Medicaid statutes and
regulations. Further changes in the regulatory framework could have a material
adverse effect on Tenet's business, financial condition and results of
operations.
 
    ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS.  The Company's healthcare operations generate
medical waste that must be disposed of in compliance with Federal, state and
local environmental laws, rules and regulations. The
 
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Company's operations, as well as the Company's purchases and sales of
facilities, are also subject to various other environmental laws, rules and
regulations. The costs of compliance do not, and the Company anticipates that
such costs will not, materially affect the Company's capital expenditures,
earnings or competitive position.
 
    HEALTHCARE FACILITY LICENSING REQUIREMENTS.  Tenet's healthcare facilities
are subject to extensive Federal, state and local legislation and regulation. In
order to maintain their operating licenses, healthcare facilities must comply
with strict standards concerning medical care, equipment and hygiene. Various
licenses and permits also are required in order to dispense narcotics, operate
pharmacies, handle radioactive materials and operate certain equipment. Tenet's
healthcare facilities hold all required governmental approvals, licenses and
permits. With the exception of one general hospital that was acquired in fiscal
1996 and is in the process of becoming accredited for the first time, each of
Tenet's facilities that is eligible for accreditation is fully accredited by the
JCAHO, the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (in the case
of rehabilitation hospitals) or another appropriate accreditation agency. With
such accreditation, the Company's hospitals are eligible to participate in
government-sponsored provider programs such as the Medicare and Medicaid
programs.
 
    UTILIZATION REVIEW COMPLIANCE AND HOSPITAL GOVERNANCE.  Tenet's healthcare
facilities are subject to and comply with various forms of utilization review.
In addition, under the Medicare PPS, each state must have a PRO to carry out a
federally mandated system of review of Medicare patient admissions, treatments
and discharges in general hospitals. Medical and surgical services and practices
are extensively supervised by committees of staff doctors at each healthcare
facility, are overseen by each healthcare facility's local governing board, the
primary voting members of which are physicians and community members, and are
reviewed by Tenet's quality assurance personnel. The local governing boards also
help maintain standards for quality care, develop long-range plans, establish,
review and enforce practices and procedures and approve the credentials and
disciplining of medical staff members.
 
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
 
    The Company continues to defend a greater than normal level of litigation
relating to its subsidiaries' former psychiatric operations. The majority of the
lawsuits filed contain allegations of medical malpractice as well as allegations
of fraud and conspiracy against the Company and certain of its subsidiaries and
former employees. Also named as defendants are numerous doctors and other
healthcare professionals. The Company believes that the increase in litigation
stems, in whole or in part, from advertisements by certain lawyers seeking
former psychiatric patients in order to file claims against the Company and
certain of its subsidiaries. The advertisements focus, in many instances, on the
Company's settlement of past disputes involving the operations of its
discontinued psychiatric business, including the Company's 1994 resolution of
the Federal government's investigation and a corresponding criminal plea
agreement involving such discontinued psychiatric business of the Company. Among
the suits filed during fiscal 1995 were two lawsuits in Texas state court with
approximately 740 individual plaintiffs at present who purport to have been
patients in certain Texas psychiatric facilities. During fiscal 1996, 64
plaintiffs voluntarily withdrew from one of the lawsuits and the Company's
motion to recuse the original trial judge in that lawsuit has been granted. In
the second lawsuit, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled that lead counsel for the
plaintiffs may not continue to represent the plaintiffs due to a conflict of
interest as asserted by the defendants. The cases of three of the 740 individual
plaintiffs within one of the lawsuits currently are scheduled for trial in April
1997.
 
    During fiscal 1995 and 1996, lawsuits with approximately 210 plaintiffs at
present who purport to have been patients in certain Washington, D.C.
psychiatric facilities, containing allegations similar to those contained in the
Texas cases described above, were filed in the District of Columbia.
 
    In addition to the above, a purported class action was filed in Texas state
court in May 1995, entitled Justin Love vs. National Medical Enterprises, et al.
The case contains allegations of fraud and conspiracy similar to those described
in the preceding paragraphs. The plaintiff purports to represent all persons who
were voluntarily admitted to one of 11 psychiatric hospitals in Texas between
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December 31, 1991, and who also fit into one or more of eight categories based
on such factors as their age at the time of admission, status of their insurance
at the time of discharge and whether a certain type of examination was conducted
prior to their being admitted. In February 1996, an insurance company that
purports to have paid claims on behalf of the potential class intervened in the
action and the case was removed to the U.S. District Court in Houston, Texas. A
motion by the plaintiffs to remand the case to Texas state court has been
denied. A class has not been certified and the Company believes that a class is
not capable of being certified.
 
    The Company expects that additional lawsuits with similar allegations will
be filed. The Company believes it has a number of defenses to each of these
actions and will defend these and any additional lawsuits vigorously. Until the
lawsuits are resolved, however, the Company will continue to incur substantial
legal expenses. Although, based upon information currently available to it,
management believes that the amount of damages, if any, in excess of the
reserves the Company has recorded for unusual litigation costs that may be
awarded in any of the foregoing unresolved legal proceedings cannot reasonably
be estimated, management does not believe it is likely that any such damages
will have a material adverse effect on the Company's results of operations,
liquidity or capital resources. There can be no assurance, however, that the
ultimate liability will not exceed such reserves, which primarily represent the
estimated costs of defending the actions.
 
    Two additional federal class actions filed in August 1993 were consolidated
into one action pending in the U.S. District Court in the Central District of
California captioned In re: National Medical Enterprises Securities Litigation
II. These consolidated actions are on behalf of a purported class of
shareholders who purchased or sold stock of the Company between January 14, 1993
and August 26, 1993, and allege that each of the defendants violated Section
10(b) of the Exchange Act. Specifically, plaintiffs allege that each defendant
knew or recklessly disregarded that the public statements made by the Company
and several of its officers and directors in reports filed with the Commission,
in press releases, communications with shareholders, and communications with the
financial community were false and misleading because the financial data and
projections were based upon a number of alleged illegal practices at many of the
Company's psychiatric facilities. Plaintiffs claim that each of the defendants
was a direct participant in this wrongdoing and conspired with and aided and
abetted each of the other defendants in perpetrating the alleged fraudulent
scheme. Based on these claims, plaintiffs seek compensatory damages, injunctive
relief, attorneys' fees, interest and costs. The parties commenced a voluntary
mediation in July 1994. The mediation efforts were unsuccessful and in May 1995
the parties agreed to proceed with the litigation. On June 23, 1995, the
defendants filed a motion to dismiss and to strike plaintiffs' complaint, which
motion is still pending. The Company believes it has meritorious defenses to
this action and will defend this litigation vigorously.
 
    In connection with the merger of AMH with and into a subsidiary of Tenet in
March 1995, a total of nine purported class actions, entitled in re: American
Medical Holdings, Inc., Shareholders Litigation, C.A. No. 13797, Ruth LeWinter
and Raymond Cayuso v. the AMH Directors (with the exception of Harold S.
Williams), NME and AMH, Case No. BC-115206, and David F. and Sylvia Goldstein v.
O'Leary, NME, AMH, et al., Case No. BC-116104 (the "Merger Class Actions"), were
filed challenging the AMH Merger in both Delaware and California. In April 1996,
the parties to the Merger Class Actions executed a stipulation of settlement and
in August 1996 the court issued an order approving the settlement. Under the
terms of that settlement, the Company agreed to pay $350,000 for the plaintiffs'
attorneys fees and agreed that for a period of one year following final approval
of the settlement it will not engage in any transaction that will be dilutive to
existing shareholders without that transaction being approved by a majority of
its outside directors. Tenet believes the Merger with OrNda will not be dilutive
after taking into account the cost savings that management believes may be
realized following the Merger. Nevertheless, the Merger has been approved by the
required majority of Tenet's outside directors.
 
    In February 1996, OrNda's Midway in Los Angeles, California, which was
acquired when OrNda acquired Summit in April 1994, received an investigative
subpoena from the OIG. The subpoena states that it was issued in connection with
an OIG Investigation being conducted by the OIG concerning possible violations
of Medicare rules and regulations. Tenet understands that OrNda believes that
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for the investigative subpoena from the OIG that was served on Midway was a
civil qui tam action that had been filed in July 1995 against Midway Hospital
Medical Center, Inc. (a subsidiary of OrNda which owns Midway), Summit and OrNda
in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Tenet understands that this California Action originally was filed under a
court-ordered seal that prohibited OrNda from disclosing the action prior to
this time.
 
    The California Action alleges, among other things, that there were
violations of the federal False Claims Act and the federal fraud and abuse and
anti-kickback provisions of the Medicare and Medicaid laws in connection with
certain of Midway's compensation arrangements with its physicians. The
California Action alleges that as a result of this allegedly wrongful conduct,
the United States is entitled to monetary damages and penalties. The California
Action also alleges in a second cause of action violations of the fraud and
abuse, medical staff and wrongful discharge laws of the State of California and
claims as a result of such wrongful conduct compensatory as well as punitive
damages.
 
    Tenet understands that the OIG has expanded the California Action, which
initially related to only one of OrNda's hospitals (Midway, which was acquired
by OrNda from Summit), and the OIG Investigation to 11 other former Summit
hospitals owned by OrNda. In an apparently unrelated matter, the government has
requested and OrNda has provided records from a single hospital outside the
group acquired from Summit. Tenet understands that OrNda is fully cooperating
with the OIG. Tenet understands that OrNda and its outside counsel have held
numerous meetings with government attorneys with respect to this matter and, as
a result, OrNda believes that the OIG Investigation continues to be a civil
investigation focused primarily on arrangements between physicians and the
hospitals that may violate Medicare rules and regulations and not on the
hospitals' Medicare or Medicaid billing practices. If the outcome of the
California Action or OIG Investigation were unfavorable, OrNda could be subject
to Monetary Payments and also could be excluded from Medicare and other
government reimbursement programs, which Monetary Payments or exclusion could
have a material adverse effect on OrNda's financial condition or results of
operations. The result of the California Action, the OIG Investigation and their
impact, if any, cannot be predicted or estimated at this time. Tenet understands
that based on information currently available to OrNda, however, management of
OrNda believes that if the California Action and the OIG Investigation remain
primarily limited to physician arrangements, remain civil in nature and, with
the exception of only one of the hospitals, relate only to the practices of the
former Summit hospitals, the final outcome of the California Action and the OIG
Investigation will not have a material adverse effect on OrNda's financial
condition or results of operations. If any of the foregoing matters was to have
a material adverse effect on OrNda, it also could have a material adverse effect
on Tenet's business, financial condition and results of operations following the
Merger.
 
    Tenet understands that OrNda is not aware of any additional litigation or
investigations concerning the matters described above. There can be no
assurance, however, that in the event any such additional litigation or
investigation is instituted and there is an unfavorable outcome, such result
would not have a material adverse effect on OrNda's financial condition or
results of operations. If such result was to have a material adverse effect on
OrNda, it also could have a material adverse effect on Tenet's business,
financial condition and results of operations following the Merger.
 
    In its normal course of business the Company also is subject to claims and
lawsuits relating to injuries arising from patient treatment. The Company
believes that its liability for damages resulting from such claims and lawsuits
in its normal course of business is adequately covered by insurance or is
adequately provided for in its consolidated financial statements. See "Risk
Factors--Legal Proceedings."
 
COMPLIANCE PROGRAM
 
    The Company maintains a multi-faceted corporate compliance and ethics
program. A portion of the program results from a 1994 settlement between the
Company and HHS. The mandated portion of the program, which is in effect until
June 1999, provides, in part, that the Company will not own or operate
psychiatric facilities (defined for the purposes of the agreement to include
residential treatment centers and substance abuse facilities) except as
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permits the Company's subsidiaries to own and operate a small number of
psychiatric facilities on the same campus as or nearby certain of Tenet's
general hospitals) and requires self-reporting of credible evidence of
violations of criminal law or material violations of civil laws, rules or
regulations governing federally funded programs. The Company now has in place a
program designed to provide annual ethics training to every employee and to
encourage all employees to report any ethical violations to a toll-free
telephone hotline.
 
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
 
   
    In December 1996, OrNda acquired the Western Medical Centers in southern
California and in January 1997 Tenet acquired North Shore Medical Center in
Miami, Florida. Since those acquisitions were material pending acquisitions at
November 30, 1996, they have been included in the summary unaudited pro forma
financial information and the pro forma financial information. In January 1997,
Tenet also entered into a long-term lease of Brookside Hospital in San Pablo,
California. Since that acquisition was not a material pending acquisition at
November 30, 1996, it has not been included in the summary unaudited pro forma
financial information or the pro forma financial information. In December 1996,
Tenet sold its lease of the Kirksville Osteopathic Medical Center and OrNda
closed Westside Hospital. Since these latter two transactions are not material,
they have not been included in the summary unaudited pro forma financial
information or the pro forma financial information. See "Pro Forma Financial
Information."
    
 
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                                   MANAGEMENT
 
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
 
    The following table provides information as of November 30, 1996, with
respect to each of Tenet's directors and executive officers.
 
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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS(1)
 
Jeffrey C. Barbakow....................          52   Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
 
Michael H. Focht Sr....................          54   President, Chief Operating Officer and Director
 
Trevor Fetter..........................          36   Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
 
Scott M. Brown.........................          51   Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
 
Raymond L. Mathiasen...................          53   Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
 
Bernice B. Bratter.....................          58   Director
 
Maurice J. DeWald......................          56   Director
 
Peter de Wetter........................          76   Director
 
Edward Egbert, M.D.....................          71   Director
 
Raymond A. Hay.........................          68   Director
 
Lester B. Korn.........................          60   Director
 
James P. Livingston....................          70   Director
 
Thomas J. Pritzker.....................          46   Director
 
Richard S. Schweiker...................          70   Director
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(1) Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Tenet has agreed that, promptly following
    the Merger, it will increase the size of the Tenet Board of Directors from
    11 to 13 persons. The two additional members are expected to be members of
    OrNda's current Board of Directors. Tenet's Board of Directors is divided
    into three classes. Each director is elected to serve a three-year term. No
    determination has yet been made as to which class each additional member
    will be elected, but each will be elected to a different class.
    
 
    JEFFREY C. BARBAKOW was elected by the Board to serve as Chief Executive
Officer and President of Tenet effective June 1, 1993. Effective July 28, 1993,
Mr. Barbakow was elected Chairman of the Board, at which time he relinquished
the office of President. Prior to June 1, 1993, Mr. Barbakow served as a
Managing Director of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation, a
position he held from September 1991 through May 31, 1993. From 1988 until 1991,
Mr. Barbakow served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of MGM/UA
Communications, Inc. Prior to October 1988, Mr. Barbakow served as a Managing
Director of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets and an executive officer of several
Merrill Lynch affiliates. In addition, Mr. Barbakow served as a director of MGM
Grand, Inc. from November 1988 through May 1993. Mr. Barbakow has been a
director of Tenet since 1990.
 
    MICHAEL H. FOCHT was elected by the Board to serve as Chief Operating
Officer of Tenet effective April 28, 1993, and to serve in the additional
position of President effective July 28, 1993. Mr. Focht served as Senior
Executive Vice President, Operations, of Tenet from 1991, and President and
Chief Executive Officer of Tenet's General Hospital Division from 1986. Mr.
Focht joined Tenet in 1978 and has served as a director of Tenet since 1990.
 
    TREVOR FETTER joined Tenet as an Executive Vice President in October 1995.
In March 1996, he was appointed to the additional position of Chief Financial
Officer. Mr. Fetter served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. ("MGM") from 1990 to October 1995, and as
Senior Vice President of MGM from 1988 to 1990. From 1982 to 1988, Mr. Fetter
worked in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets.
 
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    SCOTT M. BROWN is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of
the Company. He joined Tenet in 1981. Mr. Brown was elected Secretary in 1984
and Senior Vice President in 1990. He was appointed acting General Counsel in
July 1993 and General Counsel in February 1994.
 
    RAYMOND L. MATHIASEN is Senior Vice President and, since March 1996, Chief
Accounting Officer of the Company. From February 1994 to March 1996, Mr.
Mathiasen served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the
Company and from September 1993 to February 1994, Mr. Mathiasen served as Senior
Vice President and acting Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Mathiasen was elected to
the position of Senior Vice President in 1990 and Chief Operating Financial
Officer in 1991. Prior to joining Tenet as a Vice President in 1985, he was a
partner with Arthur Young & Company (now known as Ernst & Young LLP).
 
    BERNICE B. BRATTER served as Executive Director of Senior Health and Peer
Counseling, a non-profit healthcare organization located in Santa Monica,
California from 1980 through her retirement from that position on March 14,
1995. From March 1995 through September, 1996, Ms. Bratter lectured and served
as a consultant in the fields of not-for-profit corporations and healthcare.
Since October 1, 1996, Ms. Bratter has served as the President of the Los
Angeles Women's Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to reshaping
the status of women of all ages in southern California. Ms. Bratter has been a
director of Tenet since 1990.
 
    MAURICE J. DEWALD is Chairman and Executive Officer of Verity Financial
Group, Inc., a private firm that he founded in 1993, which is involved in
investment and development projects, and President of DeWald Enterprises, a
private investment firm that he founded in 1991. From 1986 until 1990, Mr.
DeWald served as Managing Partner of the Los Angeles office of KPMG Peat Marwick
LLP. Mr. DeWald also is a director of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank of California and ARV
Assisted Living, Inc. Mr. DeWald has been a director of Tenet since 1991.
 
    PETER DE WETTER served as Executive Vice President of Tenet from October
1979 until his retirement in May 1989. Mr. de Wetter has been a director of
Tenet since 1977.
 
    EDWARD EGBERT retired as a physician in private practice on January 1, 1994.
From 1975 to 1982, Dr. Egbert served on the Governing Board of Sierra Medical
Center, a general hospital owned and operated by one of Tenet's subsidiaries.
Dr. Egbert has been a director of Tenet since 1975.
 
    RAYMOND A. HAY has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aberdeen
Associates, a private investment firm, since 1992. Mr. Hay held the same
position with Hay-Faulstich & Associates from 1991 through January 1992, when
its operations were assumed by Aberdeen Associates. From 1983 until June 1991,
Mr. Hay served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The LTV Corporation,
which filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code
in 1986. The petition received final approval in June 1993. Mr. Hay has been a
director of Tenet since 1985.
 
    LESTER B. KORN has been a director of Tenet since 1993. Mr. Korn is Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Korn Tuttle Capital Group, a diversified holding
company based in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Korn served as the Chairman of
Korn/Ferry International, an executive search firm which he founded, from 1969
until May 1991, when he retired and became Chairman Emeritus. During 1987-1988,
he served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social
Council. Mr. Korn also serves as a director of ConAm Properties, Ltd.
 
    JAMES P. LIVINGSTON served as an Executive Vice President of Tenet from 1977
until his retirement in June 1986. From 1984 until his retirement, Mr.
Livingston also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Tenet's
former Health Products and Services Group. Mr. Livingston has been a director of
Tenet since 1975.
 
    THOMAS J. PRITZKER has been the president and director of the corporation
that is the general partner of a limited partnership that is a general partner
of the sole general partner of GKH Investments, L.P. (the "Partnership"), since
1980. The sole general partner of the Partnership, GHK Partners, L.P., acted as
a financial advisor to AMH in connection with the acquisition of AMH by the
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has served as the Chairman of Healthcare COMPARE Corp., a firm involved in
providing medical review and cost management services to various types of
healthcare payor groups, since 1990, and President of Hyatt Corporation, a
diversified company primarily engaged in real estate and hotel management
activities, since 1979. Mr. Pritzker was elected a Director by the Board on
March 29, 1995.
 
    RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER served as president of the American Council of Life
Insurance from 1983 until his retirement on December 31, 1994. Mr. Schweiker
also serves as a director of LabOne, Inc. Mr. Schweiker has been a director of
Tenet since 1984. From 1981 to 1983, Mr. Schweiker served as Secretary of Health
and Human Services.
 
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                              DESCRIPTION OF NOTES
 
GENERAL
 
    The Senior Notes due 2003 will be issued pursuant to an Indenture (the
"Senior Note due 2003 Indenture") between the Company and The Bank of New York,
as Trustee (the "Senior Note due 2003 Trustee"). The Senior Notes due 2005 will
be issued pursuant to an Indenture (the "Senior Note due 2005 Indenture")
between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (the "Senior Note due
2005 Trustee"). The Senior Subordinated Notes will be issued pursuant to an
Indenture (the "Senior Subordinated Note Indenture" and, together with the
Senior Note due 2003 Indenture and the Senior Note due 2005 Indenture, the
"Indentures") between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (the
"Senior Subordinated Note Trustee" and, together with the Senior Note due 2003
Trustee and the Senior Note due 2005 Trustee, the "Trustees"). The terms of the
Notes include those stated in the Indentures and those made part of the
Indentures by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the
"Trust Indenture Act"). The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of
Notes are referred to the Indentures and the Trust Indenture Act for a statement
thereof. The following summary of certain provisions of the Indentures does not
purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the
Indentures, including the definitions therein of certain terms used below.
Copies of the proposed forms of Indentures have been filed as exhibits to the
Registration Statement of which this Prospectus is a part. The definitions of
certain terms used in the following summary are set forth below under "--Certain
Definitions." As used in this "Description of Notes," the term the "Company"
refers to Tenet Healthcare Corporation and not to any of its Subsidiaries.
 
   
    The Senior Notes will be general unsecured obligations of the Company,
senior to all subordinated Indebtedness of the Company, including the Senior
Subordinated Notes, the Company's 10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2005
(the "2005 Senior Subordinated Notes") and the Company's 6% Exchangeable
Subordinated Notes due 2005 (the "2005 Exchangeable Subordinated Notes"), and
PARI PASSU in right of payment with all other existing and future unsubordinated
Indebtedness of the Company, including the Company's 9 5/8% Senior Notes due
2002 (the "2002 Senior Notes"), the Company's 8 5/8% Senior Notes due 2003 (the
"2003 Senior Notes" and, together with the 2002 Senior Notes, the "Existing
Senior Notes") and all Obligations under the New Credit Facility. On a pro forma
basis, as of November 30, 1996, after giving effect to the Merger and the
Refinancing, approximately $1.9 billion in principal amount of outstanding
indebtedness of the Company will by its terms be subordinated to the Senior
Notes.
    
 
   
    The Senior Subordinated Notes will be general unsecured obligations of the
Company, subordinated in right of payment to all existing and future Senior Debt
of the Company, including the Senior Notes, the Existing Senior Notes and all
Obligations under the New Credit Facility, and will be PARI PASSU in right of
payment to the 2005 Senior Subordinated Notes and senior to the 2005
Exchangeable Subordinated Notes. On a pro forma basis, as of November 30, 1996,
after giving effect to the Merger and the Refinancing, Senior Debt of the
Company would have been approximately $2.8 billion. See "Historical and Pro
Forma Capitalization," "Related Transactions," "Description of the New Credit
Facility" and "--Subordination of Senior Subordinated Notes."
    
 
    The operations of the Company are conducted through its Subsidiaries and,
therefore, the Company is dependent upon the cash flow of its Subsidiaries to
meet its obligations, including its obligations under the Notes. The Notes will
be effectively subordinated to all outstanding Indebtedness and other
liabilities and commitments (including trade payables and lease obligations) of
the Company's Subsidiaries. Any right of the Company to receive assets of any of
its Subsidiaries upon the latter's liquidation or reorganization or insolvency
(and the consequent right of the Holders of Notes to participate in those
assets) will be effectively subordinated to the claims of that Subsidiary's
creditors and preferred stockholders, except to the extent that the Company is
itself recognized as a creditor of such Subsidiary, in which case the claims of
the Company would still be subordinate to any security interest in the assets of
such Subsidiary and any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary senior to that held by
the Company. On a pro forma basis, as of November 30, 1996, after giving effect
to the Merger and the Refinancing, the outstanding debt of the Company's
Subsidiaries would have been approximately $341.5 million (based upon certain
 
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assumptions as to the amounts of indebtedness of OrNda to be redeemed or
repurchased and excluding trade payables of $451.7 million, intercompany debt
and other obligations). See "Risk Factors--Subsidiary Operations; Subordination"
and "Pro Forma Financial Information."
 
PRINCIPAL, MATURITY AND INTEREST
 
   
    The Senior Notes due 2003 will be unsecured senior obligations of the
Company limited in aggregate principal amount to $400.0 million and will mature
on January 15, 2003. The Senior Notes due 2005 will be unsecured senior
obligations of the Company limited in aggregate principal amount to $900.0
million and will mature on January 15, 2005. Interest on the Senior Notes due
2003 and the Senior Notes due 2005 will accrue at the respective rates per annum
set forth on the cover page of this Prospectus and will be payable semi-annually
in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year, commencing on July 15, 1997,
to Holders of record on the immediately preceding January 1 and July 1,
respectively. Interest on the Senior Notes will accrue from the most recent date
to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the date
of original issuance.
    
 
   
    The Senior Subordinated Notes will be unsecured obligations of the Company
limited in aggregate principal amount to $700.0 million and will mature on
January 15, 2007. Interest on the Senior Subordinated Notes will accrue at the
rate per annum set forth on the cover page of this Prospectus and will be
payable semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year,
commencing on July 15, 1997, to Holders of record on the immediately preceding
January 1 and July 1, respectively. Interest on the Senior Subordinated Notes
will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no
interest has been paid, from the date of original issuance.
    
 
    Interest on the Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
comprised of twelve 30-day months. Principal, premium, if any, and interest on
the Notes will be payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained for
such purpose within the City and State of New York or, at the option of the
Company, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the Holders of the
Notes at their respective addresses set forth in the register of Holders of
Notes; provided that all payments with respect to Notes, the Holders of which
have given wire transfer instructions, on or prior to the relevant record date,
to the paying agent, will be required to be made by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to the accounts specified by such Holders. Until otherwise
designated by the Company, the Company's office or agency in New York will be
the office of the applicable Trustee maintained for such purpose. The Notes will
be issued in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof.
 
OPTIONAL REDEMPTION
 
    The Senior Notes will not be redeemable at the option of the Company prior
to their maturity.
 
   
    The Senior Subordinated Notes will not be redeemable at the option of the
Company prior to January 15, 2002. Thereafter, the Senior Subordinated Notes
will be subject to redemption at the option of the Company, in whole or from
time to time in part, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at
the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount) set forth
below plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the applicable redemption
date, if redeemed during the twelve-month period beginning on January 15 of the
following years
    
 
   
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2002........................................................................................           %
2003........................................................................................           %
2004........................................................................................           %
2005 and thereafter.........................................................................           %
</TABLE>
    
 
   
    If less than all of the Senior Subordinated Notes are to be redeemed at any
time, selection of Senior Subordinated Notes for redemption will be made by the
Senior Subordinated Note Trustee in compliance with the requirements of the
principal national securities exchange, if any, on which the Senior Subordinated
Notes are then listed, or, if the Senior Subordinated Notes are not so listed,
on a PRO RATA basis, by lot
    
 
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or by such method as the Senior Subordinated Note Trustee shall deem fair and
appropriate; PROVIDED that Senior Subordinated Notes with a principal amount of
$1,000 shall not be redeemed in part. Notices of redemption shall be mailed by
first class mail at least 30 but not more than 60 days before the redemption
date to each Holder of Senior Subordinated Notes to be redeemed at its
registered address. If any Senior Subordinated Note is to be redeemed in part
only, the notice of redemption that relates to such Senior Subordinated Note
shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. A new
Senior Subordinated Note in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion
thereof will be issued in the name of the Holder thereof upon cancellation of
the original Senior Subordinated Note. On and after the redemption date,
interest will cease to accrue on Senior Subordinated Notes or portions of them
called for redemption.
    
 
    The New Credit Facility will prohibit the Company from redeeming or
otherwise repurchasing the Senior Subordinated Notes prior to the stated
maturity thereof. See "Description of the New Credit Facility."
 
MANDATORY REDEMPTION
 
    Except as set forth below under "--Repurchase at the Option of Holders," the
Company will not be required to make any mandatory redemption or sinking fund
payments with respect to the Notes.
 
REPURCHASE AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS UPON A CHANGE OF CONTROL
 
   
    Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, each Holder of
Notes will have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or any part
(equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) of such Holder's Notes
pursuant to the offer described below (the "Change of Control Offer") at an
offer price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount thereof plus
accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to the date of purchase (the
"Change of Control Payment") on a date that is not more than 90 days after the
occurrence of such Change of Control Triggering Event (the "Change of Control
Payment Date"). Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event,
the Company will mail, or at the Company's request the applicable Trustee will
mail, a notice to each Holder offering to repurchase the Notes held by such
Holder pursuant to the procedures specified in such notice. The Company will
comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other
securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent such laws and
regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Notes as a
result of a Change of Control Triggering Event.
    
 
   
    On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company will, to the extent
lawful, (1) accept for payment all Notes or portions thereof properly tendered
and not withdrawn pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, (2) deposit with the
Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all
Notes or portions thereof so tendered and (3) deliver or cause to be delivered
to the applicable Trustee the Notes so accepted together with an Officers'
Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions thereof
being purchased by the Company. The Paying Agent will promptly mail to each
Holder of Notes so tendered the Change of Control Payment for such Notes, and
the applicable Trustee will promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be
transferred by book entry) to each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount
to any unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered, if any; PROVIDED that each
such new Note will be in a principal amount of $1,000 or an integral multiple
thereof. The Senior Subordinated Note Indenture will provide that, prior to
complying with the provisions of this covenant, but in any event within 90 days
following a Change of Control Triggering Event, the Company will either repay
all outstanding Senior Debt or obtain the requisite consents, if any, under all
agreements governing outstanding Senior Debt to permit the repurchase of Senior
Subordinated Notes required by this covenant. The Company will publicly announce
the results of the Change of Control Offer on or as soon as practicable after
the Change of Control Payment Date.
    
 
    A failure by the Company to comply with the provisions of the two preceding
paragraphs will constitute an Event of Default under the applicable Indenture.
Except as described above with respect to a Change of Control, the Indentures
will not contain provisions that permit the Holders of the Notes to
 
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require that the Company purchase or redeem the Notes in the event of a
takeover, recapitalization or similar transaction. See "--Events of Default and
Remedies."
 
    The New Credit Facility will prohibit the Company from redeeming or
otherwise repurchasing the Senior Subordinated Notes prior to the stated
maturity thereof, and also will provide that certain change of control events
with respect to the Company will constitute a default thereunder. See
"Description of the New Credit Facility." Any future credit agreements or other
agreements relating to Senior Debt to which the Company becomes a party may
contain similar restrictions and provisions. The indentures relating to the
Existing Senior Notes and the Senior Notes also may restrict the Company's
ability to purchase the Senior Subordinated Notes upon a Change of Control
Triggering Event. In the event a Change of Control occurs at a time when the
Company is prohibited from purchasing the Senior Subordinated Notes, the Company
could seek the consent of its lenders or noteholders to the purchase of the
Senior Subordinated Notes or could attempt to refinance the Indebtedness that
contains such prohibition. If the Company does not obtain such a consent or
repay such Indebtedness, the Company will remain prohibited from purchasing the
Senior Subordinated Notes. In such case, the Company's failure to purchase
tendered Senior Subordinated Notes would constitute an Event of Default under
the Senior Subordinated Notes Indenture which could, in turn, constitute a
default under other outstanding Indebtedness. In such circumstances, the
subordination provisions in the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture would likely
restrict payments to the Holders of Senior Subordinated Notes. See "Risk
Factors--Possible Inability to Repurchase Notes Upon a Change of Control" and
"--Subsidiary Operations; Subordination."
 
SUBORDINATION OF SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES
 
    The payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Senior
Subordinated Notes will be subordinated in right of payment, as set forth in the
Senior Subordinated Note Indenture, to the prior payment in full of all Senior
Debt, whether outstanding on the date of the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture
or thereafter incurred.
 
    Upon any distribution to creditors of the Company in a liquidation or
dissolution of the Company or in a bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency,
receivership or similar proceeding relating to the Company or its property, an
assignment for the benefit of creditors or any marshalling of the Company's
assets and liabilities, the holders of Senior Debt will be entitled to receive
payment in full of all Obligations due in respect of such Senior Debt (including
interest accruing after the commencement of any such proceeding at the rate
specified in the applicable Senior Debt, whether or not allowed or allowable as
a claim in such proceeding) before the Holders of Senior Subordinated Notes will
be entitled to receive any payment with respect to the Senior Subordinated
Notes, and until all Obligations with respect to Senior Debt are paid in full,
any distribution to which the Holders of Senior Subordinated Notes would be
entitled shall be made to the holders of Senior Debt (except (a) that Holders of
Senior Subordinated Notes may receive securities that (i) are subordinated at
least to the same extent as the Senior Subordinated Notes to Senior Debt and any
securities issued in exchange for Senior Debt, (ii) are unsecured (except to the
extent the Senior Subordinated Notes are secured), (iii) are not Guaranteed by
any Subsidiary of the Company (except to the extent the Senior Subordinated
Notes are so Guaranteed), and (iv) have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity and
final maturity that are not shorter than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity
of the Senior Subordinated Notes or any securities issued to holders of Senior
Debt under the New Credit Facility pursuant to a plan of reorganization or
readjustment, and (b) payments made from the trust described under "--Legal
Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance").
 
    The Company also may not make any payment upon or in respect of the Senior
Subordinated Notes (except in such subordinated securities or from the trust
described under "--Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance") if (i) a default
in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on Designated
Senior Debt occurs and is continuing beyond any applicable period of grace or
(ii) any other default occurs and is continuing with respect to Designated
Senior Debt that permits holders of the Designated Senior Debt as to which such
default relates to accelerate its maturity and the Senior Subordinated Note
Trustee receives a notice of such default (a "Payment Blockage Notice"), for so
long as any Obligations are outstanding under the New Credit Facility, from the
Representative thereunder and,
 
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thereafter, from the holders or Representative of any Designated Senior Debt.
Payments on the Senior Subordinated Notes may and shall be resumed (a) in the
case of a payment default, upon the date on which such default is cured or
waived and (b) in the case of a nonpayment default, the earlier of the date on
which such nonpayment default is cured or waived or 179 days after the date on
which the applicable Payment Blockage Notice is received, unless the maturity of
any Designated Senior Debt has been accelerated. No new period of payment
blockage may be commenced within 360 days after the receipt by the Senior
Subordinated Note Trustee of any prior Payment Blockage Notice. No nonpayment
default that existed or was continuing on the date of delivery of any Payment
Blockage Notice to the Subordinated Note Trustee shall be, or be made, the basis
for a subsequent Payment Blockage Notice.
 
    The Senior Subordinated Note Indenture will further require that the Company
promptly notify holders of Senior Debt if payment of the Senior Subordinated
Notes is accelerated because of an Event of Default.
 
   
    As a result of the subordination provisions described above, in the event of
a liquidation or insolvency, Holders of Senior Subordinated Notes may recover
less ratably than creditors of the Company who are Holders of Senior Debt. On a
pro forma basis, as of November 30, 1996, after giving effect to the Merger and
the Refinancing, Senior Debt of the Company would have been approximately $2.8
billion. The Senior Subordinated Note Indenture will limit, subject to certain
financial tests, the amount of additional Indebtedness, including Senior Debt,
that the Company and its Subsidiaries can incur. See "--Certain
Covenants--Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Preferred Stock."
    
 
    "DESIGNATED SENIOR DEBT" means (i) so long as any Obligations are
outstanding under the New Credit Facility, such Obligations and (ii) thereafter,
any other Senior Debt permitted under the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture the
principal amount of which is $100.0 million or more and that has been designated
by the Company as "Designated Senior Debt."
 
    "SENIOR DEBT" means (i) Indebtedness under the New Credit Facility, (ii) the
Senior Notes, the Existing Senior Notes, any other Indebtedness permitted to be
incurred by the Company under the terms of the Senior Subordinated Note
Indenture, unless the instrument under which such Indebtedness is incurred
expressly provides that it is on a parity with or subordinated in right of
payment to the Senior Subordinated Notes and (iii) all Obligations with respect
to any of the foregoing. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the
foregoing, Senior Debt will not include (v) the Senior Subordinated Notes, the
2005 Senior Subordinated Notes and the 2005 Exchangeable Subordinated Notes, (w)
any liability for Federal, state, local or other taxes owed or owing by the
Company, (x) any Indebtedness of the Company to any of its Subsidiaries or other
Affiliates, (y) any trade payables or (z) any Indebtedness that is incurred in
violation of the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture.
 
CERTAIN COVENANTS
 
  RESTRICTED PAYMENTS
 
    The Indentures will provide that the Company will not, and will not permit
any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly: (i) declare or pay any
dividend or make any distribution on account of the Company's or any of its
Subsidiaries' Equity Interests (other than (w) Physician Joint Venture
Distributions, (x) dividends or distributions payable in Qualified Equity
Interests of the Company, (y) dividends or distributions payable to the Company
or any Subsidiary of the Company, and (z) dividends or distributions by any
Subsidiary of the Company payable to all holders of a class of Equity Interests
of such Subsidiary on a PRO RATA basis); (ii) purchase, redeem or otherwise
acquire or retire for value any Equity Interests of the Company; or (iii) make
any principal payment on, or purchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or
retire for value any Indebtedness that is subordinated to the Notes issued under
such Indenture, except at the original final maturity date thereof or pursuant
to a Specified Exchange or the Refinancing (all such payments and other actions
set forth in clauses (i) through (iii) above being collectively referred to as
"Restricted Payments"), unless, at the time of and after giving effect to such
Restricted Payment (the amount of any such Restricted Payment, if other than
cash, shall be the fair market value (as conclusively evidenced by a resolution
of the Board of Directors set forth in an Officers' Certificate delivered to the
 
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Trustees within 60 days prior to the date of such Restricted Payment) of the
asset(s) proposed to be transferred by the Company or such Subsidiary, as the
case may be, pursuant to such Restricted Payment):
 
        (a) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
    or would occur as a consequence thereof; and
 
        (b) the Company would, at the time of such Restricted Payment and after
    giving PRO FORMA effect thereto as if such Restricted Payment had been made
    at the beginning of the most recently ended four full fiscal quarter period
    for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding
    the date of such Restricted Payment, have been permitted to incur at least
    $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
    test set forth in the first paragraph of the covenant in the Indentures
    described below under the caption "--Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance
    of Preferred Stock"; and
 
        (c) such Restricted Payment, together with the aggregate of all other
    Restricted Payments made by the Company and its Subsidiaries after March 1,
    1995 (excluding Restricted Payments permitted by clauses (v), (w) and (x) of
    the next succeeding paragraph), is less than the sum of (i) 50% of the
    Consolidated Net Income of the Company for the period (taken as one
    accounting period) from the beginning of the first fiscal quarter commencing
    after March 1, 1995 to the end of the Company's most recently ended fiscal
    quarter for which internal financial statements are available at the time of
    such Restricted Payment (or, if such Consolidated Net Income for such period
    is a deficit, less 100% of such deficit), PLUS (ii) 100% of the aggregate
    net cash proceeds received by the Company from the issue or sale (other than
    to a Subsidiary of the Company) since March 1, 1995 of Qualified Equity
    Interests of the Company or of debt securities of the Company or any of its
    Subsidiaries that have been converted into or exchanged for such Qualified
    Equity Interests of the Company, plus (iii) $20.0 million.
 
    If no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, or would
occur as a consequence thereof, the foregoing provisions will not prohibit the
following Restricted Payments: (u) the payment of any dividend within 60 days
after the date of declaration thereof, if at said date of declaration such
payment would have complied with the provisions of the Indentures; (v) the
payment of cash dividends on any series of Disqualified Stock issued after the
date of the Indentures in an aggregate amount not to exceed the cash received by
the Company since the date of the Indentures upon issuance of such Disqualified
Stock; (w) the redemption, repurchase, retirement or other acquisition of any
Equity Interests of the Company or any Subsidiary in exchange for, or out of the
net cash proceeds of, the substantially concurrent sale (other than to a
Subsidiary of the Company) of Qualified Equity Interests of the Company;
PROVIDED that the amount of any such net cash proceeds that are utilized for any
such redemption, repurchase, retirement or other acquisition shall be excluded
from clause (c)(ii) of the preceding paragraph; (x) the defeasance, redemption
or repurchase of subordinated Indebtedness with the net cash proceeds from an
incurrence of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness or in exchange for or out of
the net cash proceeds from the substantially concurrent sale (other than to a
Subsidiary of the Company) of Qualified Equity Interests of the Company;
PROVIDED that the amount of any such net cash proceeds that are utilized for any
such redemption, repurchase, retirement or other acquisition shall be excluded
from clause (c)(ii) of the preceding paragraph; (y) the repurchase, redemption
or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Equity Interests of the
Company or any Subsidiary of the Company held by any member of the Company's (or
any of its Subsidiaries') management pursuant to any management equity
subscription agreement or stock option agreement; PROVIDED that the aggregate
price paid for all such repurchased, redeemed, acquired or retired Equity
Interests shall not exceed $15.0 million in any twelve-month period; and (z) the
making and consummation of (A) a senior subordinated asset sale offer in
accordance with the provisions of the indenture relating to the 2005 Senior
Subordinated Notes or (B) a Change of Control Offer with respect to the Senior
Subordinated Notes in accordance with the provisions of the Senior Subordinated
Note Indenture or a change of control offer with respect to the 2005 Senior
Subordinated Notes or the 2005 Exchangeable Subordinated Notes in accordance
with the provisions of the indentures relating thereto.
 
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    Not later than the date of making any Restricted Payment, the Company shall
deliver to the Trustees an Officers' Certificate stating that such Restricted
Payment is permitted and setting forth the basis upon which the calculations
required by the covenant described under the caption "--Restricted Payments"
were computed.
 
  INCURRENCE OF INDEBTEDNESS AND ISSUANCE OF PREFERRED STOCK
 
    The Indentures will provide that the Company will not, and will not permit
any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, issue,
assume, Guarantee or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable,
contingently or otherwise, with respect to (collectively, "incur") after the
date of the Indentures any Indebtedness (including Acquired Debt) and that the
Company will not issue any Disqualified Stock and will not permit any of its
Subsidiaries to issue any shares of preferred stock; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the
Company may incur Indebtedness (including Acquired Debt) and the Company may
issue shares of Disqualified Stock if the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the
Company's most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal
financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such
additional Indebtedness is incurred or such Disqualified Stock is issued would
have been at least 2.5 to 1, determined on a PRO FORMA basis (including a PRO
FORMA application of the net proceeds therefrom), as if the additional
Indebtedness had been incurred, or the Disqualified Stock had been issued, as
the case may be, at the beginning of such four-quarter period. Indebtedness
consisting of reimbursement obligations in respect of a letter of credit will be
deemed to be incurred when the letter of credit is first issued.
 
    The foregoing provisions will not apply to:
 
   
        (i) the incurrence by the Company of Indebtedness pursuant to the New
    Credit Facility in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not
    to exceed an amount equal to $2.8 billion less the aggregate amount of all
    mandatory repayments applied to permanently reduce the commitments with
    respect to such Indebtedness;
    
 
        (ii) the incurrence by the Company of Indebtedness represented by the
    Notes;
 
       (iii) the incurrence by the Company and its Subsidiaries of the Existing
    Indebtedness;
 
        (iv) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
    Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in exchange for, or the net proceeds of
    which are used to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund,
    Indebtedness that was permitted by the Indentures to be incurred (including,
    without limitation, Existing Indebtedness);
 
        (v) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
    intercompany Indebtedness between or among the Company and any of its
    Subsidiaries;
 
        (vi) the incurrence by the Company of Hedging Obligations that are
    incurred for the purpose of fixing or hedging interest rate or currency risk
    with respect to any fixed or floating rate Indebtedness that is permitted by
    the Indentures to be outstanding or any receivable or liability the payments
    of which is determined by reference to a foreign currency; PROVIDED that the
    notional principal amount of any such Hedging Obligation does not exceed the
    principal amount of the Indebtedness to which such Hedging Obligation
    relates;
 
       (vii) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
    Physician Support Obligations;
 
      (viii) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
    Indebtedness represented by tender, bid, performance, government contract,
    surety or appeal bonds, standby letters of credit or warranty or contractual
    service obligations of like nature, in each case to the extent incurred in
    the ordinary course of business of the Company or such Subsidiary;
 
        (ix) the incurrence by any Subsidiary of the Company of Indebtedness,
    the aggregate principal amount of which, together with all other
    Indebtedness of the Company's Subsidiaries at the time outstanding
    (excluding the Existing Indebtedness until repaid or refinanced and
    excluding Physician
 
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    Support Obligations), does not exceed the greater of (1) 10% of the
    Company's Stockholders' Equity as of the date of incurrence or (2) $10.0
    million; PROVIDED that, in the case of clause (1) only, the Fixed Charge
    Coverage Ratio for the Company's most recently ended four full fiscal
    quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately
    preceding the date on which such Indebtedness is incurred would have been at
    least 2.5 to 1, determined on a PRO FORMA basis (including a PRO FORMA
    application of the net proceeds therefrom), as if such Indebtedness had been
    incurred at the beginning of such four-quarter period; and
 
   
        (x) the incurrence by the Company of Indebtedness (in addition to
    Indebtedness permitted by any other clause of this covenant) in an aggregate
    principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed $250.0 million.
    
 
  LIENS
 
   
    The Senior Note Indentures will provide that the Company will not, and will
not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur,
assume or suffer to exist any Lien (except Permitted Liens) on any asset now
owned or hereafter acquired, or any income or profits therefrom or assign or
convey any right to receive income therefrom unless all payments due under the
Senior Note Indentures and the Senior Notes are secured on an equal and ratable
basis with the Obligations so secured until such time as such Obligations are no
longer secured by a Lien.
    
 
    The Senior Subordinated Note Indenture will provide that the Company will
not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly,
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien to secure Indebtedness that is
PARI PASSU with or subordinated in right of payment to the Senior Subordinated
Notes (except Permitted Liens) on any asset now owned or hereafter acquired, or
any income or profits therefrom or assign or convey any right to receive income
therefrom unless all payments due under the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture
and the Senior Subordinated Notes are secured on an equal and ratable basis with
the Obligations so secured until such time as such Obligations are no longer
secured by a Lien.
 
  DIVIDEND AND OTHER PAYMENT RESTRICTIONS AFFECTING SUBSIDIARIES
 
    The Indentures will provide that the Company will not, and will not permit
any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or
suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on
the ability of any Subsidiary to (i)(a) pay dividends or make any other
distributions to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (1) on its Capital Stock
or (2) with respect to any other interest or participation in, or measured by,
its profits, or (b) pay any Indebtedness owed to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, (ii) make loans or advances to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or (iii) transfer any of its properties or assets to the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing
under or by reason of (a) Existing Indebtedness as in effect on the date of the
Indentures, (b) the Indentures, (c) applicable law, (d) any instrument governing
Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person acquired by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries as in effect at the time of such acquisition (except to the extent
such Indebtedness was incurred in connection with or in contemplation of such
acquisition, unless such Indebtedness was incurred in connection with or in
contemplation of such acquisition for the purpose of refinancing Indebtedness
which was tax-exempt, or in violation of the covenant described above under the
caption "--Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Preferred Stock"), which
encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or
assets of any Person, other than the Person, or the property or assets of the
Person, so acquired, PROVIDED that the Consolidated Cash Flow of such Person is
not taken into account in determining whether such acquisition was permitted by
the terms of the Indentures except to the extent that such Consolidated Cash
Flow would be permitted to be dividends to the Company without the prior consent
or approval of any third party, (e) customary non-assignment provisions in
leases entered into in the ordinary course of business, (f) purchase money
obligations for property acquired in the ordinary course of business that impose
restrictions of the nature described in clause (iii) above on the property so
acquired, (g) Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, PROVIDED that the restrictions
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Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness are no more restrictive than those contained
in the agreements governing the Indebtedness being refinanced, or (h) the New
Credit Facility and related documentation as the same is in effect on the date
of the Indentures and as amended or replaced from time to time, provided that no
such amendment or replacement is more restrictive as to the matters enumerated
above than the New Credit Facility and related documentation as in effect on the
date of the Indentures.
 
  LINE OF BUSINESS
 
   
    The Indentures will provide that the Company will not, and will not permit
any of its Subsidiaries to, engage in any material extent in any business other
than the ownership, operation and management of Hospitals and Related
Businesses.
    
 
  MERGER, CONSOLIDATION, OR SALE OF ASSETS
 
   
    The Indentures will provide that the Company may not consolidate or merge
with or into (whether or not the Company is the surviving corporation), or sell,
assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all
of its properties or assets in one or more related transactions, to another
corporation, Person or entity unless: (i) the Company is the surviving
corporation or the entity or the Person formed by or surviving any such
consolidation or merger (if other than the Company) or to which such sale,
assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been
made is a corporation organized or existing under the laws of the United States,
any state thereof or the District of Columbia; (ii) the entity or Person formed
by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Company) or
the entity or Person to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance
or other disposition shall have been made assumes all the Obligations of the
Company under the Notes and the Indentures pursuant to supplemental indentures
in forms reasonably satisfactory to the applicable Trustee; (iii) immediately
after such transaction no Default or Event of Default exists; and (iv) the
Company or the entity or Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or
merger (if other than the Company), or to which such sale, assignment, transfer,
lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made (A) will have a
Consolidated Net Worth immediately after the transaction equal to or greater
than the Consolidated Net Worth of the Company immediately preceding the
transaction and (B) will, at the time of such transaction and after giving PRO
FORMA effect thereto as if such transaction had occurred at the beginning of the
applicable four-quarter period, be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of
additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set
forth in the first paragraph of the covenant in the applicable Indenture
described above under the caption "--Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of
Preferred Stock."
    
 
  TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES
 
    The Indentures will provide that the Company will not, and will not permit
any of its Subsidiaries to, sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of
its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter
into or make any contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or Guarantee
with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate
Transaction"), unless (i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms that are no
less favorable to the Company or the relevant Subsidiary than those that could
have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Company or such Subsidiary
with an unrelated Person and (ii) the Company delivers to the applicable Trustee
(a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate consideration
in excess of $5.0 million, a resolution of the Board of Directors set forth in
an Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies
with clause (i) above and that such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a
majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors and (b) with
respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate consideration in excess
of $15.0 million, an opinion as to the fairness to the Company or such
Subsidiary of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued
by an investment banking firm of national standing; PROVIDED that (x)
transactions or payments pursuant to any employment arrangements or employee or
director benefit plans entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in
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course of business and consistent with the past practice of the Company or such
Subsidiary, (y) transactions between or among the Company and/or its
Subsidiaries and (z) transactions permitted by the provisions of the Indentures
described above under the caption "--Restricted Payments," in each case, shall
not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions.
 
  LIMITATIONS ON ISSUANCES OF GUARANTEES OF INDEBTEDNESS BY SUBSIDIARIES
 
   
    The Senior Note Indentures will provide that the Company will not permit any
Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, to Guarantee or secure the payment of any
other Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (except
Indebtedness of a Subsidiary of such Subsidiary or Physician Support
Obligations) unless such Subsidiary simultaneously executes and delivers a
supplemental indenture to the Senior Note Indentures providing for the Guarantee
of the payment of the Senior Notes by such Subsidiary, which Guarantee shall be
senior to or PARI PASSU with such Subsidiary's Guarantee of or pledge to secure
such other Indebtedness. The Senior Subordinated Note Indenture will provide
that the Company will not permit any Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, to
Guarantee or secure the payment of any other Indebtedness of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries (except Indebtedness of a Subsidiary of such Subsidiary or
Physician Support Obligations) unless such Subsidiary simultaneously executes
and delivers a supplemental indenture to the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture
providing for the Guarantee of the payment of the Senior Subordinated Notes by
such Subsidiary, which Guarantee shall be subordinated to such Subsidiary's
Guarantee of or pledge to secure such other Indebtedness to the same extent as
the Senior Subordinated Notes are subordinated to such other Indebtedness under
the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any such
Guarantee by a Subsidiary of the Notes shall provide by its terms that it shall
be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged upon the sale or
other disposition, by way of merger or otherwise, to any Person not an Affiliate
of the Company, of all of the Company's stock in, or all or substantially all
the assets of, such Subsidiary. The forms of such supplemental indentures will
be attached as exhibits to the Indentures. The foregoing provisions will not be
applicable to any one or more Guarantees that otherwise would be prohibited of
up to $25.0 million in aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of the Company
or its Subsidiaries at any time outstanding.
    
 
  NO AMENDMENT TO SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS
 
   
    The Senior Note Indentures will provide that the Company will not amend,
modify or alter the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture or the indentures
relating to the 2005 Senior Subordinated Notes or the 2005 Exchangeable
Subordinated Notes in any way that would (i) increase the principal of, advance
the final maturity date of or shorten the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of
(a) any 2005 Senior Subordinated Notes or 2005 Exchangeable Subordinated Notes
or (b) any Senior Subordinated Notes such that the final maturity date of the
Senior Subordinated Notes is earlier than the 91st day following the final
maturity date of the Senior Notes or (ii) amend the provisions of Article 10 of
the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture (which relates to subordination) or the
subordination provisions of the indentures relating to the 2005 Senior
Subordinated Notes or the 2005 Exchangeable Subordinated Notes or any of the
defined terms used therein in a manner that would be adverse to the Holders of
the Senior Notes.
    
 
  NO SENIOR SUBORDINATED DEBT
 
    The Senior Subordinated Note Indenture will provide that the Company will
not incur any Indebtedness that is subordinate or junior in right of payment to
any Senior Debt and senior in any respect in right of payment to the Senior
Subordinated Notes.
 
  REPORTS
 
    The Indentures will provide that, whether or not required by the rules and
regulations of the Commission, so long as any Notes are outstanding, the Company
will furnish to the Holders of Notes (i) all quarterly and annual financial
information that would be required to be contained in a filing with the
Commission on Forms 10-Q and 10-K if the Company were required to file such
Forms, including a "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
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respect to the annual information only, a report thereon by the Company's
certified independent accountants and (ii) all current reports that would be
required to be filed with the Commission on Form 8-K if the Company were
required to file such reports. In addition, whether or not required by the rules
and regulations of the Commission, the Company will file a copy of all such
information and reports with the Commission for public availability and make
such information available to securities analysts and prospective investors upon
request.
 
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
 
   
    The Indentures will provide that each of the following constitutes an Event
of Default: (i) default for 30 days in the payment when due of interest on the
Notes (whether or not prohibited by the subordination provisions of the Senior
Subordinated Note Indenture); (ii) default in payment when due of the principal
of or premium, if any, on the Notes, at maturity or otherwise (whether or not
prohibited by the subordination provisions of the Senior Subordinated Note
Indenture); (iii) failure by the Company to comply with the provisions described
under the captions "--Repurchase at the Option of Holders Upon a Change of
Control," "--Certain Covenants--Restricted Payments" or "--Incurrence of
Indebtedness and Issuance of Preferred Stock"; (iv) failure by the Company for
60 days after notice to comply with any of its other agreements in the
Indentures or the Notes; (v) in the case of the Senior Notes Indentures only,
any default occurs under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there
may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any Indebtedness for
money borrowed by the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries (or the
payment of which is Guaranteed by the Company or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries), whether such Indebtedness or Guarantee exists on the date of the
Indentures or is thereafter created, which default (a) constitutes a Payment
Default or (b) results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its
express maturity and, in each case, the principal amount of any such
Indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness
under which there has been a Payment Default or that has been so accelerated,
aggregates $25.0 million or more; (vi) in the case of the Senior Subordinated
Note Indenture only, any default occurs under any mortgage, indenture or
instrument under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or
evidenced any Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or any of its
Significant Subsidiaries (or the payment of which is Guaranteed by the Company
or any of its Significant Subsidiaries), whether such Indebtedness or Guarantee
exists on the date of the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture or is thereafter
created, which default (a) constitutes a failure to pay principal at final
maturity or (b) results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its
express maturity and, in each case, the principal amount of such Indebtedness,
together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness that has not
been paid at final maturity or that has been so accelerated, aggregates $25.0
million or more; (vii) failure by the Company or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries to pay a final judgment or final judgments aggregating in excess of
$25.0 million, which judgment or judgments are not paid, discharged or stayed
for a period of 60 days; and (viii) certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency
with respect to the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries.
    
 
   
    If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders
of at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Senior Notes due
2003, Senior Notes due 2005 or Senior Subordinated Notes, as the case may be, by
written notice to the Company and the Trustee may declare all the Senior Notes
due 2003, Senior Notes due 2005 or Senior Subordinated Notes, as the case may
be, to be due and payable immediately. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the
case of an Event of Default arising from certain events of bankruptcy or
insolvency with respect to the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries,
all outstanding Notes will become due and payable without further action or
notice. Holders of the Notes may not enforce the Indentures or the Notes except
as provided in the Indentures. Subject to certain limitations, Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may direct the
applicable Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. Either Trustee may
withhold from Holders of the Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of
Default (except a Default or Event of Default relating to the payment of
principal or interest) if it determines that withholding notice is in their
interest.
    
 
    In the case of any Event of Default occurring by reason of any willful
action (or inaction) taken (or not taken) by or on behalf of the Company with
the intention of avoiding payment of the premium that the
 
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Company would have had to pay if the Company then had elected to redeem the
Senior Subordinated Notes pursuant to the optional redemption provisions of the
Senior Subordinated Note Indenture, an equivalent premium shall also become and
be immediately due and payable to the extent permitted by law upon the
acceleration of the Senior Subordinated Notes. If an Event of Default occurs
under the Senior Note Indenture prior to maturity or under the Senior
Subordinated Note Indenture prior to January 15, 2002 by reason of any willful
action (or inaction) taken (or not taken) by or on behalf of the Company with
the intention of avoiding the prohibition on redemption of such Notes prior to
such dates, then the premium specified in the applicable Indenture shall also
become immediately due and payable to the extent permitted by law upon the
acceleration of such Notes.
 
   
    The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Senior Notes due 2003, Senior Notes due 2005 or Senior Subordinated Notes, as
the case may be, then outstanding by written notice to the applicable Trustee on
behalf of the Holders of all of the Senior Notes due 2003, the Senior Notes due
2005 or Senior Subordinated Notes, as the case may be, may waive any existing
Default or Event of Default and its consequences under the applicable Indenture
except a continuing Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal
of, premium, if any, or interest on any of the Senior Notes due 2003, the Senior
Notes due 2005 or Senior Subordinated Notes, as the case may be.
    
 
    The Company is required to deliver to each Trustee annually a statement
regarding compliance with the respective Indentures, and the Company is required
upon becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default, to deliver to the
Trustees a statement specifying such Default or Event of Default.
 
   
NO PERSONAL LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND SHAREHOLDERS
    
 
   
    No director, officer, employee, incorporator or shareholder of the Company,
as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the
Notes, the Indentures or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of,
such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of Notes by accepting a Note
waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issuance of the Notes. Such waiver may not be effective to
waive liabilities under the Federal securities laws and it is the view of the
Commission that such a waiver is against public policy.
    
 
LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
 
   
    The Company may, at its option and at any time, elect to have all of its
obligations discharged with respect to the outstanding Notes ("Legal
Defeasance") except for (i) the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to
receive payments in respect of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest
on such Notes when such payments are due from the trust referred to below, (ii)
the Company's obligations with respect to the Notes concerning issuing temporary
Notes, registration of Notes, mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and the
maintenance of an office or agency for payment and money for security payments
held in trust, (iii) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the
applicable Trustee, and the Company's obligations in connection therewith and
(iv) the Legal Defeasance provisions of the applicable Indenture. In addition,
the Company may, at its option and at any time, elect to have the obligations of
the Company released with respect to certain covenants that are described in the
applicable Indenture ("Covenant Defeasance") and thereafter any omission to
comply with such obligations shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default
with respect to the applicable Notes. In the event Covenant Defeasance occurs,
certain events (not including non-payment, bankruptcy, receivership,
rehabilitation and insolvency events) described under "--Events of Default and
Remedies" will no longer constitute an Event of Default with respect to the
applicable Notes.
    
 
   
    In order to exercise either Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, (i) the
Company must irrevocably deposit with the appropriate Trustee, in trust, for the
benefit of the Holders of the applicable Notes, cash in U.S. dollars,
non-callable Government Securities, or a combination thereof, in such amounts as
will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants, to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest on such outstanding Notes on the stated maturity or on the applicable
redemption date, as the case may be, and, in the case of the Senior Subordinated
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Company must specify whether the Senior Subordinated Notes are being defeased to
maturity or to a particular redemption date (in which case the Company shall
issue an irrevocable notice of redemption as of a specified date that will be
delivered by the applicable Trustee in accordance with the redemption provisions
of the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture); (ii) in the case of Legal
Defeasance, the Company shall have delivered to the appropriate Trustee an
opinion of counsel in the United States confirming that (A) the Company has
received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a
ruling or (B) since the date of the applicable Indenture, there has been a
change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect
that, and based thereon such opinion of counsel shall confirm that, the Holders
of such outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal
income tax purposes as a result of such Legal Defeasance and will be subject to
Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times
as would have been the case if such Legal Defeasance had not occurred; (iii) in
the case of Covenant Defeasance before the date that is one year prior to the
final maturity of the Notes, the Company shall have delivered to the appropriate
Trustee an opinion of counsel in the United States confirming that the Holders
of such outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal
income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject
to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same
times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;
(iv) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the
date of such deposit (other than a Default or Event of Default resulting from
the borrowing of funds to be applied to such deposit) or insofar as Events of
Default from bankruptcy or insolvency events are concerned, at any time in the
period ending on the 91st day after the date of deposit; (v) such Legal
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance will not result in a breach or violation of,
or constitute a default under any material agreement or instrument (other than
the applicable Indenture) to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a
party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound (other than a
breach, violation or default resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied
to such deposit); (vi) the Company must have delivered to the appropriate
Trustee an opinion of counsel to the effect that after the 91st day following
the deposit, the trust funds will not be subject to the effect of any applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors'
rights generally; (vii) the Company must deliver to the appropriate Trustee an
Officers' Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with
the intent of preferring the Holders of such Notes over the other creditors of
the Company with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding
creditors of the Company or others; and (viii) the Company must deliver to the
appropriate Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions
precedent provided for relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant
Defeasance have been complied with.
 
TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE
 
    A Holder may transfer or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indentures.
The Registrar and the Trustees may require a Holder, among other things, to
furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and the Company may
require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the
Indentures. The Company is not required to transfer or exchange any Senior
Subordinated Note selected for redemption. Also, the Company is not required to
transfer or exchange any Senior Subordinated Note for a period of 15 days before
a selection of Senior Subordinated Notes to be redeemed.
 
    The registered Holder of a Note will be treated as the owner of it for all
purposes. See "--Global Notes."
 
GLOBAL NOTES
 
    The Notes will each be issued in the form of one or more registered Notes in
book-entry form (each, a "Global Note") that will be deposited with, or on
behalf of, The Depositary Trust Company ("DTC") and registered in the name of
DTC's nominee. Except as set forth below, a Global Note may not be transferred
except as a whole by DTC to a nominee of DTC or any such nominee to a successor
of DTC or a nominee of such successor.
 
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    So long as DTC or its nominee is the registered Holder of a Global Note, DTC
or its nominee, as the case may be, will be treated as the sole owner of it for
all purposes under the Indenture and the beneficial owners of Notes will be
entitled only to those rights and benefits afforded to them in accordance with
DTC's regular operating procedures. Upon specified written instructions of a
Participant (defined below), DTC will have its nominee assist Participants in
the exercise of certain Holders' rights, such as a demand for acceleration or an
instruction to the Trustee. Except as provided below, owners of beneficial
interests in a Global Note will not be entitled to have Notes represented by a
Global Note registered in their names, will not receive or be entitled to
receive physical delivery of Notes in certificated form and will not be
considered the registered Holders thereof under the Indenture.
 
    If (i) DTC is at any time unwilling or unable to continue as depository or
if at any time DTC ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and a
successor depository is not appointed by the Company within 90 days, (ii) an
Event of Default under the applicable Indenture with respect to the notes has
occurred and is continuing and the beneficial owners representing a majority in
principal amount of the Notes advise DTC to cease acting as depository or (iii)
the Company, in its sole discretion, determines at any time that the Notes shall
no longer be represented by a Global Note, the Company will issue individual
Notes of the applicable amount and in certificated form in exchange for a Global
Note. In any such instance, an owner of a beneficial interest in the Global Note
will be entitled to physical delivery of individual notes in certificated form
of like tenor, equal in principal amount to such beneficial interest and to have
such Notes in certificated form registered in its name.
 
    DTC has advised the Company that it is a limited-purpose trust company
organized under the New York Banking Law, a "banking organization" within the
meaning of the New York Banking Law, a member of the Federal Reserve System, a
"clearing corporation" within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial
Code and a "clearing agency" registered pursuant to the provisions of Section
17A of the Exchange Act. DTC holds certificates that its participants
("Participants") deposit with DTC. DTC also facilitates the settlement among
Participants of securities transactions, such as transfers and pledges, in
deposited securities through electronic computerized book-entry changes in
Participants' accounts, thereby eliminating the need for the physical movement
of securities certificates. Direct Participants include securities brokers and
dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other
organizations ("Direct Participants"). DTC is owned by a number of its Direct
Participants and by the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., the American Stock
Exchange, Inc. and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. Access
to the DTC system is also available to others such as securities brokers and
dealers, banks and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial
relationship with a Direct Participant, either directly or indirectly ("Indirect
Participants"). The rules applicable to DTC and its Participants are on file
with the Commission.
 
    None of the Company, the Trustee or the Underwriters will have any
responsibility for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on
account of beneficial interests in a Global Note, or for maintaining,
supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial interests.
 
AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER
 
   
    Except as provided in the next two succeeding paragraphs, the Indentures or
the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at
least a majority in principal amount of the applicable Notes then outstanding
(including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer
for such Notes), and any existing default or compliance with any provision of
the Indentures or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the then outstanding applicable Notes (including
consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for such
Notes).
    
 
    Without the consent of each Holder affected, an amendment or waiver may not
(with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder): (i) reduce the
principal amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement
or waiver, (ii) reduce the principal of or change the fixed maturity
 
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of any Note or, in the case of the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture, alter the
provisions with respect to the redemption of the Senior Subordinated Notes
(other than provisions relating to the covenants described above under the
caption "--Repurchase at the Option of Holders Upon a Change of Control"); (iii)
reduce the rate of or change the time for payment of interest on any Note; (iv)
waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of principal of or premium,
if any, or interest on the Notes (except a rescission of acceleration of the
applicable Notes by the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal
amount thereof and a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such
acceleration); (v) make any Note payable in money other than that stated in the
Notes; (vi) make any change in the provisions of the Indentures relating to
waivers of past Defaults or the rights of Holders of Notes to receive payments
of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Notes; (vii) in the case
of the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture, waive a redemption payment with
respect to any Senior Subordinated Note (other than a payment required by one of
the covenants described above under the caption "--Repurchase at the Option of
Holders Upon a Change of Control"); or (viii) make any change in the foregoing
amendment and waiver provisions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any amendment to
the provisions of Article 10 of the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture (which
relate to subordination) will require the consent of the Holders of at least 75%
in aggregate principal amount of the Senior Subordinated Notes then outstanding
if such amendment would adversely affect the rights of Holders of Senior
Subordinated Notes.
    
 
   
    Notwithstanding the foregoing, without the consent of any Holder of Notes,
the Company and the appropriate Trustee may amend or supplement the Indentures
or the Notes to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, to provide for
uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, to
provide for any supplemental indenture described above under the caption
"--Certain Covenants-- Limitation on Issuances of Guarantees of Indebtedness by
Subsidiaries," to provide for the assumption of the Company's obligations to
Holders of Notes in the case of a merger, consolidation or sale of assets
pursuant to the covenant described under the caption "--Merger, Consolidation or
Sale of Assets," to make any change that would provide any additional rights or
benefits to the Holders of Notes or that does not adversely affect the legal
rights under the Indentures of any such Holder, or to comply with requirements
of the Commission in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the
Indentures under the Trust Indenture Act.
    
 
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
 
    The Indentures will contain certain limitations on the rights of the
Trustees, should either Trustee become a creditor of the Company, to obtain
payment of claims in certain cases, or to realize on certain property received
in respect of any such claim as security or otherwise. The Trustees will be
permitted to engage in other transactions; however, if either Trustee acquires
any conflicting interest it must eliminate such conflict within 90 days, apply
to the Commission for permission to continue or resign.
 
   
    The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Senior
Notes due 2003, Senior Notes due 2005 or Senior Subordinated Notes, as the case
may be, will have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting
any proceeding for exercising any remedy available to the applicable Trustee,
subject to certain exceptions. The Indentures provide that in case an Event of
Default shall occur (which shall not be cured), the Trustees will be required,
in the exercise of their power, to use the degree of care of a prudent man in
the conduct of his own affairs. Subject to such provisions, neither Trustee will
be under any obligation to exercise any of its rights or powers under the
Indentures at the request of any Holder of Notes, unless such Holder shall have
offered to the appropriate Trustee security and indemnity satisfactory to it
against any loss, liability or expense.
    
 
CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
 
    Set forth below are certain defined terms used in the Indentures. Reference
is made to the Indentures for a full disclosure of all such terms, as well as
any other capitalized terms used herein for which no definition is provided.
 
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    "ACQUIRED DEBT"  means, with respect to any specified Person, (i)
Indebtedness of any other Person existing at the time such other Person is
merged with or into or became a Subsidiary of such specified Person, including,
without limitation, Indebtedness incurred in connection with, or in
contemplation of, such other Person merging with or into or becoming a
Subsidiary of such specified Person, and (ii) Indebtedness secured by a Lien
encumbering any asset acquired by such specified Person.
 
    "AFFILIATE"  of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For purposes of this definition, "control"
(including, with correlative meanings, the terms "controlling," "controlled by"
and "under common control with"), as used with respect to any Person, shall mean
the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management or policies of such Person, whether through the
ownership of voting securities, by agreement or otherwise; PROVIDED that
beneficial ownership of 10% or more of the voting securities of a Person shall
be deemed to be control.
 
    "ASSET SALE"  means (i) the sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of
any assets (including, without limitation, by way of a sale and leaseback) other
than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices and (ii)
the issuance or sale by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Equity
Interests of any of the Company's Subsidiaries, in the case of either clause (i)
or (ii), whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions (a)
that have a fair market value in excess of $25.0 million or (b) for net proceeds
in excess of $25.0 million. Notwithstanding the foregoing: (a) a transfer of
assets by the Company to a Subsidiary or by a Subsidiary to the Company or to
another Subsidiary, (b) an issuance of Equity Interests by a Subsidiary to the
Company or to another Subsidiary, (c) a Restricted Payment that is permitted by
the covenant described above under the caption "--Certain Covenants--Restricted
Payments" and (d) a Hospital Swap will not be deemed to be an Asset Sale.
 
   
    "CAPITAL LEASE OBLIGATION"  means, at the time any determination thereof is
to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a Capital Lease that would
at such time be required to be capitalized on a balance sheet in accordance with
GAAP.
    
 
    "CAPITAL STOCK"  means (i) in the case of a corporation, corporate stock,
(ii) in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares,
interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of
corporate stock, (iii) in the case of a partnership, partnership interests
(whether general or limited) and (iv) any other interest or participation that
confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of,
or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person.
 
    "CHANGE OF CONTROL"  means the occurrence of any of the following: (i) the
sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition, in one or a series of
related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company
and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole to any Person or group (as such term is
used in Sections 13(d)(3) and 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act) other than to a
Person or group who, prior to such transaction, held a majority of the voting
power of the voting stock of the Company, (ii) the acquisition by any Person or
group (as defined above) of a direct or indirect interest in more than 50% of
the voting power of the voting stock of the Company, by way of merger or
consolidation or otherwise, or (iii) the first day on which a majority of the
members of the Board of Directors of the Company are not Continuing Directors.
 
    The phrase "all or substantially all" of the assets of the Company will
likely be interpreted under applicable state law and will be dependent upon
particular facts and circumstances. As a result, there may be a degree of
uncertainty in ascertaining whether a sale or transfer of "all or substantially
all" of the assets of the Company has occurred, in which case a holder's ability
to obtain the benefit of a Change of Control Offer may be impaired. In addition,
no assurances can be given that the Company will be able to acquire Notes
tendered upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event.
 
    "CHANGE OF CONTROL TRIGGERING EVENT"  means the occurrence of both a Change
of Control and a Rating Decline.
 
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    "CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW"  means, with respect to any Person for any period,
the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period PLUS (i) an amount
equal to any extraordinary loss plus any net loss realized in connection with an
Asset Sale (to the extent such losses were deducted in computing such
Consolidated Net Income), PLUS (ii) provision for taxes based on income or
profits of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent that
such provision for taxes was included in computing such Consolidated Net Income,
PLUS (iii) the Fixed Charges of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such
period, to the extent that such Fixed Charges were deducted in computing such
Consolidated Net Income, PLUS (iv) depreciation and amortization (including
amortization of goodwill and other intangibles but excluding amortization of
prepaid cash expenses that were paid in a prior period) of such Person and its
Subsidiaries for such period to the extent that such depreciation and
amortization were deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income, in each
case, on a consolidated basis and determined in accordance with GAAP.
 
    Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provision for taxes on the income or
profits of, and the depreciation and amortization of, a Subsidiary of the
referent Person shall be added to Consolidated Net Income to compute
Consolidated Cash Flow only to the extent (and in same proportion) that the Net
Income of such Subsidiary was included in calculating the Consolidated Net
Income of such Person and only if a corresponding amount would be permitted at
the date of determination to be dividended to the Company by such Subsidiary
without prior approval (that has not been obtained), pursuant to the terms of
its charter and all agreements, instruments, judgments, decrees, orders,
statutes, rules and governmental regulations applicable to that Subsidiary or
its stockholders.
 
    "CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME"  means, with respect to any Person for any period,
the aggregate of the Net Income of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such
period, on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP but
excluding any one-time charge or expense incurred in order to consummate the
Refinancing; PROVIDED that (i) the Net Income of any Person that is not a
Subsidiary or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting shall be
included only to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions paid in
cash to the referent Person or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary thereof, (ii) the Net
Income of any Subsidiary shall be excluded to the extent that the declaration or
payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Subsidiary of that Net
Income is not at the date of determination permitted without any prior
governmental approval (that has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly,
by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment,
decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that
Subsidiary or its stockholders, (iii) the Net Income of any Person acquired in a
pooling of interests transaction for any period prior to the date of such
acquisition shall be excluded and (iv) the cumulative effect of a change in
accounting principles shall be excluded.
 
    "CONSOLIDATED NET WORTH"  means, with respect to any Person as of any date,
the sum of (i) the consolidated equity of the common stockholders of such Person
and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date plus (ii) the respective
amounts reported on such Person's balance sheet as of such date with respect to
any series of preferred stock (other than Disqualified Stock), less all
write-ups (other than write-ups resulting from foreign currency translations and
write-ups of tangible assets of a going concern business made in accordance with
GAAP as a result of the acquisition of such business) subsequent to the date of
the Indentures in the book value of any asset owned by such Person or a
consolidated Subsidiary of such Person, and excluding the cumulative effect of a
change in accounting principles, all as determined in accordance with GAAP.
 
    "CONTINUING DIRECTORS"  means, as of any date of determination, any member
of the Board of Directors of the Company who (i) was a member of such Board of
Directors on the date of the Indentures or (ii) was nominated for election or
elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the
Continuing Directors who were members of such Board at the time of such
nomination or election.
 
    "DEFAULT"  means any event that is or with the passage of time or the giving
of notice or both would be an Event of Default.
 
    "DISQUALIFIED STOCK"  means any Capital Stock that, by its terms (or by the
terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is
exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is
 
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mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or
redeemable at the option of the Holder thereof, in whole or in part, on or prior
to the date on which the applicable Notes mature.
 
    "EQUITY INTERESTS"  means Capital Stock and all warrants, options or other
rights to acquire Capital Stock (but excluding any debt security that is
convertible into, or exchangeable for, Capital Stock).
 
    "EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS"  means Indebtedness of the Company and its
Subsidiaries (other than Indebtedness under the New Credit Facility) in
existence on the date of the Indentures, until such amounts are repaid,
including all reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit
outstanding as of the date of the Indentures.
 
    "FIXED CHARGE COVERAGE RATIO"  means with respect to any Person for any
period, the ratio of the Consolidated Cash Flow of such Person for such period
to the Fixed Charges of such Person for such period. In the event that the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries incurs, assumes, Guarantees or redeems any
Indebtedness (other than revolving credit borrowings) or issues preferred stock
subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the Fixed Charge Coverage
Ratio is being calculated but prior to the date on which the event for which the
calculation of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is made (the "Calculation Date"),
then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall be calculated giving PRO FORMA effect
to such incurrence, assumption, Guarantee or redemption of Indebtedness, or such
issuance or redemption of preferred stock, as if the same had occurred at the
beginning of the applicable four-quarter reference period. In addition, for
purposes of making the computation referred to above, (i) acquisitions that have
been made by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including through mergers
or consolidations and including any related financing transactions, during the
four-quarter reference period or subsequent to such reference period and on or
prior to the Calculation Date shall be deemed to have occurred on the first day
of the four-quarter reference period, and (ii) the Consolidated Cash Flow and
Fixed Charges attributable to discontinued operations, as determined in
accordance with GAAP, and operations or businesses disposed of prior to the
Calculation Date, shall be excluded.
 
    "FIXED CHARGES"  means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum
of (i) the consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Subsidiaries for
such period, whether paid or accrued (including, without limitation,
amortization of original issue discount, non-cash interest payments, the
interest component of any deferred payment obligations, the interest component
of all payments associated with Capital Lease Obligations, commissions,
discounts and other fees and charges incurred in respect of letters of credit or
bankers' acceptance financings, and net payments or receipts (if any) pursuant
to Hedging Obligations) and (ii) the consolidated interest expense of such
Person and its Subsidiaries that was capitalized during such period, and (iii)
any interest expense on Indebtedness of another Person that is Guaranteed by
such Person or one of its Subsidiaries or secured by a Lien on assets of such
Person or one of its Subsidiaries (whether or not such Guarantee or Lien is
called upon) and (iv) the product of (a) all cash dividend payments (and
non-cash dividend payments in the case of a Person that is a Subsidiary) on any
series of preferred stock of such Person, times (b) a fraction, the numerator of
which is one and the denominator of which is one minus the then current combined
federal, state and local statutory tax rate of such Person, expressed as a
decimal, in each case, on a consolidated basis and in accordance with GAAP.
 
    "GAAP"  means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the
opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of
the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such
other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting
profession, as in effect from time to time.
 
    "GUARANTEE"  means a guarantee (other than by endorsement of negotiable
instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business), direct or
indirect, in any manner (including, without limitation, letters of credit and
reimbursement agreements in respect thereof), of all or any part of any
Indebtedness.
 
    "HEDGING OBLIGATIONS"  means, with respect to any Person, the obligations of
such Person under (i) interest rate swap agreements, interest rate cap
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(ii) forward foreign exchange contracts or currency swap agreements and (iii)
other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against
fluctuations in interest rates or currency values.
 
    "HOSPITAL"  means a hospital, outpatient clinic, long-term care facility or
other facility or business that is used or useful in or related to the provision
of healthcare services.
 
    "HOSPITAL SWAP"  means an exchange of assets by the Company or a Subsidiary
of the Company for one or more Hospitals and/or one or more Related Businesses
or for the Capital Stock of any Person owning one or more Hospitals and/or one
or more Related Businesses.
 
    "INDEBTEDNESS"  means, with respect to any Person, any indebtedness of such
Person, whether or not contingent, in respect of borrowed money or evidenced by
bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments or letters of credit (or
reimbursement agreements in respect thereof) or banker's acceptances or
representing Capital Lease Obligations or the balance deferred and unpaid of the
purchase price of any property or representing any Hedging Obligations, except
any such balance that constitutes an accrued expense or trade payable, if and to
the extent any of the foregoing indebtedness (other than letters of credit and
Hedging Obligations) would appear as a liability upon a balance sheet of such
Person prepared in accordance with GAAP, as well as all indebtedness of others
secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person (whether or not such indebtedness
is assumed by such Person) and, to the extent not otherwise included, the
Guarantee by such Person of any indebtedness of any other Person.
 
    "INVESTMENT GRADE"  means a rating of BBB- or higher by S&P or Baa3 or
higher by Moody's or the equivalent of such ratings by S&P or Moody's. In the
event that the Company shall select any other Rating Agency, the equivalent of
such ratings by such Rating Agency shall be used.
 
    "LIEN"  means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge,
charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset
given to secure Indebtedness, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise
perfected under applicable law (including any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, any option or other
agreement to sell or give a security interest in and any filing of or agreement
to give any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent
statutes) of any jurisdiction with respect to any such lien, pledge, charge or
security interest).
 
    "MOODY'S"  means Moody's Investors Service, Inc. and its successors.
 
    "NET INCOME"  means, with respect to any Person, the net income (loss) of
such Person, determined in accordance with GAAP and before any reduction in
respect of preferred stock dividends, excluding, however, (i) any gain (but not
loss), together with any related provision for taxes on such gain (but not
loss), realized in connection with (a) any Asset Sale (including, without
limitation, dispositions pursuant to sale and leaseback transactions) or (b) the
disposition of any securities by such Person or any of its Subsidiaries or the
extinguishment of any Indebtedness of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries and
(ii) any extraordinary or nonrecurring gain (but not loss), together with any
related provision for taxes on such extraordinary or nonrecurring gain (but not
loss).
 
    "NEW CREDIT FACILITY"  means that certain Credit Agreement by and among the
Company and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York and the other banks that
are party thereto, providing for $2.5 billion in aggregate principal amount of
Indebtedness, including any related notes, instruments and agreements executed
in connection therewith, and in each case as amended, modified, extended,
renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced, in whole or in part, from time to
time.
 
   
    "OBLIGATIONS"  means any principal, interest, penalties, fees,
indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities payable under
the documentation governing any Indebtedness.
    
 
   
    "PAYMENT DEFAULT"  means, for purposes of the Senior Note Indentures, any
failure to pay any scheduled installment of interest or principal on any
Indebtedness within the grace period provided for such payment in the
documentation governing such Indebtedness.
    
 
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    "PERMITTED LIENS"  means (i) Liens in favor of the Company; (ii) Liens on
property of a Person existing at the time such Person is merged into or
consolidated with the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or becomes a
Subsidiary of the Company; PROVIDED that such Liens were in existence prior to
the contemplation of such merger, consolidation or acquisition (unless such
Liens secure Indebtedness that was incurred in connection with or in
contemplation of such acquisition and is used to refinance tax-exempt
Indebtedness) and do not extend to any assets or the Company or its Subsidiaries
other than those of the Person merged into or consolidated with the Company or
that becomes a Subsidiary of the Company; (iii) Liens on property existing at
the time of acquisition thereof by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company;
PROVIDED that such Liens were in existence prior to the contemplation of such
acquisition (unless such Liens secure Indebtedness that was incurred in
connection with or in contemplation of such acquisition and is used to refinance
tax-exempt Indebtedness); (iv) Liens to secure the performance of statutory
obligations, tender, bid, performance, government contract, surety or appeal
bonds or other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of
business; (v) Liens existing on the date of the Indentures; (vi) Liens for
taxes, assessments or governmental charges or claims that are not yet delinquent
or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly
instituted and diligently concluded; PROVIDED that any reserve or other
appropriate provision as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have
been made therefor; (vii) other Liens on assets of the Company or any Subsidiary
of the Company securing Indebtedness that is permitted by the terms of the
Indentures to be outstanding having an aggregate principal amount at any one
time outstanding not to exceed 10% of the Stockholders' Equity of the Company;
and (viii) Liens to secure Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to
refinance Indebtedness that was secured by a Lien permitted under the Indentures
and that was incurred in accordance with the provisions of the Indentures;
PROVIDED that such Liens do not extend to or cover any property or assets of the
Company or any Subsidiary other than assets or property securing the
Indebtedness so refinanced.
 
    "PERMITTED REFINANCING INDEBTEDNESS"  means any Indebtedness of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which
are used solely to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund, other
Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; PROVIDED that, except in
the case of Indebtedness of the Company issued in exchange for, or the net
proceeds of which are used solely to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease
or refund, Indebtedness of a Subsidiary of the Company: (i) the principal amount
of such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount
of the Indebtedness so extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or
refunded (plus the amount of any premiums paid and reasonable expenses incurred
in connection therewith); (ii) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness has a
final maturity date later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted
Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to
Maturity of, the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced,
defeased or refunded; (iii) if the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced,
renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded is subordinated in right of payment to
the Senior Notes, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness has a final maturity
date later than the final maturity date of, and is subordinated in right of
payment to, the Senior Notes on subordination terms at least as favorable to the
Holders of Senior Notes as those contained in the documentation governing the
Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or
refunded; (iv) such Indebtedness is incurred by the Company if the Company is
the obligor on the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced,
defeased or refunded; and (v) such Indebtedness is incurred by the Company or a
Subsidiary if a Subsidiary is the obligor on the Indebtedness being extended,
refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded.
 
    "PHYSICIAN JOINT VENTURE DISTRIBUTIONS"  means distributions made by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any physician, pharmacist or other allied
healthcare professional in connection with the unwinding, liquidation or other
termination of any joint venture or similar arrangement between any such Person
and the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
 
    "PHYSICIAN SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS"  means any obligation or Guarantee incurred
in the ordinary course of business by the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company
in connection with any advance, loan or payment to, or on behalf of or for the
benefit of any physician, pharmacist or other allied healthcare
 
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professional for the purpose of recruiting, redirecting or retaining the
physician, pharmacist or other allied healthcare professional to provide service
to patients in the service area of any Hospital or Related Business owned or
operated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; EXCLUDING, HOWEVER,
compensation for services provided by physicians, pharmacists or other allied
healthcare professionals to any Hospital or Related Business owned or operated
by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
 
    "QUALIFIED EQUITY INTERESTS"  shall mean all Equity Interests of the Company
other than Disqualified Stock of the Company.
 
    "RATING AGENCIES"  means (i) S&P and (ii) Moody's or (iii) if S&P or Moody's
or both shall not make a rating of the Notes publicly available, a nationally
recognized securities rating agency or agencies, as the case may be, selected by
the Company, which shall be substituted for S&P or Moody's or both, as the case
may be.
 
    "RATING CATEGORY"  means (i) with respect to S&P, any of the following
categories: BB, B, CCC, CC, C and D (or equivalent successor categories); (ii)
with respect to Moody's, any of the following categories: Ba, B, Caa, Ca, C and
D (or equivalent successor categories); and (iii) the equivalent of any such
category of S&P or Moody's used by another Rating Agency. In determining whether
the rating of the Notes has decreased by one or more gradations, gradations
within Rating Categories (+ and - for S&P; 1, 2 and 3 for Moody's; or the
equivalent gradations for another Rating Agency) shall be taken into account
(e.g., with respect to S&P, a decline in a rating from BB+ to BB, as well as
from BB- to B+, will constitute a decrease of one gradation).
 
    "RATING DATE"  means the date which is 90 days prior to the earlier of (i) a
Change of Control and (ii) the first public notice of the occurrence of a Change
of Control or of the intention by the Company to effect a Change of Control.
 
    "RATING DECLINE"  means the occurrence on or within 90 days after the date
of the first public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control or of the
intention by the Company to effect a Change of Control (which period shall be
extended so long as the rating of the Notes is under publicly announced
consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies) of: (a) in
the event the Notes are rated by either Moody's or S&P on the Rating Date as
Investment Grade, a decrease in the rating of the Notes by both Rating Agencies
to a rating that is below Investment Grade, or (b) in the event the Notes are
rated below Investment Grade by both Rating Agencies on the Rating Date, a
decrease in the rating of the Notes by either Rating Agency by one or more
gradations (including gradations within Rating Categories as well as between
Rating Categories).
 
    "RELATED BUSINESS"  means a healthcare business affiliated or associated
with a Hospital or any business related or ancillary to the provision of
healthcare services or information or the investment in, management, leasing or
operation of a Hospital.
 
    "SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDIARY"  means any Subsidiary that would be a "significant
subsidiary" as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated
pursuant to the Act, as such Regulation is in effect on the date of the
Indentures.
 
    "S&P"  means Standard & Poor's Corporation and its successors.
 
    "SPECIFIED EXCHANGE"  means any retirement of Indebtedness upon the exercise
by a holder of such Indebtedness, pursuant to the terms thereof, of any right to
exchange such Indebtedness for shares of common stock of Vencor, Inc. or any
successor thereto or any other equity securities, other than Equity Interests of
a Subsidiary, owned by the Company as of October 11, 1995, or for any securities
or other property received with respect to such common stock or equity
securities or cash in lieu thereof, whether or not such right is subject to the
Company's ability to pay an amount in cash in lieu thereof.
 
    "STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY"  means, with respect to any Person as of any date,
the stockholders' equity of such Person determined in accordance with GAAP as of
the date of the most recent available internal
 
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financial statements of such Person, and calculated on a PRO FORMA basis to give
effect to any acquisition or disposition by such Person consummated or to be
consummated since the date of such financial statements and on or prior to the
date of such calculation.
 
    "SUBSIDIARY"  means, with respect to any Person, (i) any corporation,
association or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting
power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of
any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees
thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such
Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person (or a combination
thereof) and (ii) any partnership (a) the sole general partner or the managing
general partner of which is such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person or (b)
the only general partners of which are such Person or of one or more
Subsidiaries of such Person (or any combination thereof).
 
    "WEIGHTED AVERAGE LIFE TO MATURITY"  means, when applied to any Indebtedness
at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing (i) the sum of the
products obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of each then remaining
installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of
principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (b) the
number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between
such date and the making of such payment, by (ii) the then outstanding principal
amount of such Indebtedness.
 
    "WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY"  of any Person means a Subsidiary of such Person
all of the outstanding Capital Stock or other ownership interests of which
(other than directors' qualifying shares) shall at the time be owned by such
Person or by one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person or by such
Person and one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
 
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                     DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW CREDIT FACILITY
 
   
    In connection with the Merger and the Refinancing, Morgan Guaranty Trust
Company of New York ("Morgan Guaranty"), Bank of America NT&SA, The Bank of New
York and the Bank of Nova Scotia (collectively, the "Arranging Agents") and a
syndicate of other lenders (the "Lenders") will provide Tenet with a $2.8
billion revolving credit facility expiring in 2002. Tenet's obligations under
the New Credit Facility will rank PARI PASSU with the Senior Notes and will
constitute Senior Debt with respect to the Senior Subordinated Notes.
    
 
    INTEREST RATE.  It is anticipated that loans under the New Credit Facility
will bear interest, at the option of Tenet, at either (i) a base rate equal to
the higher of the rate announced from time to time by Morgan Guaranty as its
prime rate or the daily federal funds rate plus 50 basis points or (ii) the
London interbank offered rate (as adjusted for certain reserve requirements) for
1-, 2-, 3- or 6-month periods plus an interest margin ranging from 22.50 to
68.75 basis points based on the ratio of Tenet's consolidated total debt to net
earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Facility fees
also will be payable to each Lender based on the amount of such Lender's
commitment to make loans at rates ranging from 12.50 basis points to 31.25 basis
points as determined by reference to the same ratio.
 
    COVENANTS.  It is contemplated that the credit agreement entered into in
connection with the New Credit Facility (the "Credit Agreement") will include
various affirmative, negative and financial covenants, including, without
limitation, (i) restrictions on disposition of assets and the making of certain
investments, (ii) a prohibition on the prepayment, redemption or defeasance of
the Senior Subordinated Notes and other Tenet subordinated indebtedness prior to
the stated maturity thereof, (iii) limitations on subsidiary debt incurrence and
lien incurrence, (iv) limitations on mergers and changes of business, (v) a
minimum consolidated net worth requirement, a minimum fixed charge coverage
ratio and a maximum leverage ratio and (vi) a prohibition on dividends and stock
repurchases prior to Tenet's senior long-term unsecured debt being rated
investment grade by Moody's and S&P.
 
    EVENTS OF DEFAULT.  It is anticipated that events of default under the
Credit Agreement will include various events of default customary for such type
of agreement. Without limitation, it is anticipated that a change of control of
the Company will constitute an event of default under the Credit Agreement.
 
    CONDITIONS.  It is contemplated that the Credit Agreement will provide that
the obligations of the Lenders to provide the New Credit Facility will be
subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions, including, among
others (i) consummation of the Merger, (ii) repayment and cancellation of
indebtedness under Tenet's and OrNda's existing bank facilities and (iii) no
material adverse change in the business, operations, properties or financial
condition of Tenet and its subsidiaries and OrNda and its subsidiaries, taken as
a whole.
 
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                                  UNDERWRITING
 
    Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Underwriting Agreement
(the "Underwriting Agreement") between the Company and Donaldson, Lufkin &
Jenrette Securities Corporation ("DLJ"), Goldman, Sachs & Co., Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. ("JPMSI") and
Smith Barney Inc. (collectively, the "Underwriters"), each of the Underwriters
has severally agreed to purchase from the Company, and the Company has agreed to
sell to each of the Underwriters, the respective principal amounts of Senior
Notes due 2003, Senior Notes due 2005 and Senior Subordinated Notes set forth
opposite its name below, at the public offering price set forth on the cover
page of this Prospectus, less the underwriting discount:
 
   
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<CAPTION>
                                                                                       PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
                                                   PRINCIPAL AMOUNT  PRINCIPAL AMOUNT     OF SENIOR
                                                   OF SENIOR NOTES   OF SENIOR NOTES     SUBORDINATED
                   UNDERWRITER                         DUE 2003          DUE 2005           NOTES
- -------------------------------------------------  ----------------  ----------------  ----------------
<S>                                                <C>               <C>               <C>
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
      Securities Corporation.....................   $                 $                 $
Goldman, Sachs & Co..............................
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
          Incorporated...........................
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.......................
Smith Barney Inc.................................
                                                   ----------------  ----------------  ----------------
    Total........................................   $  400,000,000    $  900,000,000    $  700,000,000
                                                   ----------------  ----------------  ----------------
                                                   ----------------  ----------------  ----------------
</TABLE>
    
 
    The Underwriting Agreement provides that the obligations of the several
Underwriters are subject to certain conditions precedent, including the
consummation of the Merger and the establishment of the New Credit Facility. The
Company has agreed to indemnify the Underwriters against certain liabilities and
expenses, including liabilities under the Securities Act or to contribute to
payments that the Underwriters may be required to make in respect thereof. The
nature of the Underwriters' obligations is such that the Underwriters are
committed to purchase all of the Notes if any of the Notes are purchased by
them.
 
    The Underwriters have advised the Company that they propose to offer the
Notes directly to the public initially at the public offering price set forth on
the cover page of this Prospectus and to certain dealers at such offering price
less a concession not to exceed    % of the principal amount of the Notes. The
Underwriters may allow, and such dealers may reallow, discounts not in excess of
   % of the principal amount of the Notes to certain other dealers. After the
initial public offering of the Notes, the offering price and other selling terms
may be changed by the Underwriters.
 
    The Notes have been approved for listing, subject to official notice of
issuance, on the NYSE. Nevertheless, the Notes are new issues of securities,
have no established trading market and may not be widely distributed. The
Company has been advised by the Underwriters that, following the completion of
the Offering, the Underwriters presently intend to make a market in the Notes as
permitted by applicable laws and regulations. However, the Underwriters are
under no obligation to do so and may discontinue any market making activities at
any time at the sole discretion of the Underwriters. No assurance can be given
as to the liquidity of any trading market for the Notes.
 
    DLJ has provided and is currently retained to provide certain investment
banking services to the Company for which it has received and is entitled to
receive usual and customary fees. DLJ acted as financial advisor to the Company
in connection with the Merger, for which it is entitled to receive usual and
customary fees. DLJ is also acting as dealer manager in connection with the
OrNda Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations and will receive usual and
customary fees for such services.
 
    JPMSI and certain of its affiliates have provided and are expected to
continue to provide certain investment banking and commercial banking services
to the Company for which they have received or will receive usual and customary
fees. Morgan Guaranty, an affiliate of JPMSI, is the lead bank under the
 
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Company's existing credit facility and will be the lead Arranging Agent under
the New Credit Facility replacing such existing credit facility. See
"Description of the New Credit Facility."
 
                                 LEGAL MATTERS
 
    Certain legal matters as to the validity of the Notes offered hereby will be
passed upon for the Company by Scott M. Brown, Senior Vice President and General
Counsel of the Company and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Los
Angeles, California. The validity of the Notes will be passed upon for the
Underwriters by Sullivan & Cromwell, Los Angeles, California. With respect to
certain matters governed by Nevada law, Scott M. Brown, Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP and Sullivan & Cromwell will rely on the opinion of Woodburn
and Wedge, Reno, Nevada. As of January 6, 1997, Mr. Brown owned 2,449 shares of
Tenet Common Stock and had outstanding options to purchase 145,634 shares of
Tenet Common Stock pursuant to Tenet benefit plans.
 
                                    EXPERTS
 
    The consolidated financial statements and schedule of Tenet Healthcare
Corporation as of May 31, 1996 and 1995, and for each of the years in the
three-year period ended May 31, 1996, have been included and incorporated by
reference herein and in the Registration Statement in reliance upon the reports
of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, independent certified public accountants, included and
incorporated by reference herein, and upon the authority of said firm as experts
in accounting and auditing. The report of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP covering the
consolidated financial statements refers to a change in the method of accounting
for income taxes in 1994.
 
    The consolidated financial statements of OrNda HealthCorp at August 31, 1996
and 1995 and for each of the three years in the period ended August 31, 1996
appearing in this Prospectus and Registration Statement have been audited by
Ernst & Young LLP, independent auditors, as set forth in their report thereon
appearing herein, and are included in reliance upon such report given upon the
authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.
 
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                         INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
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TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
Financial Statements:
  Report of Independent Auditors...........................................................................        F-2
  Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended May 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996....................        F-3
  Consolidated Balance Sheets as of May 31, 1995 and 1996..................................................        F-4
  Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended May 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996....................        F-5
  Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders' Equity for the years ended May 31, 1994, 1995 and
    1996...................................................................................................        F-6
  Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements...............................................................        F-7
  Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of May 31, 1996 and November 30, 1996.................       F-24
  Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income for the three months and six months ended November
    30, 1995 and 1996......................................................................................       F-25
  Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the six months ended November 30, 1995 and
    1996...................................................................................................       F-26
  Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements...........................................       F-27
 
ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
Financial Statements:
  Report of Independent Auditors...........................................................................       F-29
  Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended August 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996.................       F-30
  Consolidated Balance Sheets as of August 31, 1995 and 1996...............................................       F-31
  Consolidated Statements of Shareholders' Equity for the years ended August 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996.......       F-32
  Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended August 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996.................       F-33
  Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements...............................................................       F-34
  Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Income for the three months ended November 30, 1995 and 1996........       F-52
  Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets as of August 31, 1996 and November 30, 1996........................       F-53
  Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the three months ended November 30, 1995 and 1996....       F-54
  Notes to Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements.....................................................       F-55
</TABLE>
 
                                      F-1
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                         REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
 
The Board of Directors
Tenet Healthcare Corporation:
 
    We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Tenet
Healthcare Corporation and subsidiaries as of May 31, 1996 and 1995, and the
related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders' equity and cash
flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended May 31, 1996. These
consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's
management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated
financial statements based on our audits.
 
    We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing
standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
 
    In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above
present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Tenet
Healthcare Corporation and subsidiaries as of May 31, 1996 and 1995, and the
results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the
three-year period ended May 31, 1996, in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles.
 
    As discussed in Note 6 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company
changed its method of accounting for income taxes effective June 1, 1993.
 
                                          KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
 
Los Angeles, California
July 25, 1996
 
                                      F-2
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                     CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
 
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<CAPTION>
                                                                                       YEARS ENDED MAY 31
                                                                                 -------------------------------
                                                                                   1994       1995       1996
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                   (DOLLAR AMOUNTS, EXCEPT PER
                                                                                              SHARE
                                                                                    AMOUNTS, ARE EXPRESSED IN
                                                                                            MILLIONS)
<S>                                                                              <C>        <C>        <C>
Net operating revenues.........................................................  $   2,943  $   3,318  $   5,559
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
 
Operating expenses:
  Salaries and benefits........................................................     (1,293)    (1,367)    (2,194)
  Supplies.....................................................................       (339)      (432)      (764)
  Provision for doubtful accounts..............................................       (107)      (137)      (290)
  Other operating expenses.....................................................       (667)      (759)    (1,212)
  Depreciation.................................................................       (143)      (164)      (240)
  Amortization.................................................................        (18)       (31)       (81)
  Impairment losses............................................................     --         --            (86)
  Restructuring charges........................................................        (77)       (37)    --
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
Operating income...............................................................        299        391        692
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
Interest expense, net of capitalized portion...................................        (70)      (138)      (312)
Investment earnings............................................................         28         27         22
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates................................         23         28         20
Minority interests in income of consolidated subsidiaries......................         (8)        (9)       (22)
Net gain (loss) on disposals of facilities and long-term investments...........         88         (2)       329
Gains on sales of subsidiary's common stock....................................     --             32         17
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
Income from continuing operations before income taxes..........................        360        329        746
Taxes on income................................................................       (144)      (135)      (348)
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
Income from continuing operations..............................................        216        194        398
Discontinued operations........................................................       (701)        (9)       (25)
Extraordinary charges from early extinguishment of debt........................     --            (20)       (23)
Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle..........................         60     --         --
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
Net income (loss)..............................................................  $    (425) $     165  $     350
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
 
Earnings (loss) per share:
  Primary:
    Continuing operations......................................................  $    1.29  $    1.10  $    1.90
    Discontinued operations....................................................      (4.19)     (0.06)     (0.12)
    Extraordinary charge.......................................................     --          (0.11)     (0.11)
    Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle......................       0.36     --         --
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                 $   (2.54) $    0.93  $    1.67
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
 
  Fully diluted:
    Continuing operations......................................................  $    1.23  $    1.06  $    1.86
    Discontinued operations....................................................      (4.10)     (0.05)     (0.12)
    Extraordinary charges......................................................     --          (0.10)     (0.11)
    Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle......................       0.33     --         --
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                 $   (2.54) $    0.91  $    1.63
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
 
Weighted average shares and share equivalents outstanding (in thousands):
  Primary......................................................................    167,024    176,817    209,492
  Fully diluted................................................................    181,087    190,139    216,676
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
 
          See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
                                      F-3
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                          CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
 
                                     ASSETS
 
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<CAPTION>
                                                                                                        MAY 31
                                                                                                 --------------------
                                                                                                   1995       1996
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
                                                                                                   (DOLLAR AMOUNTS
                                                                                                    ARE EXPRESSED
                                                                                                     IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                                                                              <C>        <C>
Current Assets:
  Cash and cash equivalents....................................................................  $     155  $      89
  Short-term investments in debt securities....................................................        139        112
  Accounts and notes receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts
    ($184 in 1995 and $156 in 1996)............................................................        565        838
  Inventories of supplies, at cost.............................................................        116        128
  Deferred income taxes........................................................................        410        279
  Assets held for sale.........................................................................        184         39
  Prepaid expenses and other current assets....................................................         55         60
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
    Total current assets.......................................................................      1,624      1,545
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
Investments and other assets...................................................................        362        518
Property, plant and equipment, net.............................................................      3,319      3,648
Costs in excess of net assets acquired, less accumulated amortization
  ($21 in 1995 and $86 in 1996)................................................................      2,511      2,574
Other intangible assets, at cost, less accumulated amortization
  ($37 in 1995 and in 1996)....................................................................        102         47
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
                                                                                                 $   7,918  $   8,332
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
 
                                        LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
  Current portion of long-term debt............................................................  $     252  $      60
  Accounts payable.............................................................................        359        380
  Employee compensation and benefits...........................................................        162        120
  Accrued interest payable.....................................................................         57         68
  Income taxes payable.........................................................................          2         33
  Other current liabilities....................................................................        524        473
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
    Total current liabilities..................................................................      1,356      1,134
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
Long-term debt, net of current portion.........................................................      3,273      3,191
Other long-term liabilities and minority interests.............................................      1,002        977
Deferred income taxes..........................................................................        301        394
 
Commitments and contingencies
 
Shareholders' equity:
  Common stock, $0.075 par value; authorized 450,000,000 shares; 218,713,406 shares issued at
    May 31, 1995 and May 31, 1996..............................................................         16         16
  Additional paid-in capital...................................................................      1,502      1,542
  Unrealized gains on investments in debt and equity securities................................     --             28
  Retained earnings............................................................................        740      1,090
  Less common stock in treasury, at cost, 18,775,274 at May 31, 1995 and 2,790,967 shares at
    May 31, 1996...............................................................................       (272)       (40)
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
    Total shareholders' equity.................................................................      1,986      2,636
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
                                                                                                 $   7,918  $   8,332
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
 
          See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
                                      F-4
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                     CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
 
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<CAPTION>
                                                                                             YEARS ENDED MAY 31
                                                                                       -------------------------------
                                                                                         1994       1995       1996
                                                                                       ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                        (DOLLAR AMOUNTS ARE EXPRESSED
                                                                                                IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                                                                    <C>        <C>        <C>
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Net income (loss)....................................................................  $    (425) $     165  $     350
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by (used in)
  operating activities:
  Depreciation and amortization......................................................        198        195        321
  Deferred income taxes..............................................................       (253)        95        243
  Gains on sales of facilities and long-term investments.............................        (88)       (30)      (346)
  Additions to reserves for discontinued operations, impairment losses and
    restructuring charges............................................................      1,175         51        127
  Extraordinary charges from early extinguishment of debt............................     --             20         23
  Other items........................................................................        (22)        (6)        12
Increase (decrease) in cash from changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of
  effects from purchases of new businesses:
  Accounts and notes receivable, net.................................................        (65)       (47)      (256)
  Inventories, prepaid expenses and other current assets.............................        (21)         1        (12)
  Accounts payable, accrued expenses and income taxes payable........................        (31)       (28)       (64)
  Noncurrent accrued expenses and other liabilities..................................         (2)         4       (106)
Net expenditures for discontinued operations and restructuring charges...............       (319)      (427)       (97)
                                                                                       ---------  ---------  ---------
  Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities................................        147         (7)       195
                                                                                       ---------  ---------  ---------
 
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Purchases of property, plant and equipment...........................................       (185)      (264)      (370)
Purchases of new businesses, net of cash acquired....................................         (5)    (1,429)      (410)
Proceeds from sales of facilities, long-term investments and other assets............        569        172        548
Other items..........................................................................          7          8        (36)
                                                                                       ---------  ---------  ---------
  Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities................................        386     (1,513)      (268)
                                                                                       ---------  ---------  ---------
 
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Proceeds from borrowings.............................................................         91      3,445      2,961
Loan payments........................................................................       (428)    (2,091)    (3,187)
Proceeds from exercises of performance investment plan options.......................     --         --            203
Proceeds from exercises of stock options.............................................          1          3         30
Cash dividends paid to shareholders..................................................        (40)    --         --
Other items..........................................................................         15          5     --
                                                                                       ---------  ---------  ---------
  Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities................................       (361)     1,362          7
                                                                                       ---------  ---------  ---------
  Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents...............................        172       (158)       (66)
  Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year.....................................        141        313        155
                                                                                       ---------  ---------  ---------
  Cash and cash equivalents at end of year...........................................  $     313  $     155  $      89
                                                                                       ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                       ---------  ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
 
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES
 
    The Company paid interest (net of amounts capitalized) of $62 million, $113
million, and $279 million for the years ended May 31, 1994, 1995, and 1996,
respectively. Income taxes paid during the same years amounted to $30 million,
$45 million and $28 million, respectively.
 
    The fair value of the assets acquired in connection with the AMH merger in
1995 was approximately $4.6 billion, including goodwill of approximately $2.5
billion. Liabilities assumed were approximately $2.6 billion.
 
          See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
           CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                         COMMON STOCK
                                                   ------------------------  ADDITIONAL
                                                   OUTSTANDING    ISSUED       PAID-IN     UNREALIZED     RETAINED     TREASURY
                                                     SHARES       AMOUNT       CAPITAL        GAINS       EARNINGS       STOCK
                                                   -----------  -----------  -----------  -------------  -----------  -----------
                                                                     (DOLLAR AMOUNTS ARE EXPRESSED IN MILLIONS,
                                                                            SHARE AMOUNTS IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>            <C>          <C>
BALANCES, MAY 31, 1993...........................     165,898    $      14    $   1,005     $  --         $   1,019    $    (286)
  Net loss.......................................                                                              (425)
  Cash dividends ($0.12 per share)...............                                                               (19)
  Stock options exercised........................         293                        (1)                                       4
  Restricted share cancellations.................        (110)                        9
                                                   -----------         ---   -----------          ---    -----------       -----
BALANCES, MAY 31, 1994...........................     166,081           14        1,013        --               575         (282)
  Net income.....................................                                                               165
  Shares issued in connection with merger........      33,156            2          486
  Stock options exercised........................         705                        (1)                                      10
  Restricted share cancellations.................          (4)                        4
                                                   -----------         ---   -----------          ---    -----------       -----
BALANCES, MAY 31, 1995...........................     199,938           16        1,502        --               740         (272)
  Net income.....................................                                                               350
  Performance investment plan options exercised..      13,499                        39                                      196
  Stock options exercised........................       2,485                         1                                       36
  Unrealized gains from changes in market value
    of investments in debt and equity securities,
    net of income taxes..........................                                                  28
                                                   -----------         ---   -----------          ---    -----------       -----
BALANCES, MAY 31, 1996...........................     215,922    $      16    $   1,542     $      28     $   1,090    $     (40)
                                                   -----------         ---   -----------          ---    -----------       -----
                                                   -----------         ---   -----------          ---    -----------       -----
</TABLE>
 
          See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                   NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
NOTE 1. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
 
A.  THE COMPANY
 
    Tenet Healthcare Corporation is an investor-owned healthcare services
company that owns or operates, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, general
hospitals and related healthcare facilities serving urban and rural communities
in 13 states and holds investments in other healthcare companies. At May 31,
1996, the Company's subsidiaries operated 74 domestic general hospitals, with a
total of 16,666 licensed beds, located in Alabama, Arkansas, California,
Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. The largest concentrations of hospitals are in
California, Florida, Louisiana and Texas. At May 31, 1996, the Company's
subsidiaries also owned or operated a small number of rehabilitation hospitals,
long-term-care facilities and psychiatric facilities located on the same campus
as, or nearby, the Company's general hospitals, in addition to numerous other
ancillary healthcare operations.
 
B.  PRINCIPLES OF CONSOLIDATION
 
    The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Tenet
Healthcare Corporation and its wholly-owned and majority-owned subsidiaries.
Significant investments in other affiliated companies generally are accounted
for by the equity method. Intercompany accounts and transactions are eliminated
in consolidation.
 
C.  USE OF ESTIMATES
 
    The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally
accepted accounting principles requires management of the Company to make
estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated
financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from
those estimates.
 
D.  NET OPERATING REVENUES
 
    Net operating revenues consist primarily of net patient-service revenues,
which are based on the hospitals' established billing rates less allowances and
discounts principally for patients covered by Medicare, Medicaid and other
contractual programs. These allowances and discounts were $2.7 billion, $3.4
billion and $6.2 billion for the years ended May 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996,
respectively. Payments under these programs are based on either predetermined
rates or the costs of services. Settlements for retrospectively determined rates
are estimated in the period the related services are rendered and are adjusted
in future periods as final settlements are determined. Management believes that
adequate provision has been made for adjustments that may result from final
determination of amounts earned under these programs. These contractual
allowances and discounts are deducted from accounts receivable in the
accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Approximately 43% of fiscal 1996
consolidated net operating revenues is from participation of the Company's
hospitals in Medicare and Medicaid programs. In 1994 and 1995 it was
approximately 40%.
 
    The Company provides care to patients who meet certain financial or economic
criteria without charge or at amounts substantially less than its established
rates. Because the Company does not pursue collection of amounts determined to
qualify as charity care, they are not reported as gross revenue and are not
included in deductions from revenue or in operating and administrative expenses.
 
E.  CASH EQUIVALENTS
 
    The Company treats highly liquid investments with an original maturity of
three months or less as cash equivalents.
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 1. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)
F.  INVESTMENTS IN DEBT AND EQUITY SECURITIES
 
    Investments in debt and equity securities are classified as
available-for-sale, held-to-maturity or as part of a trading portfolio. The
Company has no significant investments in securities classified as either
held-to-maturity or trading. Securities classified as available-for-sale are
carried at fair value if unrestricted and their unrealized gains and losses, net
of tax, are reported as an adjustment to shareholders' equity. Restricted
securities are carried at cost, adjusted for dividends in excess of earnings
subsequent to the date of investment and for decreases in value that are other
than temporary. Realized gains or losses are included in net income on the
specific identification method, and are immaterial for all years presented.
 
G.  LONG-LIVED ASSETS
 
  PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT
 
    The Company uses the straight-line method of depreciation for buildings,
building improvements and equipment over their estimated useful lives as
follows: buildings and improvements--generally 25 to 40 years; equipment--five
to 15 years.
 
  INTANGIBLE ASSETS
 
    Preopening costs are amortized over one year. Costs in excess of the fair
value of the net assets of purchased businesses (goodwill) generally are
amortized over 40 years. The straight-line method is used to amortize these
intangible assets. Deferred financing costs are amortized over the lives of the
related loans using the interest method.
 
    Impairment of long-lived assets, including goodwill related to such assets,
is recognized whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the
carrying amount of the asset, or related groups of assets, may not be
recoverable. Measurement of the amount of impairment may be based on appraisal,
market values of similar assets or estimates of future discounted cash flows
resulting from use and ultimate disposition of the asset.
 
H. LEASES
 
    Capital leases are recorded at the beginning of the lease term as assets and
liabilities at the lower of the present value of the minimum lease payments or
the fair value of the assets, and such assets are amortized over the shorter of
the lease term or their useful life.
 
I.  INTEREST RATE SWAP AGREEMENTS
 
    The differentials to be paid or received under interest rate swap agreements
are accrued as the interest rates change and are recognized over the lives of
the agreements as adjustments to interest expense.
 
J.  SALES OF COMMON STOCK OF SUBSIDIARIES
 
    At the time a subsidiary or equity affiliate sells existing or newly issued
common stock to unrelated parties at a price in excess of its book value, the
Company records a gain reflecting its share of the change in the subsidiary's
shareholders' equity resulting from the sale.
 
K. EARNINGS PER SHARE
 
    Primary earnings per share of common stock is based on after-tax income
applicable to common stock and the weighted average number of shares of common
stock and common stock equivalents outstanding
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 1. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)
during each period as appropriate. Fully diluted earnings-per-share calculations
are based on the assumption that all dilutive convertible debentures are
converted into shares of common stock as of the beginning of the year, or as of
the issue date if later, and (i) that those shares are added to the weighted
average number of common shares and share equivalents outstanding used in the
calculation of primary earnings per share, and (ii) that after-tax income is
adjusted accordingly.
 
L.  TRANSLATION OF FOREIGN CURRENCIES
 
    The financial statements of the Company's foreign subsidiaries have been
translated into U.S. dollars in accordance with Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 52. Exchange gains and losses on forward
exchange contracts designated as hedges of foreign net investments are reported
as an adjustment to shareholders' equity. Currency translation adjustments and
the effect of transaction gains and losses and exchange gains and losses on
forward exchange contracts are insignificant for all years presented. At May 31,
1996, the Company had sold substantially all of its foreign operations.
 
NOTE 2. ACQUISITIONS AND DISPOSALS OF FACILITIES
 
  DOMESTIC
 
    In July 1995, the Company acquired a one-third interest (which subsequently
has been increased to a 50% interest) in the leased 82-bed St. Clair Hospital
located outside Birmingham, Alabama. In August 1995, the Company acquired
Memorial Medical Center (formerly known as Mercy+Baptist Medical Center), a
system of two general hospitals with an aggregate of 759 licensed beds located
in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a related physician practice. In September 1995,
the Company acquired Providence Memorial Hospital, a general hospital located in
El Paso, Texas. Providence is licensed for 471 general hospital beds (34 of
which may be used as skilled nursing beds) and is licensed for 30 additional
rehabilitation and sub-acute care beds. In October 1995, the Company entered
into a long-term lease of the 49-bed Medical Center of Manchester in central
Tennessee. In November 1995, the Company acquired the 104-bed Methodist Hospital
of Jonesboro, a general hospital located in Jonesboro, Arkansas. That hospital
is now owned by a limited liability company of which Tenet owns 95% and is the
manager. In fiscal 1996 the Company also acquired several other physician
practices and other healthcare operations. These acquisitions were all accounted
for as purchases. On June 1, 1996, the Company acquired Hialeah Hospital, a
378-bed acute care hospital in Hialeah, Florida. The Company also has entered
into a definitive agreement to purchase Lloyd Noland Hospital in Birmingham,
Alabama, which purchase the Company expects to complete prior to the end of the
second quarter of fiscal 1997.
 
    In March 1995, in a transaction accounted for as a purchase, the Company
acquired all the outstanding common stock of American Medical Holdings, Inc.
("AMH") for $1.5 billion in cash and 33,156,614 shares of the Company's common
stock valued at $488 million. The total purchase price was allocated to the
assets and liabilities of AMH based on their estimated fair values. The total
purchase price exceeded the fair value of the net assets acquired by
approximately $2.5 billion.
 
  INTERNATIONAL
 
    In June 1995, the Company sold two hospitals and related healthcare
businesses in Singapore for approximately $243 million, net of $78 million in
debt assumed by the buyer. In October 1995, the Company sold its interest in
Australian Medical Enterprises, Limited ("AME") for a net cash consideration of
approximately $68 million, and the Company sold its interest in a hospital in
Malaysia for net cash consideration of approximately $12 million. In February
1996, the Company also sold its 40% interest in a hospital in Thailand for net
cash consideration of approximately $21 million. These transactions resulted in
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 2. ACQUISITIONS AND DISPOSALS OF FACILITIES (CONTINUED)
gains of approximately $158 million. The net proceeds from these sales were used
to repay secured bank loans under the Company's February 28, 1995 credit
agreement. Net operating revenues of the sold facilities were $202 million in
1995 and $51 million in 1996. Operating profits before general corporate
overhead costs were $39 million in 1995 and $7 million in 1996.
 
    In May 1996, the Company also sold its approximately 42% interest in
Westminster for a gain of $34 million. Pretax cash proceeds from this
transaction were approximately $120 million and were used to repay bank loans.
 
NOTE 3. DISCLOSURES ABOUT FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
 
    The carrying amounts of cash, accounts receivable, short-term borrowings and
notes, current portion of long-term debt, accounts payable and interest payable
approximate fair value because of the short maturity of these instruments. The
carrying values of investments, both short-term and long-term (excluding
investments accounted for by the equity method), long-term receivables and
long-term debt are not materially different from the estimated fair values of
these instruments. The estimated fair values of interest rate swap agreements
are not material to the Company's financial position.
 
NOTE 4. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT
 
    Property, plant and equipment is stated at cost and consists of the
following:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                               1995       1996
                                                                             ---------  ---------
                                                                                (IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                                                          <C>        <C>
Land.......................................................................  $     238  $     266
Buildings and improvements.................................................      2,593      2,863
Construction in progress...................................................         97        118
Equipment..................................................................      1,215      1,351
                                                                             ---------  ---------
                                                                                 4,143      4,598
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization.............................        824        950
                                                                             ---------  ---------
Net property, plant and equipment..........................................  $   3,319  $   3,648
                                                                             ---------  ---------
                                                                             ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 5. LONG-TERM DEBT AND LEASE OBLIGATIONS
 
A.  LONG-TERM DEBT
 
    Long-term debt consists of the following:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                   1995       1996
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
                                                                                                    (IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                                                                              <C>        <C>
Unsecured loans payable to banks...............................................................  $  --      $     975
Secured loans payable to banks.................................................................      1,731     --
9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2002, $300 million face value, net of $5.9 million unamortized
  discount.....................................................................................        293        294
10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2005, $900 million face value, net of $21.8 million
  unamortized discount.........................................................................        877        878
8 5/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2003, $500 million face value, net of $11.9 million
  unamortized discount.........................................................................     --            488
6% Exchangeable Subordinated Notes due 2005, $320 million face value, net of $9.0 million
  unamortized discount.........................................................................     --            311
13 1/2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2001.....................................................         16         16
15% Junior Subordinated Notes due 2005.........................................................         26     --
6 1/2% Swiss franc/dollar dual currency debentures due 1997....................................         16         16
5% Swiss franc bonds due 1996..................................................................         18     --
Zero-coupon guaranteed bonds due 1997 and 2002, $130.6 million face value, net of $28.9 million
  unamortized discount.........................................................................         96        102
Notes and capital lease obligations secured by plant and equipment, weighted average interest
  rate of approximately 9.6% in 1995 and 11.2% in 1996, payable in installments to 2009........        153        116
Convertible floating-rate debentures...........................................................        219     --
Unsecured medium-term notes due 1997...........................................................         73         36
Other notes, primarily unsecured...............................................................          7         19
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
                                                                                                     3,525      3,251
Less current portion...........................................................................        252         60
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
                                                                                                 $   3,273  $   3,191
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
                                                                                                 ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
 
  LOANS PAYABLE TO BANKS
 
    In March 1996, a syndicate of banks entered into a new, five-year $1.55
billion unsecured revolving credit agreement with the Company. The agreement
replaced the Company's $2.3 billion secured bank term loan and revolving credit
agreement dated February 28, 1995. Unamortized costs of issuance written off in
connection with the refinancing were $36 million. The write-off is reflected as
an extraordinary charge from early extinguishment of debt in the quarter ended
May 31, 1996 in the amount of $23 million, which is net of tax benefits of $13
million. The $2.3 billion in secured bank loans was used to finance the AMH
merger and repay existing indebtedness. The early extinguishment of debt in 1995
resulted in an extraordinary loss of $20 million, net of tax benefits of $12
million.
 
    Borrowings under the new agreement are unsecured and will mature on March 1,
2001. The Company generally may repay or prepay loans made under the agreement
and may reborrow at any time prior to such maturity date. The Company's unused
borrowing capacity under the new agreement was $575 million as of May 31, 1996.
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 5. LONG-TERM DEBT AND LEASE OBLIGATIONS (CONTINUED)
    Loans under the new credit agreement generally bear interest at a base rate
equal to the prime rate or, if higher, the federal funds rate plus 0.50%, plus
an interest margin ranging from zero to 25 basis points, or, at the option of
the Company, an adjusted London interbank offered rate ("LIBOR") for one-, two-,
three- or six-month periods plus an interest margin of from 30 to 87.5 basis
points. The Company has agreed to pay the lenders under the new credit agreement
a facility fee on the total loan commitment at rates ranging from 15 to 37.5
basis points. The interest margins and facility fee rates are based on the
ratios of the Company's consolidated net earnings before interest, taxes,
depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") to interest expense and the ratio of
the Company's consolidated total debt to EBITDA. During the three months ended
May 31, 1996 the weighted average interest rates on these borrowings was 6.1%.
 
  SENIOR NOTES AND SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES
 
    In connection with the AMH merger and related refinancing, the Company sold,
on March 1, 1995, $300 million of 9 5/8% Senior Notes due September 1, 2002 and
$900 million of 10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due March 1, 2005. The
proceeds to the Company were $1.17 billion, after underwriting discounts and
commissions. The senior notes are not redeemable by the Company prior to
maturity. The senior subordinated notes are redeemable at the option of the
Company, in whole or from time to time in part, at any time after March 1, 2000,
at redemption prices ranging from 105.063% in 2000 to 100% in 2003 and
thereafter.
 
    The senior notes are unsecured obligations of the Company ranking senior to
all subordinated indebtedness of the Company, including the senior subordinated
notes, and pari passu in right of payment with all other indebtedness of the
Company, including borrowings under the new credit facility described above. The
senior subordinated notes also are unsecured obligations of the Company
subordinated in right of payment to all existing and future senior debt,
including the senior notes and borrowings under the new credit facility.
 
    In October 1995, the Company sold $500 million of Senior Notes due December
2003. The notes have a coupon of 8 5/8% and were priced at 99.666% of par to
yield 8.68%. In January 1996, the Company issued $320 million of 6% Exchangeable
Subordinated Notes due 2005 that will be exchangeable at the option of the
holder for shares of common stock of Vencor (see Note 12) at any time on or
after November 6, 1997 at an exchange rate of 25.9403 shares per $1,000
principal amount of the notes, subject to the Company's right to pay an amount
in cash equal to the market price of the shares of Vencor common stock in lieu
of delivery of such shares. The notes will be redeemable at the option of the
Company at any time on or after January 15, 1999 at the redemption prices set
forth in the indenture, plus accrued and unpaid interest. The net proceeds from
the notes sold in October 1995 and January 1996 were applied to repay secured
bank loans under the Company's February 28, 1995 credit agreement.
 
    If the fair market value of the Company's investment in common stock of
Vencor ever exceeds the carrying value of the notes, the Company will adjust the
carrying value of the notes to the fair market value of the investment through a
charge or credit to earnings. Corresponding adjustments to the carrying value of
the investment in Vencor will be credited or charged directly to shareholders'
equity as unrealized gains or losses.
 
  CONVERTIBLE FLOATING-RATE DEBENTURES
 
    All of the Company's Convertible Floating-Rate Debentures due in April 1996
were redeemed or converted prior to that date into shares of the Company's
common stock through the exercise of
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 5. LONG-TERM DEBT AND LEASE OBLIGATIONS (CONTINUED)
performance investment plan options purchased by key employees of the Company.
The performance investment plan options permitted the holder to purchase
debentures at 95% of their $105,264 face value. The debentures were convertible
into preferred stock, which, in turn, was convertible into common stock at an
exercise price equivalent to $15.83 per share. The proceeds from the conversions
during the year were used to repay bank loans under the Company's credit
agreements.
 
    During 1996, the Company reduced taxable income by the excess of the fair
market value of the stock obtained at the date of exercise over the principal
amount of the debentures redeemed. The resulting tax benefit of $20 million, was
credited to additional paid-in capital.
 
    As a result of the redemption and/or conversions of all of the Company's
convertible floating-rate debentures during fiscal 1996, at May 31, 1996 there
are no potentially dilutive securities except for employee stock options, which
are common stock equivalents for purposes of calculating earnings per share.
 
  UNSECURED MEDIUM-TERM NOTES
 
    The weighted average interest rates on the medium-term notes were 8.1% in
1994, 8.3% during 1995 and 9.0% during 1996.
 
  LOAN COVENANTS
 
    The new credit facility and the indentures governing the senior notes and
the senior subordinated notes have, among other requirements, limitations on
borrowings by, and liens on the assets of, the Company and its subsidiaries,
investments, the sale of all or substantially all assets and prepayment of
subordinated debt, a prohibition against the Company declaring or paying
dividends on or purchasing its stock unless its senior long-term unsecured debt
securities are rated BBB- or higher by Standard and Poor's Rating Services and
Baa3 or higher by Moody's Investors Service, Inc., and covenants regarding
maintenance of specified levels of net worth, debt ratios and fixed-charge
coverage ratios. Because of dividend restrictions, all of the Company's retained
earnings are restricted. The Company is in compliance with its loan covenants.
There are no compensating balance requirements for any credit line or borrowing.
 
B.  LONG-TERM DEBT MATURITIES AND LEASE OBLIGATIONS
 
    Future long-term debt cash maturities and minimum operating lease payments
are as follows:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                        LATER
                                                 1997       1998       1999       2000       2001       YEARS
                                               ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                        (IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                            <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>
Long-term debt...............................  $      62  $     101  $      11  $      30  $     982  $   2,145
Long-term leases.............................        146        138        123         88         78        255
</TABLE>
 
    Rental expense under operating leases, including short-term leases, was
approximately $98 million in 1994, $111 million in 1995, and $177 million in
1996.
 
C.  NOTE REDEMPTION
 
    On July 15, 1996, the Company announced that it will redeem all its 13 1/2%
Senior Subordinated Notes due 2001 for $1,038.60 per $1,000 original principal
amount, on August 15, 1996, and will pay accrued interest of $67.50 per $1,000
original principal amount through the redemption date.
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 6. INCOME TAXES
 
    Taxes on income from continuing operations consist of the following amounts:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                          1994       1995       1996
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                 (IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                                                     <C>        <C>        <C>
Currently payable:
  Federal.............................................................  $     159  $     101  $     194
  State...............................................................         31         18         35
  Foreign.............................................................          6          9          5
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                              196        128        234
 
Deferred:
  Federal.............................................................        (46)    --             80
  State...............................................................         (6)         2         11
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                              (52)         2         91
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------
Other.................................................................     --              5         23
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                        $     144  $     135  $     348
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
 
    The difference between the Company's effective income tax rate and the
statutory federal income tax rate is shown below:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                 1994                      1995                      1996
                                                       ------------------------  ------------------------  ------------------------
                                                         AMOUNT       PERCENT      AMOUNT       PERCENT      AMOUNT       PERCENT
                                                       -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------
                                                                             (IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND AS A
                                                                                PERCENT OF PRETAX INCOME)
 
<S>                                                    <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>
Tax provision at statutory federal rate..............   $     126         35.0%   $     115         35.0%   $     261         35.0%
State income taxes, net of federal income tax
  benefit............................................          17          4.6%          14          4.2%          29          3.9%
Goodwill amortization................................      --           --                5          1.5%          23          3.0%
Gain on sale of foreign operations...................      --           --           --           --               30          4.1%
Other................................................           1          0.4%           1          0.3%           5          0.6%
                                                            -----          ---        -----          ---        -----          ---
Taxes on income from continuing operations and
  effective tax rates................................   $     144         40.0%   $     135         41.0%   $     348         46.6%
                                                            -----          ---        -----          ---        -----          ---
                                                            -----          ---        -----          ---        -----          ---
</TABLE>
 
    The Company recognized $60 million as income in the fiscal year ended May
31, 1994 for the cumulative effect on prior years of adopting Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes."
 
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                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 6. INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED)
    Deferred tax assets and liabilities as of May 31, 1995 and 1996 relate to
the following:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                      1995                      1996
                                                                            ------------------------  ------------------------
                                                                              ASSETS     LIABILITIES    ASSETS     LIABILITIES
                                                                            -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------
                                                                                              (IN MILLIONS)
 
<S>                                                                         <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>
Depreciation and fixed-asset basis differences............................   $  --        $     566    $  --        $     546
Reserves related to discontinued operations & restructuring charges.......          81       --               87       --
Receivables--doubtful accounts and adjustments............................         112       --              118       --
Cash-basis accounting change..............................................      --               16       --                8
Accruals for insurance risks..............................................          81       --               92       --
Intangible assets.........................................................      --                2            4       --
Other long-term liabilities...............................................         121       --               82       --
Benefit plans.............................................................          99       --               78       --
Other accrued liabilities.................................................          53       --               58       --
Investments and other assets..............................................          17       --           --               87
Federal and state net operating loss carryforwards........................         137       --           --           --
Other items...............................................................      --                8            7       --
                                                                                 -----        -----        -----        -----
                                                                             $     701    $     592    $     526    $     641
                                                                                 -----        -----        -----        -----
                                                                                 -----        -----        -----        -----
</TABLE>
 
    Management believes that realization of the deferred tax assets at May 31,
1996 will occur as temporary differences reverse against future taxable income.
Accordingly, no valuation alllowance has been established.
 
NOTE 7. CLAIMS AND LAWSUITS
 
A.  PROFESSIONAL AND GENERAL LIABILITY INSURANCE
 
    In the normal course of business the Company is subject to claims and
lawsuits relating to injuries arising from patient treatment. The Company
believes that its liability for damages resulting from such claims and lawsuits
is adequately covered by insurance or is adequately provided for in its
consolidated financial statements.
 
    The Company insures substantially all of its professional and comprehensive
general liability risks in excess of self-insured retentions, which vary by
hospital and by policy period from $500,000 to $3 million per occurrence,
through an insurance company owned by several healthcare companies and in which
the Company has a majority equity interest. A significant portion of these risks
is, in turn, reinsured with major independent insurance companies. Through May
31, 1994, the Company insured its professional and comprehensive general
liability risks related to its psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals through
a wholly-owned insurance subsidiary, which reinsured risks in excess of $500,000
with major independent insurance companies. The Company has reached the policy
limits provided by this insurance subsidiary related to the psychiatric
hospitals in certain years. In addition, damages, if any, arising from fraud and
conspiracy claims in psychiatric malpractice cases may not be insured.
 
    In addition to the reserves recorded by the above insurance subsidiaries,
the Company maintains an unfunded reserve based on actuarial estimates for the
self-insured portion of its professional liability risks. Reserves for losses
and related expenses are estimated using expected loss-reporting patterns and
have
 
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             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 7. CLAIMS AND LAWSUITS (CONTINUED)
been discounted to their present value using a weighted average discount rate of
approximately 9%. Adjustments to the reserves are included in results of
operations.
 
B.  SIGNIFICANT LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
 
    The Company has been involved in significant legal proceedings of an unusual
nature related principally to its psychiatric business. During the years ended
May 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996, the Company recorded provisions to estimate the
cost of the ultimate disposition of all of these proceedings and to estimate the
legal fees that it expected to incur. The Company has settled the most
significant of these matters. The remaining reserves for unusual litigation
costs that relate to matters that had not been settled as of May 31, 1996 and an
estimate of the legal fees to be incurred subsequent to May 31, 1996 represent
management's estimate of the remaining net costs of the ultimate disposition of
these matters. There can be no assurance, however, that the ultimate liability
will not exceed such estimates. Although, based upon information currently
available to it, management believes that the amount of damages, if any, in
excess of the reserves for unusual litigation costs that may be awarded in any
of the following unresolved legal proceedings cannot reasonably be estimated,
management does not believe it is likely that any such damages will have a
material adverse effect on the Company's results of operations, liquidity or
capital resources. All of the costs associated with these legal proceedings
except those relating to the AMH merger are classified in discontinued
operations.
 
    PSYCHIATRIC MALPRACTICE CASES  The Company continues to defend a greater
than normal level of litigation relating to certain of its subsidiaries' former
psychiatric operations. The majority of the lawsuits filed contain allegations
of medical malpractice as well as allegations of fraud and conspiracy against
the Company and certain of its subsidiaries and former employees. Also named as
defendants are numerous doctors and other healthcare professionals. The Company
believes that the increase in litigation stems, in whole or in part, from
advertisements by certain lawyers seeking former psychiatric patients in order
to file claims against the Company and certain of its subsidiaries. The
advertisements focus, in many instances, on the Company's settlement of past
disputes involving the operations of its psychiatric subsidiaries, including the
Company's 1994 resolution of the government's investigation and a corresponding
criminal plea agreement involving a psychiatric subsidiary of the Company. Among
the suits filed during fiscal 1995 were two lawsuits in Texas state court with
approximately 740 individual plaintiffs at present who purport to have been
patients in certain Texas psychiatric facilities. During fiscal 1996, 64
plaintiffs voluntarily withdrew from one of the lawsuits, and the Company's
motion to recuse the original trial judge in that lawsuit has been granted. In
the second lawsuit, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled that lead counsel for the
plaintiffs may not continue to represent the plaintiffs due to a conflict of
interest as asserted by the defendants. Neither of the two cases currently is
set for trial.
 
    During fiscal 1995 and 1996 lawsuits with approximately 210 individual
plaintiffs at present who purport to have been patients in certain Washington,
D.C. psychiatric facilities, containing allegations similar to those in the
Texas cases described above, were filed in the District of Columbia.
 
    In addition to the above, a purported class action was filed in Texas state
court in May 1995 also containing allegations of fraud and conspiracy similar to
those described in the preceding paragraphs. The plaintiff purports to represent
all persons who were voluntarily admitted to one of 11 psychiatric hospitals in
Texas between January 1, 1981, and December 31, 1991, and who also fit into one
or more of eight categories based on such factors as their age at the time of
admission, status of their insurance at the time of discharge and whether a
certain type of examination was conducted prior to their being admitted. In
February 1996, an insurance company that purports to have paid claims on behalf
of the potential class intervened in the action and the case was removed to the
U.S. District Court in Houston, Texas. A motion
 
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             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 7. CLAIMS AND LAWSUITS (CONTINUED)
by the plaintiffs to remand the case to Texas state court currently is pending.
The class has not been certified and the Company believes that the class is not
capable of being certified.
 
    The Company expects that additional lawsuits with similar allegations will
be filed. The Company believes it has a number of defenses to each of these
actions and will defend the litigation vigorously. Until the lawsuits are
resolved, however, the Company will continue to incur substantial legal
expenses. At May 31, 1996, the reserves for unusual litigation costs related to
these actions primarily represent the estimated costs of defending the actions.
 
    SHAREHOLDER LAWSUITS  As a result of mediation, the parties in the
shareholder derivative and class action suits filed against the Company in 1991
agreed to a global settlement of all plaintiffs' claims. Pursuant to the
settlement, which was approved by the court in January 1996, a total of $63.75
million plus interest was paid by or on behalf of the defendants. Of this
amount, Tenet's directors' and officers' liability insurance ("D&O") carriers
paid a total of $32.5 million plus interest on behalf of the individual
defendants. In addition, one of the D&O carriers reimbursed the Company for $5.5
million in attorneys' fees expended on the litigation.
 
    Two additional federal class actions filed in August 1993 were consolidated
into one action. This consolidated action is on behalf of a purported class of
shareholders who purchased or sold stock of the Company between January 14, 1993
and August 26, 1993, and alleges violations of securities laws by the Company
and certain of its executive officers. After unsuccessful mediation, the parties
agreed in May 1995 to proceed with the litigation. In June 1995, the defendants
filed a motion to dismiss and to strike plaintiffs' complaint, which motion is
still pending.
 
C.  LITIGATION RELATING TO THE AMH MERGER
 
    A total of nine purported class actions were filed challenging the merger in
both Delaware and California. In April 1996, the parties to the class actions
executed a stipulation of settlement, and the court has issued an order
approving the settlement. Under the terms of that settlement, the Company agreed
to pay $350,000 for the plaintiffs' attorneys fees and agreed that for a period
of one year following final approval of the settlement it will not engage in any
transaction that will be dilutive to existing shareholders without that
transaction being approved by a majority of its outside directors.
 
NOTE 8. PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE RIGHTS AND PREFERRED STOCK
 
    In 1988 the Company distributed Preferred Stock Purchase Rights to holders
of the Company's common stock and authorized the issuance of additional rights
for common stock issued after that date. The rights expire in December 1998
unless previously exercised or redeemed and do not entitle the holders thereof
to vote as shareholders or receive dividends.
 
    The Company may redeem the rights at $.025 per right at any time up to the
10th business day after a public announcement that a person has acquired 20% or
more of the Company's common stock in a transaction or transactions not approved
by the Board of Directors. The rights are not exercisable until after the date
on which the Company's right to redeem the rights has expired. When exercisable,
each right entitles the holder thereof to purchase from the Company one
two-thousandth of a share of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock
("Series A Preferred Stock") at a price of $40.61, subject to adjustment.
 
    Subject to the foregoing, in the event the Company is acquired in a merger
or other business combination transaction in which shares of the Company's
common stock are exchanged for shares of another company or more than 50% of the
Company's assets are sold, each holder of a right generally will
 
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             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 8. PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE RIGHTS AND PREFERRED STOCK (CONTINUED)
be entitled upon exercise to purchase, for the then-current exercise price of
the right, common stock of the surviving company having a market value equal to
two times the exercise price of the rights. The plan also provides that, in the
event of certain other mergers or business combinations, certain self-dealing
transactions or the acquisition by a person of stock having 30% or more of the
Company's general voting power, each holder of a right generally will be
entitled upon exercise to purchase, for the then-current exercise price of the
right, the number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock having a market value
equal to two times the exercise price of the rights.
 
    The Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock for which the Preferred
Stock Purchase Rights may be exchanged is nonredeemable and has a par value of
$0.15 per share. None of the 225,000 authorized shares are outstanding.
 
NOTE 9. STOCK BENEFIT PLANS
 
    Under the Company's 1983, 1991 and 1995 stock incentive plans, stock options
and incentive stock awards have been made to certain officers and other key
employees. Stock options generally are granted at an exercise price equal to the
fair market value of the Company's shares on the date of grant and are normally
exercisable at the rate of one-third per year beginning one year from the date
of grant. Stock options generally expire 10 years from the date of grant. No
incentive stock awards have been granted since 1994.
 
    All awards granted under the 1983, 1991 and 1995 plans will vest under
circumstances defined in the plans or under certain employment arrangements,
including, with the consent of the Compensation and Stock Option Committee of
the Board of Directors, upon a change in control of the Company.
 
    Charges to continuing operations associated with these stock benefit plans
were $12 million in fiscal 1994, $4 million in 1995, and $2 million in 1996.
 
    New stock awards may be made only under the 1991 and 1995 plans. At May 31,
1996, there were 295,647 shares of common stock available under the 1991 plan
and 9,137,472 shares available under the 1995 plan for future awards. The table
below summarizes the transactions in all stock option plans in which employees
participate:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                            1995          1996
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
                                                                                         (SHARES OF COMMON STOCK)
 
<S>                                                                                     <C>           <C>
Outstanding at beginning of year (1983 and 1991 plans)................................    15,426,593    19,617,125
Granted ($13.875 to $20.875 per share in 1995 and 1996)...............................     6,241,700     3,619,346
Exercised ($4.405 to $17.50 per share in 1995 and 1996)...............................      (705,022)   (2,459,664)
Canceled and other adjustments........................................................    (1,346,146)   (1,812,579)
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
Outstanding at end of year ($4.405 to $22.438 per share at May 31, 1996)..............    19,617,125    18,964,228
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
Exercisable at end of year............................................................     8,967,874     9,800,152
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
</TABLE>
 
    In September 1994 a new 1994 Directors Stock Option Plan replaced a 1991
Director Restricted Share Plan which replaced a 1985 Director Stock Option Plan.
Awards previously made under the 1985 and 1991 plans remain outstanding, but new
awards are made only under the 1994 plan. The plan makes available for issuance
to nonemployee directors options to purchase 500,000 shares of common stock.
Under the plan each nonemployee director will receive a stock option for 5,000
common shares upon initially being elected to the Board of Directors and on each
January thereafter. Awards will have an exercise price equal
 
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             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 9. STOCK BENEFIT PLANS (CONTINUED)
to the fair market value of the Company's shares on the date of grant, will vest
one year after the date of grant and will expire 10 years after the date of
grant. At May 31, 1996, there were options outstanding under the Directors plans
for 322,820 shares of common stock at exercise prices of $8.67 to $21.50 per
share.
 
    In November 1995, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued
SFAS No. 123-- "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation," which establishes a
new accounting standard for the measurement and recognition of stock-based
awards to employees and others. This standard permits entities to continue to
account for stock-based awards using present standards prescribed by APB Opinion
No. 25--"Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees." The Company has elected to
continue using the provisions of APB Opinion No. 25 in accounting for its
stock-based awards. Under this option, however, the Company will be required to
disclose the pro forma effect of stock-based awards on net income and earnings
per share as if SFAS No. 123 had been adopted. The disclosure requirements of
SFAS No. 123 are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 1995.
The pro forma disclosures will include the effect of all awards granted in
fiscal years that began after December 15, 1994.
 
NOTE 10. EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
 
    On September 27, 1995, the Company's shareholders approved its 1995 Stock
Purchase Plan under which the Company is authorized to issue up to 2,000,000
shares of common stock to eligible employees of the Company or its designated
subsidiaries who customarily work at least 20 hours per week and six months per
year. Under the terms of the plan, employees can elect to have between 1% and
10% of their base earnings withheld each calendar quarter to purchase, on the
last day of the quarter, shares of the Company's common stock at a purchase
price equal to 85% of the lower of the closing price on the first day of the
quarter or its closing price on the last day of the quarter. The plan commenced
on April 1, 1996. Under the plan, the Company sold 114,876 shares to 3,666
employees on June 30, 1996 at a price of $17.85 per share.
 
NOTE 11. EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT PLANS
 
    Substantially all domestic employees who are employed by the Company or its
subsidiaries, upon qualification, are eligible to participate in a defined
contribution 401(k) plan. Employees who elect to participate make contributions
of from 1% to 16% of their eligible compensation, and the Company matches such
contributions up to a maximum of 3% of eligible compensation. Company
contributions to the plans for fiscal 1996 were approximately $27 million, they
were $17 million in each of 1994 and 1995.
 
    Substantially all employees who were employed by AMI prior to the merger
were eligible to participate in one of AMI's defined benefit pension plans (the
"AMI Plans"). The benefits under the plans are based on years of service and the
employee's base compensation as defined in the AMI Plans. The Company's policy
is to fund pension costs accrued within the limits allowed under federal income
tax regulations. Contributions are intended to provide not only for benefits
attributed to credited service to date, but also for those expected to be earned
in the future. Effective December 31, 1995, the AMI Plans were frozen. As of
that date, participants under the AMI Plans ceased accruing new benefits and the
AMI Plans ceased accepting new participants. The Company continues to fund
benefits accrued prior to that date.
 
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             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 11. EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT PLANS (CONTINUED)
    The following table sets forth the funded status of the AMI Plans and
amounts recognized in the consolidated financial statements as of May 31, 1995
and 1996:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                 1995       1996
                                                                               ---------  ---------
                                                                                  (IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                                                            <C>        <C>
Actuarial present value of accumulated benefit obligation:
  Vested.....................................................................  $     271  $     249
  Accumulated................................................................        282        264
                                                                               ---------  ---------
                                                                               ---------  ---------
Projected benefit obligation.................................................        285        264
Plan assets at fair value, primarily listed stocks and corporate bonds.......       (223)      (296)
                                                                               ---------  ---------
Shortfall/(excess) of plan assets compared to projected benefit obligation...         62        (32)
Unrecognized net gain........................................................         13         80
                                                                               ---------  ---------
Pension liability............................................................  $      75  $      48
                                                                               ---------  ---------
                                                                               ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
 
    Net pension cost for the AMI Plans was $2 million and $4 million for the
three months ended May 31, 1995 and for the year ended May 31, 1996,
respectively. The discount rate used in determining the actuarial present value
of the projected benefit obligation for the AMI Plans approximated 7.0% at May
31, 1995 and 8.0% as of May 31, 1996. The Company does not have a plan that
provides any postretirement benefits other than pensions to retired employees.
 
NOTE 12. INVESTMENTS
 
    In September 1995, Vencor acquired all of the outstanding common stock of
Hillhaven. As a result of the transaction, the shares of Hillhaven common stock
that had been owned by the Company were exchanged for 8,301,067 shares of Vencor
common stock. In addition, the Company received approximately $92 million in
cash for its Hillhaven Series C and Series D preferred stock. The exchange and
sale of preferred stock resulted in a gain of approximately $176 million. The
Company's investment in Hillhaven previously had been accounted for under the
equity method. Following the exchange, the Company owned less than 20% of
Vencor's common stock and began to account for its investment in Vencor common
stock in accordance with SFAS No. 115 "Accounting for Certain Investments in
Debt and Equity Securities." The Company classifies such securities as
"available for sale" whereby the carrying value of the unrestricted Vencor
shares will be adjusted to market value at the end of each accounting period
through a credit or charge, net of income taxes, to shareholders' equity. At May
31, 1996, the market value of the investment was approximately $263 million.
(See Note 5)
 
    The Company is contingently liable under various guarantees for $146 million
of Vencor's obligations to third parties, including $139 million of lease
obligations and $7 million of long-term debt obligations. The Company is also
contingently liable for approximately $75 million in lease obligations relating
to certain rehabilitation facilities sold in 1994.
 
    In August 1994, the Company completed the sale of a controlling interest in
TRC, an operator of outpatient renal dialysis centers. This transaction resulted
in a $32 million gain to the Company. As part of the transaction, the Company
also received a $75 million cash distribution from TRC prior to the sale and
retained an approximate 25% minority interest. In October 1995, TRC completed an
initial public offering of 6,000,000 shares of its common stock, which resulted
in an additional gain to the Company of
 
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             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 12. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)
approximately $17 million in fiscal 1996. The Company's ownership interest was
reduced to approximately 11.6% as a result of a secondary offering by TRC in
April 1996.
 
    Because the Company owned less than 20% of the common shares after the
October 1995 stock sale by TRC, and does not exercise significant influence over
TRC, the Company began accounting for its investment in accordance with SFAS No.
115. At May 31, 1996, the Company's carrying value in its investment in TRC was
$49 million and the market value of this investment was approximately $124
million.
 
NOTE 13. IMPAIRMENT LOSSES
 
    In March 1995, the FASB issued SFAS No. 121--"Accounting for the Impairment
of Long-Lived Assets and for Long-Lived Assets to be Disposed Of." The statement
is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 1995, but the Company
has elected to adopt it for the year ended May 31, 1996. Accordingly, the
Company recorded, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 1996, an impairment loss of
approximately $86 million, before tax benefits of approximately $32 million
($0.25 per fully diluted share). The assets deemed to be impaired consist of
three rehabilitation hospitals, four general hospitals and a parcel of
undeveloped land. Two of the seven facilities are being held for sale. In the
case of the rehabilitation hospitals, the principal facts and circumstances
leading to the impairment include recent and forecast reductions in hospital
admissions and payment rates caused by payor-driven shifts in care from
traditional rehabilitation services to skilled nursing facilities. The
impairment of the general hospitals is the result of (i) a change in the use of
one of the facilities from acute care to less-intense specialty care, (ii) lower
patient volumes, and (iii) adverse changes in payor mix.
 
    In determining the amount of the impairment loss, the assets' fair values
were determined by specific market appraisals, reference to recent sales prices
of comparable facilities, either on a per-bed or earnings multiple basis, or by
the present values of discounted expected future cash flows. The two facilities
held for sale had operating losses aggregating $5 million in fiscal 1996, have
carrying amounts totaling $34 million as of May 31, 1996 and are expected to be
sold by December 31, 1996.
 
NOTE 14. RESTRUCTURING CHARGES
 
    In connection with the AMH merger, the Company relocated substantially all
of its hospital support activities previously located in Southern California and
Florida to the former corporate headquarters of AMH located in Dallas, Texas.
Severance payments and outplacement services for involuntary terminations of
approximately 890 former employees and other related costs in connection with
this move were estimated to be $37 million ($0.12 per fully diluted share) and
were classified as restructuring charges in the accompanying consolidated
statements of operations for the year ended May 31, 1995.
 
    During the fourth quarter of fiscal 1994, the Company initiated a plan to
significantly decrease overhead costs through a reduction in corporate and
division staffing levels and to review the resulting office space needs of all
corporate operations. The Company decided to sell its Santa Monica, California,
corporate headquarters building and to lease substantially less office space in
that building or at an alternative site. Costs of the write-down of the
building, employee severance benefits for approximately 110 employees and other
expenses directly related to the overhead reduction plan were estimated to be
approximately $77 million. The Company's corporate headquarters were moved to
new leased office space in Santa Barbara, California, in May 1996 and the former
headquarters building was sold the following month.
 
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             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 14. RESTRUCTURING CHARGES (CONTINUED)
    Actual costs incurred and charged against the restructuring reserves were
approximately $35 million in 1994, $23 million in 1995 and $32 million in 1996.
The balances of the reserves are included in other current liabilities or other
long-term liabilities in the Company's consolidated balance sheets at May 31,
1995 and 1996.
 
NOTE 15. DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS--PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL BUSINESS
 
    In November 1993, the Company decided to discontinue its psychiatric
hospital business and adopted a plan to dispose of its psychiatric hospitals and
substance abuse recovery facilities. The consolidated statements of operations
reflect the operating results of the discontinued business separately from
continuing operations. All operating results and gains or losses on disposals of
facilities for the discontinued business for periods subsequent to November 30,
1993, have been charged to the reserve for estimated losses during the phase-out
period, except for the following: (i) in the fourth quarter of fiscal 1995, the
Company recorded an additional $16 million of estimated litigation costs (less
income tax benefits of $7 million) and (ii) in the fourth quarter of fiscal
1996, the Company recorded $16 million (less income tax benefits of $6 million)
for additional estimated legal costs and $25 million (less tax benefits of $10
million) to increase the reserves of the Company's wholly-owned insurance
subsidiary for professional liability claims, all of which related to the former
psychiatric hospitals.
 
    Net operating revenues for the discontinued operations for fiscal 1994 were
$476 million. Losses from operations during the year were $266 million, before
income tax benefits of $111 million. In fiscal 1994, the Company recognized a
charge for estimated losses upon disposal amounting to $414 million, including
$379 million of costs to settle federal and state investigations and other
unusual legal costs related to the psychiatric hospital business, along with
$433 million of estimated operating losses during the phase-out period, less tax
benefits of $301 million. By May 31, 1995, substantially all of the assets of
the discontinued operations had been sold.
 
NOTE 16. DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
 
    The Company has only limited involvement with derivative financial
instruments and does not use them for trading purposes. These derivatives are
nonleveraged and involve little complexity. They are used to manage well-defined
interest risks. The notional amounts of derivatives in the tables below do not
represent amounts exchanged by the parties and, thus, are not a measure of the
exposure of the Company through its use of derivatives. There are no cash or
collateral requirements in connection with these agreements.
 
    INTEREST RATE SWAPS  These derivative financial instruments allow the
Company to make long-term borrowings at floating rates and then swap them into
fixed rates that are lower than those available to the Company if fixed-rate
borrowings were made directly. Under interest rate swaps, the Company agrees
with other parties to exchange, at specified intervals, the difference between
fixed-rate and floating-rate interest amounts calculated by reference to an
agreed notional principal amount. Cross-currency interest rate swaps allow
borrowings to be made in foreign currencies, gaining access to additional
sources of financing while limiting foreign exchange risk. The Company's
exposure to credit loss under these agreements is limited to the interest rate
spread in the event of nonperformance by the other parties. Because the other
parties are creditworthy financial institutions, generally commercial banks, the
Company does not expect nonperformance.
 
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             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 16. DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (CONTINUED)
    The following table shows the Company's interest rate swaps and their
weighted average interest rates as of the end of the most recent two fiscal
years. Variable interest rates may change significantly, affecting future cash
flows.
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                          1995       1996
                                                                        ---------  ---------
                                                                           (IN MILLIONS)
 
<S>                                                                     <C>        <C>
Notional amount for agreements under which the Company receives fixed
  rates...............................................................        $29        $29
  Average receive rate................................................        7.0%       7.0%
  Average pay rate....................................................        5.7%       6.0%
  Contract duration...................................................        2 Y ars       1 Year
 
Notional amount for agreements under which the Company pays fixed
  rates...............................................................       $120        $69
  Average pay rate....................................................        8.5%       8.7%
  Average receive rate................................................        5.6%       5.8%
  Contract duration...................................................      1-5 Y ars     3-4 Years
</TABLE>
 
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                UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
 
                                     ASSETS
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                           MAY 31,   NOVEMBER 30,
                                                                                            1996         1996
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
                                                                                           (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                                                                       <C>        <C>
Current assets:
  Cash and cash equivalents.............................................................  $    89.2   $     56.8
  Short-term investments, at cost which approximates market.............................      111.8        103.1
  Accounts and notes receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts ($156.0 at May 31
    and $182.2 at November 30)..........................................................      838.4      1,006.3
  Inventories of supplies, at cost......................................................      127.6        134.7
  Deferred income taxes.................................................................      278.9        253.6
  Prepaid expenses and other current assets.............................................       98.9         81.3
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
    Total current assets................................................................    1,544.8      1,635.8
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
Investments and other assets............................................................      517.7        505.9
Property and equipment, at cost.........................................................    4,597.7      4,789.9
  Less accumulated depreciation and amortization........................................      948.9      1,051.8
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
  Net property and equipment............................................................    3,648.8      3,738.1
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
Intangible assets, at cost less accumulated amortization ($123.0 at May 31 and $160.5 at
  November 30)..........................................................................    2,621.1      2,692.7
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
                                                                                          $ 8,332.4   $  8,572.5
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
 
                                      LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
 
Current liabilities:
  Current portion of long-term debt.....................................................  $    60.0   $     41.6
  Short-term borrowings and notes.......................................................        2.0          2.8
  Accounts payable......................................................................      380.4        266.7
  Accrued employee compensation and benefits............................................      120.4        136.2
  Accrued interest payable..............................................................       68.1         71.0
  Income taxes payable..................................................................       32.8         16.0
  Other current liabilities.............................................................      470.8        410.6
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
    Total current liabilities...........................................................    1,134.5        944.9
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
Long-term debt, net of current portion..................................................    3,191.1      3,332.5
Deferred income taxes...................................................................      394.0        424.5
Other long-term liabilities and minority interests......................................      976.5      1,024.4
 
Shareholders' equity:
  Common stock, $0.075 par value; authorized 450,000,000 shares; 218,713,406 shares
    issued at May 31, 1996 and 219,981,043 shares issued at November 30, 1996...........       16.4         16.5
  Other shareholders' equity............................................................    2,660.3      2,868.4
  Less common stock in treasury, at cost, 2,790,967 shares at May 31, 1996 and 2,676,091
    shares at November 30, 1996.........................................................      (40.4)       (38.7)
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
    Total shareholders' equity..........................................................    2,636.3      2,846.2
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
                                                                                          $ 8,332.4   $  8,572.5
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
                                                                                          ---------  ------------
</TABLE>
 
See accompanying Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
                                      F-24
<PAGE>
                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
 
          THREE MONTHS AND SIX MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30, 1995 AND 1996
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                        THREE MONTHS             SIX MONTHS
                                                                   ----------------------  ----------------------
                                                                      1995        1996        1995        1996
                                                                   ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
                                                                       (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS, EXCEPT PER SHARE
                                                                                 AND SHARE AMOUNTS)
<S>                                                                <C>         <C>         <C>         <C>
Net operating revenues...........................................  $  1,370.9  $  1,476.1  $  2,654.8  $  2,914.7
                                                                   ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
 
Operating expenses:
  Salaries and benefits..........................................       544.7       581.4     1,046.9     1,150.1
  Supplies.......................................................       186.0       204.1       364.7       395.1
  Provision for doubtful accounts................................        69.7        78.7       137.0       153.2
  Other operating expenses.......................................       296.7       320.2       578.3       641.9
  Depreciation...................................................        61.3        63.8       122.7       127.0
  Amortization...................................................        21.2        21.7        40.0        42.6
                                                                   ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
Operating income.................................................       191.3       206.2       365.2       404.8
                                                                   ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
Interest expense, net of capitalized portion.....................       (81.3)      (70.1)     (158.4)     (141.1)
Investment earnings..............................................         5.4         5.5        12.7        10.3
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates..................         7.1         0.7        14.0         1.3
Minority interests...............................................        (5.0)       (5.5)      (10.6)      (10.1)
Gains on sales of facilities.....................................       171.1      --           294.6      --
Gains on subsidiary's sale of common stock.......................        17.3      --            17.3      --
                                                                   ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
Income before income taxes.......................................       305.9       136.8       534.8       265.2
Taxes on income..................................................      (123.1)      (60.0)     (233.7)     (116.0)
                                                                   ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
Net income.......................................................  $    182.8  $     76.8  $    301.1  $    149.2
                                                                   ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
                                                                   ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
Earnings per share:
  Primary........................................................  $     0.90  $     0.35  $     1.48  $     0.68
  Fully diluted..................................................  $     0.85  $     0.35  $     1.41  $     0.68
 
Weighted average shares and share equivalents outstanding--fully
  diluted (in thousands).........................................     216,183     220,669     216,175     220,096
</TABLE>
 
See accompanying Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
                                      F-25
<PAGE>
                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
           UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
 
                  SIX MONTHS ENDED NOVEMBER 30, 1995 AND 1996
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                1995       1996
                                                                                             ----------  ---------
                                                                                                 (IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                                                                          <C>         <C>
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities, including net expenditures for
  discontinued operations and restructuring charges........................................  $     11.1  $   (14.2)
                                                                                             ----------  ---------
 
Cash flows from investing activities:
  Proceeds from sales of facilities and other assets.......................................       402.8       40.3
  Purchases of property and equipment......................................................      (160.5)     (95.4)
  Purchases of new businesses, net of cash acquired........................................      (367.3)    (159.7)
  Collection of note receivable............................................................      --           67.1
  Other items..............................................................................        (9.9)      (0.8)
                                                                                             ----------  ---------
    Net cash used in investing activities..................................................      (134.9)    (148.5)
                                                                                             ----------  ---------
 
Cash flows from financing activities:
  Proceeds from borrowings.................................................................     1,079.2      751.4
  Payments of borrowings...................................................................    (1,065.9)    (636.2)
  Proceeds from stock options exercised....................................................         9.4       14.6
  Proceeds from exercises of performance investment options................................        44.9     --
  Sales of common stock under employee stock purchase plan.................................      --            4.8
  Dividends to minority interests..........................................................      --           (4.3)
                                                                                             ----------  ---------
    Net cash provided by financing activities..............................................        67.6      130.3
                                                                                             ----------  ---------
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents..................................................       (56.2)     (32.4)
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period...........................................       155.0       89.2
                                                                                             ----------  ---------
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period.................................................  $     98.8  $    56.8
                                                                                             ----------  ---------
                                                                                             ----------  ---------
 
Supplemental disclosures:
  Interest paid............................................................................  $    150.4  $   130.9
  Income taxes paid, net of refunds received...............................................        19.7       97.4
</TABLE>
 
See accompanying Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
                                      F-26
<PAGE>
                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
         NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
1.  The unaudited financial information furnished herein, in the opinion of
    management, reflects all adjustments that are necessary to fairly state the
    financial position of Tenet Healthcare Corporation, its cash flows and the
    results of its operations for the periods indicated. All the adjustments
    affecting net income are of a normal recurring nature. As used herein, the
    "Company" means Tenet Healthcare Corporation and its subsidiaries, unless
    the context requires otherwise.
 
   The Company presumes that users of this interim financial information have
    read or have access to the Company's audited financial statements and
    Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
    Operations for the preceding fiscal year and that the adequacy of additional
    disclosure needed for a fair presentation may be determined in that context.
    Accordingly, footnotes and other disclosure which would substantially
    duplicate the disclosure contained in the Company's most recent annual
    report to security holders have been omitted. The patient volumes and net
    operating revenues of the Company's domestic general hospitals are subject
    to seasonal variations caused by a number of factors, including but not
    necessarily limited to, seasonal cycles of illness, climate and weather
    conditions, vacation patterns of both hospital patients and admitting
    physicians and other factors relating to the timing of elective hospital
    procedures. Net income also is not necessarily representative of operations
    for a full year for various reasons, including interest rates, acquisitions
    and disposals of facilities and long-term assets, revenue allowances and
    discount fluctuations, the timing of price changes and fluctuations in
    quarterly tax rates. These same considerations apply to all year-to-year
    comparisons.
 
2.  On October 17, 1996, the Company announced the signing of a definitive
    merger agreement with OrNda HealthCorp ("OrNda"). Under the terms of the
    agreement, OrNda shareholders will receive 1.35 shares of Tenet Healthcare
    Corporation common stock (approximately 85.9 million shares in the
    aggregate) for each share of OrNda common stock in a tax-free exchange. The
    transaction includes the assumption of approximately $1.4 billion in OrNda
    debt, and is expected to close in late January 1997. Upon completion of the
    acquisition, which will be accounted for as a pooling of interests, the
    combined company will operate 125 facilities in 22 states (excluding
    transactions taking place after November 30, 1996).
 
   OrNda's net operating revenues and net income for its latest fiscal year
    ended August 31, 1996 were $2.1 billion and $99.9 million, respectively.
 
   The following unaudited pro forma data summarizes the combined results of
    operations of the Company and OrNda restated to reflect the combination as a
    pooling of interests.
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                    SIX MONTHS ENDED
                                                                                      NOVEMBER 30,
                                                                     YEAR ENDED   --------------------
                                                                    MAY 31, 1996    1995       1996
                                                                    ------------  ---------  ---------
                                                                      (IN MILLIONS, EXCEPT PER SHARE
                                                                                  DATA)
<S>                                                                 <C>           <C>        <C>
Net operating revenues............................................   $  7,705.7   $ 3,632.4  $ 4,104.7
Net income........................................................        498.2       336.9      198.8
Earnings per share................................................   $     1.70   $    1.14  $    0.66
</TABLE>
 
3.  During the three-month and six-month periods ended November 30, 1996, actual
    costs incurred and charged against the Company's reserves for discontinued
    operations were approximately $9.7 million and $23.2 million, respectively.
    Costs incurred and charged against restructuring reserves were approximately
    $13.4 million for the three months ended November 30, 1996 and $16.5 million
    for the six months then ended. These reserves are included in other current
    liabilities or other long-term liabilities in the Company's balance sheets
    at May 31, 1996 and November 30, 1996.
 
4.  During the quarter ended November 30, 1996, the Company acquired Lloyd
    Noland Hospital, a 319-bed acute care hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, for
    $47.0 million in cash. The Company also
 
                                      F-27
<PAGE>
                 TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
   NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
    acquired several physician practices. The results of operations of the
    acquired businesses have been included in the Company's consolidated
    statements of income from the dates of acquisition. In January 1997, the
    Company acquired North Shore Medical Center, a 357-bed acute care hospital
    in Miami, Florida. All of these transactions have been or will be accounted
    for as purchases. In December 1996, the Company sold its lease of the
    Kirksville Osteopathic Medical Center, a 119-bed hospital in Kirksville,
    Missouri.
 
5.  As a result of the redemption and/or conversion of all of the Company's
    convertible subordinated floating-rate debentures during the year ended May
    31, 1996, there are no potentially dilutive securities except for employee
    stock options. Consequently, primary and fully-diluted earnings per share
    for the quarter and six-months ended November 30, 1996 are the same.
    Fully-diluted earnings per share for the quarter and six-months ended
    November 30, 1995 include the effects of the convertible subordinated
    floating-rate debentures which were outstanding during the period.
 
6.  The plaintiffs' motion to remand the Justin Love vs. National Medical
    Enterprises, et al. case (which case is described in Note 7B of the Notes to
    Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company for its fiscal year ended
    May 31, 1996) from the U.S. District Court in Houston, Texas, to Texas state
    court has been denied. There have been no other material changes to the
    description of i) Professional and General Liability Insurance set forth in
    Note 7A of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company for
    its fiscal year ended May 31, 1996 or ii) Significant Legal Proceedings set
    forth in Note 7B of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements of the
    Company for its fiscal year ended May 31, 1996. Although, based upon
    information currently available to it, management believes that the amount
    of damages, if any, in excess of the reserves for unusual litigation costs
    that may be awarded in any of the unresolved legal proceedings cannot
    reasonably be esimated, management does not believe it is likely that any
    such damages will have a material adverse effect on the Company's results of
    operations, liquidity or capital resources.
 
                                      F-28
<PAGE>
                         REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
 
Board of Directors and Shareholders
OrNda HealthCorp
 
    We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of OrNda
HealthCorp and Subsidiaries as of August 31, 1995 and 1996, and the related
consolidated statements of operations, shareholders' equity, and cash flows for
each of the three years in the period ended August 31, 1996. These financial
statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on
our audits.
 
    We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing
standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
 
    In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above
present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of
OrNda HealthCorp and Subsidiaries at August 31, 1995 and 1996, and the
consolidated results of operations and cash flows for each of the three years in
the period ended August 31, 1996, in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles.
 
                                             ERNST & YOUNG LLP
 
Nashville, Tennessee
October 25, 1996
 
                                      F-29
<PAGE>
                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                     CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
 
                     (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                   YEAR ENDED AUGUST 31,
                                                                          ----------------------------------------
                                                                              1994          1995          1996
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
<S>                                                                       <C>           <C>           <C>
Total Revenue...........................................................  $  1,274,359  $  1,842,701  $  2,147,232
 
Costs and Expenses:
  Salaries and benefits.................................................       574,152       803,081       935,386
  Supplies..............................................................       158,884       236,189       291,570
  Purchased services....................................................       119,095       207,599       203,219
  Provision for doubtful accounts.......................................        86,249       122,193       141,833
  Other operating expenses..............................................       156,474       211,606       230,786
  Depreciation and amortization.........................................        66,765        85,170       103,828
  Interest expense......................................................        83,428       109,100       107,243
  Interest income.......................................................        (2,862)       (4,582)       (4,399)
  Special executive compensation........................................         2,530       --            --
  Merger transaction expenses...........................................        29,992       --            --
  Loss (gain) on asset sales............................................        45,272          (973)      --
  Minority interests....................................................         3,999           240         7,781
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
                                                                               (49,619)       73,078       129,985
Income from investments in Houston Northwest Medical Center.............         3,634        14,006         5,128
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
Income (loss) before income tax expense and extraordinary items.........       (45,985)       87,084       135,113
Income tax expense......................................................         1,057        15,772        35,242
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
Income (loss) before extraordinary items................................       (47,042)       71,312        99,871
Extraordinary items.....................................................       (12,296)      --            --
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
Net income (loss).......................................................       (59,338)       71,312        99,871
Preferred stock dividend requirements...................................        (1,867)       (2,000)         (332)
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
Net income (loss) applicable to common and common equivalent shares.....  $    (61,205) $     69,312  $     99,539
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
 
Earnings (loss) per common and common equivalent share:
  Income (loss) before extraordinary items..............................  $      (1.29) $       1.53  $       1.73
  Extraordinary items...................................................         (0.33)      --            --
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
  Net income (loss).....................................................  $      (1.62) $       1.53  $       1.73
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
 
Earnings (loss) per share assuming full dilution:
  Income (loss) before extraordinary items..............................  $      (1.29) $       1.51  $       1.72
  Extraordinary items...................................................         (0.33)      --            --
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
  Net income (loss).....................................................  $      (1.62) $       1.51  $       1.72
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
Weighted average common and dilutive common equivalent shares
  outstanding...........................................................        37,879        45,294        57,509
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
Weighted average common shares outstanding assuming full dilution.......        37,879        47,382        58,064
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
                                                                          ------------  ------------  ------------
</TABLE>
 
                          See the accompanying notes.
 
                                      F-30
<PAGE>
                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                          CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
 
                       (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE DATA)
 
                                     ASSETS
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                             AS OF AUGUST 31,
                                                                                        --------------------------
                                                                                            1995          1996
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
<S>                                                                                     <C>           <C>
Current Assets:
  Cash and cash equivalents...........................................................  $      4,963  $     17,435
  Patient accounts receivable, net of allowance for uncollectible accounts of $58,632
    and $78,447 at August 31, 1995 and 1996, respectively.............................       307,601       379,874
  Supplies, at cost...................................................................        34,097        42,168
  Other...............................................................................        57,052        86,338
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
    Total Current Assets..............................................................       403,713       525,815
Property, Plant and Equipment, at cost:
  Land................................................................................       126,436       152,449
  Buildings and improvements..........................................................       870,352     1,062,953
  Equipment and fixtures..............................................................       359,979       490,498
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
                                                                                           1,356,767     1,705,900
  Less accumulated depreciation and amortization......................................       288,410       370,707
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
                                                                                           1,068,357     1,335,193
Investments in Houston Northwest Medical Center.......................................        73,755       --
Excess of Purchase Price Over Net Assets Acquired, net of accumulated amortization....       318,029       497,806
Other Assets..........................................................................        82,550       107,714
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
                                                                                        $  1,946,404  $  2,466,528
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
 
                                       LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
 
Current Liabilities:
  Accounts payable....................................................................  $    117,258  $    168,403
  Accrued expenses and other liabilities..............................................       220,851       209,525
  Current maturities of long-term debt................................................        60,182        59,750
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
    Total Current Liabilities.........................................................       398,291       437,678
Long-term Debt........................................................................     1,013,423     1,229,930
Other Liabilities.....................................................................       141,552       158,503
 
Shareholders' Equity:
  Convertible preferred stock, $.01 par value, 10,000,000 authorized shares, issued
    and outstanding 1,329,701 shares at August 31, 1995...............................        20,112       --
  Common stock, $.01 par value authorized 200,000,000 shares, issued and outstanding
    44,877,804 and 58,250,996 shares at August 31, 1995 and 1996, respectively........           449           583
  Additional paid-in capital..........................................................       414,805       633,983
  Retained earnings (deficit).........................................................       (94,020)        5,851
  Unrealized gains on available-for-sale securities, net of tax.......................        51,792       --
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
                                                                                             393,138       640,417
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
                                                                                        $  1,946,404  $  2,466,528
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
                                                                                        ------------  ------------
</TABLE>
 
                          See the accompanying notes.
 
                                      F-31
<PAGE>
                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
 
                                 (IN THOUSANDS)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                   CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED
                                                COMMON STOCK               STOCK          ADDITIONAL   RETAINED
                                           ----------------------  ---------------------   PAID-IN     EARNINGS
                                            SHARES      AMOUNT      SHARES      AMOUNT     CAPITAL     (DEFICIT)     OTHER
                                           ---------  -----------  ---------  ----------  ----------  -----------  ----------
<S>                                        <C>        <C>          <C>        <C>         <C>         <C>          <C>
BALANCE AT AUGUST 31, 1993...............     34,483   $     345       1,194  $   18,062  $  299,137  $  (105,436) $   --
  Issuance of common stock...............      8,961          89      --          --         102,416      --           --
  Paid-in-kind dividends on PIK
    preferred............................     --          --             123       1,867      (1,867)     --           --
  Conversion of convertible preferred....          7      --              (7)       (104)        104      --           --
  Stock option compensation..............     --          --          --          --           2,530      --           --
  Net loss...............................     --          --          --          --          --          (59,338)     --
  Net unrealized gain on available-
    for-sale securities, net of tax......     --          --          --          --          --          --           70,859
  Pooling adjustment to conform AHM's
    fiscal year..........................     --          --          --          --          --             (558)     --
                                           ---------       -----   ---------  ----------  ----------  -----------  ----------
BALANCE AT AUGUST 31, 1994...............     43,451         434       1,310      19,825     402,320     (165,332)     70,859
  Issuance of common stock...............      1,313          14      --          --          10,980      --           --
  Paid-in-kind dividend on PIK
    preferred............................     --          --             134       2,000      (2,000)     --           --
  Conversion of convertible preferred....        114           1        (114)     (1,713)      1,712      --           --
  Tax effect of Summit options...........     --          --          --          --           1,793      --           --
  Net income.............................     --          --          --          --          --           71,312      --
  Decrease in unrealized gain on
    available-for-sale securities, net of
    tax..................................     --          --          --          --          --          --          (19,067)
                                           ---------       -----   ---------  ----------  ----------  -----------  ----------
BALANCE AT AUGUST 31, 1995...............     44,878         449       1,330      20,112     414,805      (94,020)     51,792
  Issuance of common stock...............     12,017         120      --          --         199,192      --           --
  Paid-in-kind dividend on PIK
    preferred............................     --          --              33         332        (332)     --           --
  Conversion of convertible preferred....      1,356          14      (1,356)    (20,333)     20,319      --           --
  Redemption of preferred stock..........     --          --              (7)       (111)         (1)     --           --
  Net income.............................     --          --          --          --          --           99,871      --
  Decrease in unrealized gain on
    available-for-sale securities, net of
    tax..................................     --          --          --          --          --          --           (4,791)
  Elimination of unrealized gain on
    investment in HNW upon acquisition of
    HNW..................................     --          --          --          --          --          --          (47,001)
                                           ---------       -----   ---------  ----------  ----------  -----------  ----------
BALANCE AT AUGUST 31, 1996...............     58,251   $     583      --          --      $  633,983  $     5,851      --
                                           ---------       -----   ---------  ----------  ----------  -----------  ----------
                                           ---------       -----   ---------  ----------  ----------  -----------  ----------
</TABLE>
 
                          See the accompanying notes.
 
                                      F-32
<PAGE>
                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                     CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
 
                                 (IN THOUSANDS)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                        YEAR ENDED AUGUST 31
                                                                                   -------------------------------
                                                                                     1994       1995       1996
                                                                                   ---------  ---------  ---------
<S>                                                                                <C>        <C>        <C>
CASH FLOW PROVIDED BY OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
  Net income (loss)..............................................................  $ (59,338) $  71,312  $  99,871
  Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating
    activities:
    Non-cash portion of income from investments in Houston Northwest Medical
      Center.....................................................................     (1,049)   (11,344)    (4,213)
    Non-cash portion of special executive compensation...........................      2,530     --         --
    Loss (gain) on asset sales...................................................     45,272       (973)    --
    Extraordinary items..........................................................     12,296     --         --
    Depreciation and amortization................................................     66,765     85,170    103,828
    Provision for doubtful accounts..............................................     86,249    122,193    141,833
    Amortization of debt discount................................................        411         33         13
    Noncash pooling expenses related to AHM Merger...............................     13,166     --         --
    Changes in assets and liabilities net of effects from acquisitions and
      dispositions of hospitals:
      Net patient accounts receivable............................................    (93,089)  (143,348)  (158,077)
      Other current assets.......................................................      5,943     (9,379)   (19,894)
      Other assets...............................................................     (5,230)    (3,087)       400
      Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities...........    (10,744)    18,690    (36,105)
      Other liabilities..........................................................    (25,017)     3,452      6,097
    Other........................................................................     (2,162)    --         --
  Proceeds from sales of trading investment security.............................     --         --         20,625
                                                                                   ---------  ---------  ---------
        Net cash provided by operating activities................................     36,003    132,719    154,378
                                                                                   ---------  ---------  ---------
 
CASH FLOW USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
  Acquisitions of hospitals and related assets...................................   (361,475)   (60,251)  (431,193)
  Proceeds from sales of assets..................................................      6,893     18,912      3,037
  Capital expenditures...........................................................    (47,724)   (71,910)  (102,573)
  Issuance of notes receivable...................................................     (7,025)    (2,810)    (6,213)
  Payments received on long-term notes and other receivables.....................      1,572     12,484      6,067
  Other investing activities.....................................................      7,453     (5,789)    (1,719)
                                                                                   ---------  ---------  ---------
        Net cash used in investing activities....................................   (400,306)  (109,364)  (532,594)
                                                                                   ---------  ---------  ---------
 
CASH FLOW PROVIDED BY (USED IN) FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
  Issuance of stock..............................................................      6,293      7,029    199,312
  Principal payments on long-term debt borrowings................................   (486,151)  (142,071)  (120,435)
  Proceeds received on long-term debt borrowings.................................    860,865    101,177    321,000
  Financing costs incurred in connection with long-term borrowings...............    (21,207)      (637)    (3,797)
  Other..........................................................................     (1,147)    (1,264)    (5,392)
                                                                                   ---------  ---------  ---------
        Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities......................    358,653    (35,766)   390,688
                                                                                   ---------  ---------  ---------
NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS.............................     (5,650)   (12,411)    12,472
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, BEGINNING OF PERIOD...................................     25,914     17,374      4,963
Pooling adjustment to beginning of period balance to conform AHM's fiscal year...     (2,890)    --         --
                                                                                   ---------  ---------  ---------
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF PERIOD.........................................  $  17,374  $   4,963  $  17,435
                                                                                   ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                   ---------  ---------  ---------
 
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION:
  Cash paid during the period for:
    Interest (net of amount capitalized).........................................  $  86,575  $ 108,598  $ 107,432
    Income taxes.................................................................        387      1,825     28,920
 
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF NONCASH ACTIVITIES:
  Preferred stock dividends......................................................      1,867      2,000        332
  Stock issued for acquisitions of hospitals and related assets..................     96,212      3,965     --
  Capital lease obligations incurred.............................................      4,346      2,605        196
</TABLE>
 
                          See the accompanying notes.
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                   NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 1--GENERAL AND ACCOUNTING POLICIES
 
    REPORTING ENTITY:  OrNda HealthCorp ("Company"), which is incorporated in
the State of Delaware, is a provider of health care services through the
operation of general acute care hospitals located primarily in the southern and
western United States. Of the 49 general acute care hospitals operated by the
Company at August 31, 1996, 19 hospitals are located in California of which 17
hospitals are located in the southern California area. In addition, 5 hospitals
are located in southern Florida and 6 hospitals are located in Arizona. The
concentration of hospitals in California, southern Florida and Arizona increases
the risk that any adverse economic, regulatory or other developments that may
occur in such areas may adversely affect the Company's operations or financial
condition.
 
    CONSOLIDATION:  The consolidated financial statements include the accounts
of the Company, its majority owned subsidiaries and limited liability
corporations and partnerships in which the Company or one of its subsidiaries is
a general partner and has a controlling interest. Limited partner distributions
are shown as "minority interests" in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
All material intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in
consolidation. Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to
the current year presentation. The results of hospital operations acquired in
purchase transactions are included from their respective acquisition dates.
 
    USE OF ESTIMATES IN FINANCIAL STATEMENTS:  Judgment and estimation is
exercised by management in certain areas of the preparation of financial
statements. Some of the more significant areas include the allowance for
uncollectible accounts, settlement amounts due to or receivable from fiscal
intermediaries, reserves for self-insurance risks, and reserves for litigation.
Management believes that such estimates are adequate.
 
    TOTAL REVENUE:  Total revenue represents net patient service revenue and
other revenue and is reported at the net realizable amounts due from patients,
third-party payors, and others for services rendered. Net patient service
revenue generated from Medicare and Medicaid/Medi-Cal reimbursement programs
accounted for approximately 57%, 51% and 52% of total net patient service
revenue for the years ended August 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996, respectively.
Settlement amounts due to or receivables from Medicare and Medicaid/Medi-Cal
programs are determined by fiscal intermediaries. The difference between the
final determination and estimated amounts accrued is accounted for as an
adjustment to revenue in the year of final determination. Management believes
that adequate provision has been made in the consolidated financial statements
for potential adjustments resulting from such examinations. Recapture amounts
due to or receivable from the Medicare program are determined by fiscal
intermediaries. The difference between the final determination and estimated
amounts accrued for recapture related to sold facilities is accounted for as an
adjustment to gain or loss on asset sales in the year of final determination.
Management believes that adequate provision has been made in the consolidated
financial statements for potential adjustments resulting from examinations of
such recapture amounts.
 
    As stated above, the Company derives a substantial portion of its revenue
from the Medicare and Medicaid/Medi-Cal programs. Changes in existing
governmental reimbursement programs in recent years have resulted in reduced
levels of reimbursement for health care services. Additional changes are
anticipated which are likely to result in further reductions in the rate of
increase in reimbursement levels.
 
    EARNINGS (LOSS) PER COMMON SHARE:  Earnings (loss) per common and common
equivalent share is based on the Company's weighted average number of shares of
common stock outstanding during the year adjusted to give effect to dilutive
stock options and warrants using the treasury stock method. The dilutive
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 1--GENERAL AND ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)
effect of stock options and warrants was 1.1 million shares in fiscal 1995 and
1.9 million shares in fiscal 1996. The effect of stock options and warrants was
anti-dilutive for fiscal 1994.
 
    Earnings (loss) per share assuming full dilution also assumes the conversion
of the Company's redeemable convertible preferred stock into common shares in
fiscal 1995 and 1996. The effect of the redeemable convertible preferred stock
was anti-dilutive in fiscal 1994.
 
    CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS:  For purposes of the Consolidated Statements of
Cash Flows, the Company considers all highly liquid debt instruments with a
maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The
carrying amount reported in the balance sheet for cash and cash equivalents
approximates fair value.
 
    SUPPLIES:  Supplies are priced at cost (first-in, first-out method) and are
not in excess of market.
 
    PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT:  Depreciation is computed using the
straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets. The range of
useful lives estimated for buildings and improvements is 10 to 40 years, and for
equipment and fixtures is 3 to 25 years. Assets related to capital leases
including improvements are amortized on a straight-line basis over the terms of
the leases or the useful lives of the assets, whichever is shorter and the
amortization expense is included with depreciation expense. Buildings and
Improvements include construction in progress of $27.2 million and $31.0 million
at August 31, 1995 and 1996, respectively. The Company capitalized interest
costs of $1.3 million, $1.3 million and $1.5 million related to construction in
progress for the years ended August 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996, respectively.
 
    INTANGIBLE ASSETS:  Deferred financing costs of $29.8 million and $28.1
million at August 31, 1995 and 1996, respectively, are included in Other Assets
in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets and are amortized over the life
of the related debt using the effective interest method. Deferred financing
costs are net of accumulated amortization of $7.1 million and $12.6 million at
August 31, 1995 and 1996, respectively.
 
    Goodwill is amortized on a straight line basis and the amortization period
(20 to 40 years for hospitals and 5 to 10 years for non-hospital acquisitions)
is based upon the estimated economic lives of the hospital buildings acquired
which range from 25 to 40 years as determined by independent appraisers, the
indefinite useful life of any Certificates of Need acquired and competition
within the local markets. Goodwill is net of accumulated amortization of $15.9
million and $30.8 million at August 31, 1995 and 1996, respectively. The
carrying value of goodwill is reviewed by the Company on a quarterly basis if
the facts and circumstances suggest that it may be impaired. Factors considered
in evaluating impairment include unexpected or adverse changes in the following:
(i) the economic, competitive or regulatory environments in which the Company
operates, (ii) profitability and (iii) cash flows. If the review indicates that
goodwill will not be recoverable, as determined based on the undiscounted cash
flows of the entity acquired over the remaining amortization period, the
Company's carrying value of the goodwill is reduced by the estimated shortfall
of cash flows.
 
    IMPAIRMENT OF LONG-LIVED ASSETS:  In March 1995, the Financial Accounting
Standards Board issued Financial Accounting Standard No. 121, "Accounting for
the Impairment of Long-Lived Assets and for Long-Lived Assets to Be Disposed Of"
(SFAS No. 121), which requires impairment losses to be recorded on long-lived
assets used in operations when indicators of impairment are present and the
undiscounted cash flows estimated to be generated by those assets are less than
the assets' carrying amount. SFAS No. 121 also addresses the accounting for
long-lived assets that are expected to be disposed of. The
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 1--GENERAL AND ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)
Company currently plans to adopt SFAS No. 121 in the first quarter of fiscal
1997 and, based on current circumstances, does not believe the effect of
adoption will be material.
 
    PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY INSURANCE:  At August 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996, the
general and professional liability risks of the Company were self-insured up to
$3.0 million on a per-occurrence basis and up to $30.0 million on an
aggregate-per-claim-year basis. At August 31, 1996, the Company carried general
and professional liability insurance from an unrelated commercial carrier for
losses above the self-insurance limits to $50.0 million. Liabilities for
self-insured professional and general liability risks at August 31, 1996, for
both asserted and unasserted claims, are based on actuarially projected
estimates discounted at an average rate of 8.0% to their present value based on
historical loss payment patterns. Although the ultimate settlement of these
liabilities may vary from such estimates, management believes the amount
provided in the Company's financial statements is adequate.
 
NOTE 2--MERGER, ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION TRANSACTIONS
 
FISCAL 1996
 
  HOUSTON NORTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER
 
    Houston Northwest Medical Center ("HNW") is a 498-bed acute care facility
located in Houston, Texas. Effective January 1, 1996, the Company purchased the
controlling equity interests in HNW for a total cash purchase price of $153.9
million and commenced operation of the facility. In connection with the
acquisition, the Company recorded assets with a fair value of $90.4 million,
liabilities of $36.5 million and goodwill of $100.0 million. Purchase price
adjustments have not been finalized as of August 31, 1996, but are not expected
to be material.
 
    Prior to January 1996, the Company's investments in HNW consisted of (i) two
classes of mandatorily redeemable preferred stock with a redemption value of
$62.5 million; and, (ii) a mortgage note receivable with a balance of $7.4
million at December 31, 1995.
 
    The Company recognized the following income related to its investments in
HNW until January 1996, at which time the Company began consolidating the
operations of HNW (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                     YEAR ENDED AUGUST 31,
                                                                -------------------------------
                                                                  1994       1995       1996
                                                                ---------  ---------  ---------
<S>                                                             <C>        <C>        <C>
Accretion of discount on mandatorily redeemable preferred
  stock.......................................................  $   1,918  $   2,086  $     757
Dividend income on mandatorily redeemable preferred stock.....     10,266     11,258      4,123
Equity method losses from common stock investment.............     (9,135)    --         --
Interest income on mortgage note receivable...................        585        662        248
                                                                ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                $   3,634  $  14,006  $   5,128
                                                                ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                ---------  ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
 
  CYPRESS FAIRBANKS MEDICAL CENTER
 
    Effective July 1, 1996, the Company purchased Cypress Fairbanks Medical
Center ("Cypress Fairbanks"), a 149-bed acute care hospital in Houston, Texas,
and related healthcare facilities for $76.1 million. In connection with the
acquisition the Company recorded assets with a fair value of $60.0 million,
liabilities
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 2--MERGER, ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION TRANSACTIONS (CONTINUED)
of $8.3 million and goodwill of $24.4 million. Purchase price adjustments have
not been finalized as of August 31, 1996, but are not expected to be material.
 
  CENTINELA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
 
    Effective August 1, 1996, the Company purchased Centinela Hospital Medical
Center ("Centinela"), a 400-bed acute care hospital in Inglewood, California,
and related healthcare businesses for $125.3 million. In connection with the
acquisition, the Company recorded assets with a fair value of $94.3 million,
liabilities of $21.1 million and goodwill of $52.1 million. Purchase price
adjustments have not been finalized as of August 31, 1996, but are not expected
to be material.
 
  OTHERS
 
    Effective November 1, 1995, the Company completed the acquisition of
Universal Medical Center (renamed Florida Medical Center--South), a 202-bed
facility located in Plantation, Florida. Effective July 1, 1996, the Company
acquired Westside Hospital, a 68-bed facility located in Los Angeles,
California. The combined cost of these acquisitions was $32.1 million. In
connection with these acquisitions, the Company acquired assets with a fair
value of $32.9 million, assumed liabilities of $3.6 million and recorded $2.7
million of goodwill. Purchase price adjustments have not been finalized as of
August 31, 1996, but are not expected to be material.
 
FISCAL 1995
 
  ST. LUKE'S HEALTH SYSTEM
 
    Effective February 13, 1995, the Company purchased three hospitals with 417
beds and related businesses that comprise the St. Luke's Health System ("St.
Luke's") in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area for $120.3 million including
$3.0 million of the Company's common stock (195,122 shares). In connection with
the acquisition, the Company acquired assets with a fair value of $45.9 million
and assumed liabilities of $26.8 million and recorded $7.1 million of goodwill.
 
  SUBURBAN
 
    Effective November 1, 1994, the Company purchased Suburban Medical Center, a
184 licensed-bed hospital located in Paramount, California for $4.6 million. In
connection with the acquisition, the Company acquired assets with a fair value
or $5.2 million, assumed liabilities of $2.2 million and recorded $1.6 million
of goodwill.
 
  OTHER
 
    During the third quarter of fiscal 1995, the Company sold all of its common
stock interest in Horizon Mental Health Management, Inc. for approximately $8.4
million resulting in a gain on sale of $6.7 million. The gain is included in
gain on asset sales in the accompanying statement of operations, net of the loss
on the consummation of a sale entered into in fiscal 1994.
 
    During fiscal 1995, the Company's investment in an independent non-public
company previously accounted for under the equity method was exchanged for
common stock of a publicly traded entity resulting in a $9.6 million non-cash
gain on exchange of securities and the new securities being classified as
TRADING under Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 115 "Accounting for
Certain Investments in
 
                                      F-37
<PAGE>
                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 2--MERGER, ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION TRANSACTIONS (CONTINUED)
Debt and Equity Securities". The Company also recorded non-cash write-downs or
reserves on certain non-operating assets of $9.6 million for impairment or
declines in value deemed to be other than temporary.
 
FISCAL 1994
 
  AHM
 
    On April 19, 1994, the Company completed a merger with American Healthcare
Management, Inc. ("AHM"), a health care services company engaged in the
operation of general acute care hospitals. AHM owned or leased 16 hospitals in 9
states, with a total of 2,028 licensed beds. The AHM Merger was accounted for as
a pooling of interests in which shareholders of AHM received 0.6 of a share of
the Company's common stock, representing 16.6 million additional shares issued,
in exchange for each share of AHM common stock held. In connection with the AHM
Merger, the Company recorded $30.0 million of nonrecurring charges and an
extraordinary loss of $8.4 million as a result of refinancing OrNda's and AHM's
senior credit facilities. Prior to the AHM Merger, AHM used a fiscal year ending
December 31. Accordingly, the recast operating results of AHM for the year ended
September 30, 1993, were combined with the operating results of OrNda for the
year ended August 31, 1993, and the AHM balance sheet accounts at September 30,
1993, were combined with OrNda's balance sheet accounts at August 31, 1993, in
order to restate the accompanying financial statements for periods prior to the
AHM Merger. As a result of this restatement, an adjustment for AHM's net income
for the month of September 1993 is reflected as a 1994 adjustment to the
consolidated retained earnings (deficit) and the Consolidated Statement of Cash
Flows for fiscal 1994 includes an adjustment to the balance at the beginning of
the period for AHM's cash activity for the month of September 1993. The effect
of the differing fiscal years on the Company's financial statements is not
significant.
 
    The following is a summary of the results of the separate operations of
OrNda and AHM included in the Consolidated Statements of Operations (in
thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           ORNDA        AHM      CONSOLIDATED
                                                         ----------  ----------  ------------
<S>                                                      <C>         <C>         <C>
Seven months ended March 31, 1994:
  Total revenue........................................  $  454,531  $  205,044   $  659,575
  Net income...........................................       1,696       7,546        9,242
</TABLE>
 
    In the third quarter of fiscal 1994, the Company recorded the following
nonrecurring charges in connection with the AHM Merger, all of which have been
paid as of August 31, 1996 (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                 CASH      NONCASH
                                                                EXPENSE    EXPENSE     TOTAL
                                                               ---------  ---------  ---------
<S>                                                            <C>        <C>        <C>
Employee benefit and certain severance actions...............  $   8,456  $     999  $   9,455
Investment advisory and professional fees....................      6,077     --          6,077
Costs of information systems consolidations primarily related
  to the write-down of assets................................      1,000     10,260     11,260
Other........................................................      1,293      1,907      3,200
                                                               ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                               $  16,826  $  13,166  $  29,992
                                                               ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                               ---------  ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 2--MERGER, ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION TRANSACTIONS (CONTINUED)
  SUMMIT
 
    On April 19, 1994, the Company also completed a merger with Summit Health
Ltd. ("Summit"), a health care services company engaged in the operation of (i)
general acute care hospitals, (ii) a managed care entity contracting to provide
services to the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, and (iii)
outpatient surgery centers. Summit owned or leased 12 acute care hospitals in 4
states with a total of 1,611 licensed beds. The Summit merger was accounted for
as a purchase in which Summit shareholders received $5.50 in cash and 0.2157
shares of the Company's common stock for each share of Summit common stock,
representing $192.1 million of cash paid and 7.5 million additional shares
issued at a market value of $96.2 million. In connection with the Summit Merger,
the Company also acquired real estate previously leased by Summit for $60.6
million. Furthermore, the Company assumed or paid $21.9 million of Summit's debt
resulting in a total acquisition cost of approximately $370.8 million. In
connection with the Summit Merger, the Company acquired assets with a fair value
of $320.9 million, assumed liabilities of $161.5 million and recorded $211.4
million of goodwill.
 
  FOUNTAIN VALLEY
 
    Effective July 31, 1994, the Company purchased Fountain Valley Regional
Hospital and Medical Center ("Fountain Valley"), located in Fountain Valley,
California for $105.2 million. The facilities include a 413-bed acute care
hospital, a surgery center, an imaging center and four medical office buildings.
In connection with the acquisition, the Company acquired assets with a fair
value of $104.2 million and assumed liabilities of $20.2 million and recorded
$21.2 million of goodwill.
 
  OTHER
 
    During fiscal 1994, the Company, in separate transactions, sold or entered
into agreements to sell four hospitals, resulting in a loss of $45.3 million.
 
PRO FORMA INFORMATION
 
    The following pro forma information reflects the fiscal 1996 acquisitions as
if they had occurred on September 1, 1994 and 1995, the fiscal 1995 acquisitions
as if they had occurred on September 1, 1993 and 1994, and the fiscal 1994
acquisitions as if they had occurred on September 1, 1993 (in thousands, except
per share data):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                          1994          1995          1996
                                                      ------------  ------------  ------------
<S>                                                   <C>           <C>           <C>
Total revenue.......................................  $  1,828,445  $  2,312,765  $  2,408,507
Net income (loss)...................................       (22,762)       72,955        99,717
Net income (loss) applicable to common shares.......       (24,629)       70,955        98,385
Net income (loss) per common share..................         (0.58)         1.56          1.73
Net income (loss) per common share assuming full
  dilution..........................................  $      (0.58) $       1.54  $       1.72
</TABLE>
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 3--INCOME TAXES
 
    The provision for income taxes for the years ended August 31 is as follows
(in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                  1994       1995       1996
                                                                ---------  ---------  ---------
<S>                                                             <C>        <C>        <C>
Current federal income tax....................................  $     169  $  14,657  $  23,160
Current state income tax......................................        888      4,750      8,938
Deferred federal income tax benefit...........................     --         (3,635)    --
Deferred state income tax.....................................     --         --          3,144
                                                                ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                $   1,057  $  15,772  $  35,242
                                                                ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                ---------  ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
 
    Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effect of temporary differences
between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting
purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. Significant components of
the Company's federal deferred tax assets and liabilities for the years ended
August 31 are tax effected as follows (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                  1994        1995        1996
                                                                               ----------  ----------  ----------
<S>                                                                            <C>         <C>         <C>
Deferred tax assets:
  Net operating loss carryovers..............................................  $   98,358  $   82,245  $   69,620
  Capital loss carryovers....................................................       1,593      --          --
  Alternative minimum tax credit carryovers..................................      --           1,036       2,691
  General business credit carryovers.........................................       7,652       7,652       6,649
  Excess tax basis over book basis of accounts receivable....................      18,825      19,889      25,837
  Excess tax basis over book basis of other assets...........................      10,051      --          --
  Accrued expenses...........................................................      19,590      18,894      20,745
  Professional liability reserves............................................       8,285       9,422      10,608
  Capital lease liability....................................................       4,786       4,626       4,024
  Other deferred tax assets..................................................         790       6,157       1,166
                                                                               ----------  ----------  ----------
Total deferred tax assets....................................................     169,930     149,921     141,340
  Valuation allowances.......................................................     (53,375)    (48,072)    (41,506)
                                                                               ----------  ----------  ----------
Total deferred tax assets net of allowance...................................     116,555     101,849      99,834
Deferred tax liabilities:....................................................
  Tax in excess of book depreciation.........................................      76,432      79,449     106,185
  Excess book basis over tax basis of certain investments....................      34,779      21,896      --
  Unamortized cash to accrual method adjustments.............................       9,243       4,960       1,249
  Other deferred tax liabilities.............................................       3,232      --          --
                                                                               ----------  ----------  ----------
Total deferred tax liabilities...............................................     123,686     106,305     107,434
                                                                               ----------  ----------  ----------
Net deferred tax liability...................................................  $    7,131  $    4,456  $    7,600
                                                                               ----------  ----------  ----------
                                                                               ----------  ----------  ----------
</TABLE>
 
    At August 31, 1996, the Company had net current deferred federal tax assets
of $43.0 million and net noncurrent deferred federal tax liabilities of $50.6
million.
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 3--INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED)
    The effective income tax rate before extraordinary items differed from the
federal statutory rate for the years ended August 31 as follows:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                      1994          1995          1996
                                                                                  ------------  ------------  ------------
<S>                                                                               <C>           <C>           <C>
Income tax expense (benefit) at federal statutory rate..........................      (35.0)%        35.0%         35.0%
  Nondeductible goodwill amortization...........................................       --             3.2           2.9
  Operating loss for which no benefit was recognized............................       35.0          --            --
  Benefit of prior year losses realized.........................................       --           (23.7)        (17.6)
  State income tax..............................................................        1.9           3.6           5.8
  Federal alternative minimum tax...............................................        0.4          --            --
                                                                                      -----         -----         -----
  Effective income tax rate.....................................................        2.3%         18.1%         26.1%
                                                                                      -----         -----         -----
                                                                                      -----         -----         -----
</TABLE>
 
    The following schedule summarizes approximate tax attribute carry forwards
from prior tax returns for both OrNda and AHM, which are available on a limited
basis to offset federal net taxable income (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                  EXPIRATION
                                                                                    PERIODS
                                                                                  -----------
<S>                                                                   <C>         <C>
Net operating loss ("NOL")..........................................  $  198,915    2001-2009
General business credits............................................       6,649    1997-2001
Alternative minimum tax credit......................................       2,691         None
</TABLE>
 
    The AHM Merger caused an "ownership change" within the meaning of Section
382(g) of the Internal Revenue Code for both OrNda and AHM. Consequently,
allowable federal deductions relating to NOL's of OrNda and AHM arising in
periods prior to the AHM Merger are thereafter subject to annual limitations of
approximately $19 million and $16 million for OrNda and AHM, respectively. In
addition, approximately $55 million of the NOL's are subject to an annual
limitation of approximately $3 million due to prior "ownership changes" of
OrNda. The annual limitations may be increased in order to offset certain
built-in gains which are recognized during the five year period following an
ownership change. In addition, the NOL's from pre-merger tax years of AHM may
only be applied against the prospective taxable income of the AHM entities. The
limitations described above are not currently expected to significantly affect
the ability of the Company to ultimately recognize the benefit of these NOL's in
future years.
 
    The Company's federal income tax returns are not presently under audit by
the Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS"), except in respect to Summit as
disclosed below. Furthermore, the Company's federal income tax returns for
taxable years through August 31, 1991 are no longer subject to IRS audit, except
for net operating loss and credit carry forwards for income tax purposes from
prior years which may be subject to IRS audit as net operating loss and credit
carry forwards are utilized in subsequent tax years. Also, Summit Health has
extended the statute of limitations for fiscal years 1987 to 1992 through March
31, 1997.
 
    In recent years the IRS was examining the federal income tax returns for
fiscal years 1984, 1985 and 1986 of Summit Health, which became a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Company in April 1994 and merged into the Company in September
1994. Summit Health received a revenue agent's report from the IRS with proposed
adjustments for the years 1984 through 1986 aggregating as of August 31, 1996
approximately $16.6 million of income tax, $66.4 million of interest on the tax,
$43.9 million of penalties
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 3--INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED)
and $25.6 million of interest on the penalties. After receiving the revenue
agent's report, Summit Health filed a protest contesting the proposed
adjustments. On October 28, 1996, the Company entered into a Closing Agreement
on Final Determination with the IRS for the above audit period, by agreeing and
paying additional tax of $647,000 and interest of $888,000 to close the audit of
Summit Health for the fiscal years 1984 through 1986. The Closing Agreement is
subject to review by the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation since the
matter relates to a refund of taxes to Summit Health in excess of $1 million.
 
NOTE 4--OTHER CURRENT ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
 
    Other current assets and liabilities consist of the following at August 31
(in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                           1995        1996
                                                                        ----------  ----------
<S>                                                                     <C>         <C>
Other Current Assets:.................................................
  Other accounts receivable, net......................................  $   27,021  $   58,040
  Trading security....................................................      14,920      --
  Receivable for surplus rebate on Centinela's bond defeasance........      --          13,755
  Other current assets................................................      15,111      14,543
                                                                        ----------  ----------
                                                                        $   57,052  $   86,338
                                                                        ----------  ----------
                                                                        ----------  ----------
Accrued Expenses and Other Liabilities:
  Due to third-party payors...........................................  $   99,833  $   64,474
  Salaries, benefits and other compensation...........................      34,493      42,435
  Vacation and sick pay...............................................      23,473      25,703
  Interest............................................................      16,018      15,829
  Other...............................................................      47,034      61,084
                                                                        ----------  ----------
                                                                        $  220,851  $  209,525
                                                                        ----------  ----------
                                                                        ----------  ----------
</TABLE>
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 5--LONG-TERM DEBT
 
    A summary of long-term debt at August 31 follows (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                        1995          1996
                                                                    ------------  ------------
<S>                                                                 <C>           <C>
Parent Company:
  Senior Credit Facilities:
    Revolving Credit Facilities...................................  $    119,000  $    266,000
    Term Loans....................................................       361,175       426,250
  12.25% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2002.......................       400,000       400,000
  10.25% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2003.......................           511           511
  11.375% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2004......................       125,000       125,000
 
Subsidiaries:
  Secured Debt--other (including capitalized leases); rates,
    generally fixed, average 11.9%; payable in periodic
    installments through 2023.....................................        67,919        71,919
                                                                    ------------  ------------
                                                                       1,073,605     1,289,680
Less current portions.............................................        60,182        59,750
                                                                    ------------  ------------
                                                                    $  1,013,423  $  1,229,930
                                                                    ------------  ------------
                                                                    ------------  ------------
</TABLE>
 
SENIOR CREDIT FACILITIES
 
    On October 27, 1995, the Company executed an amended and restated credit
agreement (the "Restated Credit Facility") which increased the Company's
borrowing capacity under its credit facility from approximately $660.0 million
to $900.0 million, of which $692.2 million was outstanding on August 31, 1996
and of which commitment availability had been reduced by issued letters of
credit of $27.4 million and scheduled principal payments of $33.8 million,
resulting in available credit of $146.6 million. The Restated Credit Facility,
which amends the Company's previous credit agreement dated April 19, 1994, will
mature on October 30, 2001, and consists of the following facilities (the
"Senior Credit Facilities"): (i) revolving commitment of $440.0 million to
refinance the debt under the previous credit agreement, for general corporate
purposes, to issue up to $50 million of letters of credit, and for strategic
acquisitions; and (ii) a $460.0 million term loan to refinance debt under the
previous credit agreement payable in incremental quarterly installments.
 
    Loans under the Restated Credit Facility bear interest, at the option of the
Company, at a rate equal to either (i) the "alternate base rate" plus 0.25% or
(ii) LIBOR plus 1.25%, in each case subject to potential decreases or increases
dependent on the Company's leverage ratio. Interest is payable quarterly if a
rate based on the alternate base rate is elected or at the end of the LIBOR
period (but in any event not to exceed 90 days) if a rate based on LIBOR is
elected. The weighted average interest rate on the Company's borrowings under
the Senior Credit Facilities at August 31, 1996, was 6.7%.
 
    In certain circumstances, the Company is required to make principal
prepayments on the Senior Credit Facilities, including the receipt of proceeds
from the issuance of additional subordinated indebtedness, certain asset sale
proceeds not used to acquire additional assets within a specified period, and
50% of the proceeds in excess of $50 million from the issuance of additional
equity not used to acquire additional assets, fund capital expenditures or repay
subordinated debt within one year. The Company may prepay at any time all or
part of the outstanding Senior Credit Facilities without penalty.
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 5--LONG-TERM DEBT (CONTINUED)
    The Restated Credit Facility limits, under certain circumstances, the
Company's ability to incur additional indebtedness, sell material assets,
acquire the capital stock or assets of another business, or pay dividends. The
Restated Credit Facility also requires the Company to maintain a specified net
worth and meet or exceed certain coverage, leverage, and indebtedness ratios.
Indebtedness under the Restated Credit Facility is secured by a perfected, first
priority security interest in the stock of all existing and future subsidiaries
of the Company, intercompany notes of indebtedness, majority-owned partnerships
and certain specified investments.
 
12.25% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES
 
    In May 1992, OrNda issued $400 million aggregate principal amount of 12.25%
senior subordinated notes due May 2002 ( the "12.25% Notes"). The 12.25% Notes
are subordinated to the Company's Senior Credit Facilities and to indebtedness
of the Company's subsidiaries. Interest on the 12.25% Notes is payable
semiannually on May 15 and November 15, commencing November 15, 1992. The 12.25%
Notes mature on May 15, 2002, but may be redeemed in whole or in part at the
option of the Company on or after June 1, 1997 through June 1, 2000, at
specified redemption prices in excess of par and thereafter at par.
 
10.25% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES
 
    On July 28, 1993, AHM issued $100 million aggregate principal amount of 10%
senior subordinated notes due July 2003 (the "10% Notes"). Interest on the 10%
Notes is payable semiannually on February 1 and August 1 of each year. The 10%
Notes mature on August 1, 2003, but may be redeemed in whole or in part at the
option of the Company on or after August 1, 1998 through July 1, 2000 at
specified redemption prices in excess of par and thereafter at par.
 
    Pursuant to the Waiver and Consent Agreement dated February 3, 1994, by and
among the Company and the holders of a majority in principal amount of the 10%
Notes, as consideration for their agreement to make certain changes to the
Notes' Indenture to effect the AHM Merger (see Note 2) and other matters, the
Company (i) paid to the holders on the closing date of the AHM Merger $15.00 for
each $1,000 principal amount of outstanding 10% Notes and (ii) increased the
rate of interest on the 10% Notes from 10% per annum to 10.25% per annum
(redefined as the "10.25% Notes"). The AHM Merger caused a "change of control,"
as defined in the Notes' Indenture, which required the Company to make a prompt
offer to repurchase all or any portion of the 10.25% Notes owned by the holders
thereof at 101% of the principal amount, together with accrued interest thereon,
to the date of repurchase. Pursuant to the offer, $99.3 million of 10.25% Notes
were redeemed through August 31, 1994, resulting in a loss on early
extinguishment of debt of $4.1 million. The 10.25% Notes are subordinated to the
Company's Senior Credit Facilities and subsidiary indebtedness.
 
11.375% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES
 
    On August 23, 1994, the Company issued $125 million aggregate principal
amount of 11.375% senior subordinated notes due August 15, 2004 (the "11.375%
Notes"). The 11.375% Notes are subordinated to the Company's Senior Credit
Facilities and subsidiary indebtedness but rank pari passu in right of payment
to the Company's 12.25% Notes and 10.25% Notes. Interest on the 11.375% Notes is
payable semiannually on February 15 and August 15 of each year. The 11.375%
Notes may be redeemed in whole or in part at the option of the Company on or
after August 15, 1999 through August 15, 2002, at specified redemption
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 5--LONG-TERM DEBT (CONTINUED)
prices in excess of par and thereafter at par. Net proceeds of $121.0 million
from the sale of the 11.375% Notes were used to reduce the Company's Senior
Credit Facilities.
 
OTHER
 
    At August 31, 1996, approximately $143.4 million of the Company's assets
were subject to mortgage or liens as collateral for approximately $71.9 million
of indebtedness, including capital leases.
 
    Maturities of debt, including capitalized lease obligations, for the next
five fiscal years and thereafter are as follows (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<S>                                               <C>
1997............................................  $  59,750
1998............................................     78,237
1999............................................     89,493
2000............................................     95,158
2001............................................    125,970
Thereafter......................................    841,072
                                                  ---------
                                                  $1,289,680
                                                  ---------
                                                  ---------
</TABLE>
 
    In connection with the Summit merger (see Note 2), the Company acquired a
38.6% interest in Summit Care Corporation ("Summit Care") which operates nursing
care and retirement centers. At August 31, 1994, approximately $37.4 million
aggregate principal amount of the Company's 7.5% Exchangeable Subordinated Notes
due 2003 (the "7.5% Notes"), which were exchangeable, at the option of the
holders, into the Company's 38.6% interest in the Summit Care Common Stock, were
outstanding. The investment in Summit Care was increased approximately $30.5
million in the Summit merger purchase price allocation to estimated fair value
of $37.4 million which was the carrying value of the 7.5% Notes at the merger
date. The 7.5% Notes, as well as accrued interest on the 7.5% Notes, and the
investment in Summit Care common stock were accounted for as an asset held for
sale and the net investment was included in other assets.
 
    From September 1, 1994 through July 31, 1995, $9.6 million of the 7.5% Notes
were voluntarily exchanged for Summit Care common stock. Effective June 1, 1995,
with the consent of the holders of the 7.5% Notes, the Indenture in respect of
the 7.5% Notes was amended to change the earliest redemption date of the 7.5%
Notes from April 1, 1996 to June 1, 1995. The Company issued a redemption notice
for 100% of the outstanding 7.5% Notes on August 3, 1995, and the holders of
$27.8 million of the 7.5% Notes exchanged for Summit Care common stock prior to
the August 28, 1995, redemption date for the balance of the 7.5% Notes. As a
result, as of August 31, 1996, the Company owned 1,414 shares, .02% of the
common stock of Summit Care.
 
NOTE 6--LEASES
 
    The Company leases hospitals, office facilities and equipment under
agreements that generally require the Company to pay all maintenance, property
taxes and insurance costs and that expire on various dates extending to the year
2023. Certain leases include options to purchase the leased property during or
at the end of the lease term at specified amounts. Minimum rental commitments
under operating leases having an initial or remaining noncancelable term of more
than one year for the next five fiscal years and thereafter; minimum payments
under capital leases at August 31, 1996, for the next five fiscal years and
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 6--LEASES (CONTINUED)
thereafter; and the related present value of future minimum payments under
capital leases are as follows (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                          CAPITAL   OPERATING
                                                                          LEASES      LEASES
                                                                         ---------  ----------
<S>                                                                      <C>        <C>
1997...................................................................  $   5,663  $   51,291
1998...................................................................      4,248      43,073
1999...................................................................      2,205      34,632
2000...................................................................      1,337      31,263
2001...................................................................      1,261      28,343
Thereafter.............................................................     17,229     261,534
                                                                         ---------  ----------
Total minimum rental payments..........................................     31,943  $  450,136
                                                                                    ----------
                                                                                    ----------
Less amounts representing interest.....................................     14,838
                                                                         ---------
Present value of future minimum lease payments.........................     17,105
Less current portion...................................................      4,088
                                                                         ---------
                                                                         $  13,017
                                                                         ---------
                                                                         ---------
</TABLE>
 
    Operations for the years ended August 31, 1994, 1995, and 1996, include rent
expense on operating leases of $32.9 million, $58.1 million, and $62.2 million,
respectively.
 
    Property under capital lease at August 31 is as follows (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                            1995       1996
                                                                          ---------  ---------
<S>                                                                       <C>        <C>
Building and improvements...............................................  $  37,220  $  37,880
Equipment and fixtures..................................................     19,603     19,200
                                                                          ---------  ---------
                                                                             56,823     57,080
Less accumulated amortization...........................................     18,707     23,392
                                                                          ---------  ---------
                                                                          $  38,116  $  33,688
                                                                          ---------  ---------
                                                                          ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
 
NOTE 7--SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY, WARRANTS AND EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTIONS
 
COMMON STOCK
 
    The Company has not paid any dividends on its common stock. Under the terms
of the Company's Restated Credit Facility, the Company may not pay dividends on
its common stock.
 
    On November 6, 1995, the Company completed the sale of 10,000,000 shares of
its common stock at a $17.625 per share public offering price. On November 9,
1995, the underwriters exercised an option to purchase an additional 1,500,000
shares to cover over-allotments. The net proceeds of approximately $192.7
million, after deducting offering expenses and underwriting discounts, were used
to reduce all of the indebtedness under the revolving portion of the Restated
Credit Facility in the amount of $27.2 million. The remaining proceeds were used
for general corporate purposes.
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 7--SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY, WARRANTS AND EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTIONS (CONTINUED)
WARRANTS
 
    At August 31, 1996, there were warrants outstanding to purchase 92,600
shares of common stock at an exercise price of $17.89 per share. Warrants can be
exercised through April 30, 2000.
 
STOCK OPTIONS AND STOCK BONUS PLANS
 
    On April 19, 1994, OrNda's shareholders approved the 1994 Management Equity
Plan to replace the 1992 Management Equity Plan. No awards were granted under
the 1992 Management Equity Plan. The 1994 Management Equity Plan provides for
the granting of stock options (either incentive or nonqualified), stock
appreciation rights, or limited stock appreciation rights to key employees and
consultants of the Company. Under the 1994 Management Equity Plan, the Company
may grant awards for up to 6,550,000 shares of common stock. Generally, the 1994
Management Equity Plan provides that options may be outstanding for a period of
up to ten years from the date of the grant and may become exercisable at such
time or under such conditions as the compensation committee of the Company's
Board of Directors shall determine. For incentive stock options granted, the
exercise price generally will equal the fair market value of the Company's
common stock on the date of the grant.
 
    Effective November 29, 1995, OrNda's shareholders approved the Outside
Directors Stock Option Plan, under which the Company may grant options to
outside directors for up to 300,000 shares of common stock.
 
    On April 19, 1994, the Company's shareholders approved the Incentive Stock
Bonus Plan which provides for the payment of cash and issuance of shares of the
Company's common stock to key employees as an annual incentive bonus based upon
the extent to which the Company achieves certain performance goals specified in
advance by the compensation committee of the Company's Board of Directors. Under
the Incentive Stock Bonus Plan, the Company may issue up to 600,000 shares of
the Company's common stock. As of August 31, 1996, no options have been granted
under this plan.
 
    In addition to the 7,450,000 shares of common stock reserved for issuance
under the 1994 Management Equity Plan, the Outside Directors Stock Option Plan
and the Incentive Stock Bonus Plan, the Company has reserved 1,434,958 shares of
common stock at August 31, 1996, for issuance pursuant to options granted under
various stock option plans for OrNda, AHM and Summit prior to the AHM Merger and
the Summit merger. No options are available for future grant under the stock
option plans established prior to the April 19, 1994 mergers. On December 31,
1993, OrNda granted options to purchase 500,000 shares of common stock to key
employees at exercise prices ranging from $7.75 to $10.75 per share. Since the
exercise price was below the market value of the Company's common stock on the
date of grant, the Company recorded $2,530,000 of noncash stock option
compensation in fiscal 1994 with an offsetting increase to Additional Paid-In
Capital for the excess of the market price at the date of grant over the
exercise price.
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 7--SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY, WARRANTS AND EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTIONS (CONTINUED)
    The following is a summary of option transactions during fiscal 1994, 1995
and 1996:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                SHARES OF
                                                                  COMMON      OPTION PRICE
                                                                  STOCK           RANGE
                                                                ----------  -----------------
<S>                                                             <C>         <C>
Balance at August 31, 1993....................................   2,823,479  $   1.67 - $11.34
 
  Options Granted.............................................   3,455,000  $   7.75 - $15.00
  Options Assumed in Summit Merger............................     245,553  $   2.21 - $13.34
  Options Exercised...........................................    (918,808) $   1.67 - $13.34
  Options Forfeited...........................................    (115,002) $   4.80 - $15.00
                                                                ----------
Balance at August 31, 1994....................................   5,490,222  $   1.67 - $15.00
 
  Options Granted.............................................     175,000             $19.50
  Options Exercised...........................................    (898,334) $   3.92 - $13.34
  Options Forfeited...........................................    (450,542) $   2.97 - $15.00
                                                                ----------
Balance at August 31, 1995....................................   4,316,346
 
  Options Granted.............................................   1,554,500  $  18.75 - $27.13
  Options Exercised...........................................    (470,280) $   2.21 - $15.00
  Options Forfeited...........................................    (210,108) $  15.00 - $27.13
                                                                ----------
Balance at August 31, 1996....................................   5,190,458  $   3.92 - $27.13
                                                                ----------
                                                                ----------
Exercisable at August 31, 1996................................   2,470,758  $   3.92 - $15.00
 
Available for Future Grant at August 31, 1996.................   3,479,700
</TABLE>
 
REDEEMABLE CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK
 
    On October 15, 1991, OrNda issued 1 million shares of $.01 par value Payable
in Kind Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock (the "PIK Preferred").
The PIK Preferred has an aggregate liquidation value of $15 million and is
entitled to dividends at the rate of 9% of the liquidation value thereof until
October 31, 1999, 9.9% from November 1, 1999 through October 31, 2000, 10.8%
from November 1, 2000 through October 31, 2001, and 15% thereafter. The Company
issued additional shares of PIK Preferred as paid-in-kind dividends of 123,468
in fiscal 1994, 133,474 in fiscal 1995, and 33,234 in fiscal 1996.
 
    On November 7, 1995, the Company issued a notice of redemption to the
holders of its PIK Preferred for $15 per share with a redemption date of
December 8, 1995. In the fiscal quarter ended November 30, 1995, 1,355,519
shares of PIK Preferred were converted into 1,355,519 shares of the Company's
common stock. On December 8, 1995, the remaining 7,416 shares of PIK Preferred
were redeemed for $15 per share plus dividends of $0.16 per share accrued
through the redemption date.
 
NOTE 8--OTHER
 
    Effective July 1, 1986, OrNda adopted the OrNda HealthCorp Savings and
Investment Plan (the "401(k) Plan"). The 401(k) Plan is a defined contribution
plan whereby employees who have completed one year of service in which they have
worked a minimum of 1,000 hours and are age 21 or older are
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 8--OTHER (CONTINUED)
eligible to participate. Through December 31, 1994, the 401(k) Plan allowed
eligible employees to make contributions of 2% to 7% of their annual
compensation and employer contributions were made at a rate of 50% of the
employee contributions up to a maximum of 3.5% of annual compensation. Effective
January 1, 1995, through December 31, 1995, the 401(k) Plan was amended to allow
eligible employees to make contributions of 2% to 15% of their annual
compensation and employer contributions were made at a rate of 50% of the
employee contributions up to a maximum of 1.5% of annual compensation. Effective
January 1, 1996, the 401(k) Plan was amended such that employer contributions
are now made in the Company's common stock at a rate of 50% of the employee
contributions up to a maximum of 2.0% of annual compensation. Employer
contributions vest 20% after three years of service and continue vesting at 20%
per year until fully vested. The Company's matching expense for fiscal years
1994, 1995, and 1996 was approximately $3.2 million, $4.5 million, and $4.8
million, respectively.
 
    The carrying amounts and fair values of certain financial instruments,
disclosed elsewhere, consisted of the following at August 31, 1996 (in
thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                  CARRYING AMOUNT   FAIR VALUE
                                                                  ----------------  ----------
<S>                                                               <C>               <C>
Long-Term Debt (see Note 6):
  Senior Credit Facilities......................................    $    692,250    $  692,250
  12.25% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2002.....................         400,000       430,500
  10.25% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2003.....................             511           511
  11.375% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2004....................         125,000       138,750
  Secured Debt--Other...........................................          71,919        71,919
</TABLE>
 
    The carrying amounts of the Company's borrowings at August 31, 1996
approximate their fair value based on discounted cash flow analyses, using the
Company's current incremental borrowing rates for similar types of borrowing
arrangements or quoted market prices, if available, except that the fair value
of the 12.25% Senior Subordinated Notes approximates 107.625% of par value and
the fair value of the 11.375% Senior Subordinated Notes approximates 111.0% of
par value based on recent bid/ask indications.
 
NOTE 9--COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
 
    The Company continually evaluates contingencies based upon the best
available information. Final determination of amounts earned from certain
third-party payors is subject to review by appropriate governmental authorities
or their agents. In the opinion of management, adequate provision has been made
for any adjustments that may result from such reviews.
 
    Broad provisions in the Medicare and Medicaid laws deal with fraud and
abuse, false claims and physician self-referrals as well as similar provisions
in many state laws. In recent years, government investigations of alleged
violations of these laws have become common place in the health care industry.
The Company is currently under civil investigation under the direction of the
Civil Division of the Department of Justice concerning possible violations of
Medicare rules and regulations. The investigation is primarily related to
arrangements between physicians and the twelve hospitals which the Company
acquired from Summit Health, Ltd. in 1994. The Company is fully cooperating with
the government investigation and is voluntarily producing documents related to
the investigation. Also, in an apparently unrelated matter, the government has
requested and the Company has agreed to provide similar records from a single
hospital outside the group acquired from Summit Health, Ltd. in 1994. Although
no
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 9--COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (CONTINUED)
proceedings have been instituted, in the event that the Office of the Inspector
General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services believes
that any wrongdoing has occurred, civil and possibly criminal proceedings could
be instituted. If any such proceedings were instituted and the outcome were
unfavorable, the Company could be subject to fines, penalties and damages
("Monetary Payments") and also could be excluded from Medicare and other
government reimbursement programs. The aggregate amount of the Monetary Payments
and any such exclusion could have a material adverse effect on the Company's
financial position or results of operations. The result of this investigation
and its impact, if any, cannot be predicted or estimated at this time. Based on
information currently available to it, management believes that if the
investigation remains limited to relationships with physicians, remains civil in
nature and, with the single exception noted above, relates to the practices of
the hospitals of an acquired corporation, the final outcome of this
investigation will not have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial
position or results of operations.
 
    The Company is subject to various legal proceedings and claims which arise
in the ordinary course of business. In the opinion of management, the ultimate
resolution of such pending legal proceedings will not have a material effect on
the Company's financial position or results of operations.
 
NOTE 10--SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
 
    Effective September 1, 1996, the Company completed the acquisition of The
Fallon Healthcare System's Saint Vincent Healthcare System, located in
Worcester, Massachusetts, consisting of a 432-bed acute care teaching hospital,
three skilled nursing facilities and other health related companies, and a
minority interest in the 280-member multi-specialty group physician practice,
The Fallon Clinic. The Company has committed to fund the construction, estimated
at $225.0 million, of a new replacement hospital, known as Medical City.
 
    On October 8, 1996, the Company entered into a definitive agreement with
United Western Medical Centers, a not-for-profit corporation headquartered in
Santa Ana, California, to acquire substantially all of United's assets which
consist primarily of Western Medical Center, a 288-bed acute care hospital in
Santa Ana, California; Western Medical Center-Anaheim, a 193-bed acute care
hospital in Anaheim, California; and Western Medical Center-Bartlett, a 202-bed
skilled nursing facility in Santa Ana, California. United Western Medical
Centers has approximately $185 million in annual net revenues in its most recent
fiscal year. The closing of this transaction is subject to customary closing
conditions, Board of Directors' approvals and review by the California Attorney
General.
 
    On October 16, 1996, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to
merge with Tenet Healthcare Corporation ("Tenet"). Under the terms of the
definitive agreement, which was unanimously approved by the Board of Directors
of both companies, shareholders of OrNda common stock would receive 1.35 shares
of Tenet common stock and the associated preferred stock purchase rights for
each share of OrNda common stock. The merger transaction will be tax-free and
accounted for as a pooling of interests and is expected to close in March 1997.
Consummation of the merger is subject to a number of conditions, including
shareholder approval of both companies. The merger is also subject to the
applicable waiting periods under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements
Act, local regulatory approvals, and confirmation that the transaction qualifies
as a pooling-of-interests for accounting purposes and as a tax-free
reorganization under the Internal Revenue Code.
 
    As of November 13, 1996, the Company is in discussion with its current
syndicate of banks to increase its credit facility to $1.2 billion, an amount
sufficient to cover the Company's pending acquisitions.
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                AUGUST 31, 1996
 
NOTE 11--SELECTED QUARTERLY FINANCIAL DATA (UNAUDITED)
 
    Quarterly financial information for the years ended August 31, 1995 and 1996
is summarized below (in thousands, except per share data):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                  QUARTER ENDED
                                                                -------------------------------------------------
                                                                NOVEMBER 30   FEBRUARY 28    MAY 31    AUGUST 31
                                                                ------------  -----------  ----------  ----------
<S>                                                             <C>           <C>          <C>         <C>
1995
Total revenue.................................................   $  418,021    $ 442,725   $  497,890  $  484,065
Income before income taxes and extraordinary item.............   $   16,104    $  22,571   $   28,837  $   19,572
Net income....................................................   $   13,350    $  19,919   $   22,091  $   15,952
Net income per common and common equivalent share.............   $     0.29    $    0.43   $     0.47  $     0.34
Net income per common share assuming full dilution............   $     0.29    $    0.43   $     0.47  $     0.33
 
1996
Total revenue.................................................   $  493,565    $ 542,888   $  557,866  $  552,913
Income before income taxes....................................   $   25,869    $  37,782   $   40,123  $   31,339
Net income....................................................   $   19,919    $  27,455   $   29,290  $   23,207
Net income per common and common equivalent share.............   $     0.40    $    0.46   $     0.49  $     0.39
Net income per common share assuming full dilution............   $     0.39    $    0.46   $     0.49  $     0.39
</TABLE>
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                       CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
 
                                  (UNAUDITED)
                     (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                              THREE MONTHS ENDED
                                                                                                 NOVEMBER 30,
                                                                                            ----------------------
                                                                                               1995        1996
                                                                                            ----------  ----------
<S>                                                                                         <C>         <C>
Total Revenue.............................................................................  $  493,565  $  637,091
Costs and Expenses:
  Salaries and benefits...................................................................     210,365     291,799
  Supplies................................................................................      64,890      87,884
  Purchased services......................................................................      52,219      56,971
  Provision for doubtful accounts.........................................................      33,207      32,711
  Other operating expenses................................................................      59,953      66,552
  Depreciation and amortization...........................................................      23,461      31,704
  Interest expense........................................................................      27,186      30,558
  Interest income.........................................................................      (1,154)     (1,179)
  Minority interest.......................................................................       1,353       2,335
                                                                                            ----------  ----------
                                                                                                22,085      37,756
Income from investments in Houston
  Northwest Medical Center................................................................       3,784      --
                                                                                            ----------  ----------
Income before income tax expense..........................................................      25,869      37,756
Income tax expense........................................................................       5,950      11,327
                                                                                            ----------  ----------
Net income................................................................................      19,919      26,429
Preferred stock dividend requirements.....................................................        (332)     --
                                                                                            ----------  ----------
Net income applicable to common shares....................................................  $   19,587  $   26,429
                                                                                            ----------  ----------
                                                                                            ----------  ----------
Net income per common and common equivalent share.........................................  $     0.40  $     0.44
Net income per common share assuming full dilution........................................  $     0.39  $     0.44
Weighted average common and dilutive common equivalent shares outstanding.................      49,519      60,509
Weighted average common shares outstanding assuming full dilution.........................      50,763      60,617
</TABLE>
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                          CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
 
                                  (UNAUDITED)
 
                       (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE DATA)
                                     ASSETS
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                        AUGUST 31,   NOVEMBER 30,
                                                                                           1996          1996
                                                                                       ------------  ------------
<S>                                                                                    <C>           <C>
Current Assets:
  Cash and cash equivalents..........................................................  $     17,435   $   10,506
  Patient accounts receivable, net of allowance for uncollectible accounts of $78,447
    at August 31, 1996 and $77,747 at November 30, 1996..............................       379,874      415,640
  Supplies, at cost..................................................................        42,168       44,982
  Other..............................................................................        86,338       88,102
                                                                                       ------------  ------------
    Total Current Assets.............................................................       525,815      559,230
Property, Plant and Equipment, at cost:
  Land...............................................................................       152,449      153,422
  Buildings and improvements.........................................................     1,062,953    1,110,272
  Equipment and fixtures.............................................................       490,498      510,402
                                                                                       ------------  ------------
                                                                                          1,705,900    1,774,096
  Less accumulated depreciation and amortization.....................................       370,707      394,857
                                                                                       ------------  ------------
                                                                                          1,335,193    1,379,239
Excess of Purchase Price Over Net Assets Acquired, net of accumulated amortization...       497,806      501,716
Other Assets.........................................................................       107,714      172,057
                                                                                       ------------  ------------
                                                                                       $  2,466,528   $2,612,242
                                                                                       ------------  ------------
                                       LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY
Current Liabilities:
  Accounts payable...................................................................  $    168,403   $  155,688
  Accrued expenses and other liabilities.............................................       209,525      228,562
  Current maturities of long-term debt...............................................        59,750       36,864
                                                                                       ------------  ------------
    Total Current Liabilities........................................................       437,678      421,114
Long-term Debt.......................................................................     1,229,930    1,334,861
Other Liabilities....................................................................       158,503      182,038
Shareholders Equity:
  Common stock, $.01 par value authorized 200,000,000 shares, issued and outstanding
    58,250,996 shares at August 31, 1996 and 58,432,525 shares at November 30,
    1996.............................................................................           583          584
  Additional paid-in capital.........................................................       633,983      641,365
                                                                                       ------------  ------------
  Retained earnings..................................................................         5,851       32,280
                                                                                       ------------  ------------
                                                                                            640,417      674,229
                                                                                       ------------  ------------
                                                                                       $  2,466,528   $2,612,242
                                                                                       ------------  ------------
</TABLE>
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                     CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
 
                                  (UNAUDITED)
 
                                 (IN THOUSANDS)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                               THREE MONTHS       THREE MONTHS
                                                                              ENDED NOVEMBER     ENDED NOVEMBER
                                                                                 30, 1995           30, 1996
                                                                             -----------------  -----------------
<S>                                                                          <C>                <C>
CASH FLOW PROVIDED BY (USED IN) OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net income.................................................................      $  19,919          $  26,429
  Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating
    activities:
    Non-cash portion of income from investments in Houston Northwest
      Medical Center.......................................................         (3,160)            --
    Depreciation and amortization..........................................         23,461             31,704
    Provision for doubtful accounts........................................         33,207             32,711
    Changes in assets and liabilities net of effects from acquisitions and
      dispositions of hospitals:
      Patient accounts receivable..........................................        (45,946)           (46,908)
      Other current assets.................................................        (10,040)             9,404
      Other assets.........................................................            457                376
      Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities.....        (53,739)           (22,758)
      Other liabilities....................................................         11,702              1,342
    Proceeds from sales of trading investment security.....................         19,115             --
                                                                                  --------           --------
    Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities....................         (5,024)            32,300
                                                                                  --------           --------
CASH FLOW USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
    Acquisitions of hospitals and related assets...........................        (29,825)           (81,973)
    Capital expenditures...................................................        (14,096)           (26,147)
    Issuance of notes receivable...........................................         (7,606)            (1,578)
    Payments received on long-term notes and other receivables.............          3,297              1,123
Other investing activities.................................................          1,545             (2,269)
                                                                                  --------           --------
    Net cash used in investing activities                                          (46,685)          (110,844)
                                                                                  --------           --------
CASH FLOW PROVIDED BY FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
    Proceeds from issuance of common stock.................................        193,011              3,046
    Principal payments on long-term debt borrowings........................        (37,636)           (72,706)
    Proceeds received on long-term debt borrowings.........................         15,003            145,000
    Financing costs incurred in connection with long-term borrowings.......         (3,744)            (2,045)
    Other..................................................................            (72)            (1,680)
                                                                                  --------           --------
    Net cash provided by financing activities..............................        166,562             71,615
                                                                                  --------           --------
NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS.......................        114,853             (6,929)
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, BEGINNING OF PERIOD.............................          4,963             17,435
                                                                                  --------           --------
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF PERIOD...................................      $ 119,816          $  10,506
                                                                                  --------           --------
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION:
  Cash paid during the period for:
    Interest (net of amount capitalized)...................................      $  36,362          $  38,694
    Income taxes...........................................................         21,793             11,922
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF NONCASH ACTIVITIES:
  Preferred stock dividends................................................            332                 --
  Capital lease obligations incurred.......................................             --                 69
  Exchange of minority ownership in hospitals for minority interest
    ownership in physician practices.......................................          9,400             --
</TABLE>
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
                   NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
                                  (UNAUDITED)
 
                               NOVEMBER 30, 1996
 
NOTE 1 - REPORTING ENTITY
 
    OrNda HealthCorp ("Company"), which is incorporated in the State of
Delaware, is a provider of health care services through the operation of general
acute care hospitals located primarily in the southern and western United
States. Of the 49 general acute care hospitals and one psychiatric hospital
operated by the Company at November 30, 1996, 19 hospitals are located in
California of which 16 hospitals are located in the southern California area. In
addition, 4 hospitals are located in southern Florida and 6 hospitals are
located in Arizona. The concentration of hospitals in California, southern
Florida and Arizona increases the risk that any adverse economic, regulatory or
other developments that may occur in such areas may adversely affect the
Company's operations or financial condition.
 
NOTE 2 - SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
 
    BASIS OF PRESENTATION.  The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial
statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form
10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of
the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting
principles for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all
adjustments considered necessary for fair presentation have been included.
Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year
presentation. Operating results for the three months ended November 30, 1996,
are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the
entire year. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial
statements and footnotes thereto included in the Company's annual report on Form
10-K for the year ended August 31, 1996.
 
    EARNINGS PER SHARE. Earnings per common and common equivalent share is based
on the Company's weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding
during the period adjusted to give effect to dilutive stock options and warrants
using the treasury stock method. The dilutive effect of stock options and
warrants was 1.4 million and 2.1 million equivalent shares for the three months
ended November 30, 1995 and 1996, respectively. Earnings per common share
assuming full dilution for the three months ended November 30, 1995, assumes the
conversion of the Company's redeemable convertible preferred stock into common
shares.
 
    ACCOUNTING FOR THE IMPAIRMENT OF LONG LIVED ASSETS AND FOR LONG-LIVED ASSETS
TO BE DISPOSED OF. Effective September 1, 1996, the Company adopted Financial
Accounting Standards No. 121 "Accounting for the Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
and for Long-Lived Assets to be Disposed Of," (SFAS No. 121). The effect of
adoption was not material to the Company's operations or financial condition.
 
NOTE 3 - LONG-TERM DEBT
 
    On November 26, 1996, the Company executed an amendment to its credit
agreement (the "Credit Facility") which increased the borrowing capacity under
the revolving commitment from $440.0 million to $773.8 million bringing the
total credit facility to $1.2 billion. As of November 30, 1996, $767.3 million
was outstanding under the Credit Facility, and commitment availability had been
reduced by $25.3 million as a result of issued letters of credit. The amendment
also postponed the next three quarterly principal payments of the term loan
facility. The Credit Facility still matures on October 30, 2001.
 
    Loans under the Credit Facility bear interest, at the option of the Company,
at a rate equal to either (i) the "alternate base rate" or (ii) LIBOR plus 1.0%,
in each case subject to potential decreases or increases dependent on the
Company's leverage ratio. Interest is payable quarterly if a rate based on the
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                  (UNAUDITED)
 
                               NOVEMBER 30, 1996
 
NOTE 3 - LONG-TERM DEBT (CONTINUED)
alternate base rate is elected or at the end of the LIBOR period (but in any
event not to exceed 90 days) if a rate based on LIBOR is elected. The weighted
average interest rate on the Company's borrowings under the Senior Credit
Facilities at November 30, 1996, was 6.4%.
 
    In certain circumstances, the Company is required to make principal
prepayments on the Credit Facility, including the receipt of proceeds from the
issuance of additional subordinated indebtedness, certain asset sale proceeds
not used to acquire additional assets within a specified period, and 50% of the
proceeds in excess of $50 million from the issuance of additional equity not
used to acquire additional assets, fund capital expenditures or repay
subordinated debt within one year. The Company may prepay at any time all or
part of the outstanding Credit Facility without penalty.
 
    The Credit Facility limits, under certain circumstances, the Company's
ability to incur additional indebtedness, sell material assets, acquire the
capital stock or assets of another business, or pay dividends. The Credit
Facility also requires the Company to maintain a specified net worth and meet or
exceed certain coverage, leverage, and indebtedness ratios. Indebtedness under
the Credit Facility is secured by a perfected, first priority security interest
in the stock of all existing and future subsidiaries of the Company,
intercompany notes of indebtedness, majority-owned partnerships and certain
specified investments.
 
NOTE 4 - INCOME TAXES
 
    The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes" (SFAS No.
109). Under SFAS No. 109, an asset and liability approach for financial
accounting and reporting for income taxes is required.
 
    The 1994 merger with AHM caused an "ownership change" within the meaning of
Section 382(g) of the Internal Revenue Code for both OrNda and AHM.
Consequently, allowable federal deductions relating to NOL's of OrNda and AHM
arising in periods prior to the AHM Merger are thereafter subject to annual
limitations of approximately $19 million and $16 million for OrNda and AHM,
respectively. In addition, approximately $55 million of the NOL's are subject to
an annual limitation of approximately $3 million due to prior "ownership
changes" of OrNda. The annual limitations may be increased in order to offset
certain built-in gains which are recognized during the five year period
following an ownership change. In addition, the NOL's from pre-merger tax years
of AHM may only be applied against the prospective taxable income of the AHM
entities. The limitations described above are not currently expected to
significantly affect the ability of the Company to ultimately recognize the
benefit of these NOL's in future years.
 
    The Company's federal income tax returns are not presently under audit by
the Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS"), except in respect to Summit as
disclosed below. Furthermore, the Company's federal income tax returns for
taxable years through August 31, 1991 are no longer subject to IRS audit, except
for net operating loss and credit carry forwards for income tax purposes from
prior years which may be subject to IRS audit as net operating loss and credit
carry forwards are utilized in subsequent tax years. Also, Summit Health has
extended the statute of limitations for fiscal years 1987 to 1992 through March
31, 1997.
 
    In recent years the IRS was examining the federal income tax returns for
fiscal years 1984, 1985 and 1986 of Summit Health, which became a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Company in April 1994 and merged into the Company in September
1994. Summit Health received a revenue agent's report from the IRS with proposed
adjustments for the years 1984 through 1986 aggregating as of August 31, 1996
 
                                      F-56
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                  (UNAUDITED)
 
                               NOVEMBER 30, 1996
 
NOTE 4 - INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED)
approximately $16.6 million of income tax, $66.4 million of interest on the tax,
$43.9 million of penalties and $25.6 million of interest on the penalties. After
receiving the revenue agent's report, Summit Health filed a protest contesting
the proposed adjustments. On October 28, 1996, the Company entered into a
Closing Agreement on Final Determination with the IRS for the above audit
period, by agreeing and paying additional tax of $647,000 and interest of
$888,000 to close the audit of Summit Health for the fiscal years 1984 through
1986.
 
NOTE 5 - ACQUISITIONS
 
    Effective September 1, 1996, the Company completed the acquisition of The
Fallon Healthcare System's Saint Vincent Healthcare System, located in
Worcester, Massachusetts ("St. Vincent's"), consisting of a 432-bed acute care
teaching hospital, three skilled nursing facilities and other health related
companies, and a minority interest in the 280-member multi-specialty group
physician practice, The Fallon Clinic. The Company has committed to fund the
construction, estimated at $225.0 million, of a new replacement hospital, known
as Medical City.
 
    On December 23, 1996, the Company completed its acquisition of substantially
all of the assets of United Western Medical Centers, a not-for-profit
corporation headquartered in Santa Ana, California ("UWMC"), which consists
primarily of Western Medical Center, a 288-bed acute care hospital in Santa Ana,
California; Western Medical Center-Anaheim, a 193-bed acute care hospital in
Anaheim, California; and Western Medical Center-Bartlett, a 202-bed skilled
nursing facility in Santa Ana, California. UWMC has approximately $185 million
in annual net revenues in its most recent fiscal year.
 
    The following proforma information reflects the fiscal 1996 acquisitions,
the St. Vincent's and UWMC acquisitions and the November 1995 offering of common
stock as if they occurred on September 1, 1995 and 1996 (in thousands, except
per share data):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                     1995        1996
<S>                                                                               <C>         <C>
Total revenue...................................................................  $  677,766  $  683,165
Net income......................................................................      21,106      26,460
Net income applicable to common shares..........................................      20,774      26,460
Net income per common share.....................................................  $     0.36  $     0.44
</TABLE>
 
NOTE 6 - PROPOSED MERGER WITH TENET
 
    On October 16, 1996, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to
merge with Tenet Healthcare Corporation ("Tenet"). Under the terms of the
definitive agreement, which was unanimously approved by the Board of Directors
of both companies, shareholders of OrNda common stock would receive 1.35 shares
of Tenet common stock and the associated preferred stock purchase rights for
each share of OrNda common stock. The merger transaction will be tax-free and
accounted for as a pooling of interests and is expected to close in January 1997
pending receipt of shareholder and government approvals. Both OrNda and Tenet
have announced special shareholder meetings for January 28, 1997, for
shareholder approval of the proposed merger.
 
NOTE 7 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
 
    The Company continually evaluates contingencies based upon the best
available information. Final determination of amounts earned from certain
third-party payors is subject to review by appropriate
 
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                  (UNAUDITED)
 
                               NOVEMBER 30, 1996
 
NOTE 7 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (CONTINUED)
governmental authorities or their agents. In the opinion of management, adequate
provision has been made for any adjustments that may result from such reviews.
 
    Broad provisions in the Medicare and Medicaid laws deal with fraud and
abuse, false claims and physician self-referrals as well as similar provisions
in many state laws. In recent years, government investigations of alleged
violations of these laws have become common place in the health care industry.
 
    In February 1996, the Company's Midway Hospital Medical Center ("Midway") in
Los Angeles, California, which was acquired when the Company acquired Summit
Health Ltd. ("Summit Health") in April 1994, received an investigative subpoena
from the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of
Health and Human Services (the "OIG"). The subpoena states that it was issued in
connection with an investigation being conducted by the OIG concerning possible
violations of Medicare rules and regulations (the "OIG Investigation"). The
Company believes that the basis for the investigative subpoena from the OIG that
was served on Midway was a civil qui tam action that had been filed in July 1995
against Midway Hospital Medical Center, Inc. (a subsidiary of the Company which
owns Midway), Summit Health and the Company in the United States District Court
for the Central District of California (the "California Action"). The California
Action originally was filed under a court-ordered seal that prohibited the
Company from disclosing the action prior to this time.
 
    The California Action alleges, among other things, that there were
violations of the federal False Claims Act and the federal fraud and abuse and
anti-kickback provisions of the Medicare and Medicaid laws in connection with
certain of Midway's compensation arrangements with its physicians. The
California Action alleges that as a result of this allegedly wrongful conduct,
the United States is entitled to monetary damages and penalties. The California
Action also alleges in a second cause of action violations of the fraud and
abuse, medical staff and wrongful discharge laws of the State of California and
claims as a result of such wrongful conduct compensatory as well as punitive
damages.
 
    The OIG has expanded the California Action, which initially related to only
one of OrNda's hospitals (Midway, which was acquired by the Company from Summit
Health), and the OIG Investigation to 11 other former Summit Health hospitals
owned by the Company. In an apparently unrelated matter, the government has
requested and the Company has provided records from a single hospital outside
the group acquired from Summit Health. The Company is fully cooperating with the
OIG. The Company and its outside counsel have held numerous meetings with
government attorneys with respect to this matter and, as a result, the Company
believes that the OIG Investigation continues to be a civil investigation
focused primarily on arrangements between physicians and the hospitals that may
violate Medicare rules and regulations and not on the hospitals' Medicare or
Medicaid billing practices. If the outcome of the California Action or OIG
Investigation were unfavorable, the Company could be subject to fines, penalties
and damages ("Monetary Payments") and also could be excluded from Medicare and
other government reimbursement programs, which Monetary Payments or exclusion
could have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial condition or
results of operations. The result of the California Action, the OIG
Investigation and their impact, if any, cannot be predicted or estimated at this
time. Based on information currently available to the Company, however,
management of the Company believes that if the California Action and the OIG
Investigation remain primarily limited to physician arrangements, remain civil
in nature and, with the exception of only one of the hospitals, relate only to
the practices of the former Summit Health hospitals, the final outcome of the
California Action and the OIG Investigation will not have a material adverse
effect on the Company's financial condition or results of operations.
 
                                      F-58
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                       ORNDA HEALTHCORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
                                  (UNAUDITED)
 
                               NOVEMBER 30, 1996
 
NOTE 7 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (CONTINUED)
    The Company is not aware of any additional litigation or investigations
concerning the matters described in the three paragraphs immediately above.
There can be no assurance, however, that in the event any such additional
litigation or investigation is instituted and there is an unfavorable outcome,
such result would not have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial
condition or results of operations.
 
    The Company is subject to various legal proceedings and claims which arise
in the ordinary course of business. In the opinion of management, the ultimate
resolution of such pending legal proceedings will not have a material effect on
the Company's financial condition or results of operations.
 
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    NO DEALER, SALESPERSON, OR ANY OTHER PERSON HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED TO GIVE ANY
INFORMATION OR TO MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OTHER THAN THOSE CONTAINED OR
INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN THIS PROSPECTUS AND, IF GIVEN OR MADE, SUCH
INFORMATION OR REPRESENTATIONS MUST NOT BE RELIED UPON AS HAVING BEEN AUTHORIZED
BY THE COMPANY OR ANY OF THE UNDERWRITERS. THIS PROSPECTUS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE
AN OFFER TO SELL OR THE SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY ANY SECURITIES OTHER
THAN THE NOTES OFFERED HEREBY OR AN OFFER TO SELL OR THE SOLICITATION OF AN
OFFER TO BUY THE NOTES BY ANYONE IN ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH OFFER OR
SOLICITATION IS NOT AUTHORIZED OR IN WHICH THE PERSON MAKING SUCH OFFER OR
SOLICITATION IS NOT QUALIFIED TO DO SO OR TO ANY PERSON IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES IN
WHICH SUCH OFFER OR SOLICITATION IS UNLAWFUL. NEITHER THE DELIVERY OF THIS
PROSPECTUS NOR ANY SALE MADE HEREUNDER SHALL, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, CREATE
ANY IMPLICATION THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO CHANGE IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE COMPANY
SINCE THE DATE HEREOF OR THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS CORRECT AS OF
ANY TIME SUBSEQUENT TO THE DATE HEREOF.
 
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                               TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                            PAGE
<S>                                                                         <C>
Available Information.....................................................    2
Incorporation of Certain Documents
  by Reference............................................................    2
Prospectus Summary........................................................    4
Risk Factors..............................................................   11
Related Transactions......................................................   19
Use of Proceeds...........................................................   21
Historical and Pro Forma Capitalization...................................   22
Pro Forma Financial Information...........................................   23
Selected Operating Statistics.............................................   33
Selected Historical Financial Information
  of Tenet................................................................   34
Management's Discussion and
  Analysis of Financial Condition and
  Results of Operations of Tenet..........................................   36
Selected Historical Financial
  Information of OrNda....................................................   47
Management's Discussion and Analysis
  of Financial Condition and Results of
  Operations of OrNda.....................................................   49
Business..................................................................   57
Management................................................................   77
Description of Notes......................................................   80
Description of the New Credit Facility....................................  102
Underwriting..............................................................  103
Legal Matters.............................................................  104
Experts...................................................................  104
Index to Financial Statements.............................................  F-1
</TABLE>
 
                                       GH
 
   
                                TENET HEALTHCARE
                                  CORPORATION
                                  $400,000,000
                              % SENIOR NOTES DUE 2003
    
 
   
                                  $900,000,000
                              % SENIOR NOTES DUE 2005
    
 
   
                                  $700,000,000
                                      % SENIOR
                          SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2007
    
 
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                                   PROSPECTUS
                                ---------------
 
                          DONALDSON, LUFKIN & JENRETTE
      SECURITIES CORPORATION
 
                              GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.
                              MERRILL LYNCH & CO.
                               J.P. MORGAN & CO.
                               SMITH BARNEY INC.
 
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                                    PART II
                     INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
 
ITEM 14.  OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION.
 
    The following table sets forth the various expenses in connection with the
sale and distribution of the securities being registered, other than
underwriting discounts and commissions. All of the amounts shown are estimated
except the SEC registration fee and the NASD filing fee. The Company will bear
all of such expenses.
 
   
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<S>                                                               <C>
SEC registration fee............................................  $ 606,060
NASD filing fee.................................................     30,500
Rating Agency Fee...............................................    100,000
Blue sky fees and expenses......................................     25,000
Printing and engraving expenses.................................    330,000
Legal fees and expenses.........................................  1,250,000
Accounting fees and expenses....................................    150,000
Trustee fees....................................................     10,000
Miscellaneous...................................................     98,440
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    Total.......................................................  $2,600,000
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</TABLE>
    
 
ITEM 15.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
 
    Section 78.751 of the Nevada General Corporation Law ("Nevada Law") provides
generally and in pertinent part that a Nevada corporation may indemnify its
directors and officers against expenses, judgments, fines, and settlements
actually and reasonably incurred by them in connection with any civil suit or
action, except actions by or in the right of the corporation, or any
administrative or investigative proceeding if, in connection with the matters in
issue, they acted in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be
in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the corporation, and in connection
with any criminal suit or proceeding, if in connection with the matters in
issue, they had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful.
Section 78.751 further provides that, in connection with the defense or
settlement of any action by or in the right of the corporation, a Nevada
corporation may indemnify its directors and officers against expenses actually
and reasonably incurred by them if, in connection with the matters in issue,
they acted in good faith, in a manner they reasonably believed to be in, or not
opposed to, the best interest of the corporation. Section 78.751 further permits
a Nevada corporation to grant its directors and officers additional rights of
indemnification through by-law provisions and otherwise.
 
    Article IX of the Restated By-Laws, as amended, of the Registrant provide
that the Registrant shall indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest
extent permitted by Nevada Law. The Registrant has entered into indemnification
agreements with each of its directors and executive officers. Such
indemnification agreements are intended to provide a contractual right to
indemnification, to the maximum extent permitted by law, for expenses (including
attorneys' fees), judgments, penalties, fines, and amounts paid in settlement
actually and reasonably incurred by the person to be indemnified in connection
with any proceeding (including, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any
derivative action) to which they are, or are threatened to be made, a party by
reason of their status in such positions. Such indemnification agreements do not
change the basic legal standards for indemnification set forth under Nevada Law
or the Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, of the Registrant. Such
agreements are intended to be in furtherance, and not in limitation of, the
general right to indemnification provided in the Registrant's Restated Articles
of Incorporation, as amended.
 
    Section 78.037 of the Nevada Law provides that the articles of incorporation
may contain a provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a
director or officer to the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages
for breach of fiduciary duty as a director provided that such provision shall
not
 
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eliminate or limit the liability of a director or officer (i) for acts or
omissions which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, or
(ii) under Section 78.300 of the Nevada Law (relating to liability for
unauthorized acquisitions or redemptions of, or dividends on, capital stock).
Article X of the Restated Articles of Incorporation contains a provision
eliminating the liability of directors and officers to the extent permitted
under Section 78.037 of Nevada law.
 
    Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act
may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the Registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the Registrant has been informed that in
the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore
unenforceable.
 
ITEM 16.  EXHIBITS
 
    (a) Exhibits
 
   
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<CAPTION>
 EXHIBIT
 NUMBER    DESCRIPTION
- ---------  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
<C>        <S>
   1.1     Form of Underwriting Agreement between Tenet Healthcare Corporation (formerly known as National
            Medical Enterprises, Inc., the "Company") and the Underwriters
 
   2.1*    Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 16, 1996 (the "Merger Agreement"), by and among
            the Company, OHC Acquisition Co. ("Merger Sub") and OrNda HealthCorp ("OrNda") (Incorporated by
            reference to Exhibit 1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 17, 1996)
 
   2.2*    Amendment No. 1 to the Merger Agreement, by and among the Company, Merger Sub and OrNda
 
   4.1*    Form of Indenture between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, relating to the Senior
            Notes due 2005 (including the form of certificate representing the Senior Notes due 2005)
 
   4.2*    Form of Indenture between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, relating to the Senior
            Subordinated Notes due 2007 (including the form of certificate representing the Senior
            Subordinated Notes due 2007)
 
   4.3*    Form of Indenture between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, relating to the Senior
            Notes due 2003 (including the form of certificate representing the Senior Notes due 2003)
 
   4.4*    Indenture, dated as of March 1, 1991, between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee,
            relating to Tenet's Medium Term Notes (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a) to the Company's
            Annual Report on Form 10-K dated August 26, 1996 for the fiscal year ended May 31, 1996)
 
   4.5*    Indenture, dated as of March 1, 1995, between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee,
            relating to 9 5/8% Senior Notes due 2002 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a) to the
            Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q dated April 14, 1995, for the fiscal quarter ended
            February 28, 1995)
 
   4.6*    Indenture, dated as of March 1, 1995, between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee,
            relating to 10 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2005 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(b)
            to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q dated April 14, 1995, for the fiscal quarter ended
            February 28, 1995)
 
   4.7*    Indenture, dated as of October 16, 1995, between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee,
            relating to 8 5/8% Senior Notes due 2003 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(d) to the
            Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K dated August 26, 1996, for the fiscal year ended May 31,
            1996)
</TABLE>
    
 
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<CAPTION>
 EXHIBIT
 NUMBER    DESCRIPTION
- ---------  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
<C>        <S>
   4.8*    Indenture, dated as of January 10, 1996, between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee,
            relating to 6% Exchangeable Subordinated Notes due 2005 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a)
            to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q dated January 15, 1996, for the fiscal quarter
            ended November 30, 1995)
 
   4.9*    Escrow Agreement, dated as of January 10, 1996, among the Company, NME Properties, Inc., NME
            Property Holding Co., Inc. and The Bank of New York, as Escrow Agent (Incorporated by reference to
            Exhibit 4(b) to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, dated as of January 15, 1996, for the
            fiscal quarter ended November 30, 1995)
 
   5.1*    Opinion of Scott M. Brown, Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of the Company
 
  12.1*    Statement Re: Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges
 
  12.2     Statement Re: Computation of Pro Forma Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges
 
  23.1*    Consent of Scott M. Brown, Esq. (included in the opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1)
 
  23.2     Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
 
  23.3     Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
 
  24.1*    Power of Attorney
 
  25.1*    Statement of Eligibility of The Bank of New York, as Trustee with respect to the Notes
</TABLE>
    
 
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 *  Previously filed.
    
 
ITEM 17.  UNDERTAKINGS.
 
    (a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit
plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial BONA FIDE offering thereof.
 
    (b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes to deliver or cause to be
delivered with the Prospectus, to each person to whom the Prospectus is sent or
given, the latest annual report, to security holders that is incorporated by
reference in the Prospectus and furnished pursuant to and meeting the
requirements of Rule 14a-3 or Rule 14c-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934; and, where interim financial information required to be presented by
Article 3 of Regulation S-X is not set forth in the Prospectus, to deliver, or
cause to be delivered to each person to whom the Prospectus is sent or given,
the latest quarterly report that is specifically incorporated by reference in
the Prospectus to provide such interim financial information.
 
    (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of
the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the Nevada Law, the
Restated Articles of Incorporation, and the Restated Bylaws, as amended, or
otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities
and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim
for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question
 
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whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the
Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
 
    (d) The Registrant hereby undertakes that:
 
    (1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of
1933, the information omitted from the form of Prospectus filed as part of this
Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in the form of
Prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h)
under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this Registration
Statement as of the time it was declared effective.
 
    (2) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of
1933, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial BONA FIDE offering thereof.
 
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                                   SIGNATURES
 
   
    Pursuant to the requirement of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Santa Barbara, State of California on January 24,
1997.
    
 
                                TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
 
                                By:              /s/ SCOTT M. BROWN
                                     -----------------------------------------
                                                   Scott M. Brown
                                               Senior Vice President
 
    Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated:
 
   
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<CAPTION>
          SIGNATURE                       TITLE                    DATE
- ------------------------------  --------------------------  -------------------
 
<C>                             <S>                         <C>
                                Executive Vice President
      /s/ TREVOR FETTER*          and Chief Financial
- ------------------------------    Officer (Principal         January 24, 1997
        Trevor Fetter             Financial Officer)
 
      /s/ SCOTT M. BROWN
- ------------------------------  Senior Vice President        January 24, 1997
        Scott M. Brown
 
                                Senior Vice President and
  /s/ RAYMOND L. MATHIASEN*       Chief Accounting Officer
- ------------------------------    (Principal Accounting      January 24, 1997
     Raymond L. Mathiasen         Officer)
 
                                Chairman of the Board of
   /s/ JEFFREY C. BARBAKOW*       Directors and Chief
- ------------------------------    Executive Officer          January 24, 1997
     Jeffrey C. Barbakow          (Principal Executive
                                  Officer)
 
  /s/ MICHAEL H. FOCHT, SR.*
- ------------------------------  President, Chief Operating   January 24, 1997
    Michael H. Focht, Sr.         Officer and Director
 
   /s/ BERNICE B. BRATTER*
- ------------------------------           Director            January 24, 1997
      Bernice B. Bratter
 
    /s/ MAURICE J. DEWALD*
- ------------------------------           Director            January 24, 1997
      Maurice J. DeWald
</TABLE>
    
 
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<CAPTION>
          SIGNATURE                       TITLE                    DATE
- ------------------------------  --------------------------  -------------------
 
<C>                             <S>                         <C>
     /s/ PETER DE WETTER*
- ------------------------------           Director            January 24, 1997
       Peter de Wetter
 
   /s/ EDWARD EGBERT, M.D.*
- ------------------------------           Director            January 24, 1997
     Edward Egbert, M.D.
 
     /s/ RAYMOND A. HAY*
- ------------------------------           Director            January 24, 1997
        Raymond A. Hay
 
     /s/ LESTER B. KORN*
- ------------------------------           Director            January 24, 1997
        Lester B. Korn
 
   /s/ JAMES P. LIVINGSTON*
- ------------------------------           Director            January 24, 1997
     James P. Livingston
 
- ------------------------------           Director
      Thomas J. Pritzker
 
  /s/ RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER*
- ------------------------------           Director            January 24, 1997
     Richard S. Schweiker
</TABLE>
    
 
   
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  <S> <C>                             <C>                                         <C>
            /s/ SCOTT M. BROWN
      ------------------------------
              Scott M. Brown                                                       January 24, 1997
  *By:       Attorney-in-Fact
</TABLE>
    
 
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                                                       Draft of January 23, 1997
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                             TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION



                                         and


                 DONALDSON, LUFKIN & JENRETTE SECURITIES CORPORATION
                                 GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.
                  MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED
                             J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.
                                  SMITH BARNEY INC.

                                 --------------------


                                UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

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                             Dated as of January __, 1997









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                             TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION

                             ____% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2003

                             ____%  SENIOR NOTES DUE 2005

                       ___% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2007


                                UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT



                                                               January __, 1997



DONALDSON, LUFKIN & JENRETTE
  SECURITIES CORPORATION
GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER
  & SMITH INCORPORATED
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.
SMITH BARNEY INC.
c/o Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation
    140 Broadway
    New York, New York 10005


Ladies and Gentlemen:

         Subject to the terms and conditions herein contained, Tenet Healthcare
Corporation, a Nevada corporation (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell to
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation ("DLJ") and Goldman, Sachs &
Co., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Incorporated and Smith Barney Inc. (together with DLJ, the "Underwriters") an
aggregate of $400 million principal amount of its ____% Senior Notes due 2003,
an aggregate of $900.0 million principal amount of its ___% Senior Notes due
2005 and an aggregate of $700.0 million principal amount of its ___% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2007 (together, the "Securities"). The 2003 Senior Notes
are to be issued pursuant to the provisions of an Indenture (the "2003 Senior
Note Indenture") to be dated as of January 15, 1997, by and between the Company
and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (the "2003 Senior Note Trustee"). The 2005
Senior Notes are to be issued pursuant to the provisions of an Indenture (the
"2005 Senior Note Indenture") to be dated as of January 15, 1997, by and between
the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (the "2005 Senior Note
Trustee").  The Senior Subordinated Notes are to be issued pursuant to the
provisions of an Indenture (the "Senior Subordinated Note Indenture" and,
together with the 2003 Senior Note Indenture and the 2005 Senior Note Indenture,
the "Indentures") to be dated as of January 15, 1997 by and between the Company
and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (the "Senior Subordinated Note Trustee"
and, together with the 2003 Senior Note Trustee and the 2005 Senior Note
Trustee, the "Trustees").

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    The Securities are being issued and sold in connection with the acquisition
(the "Acquisition") of OrNda HealthCorp, a Delaware corporation ("OrNda"), by
the Company.  The Acquisition is being effected pursuant to an Agreement and
Plan of Merger, dated as of October 16, 1996, as amended as of November 22, 1996
(the "Merger Agreement"), by and among the Company, OHC Acquisition Co., a
Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the "Merger
Sub"), and OrNda.  Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the Company will acquire
all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of OrNda (the "Merger").  At the
time the Merger is consummated (the "Effective Time of the Merger") and pursuant
to the Merger Agreement, Merger Sub will be merged with and into OrNda with
OrNda as the surviving corporation.  Prior to or concurrently with the issuance
and sale of the Securities, the Company will enter into a new bank credit
facility (together with the documents and agreements contemplated thereby, the
"New Credit Facility") with Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Bank of
America NT&SA, The Bank of New York and the Bank of Nova Scotia, as arranging
agents, and certain lenders named therein.  The Merger Agreement, the New Credit
Facility, this Agreement, the Securities and the Indentures are collectively
referred to herein as the "Transaction Documents."

         1.   REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND PROSPECTUS.  The Company has prepared
and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") in
accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated pursuant thereto
(collectively, the "Act"), a registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-17907),
with respect to the Securities, including a preliminary prospectus, subject to
completion, relating to the Securities. The registration statement, as amended
at the time it becomes effective or, if a post-effective amendment is filed with
respect thereto, as amended by such post-effective amendment at the time of its
effectiveness (including in each case any related registration statement, if
any, increasing the size of the offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Act,
all documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein, if
any, all financial statements and exhibits, and the information, if any,
contained in a prospectus subsequently filed with the Commission pursuant to
Rule 424(b) under the Act and deemed to be a part of the registration statement
at the time of its effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430A of the Act) is
hereinafter referred to as the "Registration Statement"; and the prospectus
constituting a part of the Registration Statement at the time it became
effective, or such revised prospectus as shall be provided to the Underwriters
for use in connection with the offering of the Securities that differs from the
prospectus on file with the Commission at the time the Registration Statement
became effective (including, in each case, all documents incorporated or deemed
to be incorporated by reference therein, if any), whether or not filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act, is hereinafter referred to as
the "Prospectus." Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto or any preliminary prospectus
shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference
therein, and any reference herein to the terms "amend," "amendment" or
"supplement" with respect to the Registration Statement or Prospectus shall be
deemed to refer to and include the filing after the execution hereof of any
document with the Commission deemed to be incorporated by reference therein.

         2.   AGREEMENTS TO SELL AND PURCHASE.  On the basis of the
representations and warranties contained in this Agreement, and subject to its
terms and conditions, the Company agrees to issue and sell to the Underwriters,
and the Underwriters agree, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the
Company (i) the 2003 Senior Notes in the respective principal amounts set forth
opposite their names on Schedule I hereto, plus such amount as they may
individually become obligated to purchase pursuant to Section 8 hereof, at a
purchase price equal to __% of the principal amount of the 2003 Senior Notes,
together with accrued interest, if any, to the Closing Date (the "2003 Senior
Note Purchase Price"), (ii) the 2005 Senior Notes in the respective principal
amounts set forth opposite their names on Schedule II hereto, plus such amount
as they may individually become obligated to purchase pursuant to Section 8
hereof, at a purchase price equal to ____% of the principal amount of the 2005
Senior Notes, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Closing Date (the
"2005 Senior Note Purchase Price") and (iii) the Senior Subordinated Notes in
the respective principal amounts set forth opposite their names on Schedule III
hereto, plus such amounts as they may individually become obligated to purchase
pursuant to Section 8 hereof, at a purchase price equal to ____% of the
principal amount of the Senior Subordinated Notes, together


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with accrued interest, if any, to the Closing Date (the "Senior Subordinated
Note Purchase Price" and, together with the 2003 Senior Note Purchase Price and
the 2005 Senior Note Purchase Price, the "Purchase Price").

         3.   DELIVERY AND PAYMENT.  Delivery to you of and payment for the
Securities shall be made at 9:00 A.M., New York City time, on January __, 1997
(such time and date being referred to as the "Closing Date"), at the offices of
DLJ at 277 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10172, or such other place as you
shall reasonably designate.

         The Securities in definitive form shall be registered in such names
and issued in such denominations as you shall request in writing not later than
two full business days prior to the Closing Date, and shall be made available to
you at the offices of DLJ (or at such other place as shall be acceptable to you)
for inspection not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the business
day next preceding the Closing Date. The Securities shall be delivered to you on
the Closing Date with any transfer taxes payable upon initial issuance thereof
duly paid by the Company, for your respective accounts against payment of the
appropriate Purchase Price by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an
account designated by the Company.  The Closing Date and the location of
delivery of, and the form of payment for, the Securities may be varied by
agreement between DLJ and the Company.

         4.   AGREEMENTS OF THE COMPANY.  The Company agrees with each of you
that:

         (a) It will, if the Registration Statement has not heretofore become
    effective under the Act, and if otherwise necessary or required by law,
    file an amendment to the Registration Statement or, if necessary pursuant
    to Rule 430A of the Act, a post-effective amendment to the Registration
    Statement, in each case as soon as practicable after the execution and
    delivery of this Agreement, and it will use its best efforts to cause the
    Registration Statement or such post-effective amendment to become effective
    at the earliest possible time. If the Registration Statement has become
    effective and the Company, omitting from the Prospectus certain information
    in reliance upon Rule 430A of the Act, elects not to file a post-effective
    amendment pursuant to Rule 430A of the Act, it will file the form of
    Prospectus required by Rule 424(b) of the Act within the time period
    specified by Rule 430A and Rule 424(b) of the Act. The Company will
    otherwise comply in a timely manner with all applicable provisions of Rule
    424 and Rule 430A of the Act.

         (b) It will advise DLJ promptly and, if requested by DLJ, confirm such
    advice in writing, (i) when the Registration Statement has become
    effective, if and when the Prospectus is sent for filing pursuant to Rule
    424 of the Act and when any post-effective amendment to the Registration
    Statement becomes effective, (ii) of the receipt of any comments from the
    Commission or any state securities commission or any other regulatory
    authority that relate to the Registration Statement or requests by the
    Commission or any state securities commission or any other regulatory
    authority for any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or
    any amendment or supplements to the Prospectus or for additional
    information, (iii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order
    suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or of the
    suspension of qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any
    jurisdiction, or the initiation of any proceeding for such purpose by the
    Commission or any state securities commission or any other regulatory
    authority and (iv) of the happening of any event during the period referred
    to in paragraph (d), below, which makes any statement of a material fact
    made in the Registration Statement untrue or which requires the making of
    any additions to or changes in the Registration Statement in order to make
    the statements therein not misleading or that makes any statement of a
    material fact made in the Prospectus untrue or which requires the making of
    any addition to or change in the Prospectus in order to make the statements
    therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
    misleading. The Company shall use its best efforts to prevent the issuance
    of any stop order or order suspending the qualification or exemption of the
    Securities under any Federal or state securities or Blue Sky laws, and, if
    at any time the Commission shall issue any stop order suspending the
    effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or any state securities
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    authority shall issue an order suspending the qualification or exemption of
    the Securities under any state securities or Blue Sky laws, the Company
    shall use every reasonable effort to obtain the withdrawal or lifting of
    such order at the earliest possible time.

         (c) Promptly after the Registration Statement becomes effective, and
    from time to time thereafter for such period as in your reasonable judgment
    a prospectus is required to be delivered in connection with sales of the
    Securities by an Underwriter or a dealer, it will furnish to each
    Underwriter and each dealer, without charge, as many copies of the
    Prospectus, including all documents incorporated by reference therein, (and
    of any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus) as you may reasonably
    request.

         (d) If during the period specified in paragraph (c) of this Section 4
    any event shall occur as a result of which it becomes necessary to amend or
    supplement the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the
    light of the circumstances existing as of the date the Prospectus is
    delivered to an offeree or a purchaser, not misleading, or if it is
    necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with any law, it
    will promptly prepare and file with the Commission an appropriate amendment
    or supplement to the Prospectus so that the statements in the Prospectus,
    as so amended or supplemented, will not, in the light of the circumstances
    existing as of the date the Prospectus is so delivered, be misleading, and
    will comply with applicable law, and will promptly notify you of such event
    and amendment or supplement and furnish to you without charge such number
    of copies thereof as you may reasonably request.

         (e) It will make generally available to its security holders, as soon
    as practicable and for the time period specified by Rule 158 under the Act,
    a consolidated earnings statement which shall satisfy the provisions of
    Section 11(a) and Rule 158 of the Act.

         (f) Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are
    consummated or this Agreement is terminated, it will pay and be responsible
    for all reasonable costs, charges, expenses, fees and taxes incurred in
    connection with or incident to (i) the preparation, printing, filing,
    distribution and delivery under the Act of the Registration Statement
    (including financial statements and exhibits), each preliminary prospectus,
    the Prospectus and all amendments and supplements thereto, (ii) the
    registration with the Commission and the issuance and delivery of the
    Securities, (iii) the printing and delivery of this Agreement, the
    Indentures and all other agreements, memoranda, reports, correspondence and
    other documents printed, distributed and delivered in connection with the
    offering of the Securities, (iv) the registration or qualification of the
    Securities for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of the
    jurisdictions referred to in paragraph (i) below (including, in each case,
    the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel relating to such
    registration or qualification and memoranda relating thereto and any filing
    fees in connection therewith), (v) furnishing such copies of the
    Registration Statement (including exhibits), Prospectus and preliminary
    prospectuses, and all amendments and supplements to any of them, including
    any document incorporated by reference therein, as may be reasonably
    requested by the Underwriters or by dealers to whom Securities may be sold,
    (vi) any filing with the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
    (the "NASD") in connection with the offering of the Securities (including,
    without limitation, any filing fees in connection therewith but excluding
    the fees of Sullivan & Cromwell, legal counsel to the Underwriters
    ("Underwriters' Counsel")), (vii) the listing of the Securities on the New
    York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE"), (viii) the rating of the Securities by
    investment rating agencies, (ix) any "qualified independent underwriter" as
    required by Rule 2720 of the NASD (including fees and disbursements of
    counsel for such qualified independent underwriter) and (x) the performance
    by the Company of its other obligations under this Agreement, including
    (without limitation) the fees of the Trustees, the cost of their respective
    personnel and other internal costs, the cost of printing and engraving the
    certificates representing the Securities, and all expenses incident to the
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         (g) It will furnish to DLJ, without charge, one signed copy (plus one
    additional signed copy to Underwriters' Counsel) of the Registration
    Statement as first filed with the Commission and of each amendment or
    supplement to it, including each post-effective amendment, all exhibits
    filed therewith and all documents incorporated by reference therein, and
    such number of conformed copies of the Registration Statement as so filed
    and of each amendment to it, including each post-effective amendment, but
    without exhibits, as you may reasonably request.

         (h) It will not file any amendment or supplement to the Registration
    Statement, whether before or after the time when it becomes effective, or
    make any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus (other than any document
    required to be filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
    including the rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the "Exchange
    Act") that upon filing is deemed to be incorporated by reference therein)
    of which you shall not previously have been advised and provided a copy
    prior to the filing thereof or to which you shall reasonably object unless
    in the opinion of legal counsel to the Company such amendment or supplement
    is required by law to be filed; it will furnish to you at or prior to the
    filing thereof a copy of any document that upon filing is deemed to be
    incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or Prospectus; and
    it will prepare and file with the Commission, promptly upon your reasonable
    request, any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or
    amendment or supplement to the Prospectus which may be necessary or
    advisable in connection with the distribution of the Securities by you, and
    will use its best efforts to cause the same to become effective as promptly
    as possible.

         (i) Prior to any public offering of the Securities, it will cooperate
    with you and Underwriters' Counsel in connection with the registration or
    qualification of the Securities for offer and sale by the Underwriters
    under the state securities or Blue Sky laws of such United States
    jurisdictions as you may request. The Company will continue such
    qualification in effect so long as required by law for distribution of the
    Securities and will file such consents to service of process or other
    documents as may be necessary in order to effect such registration or
    qualification (PROVIDED, that the Company shall not be obligated to qualify
    as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction in which it is not so
    qualified nor to take any action that would subject it to general consent
    to service of process in any jurisdiction in which it is not now so
    subject).

         (j) It timely will complete all required filings and otherwise comply
    fully in a timely manner with all provisions of the Exchange Act to effect
    the registration of the Securities pursuant thereto, and, during the period
    specified in paragraph (c) of this Section 4, will file timely all reports
    and any definitive proxy or information statement required to be filed by
    the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or
    15(d) of the Exchange Act and it will use its best efforts to cause the
    Securities to be listed on the NYSE.

         (k) To the extent permitted by law, it will not voluntarily claim, and
    will actively resist any attempts to claim, the benefit of any usury laws
    against the holders of the Securities.

         (l) It will use the proceeds from the sale of the Securities in the
    manner described in the Prospectus under the caption "Use of Proceeds."

         (m) During the period beginning on the date of this Agreement and
    continuing to and including the Closing Date, it will not offer, sell,
    contract to sell or otherwise dispose of any debt securities of the Company
    or warrants, rights, or options to purchase debt securities of the Company
    (other than (i) the Securities and (ii) commercial paper issued in the
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         (n) It will use its best efforts to do and perform all things required
    to be done and performed under this Agreement by it prior to or after the
    Closing Date and will use its reasonable best efforts to satisfy all
    conditions precedent on its part to be satisfied prior to the delivery of
    the Securities.

         5.   REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.  The Company represents and
warrants to each Underwriter that:

         (a) When the Registration Statement becomes effective, including on
    the date of effectiveness of any post-effective amendment, at the date of
    the Prospectus (if different) and at the Closing Date, the Registration
    Statement will comply in all material respects with the provisions of the
    Act, and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit
    to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
    make the statements therein not misleading; at the date of the Prospectus,
    at the date of any supplement or amendment to the Prospectus and at the
    Closing Date, the Prospectus and each supplement or amendment thereto will
    not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
    material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the
    light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading,
    except that the representations and warranties contained in this
    paragraph (a) shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the
    Registration Statement or the Prospectus (or any supplement or amendment to
    them) made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to
    any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by or on behalf of any
    Underwriter through DLJ expressly for use therein. The Company acknowledges
    for all purposes under this Agreement (including this paragraph and Section
    6 hereof) that the statements set forth in the last paragraph on the cover
    page and the third paragraph under the caption "Underwriting" in the
    Prospectus constitute the only written information furnished to the Company
    by or on behalf of any Underwriter through DLJ expressly for use in the
    Registration Statement, the preliminary prospectus, or the Prospectus (or
    any amendment or supplement to any of them) and that the Underwriters shall
    not be deemed to have provided any information (and therefore are not
    responsible for any statements or omissions) pertaining to any arrangement
    or agreement with respect to any party other than the Underwriters. When
    the Registration Statement becomes effective, the Indentures will be deemed
    to have been qualified under and will conform in all material respects to
    the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the
    rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto (collectively, the
    "TIA"). At the date of any post-effective amendment to the Registration
    Statement, at the date of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement
    thereto (if different) and at the Closing Date, the qualification of the
    Indentures under the TIA will not have been suspended and the Indentures
    will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the TIA. No
    contract or document of a character required by the Act or the TIA to be
    described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any of the
    documents incorporated by reference therein or to be filed as an exhibit to
    the Registration Statement or to any of the documents incorporated by
    reference therein has not been described and filed as required.

         (b) Each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus, filed as part of
    the Registration Statement as originally filed or as part of any amendment
    or supplement thereto, or filed pursuant to Rule 424 or 430A under the Act,
    complied when so filed in all material respects with the Act.

         (c) The documents incorporated by reference in the Registration
    Statement, the Prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto or any
    preliminary prospectus, when they became or become effective under the Act
    or were or are filed with the Commission under the Exchange Act, as the
    case may be, conformed or will conform in all material respects with the
    requirements of the Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable.

         (d) No action has been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order
    has been enacted, adopted or issued by any United States Federal or state
    governmental body, agency or official which prevents the issuance of the
    Securities, suspends the effectiveness of the Registration Statement,
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    the use of any preliminary prospectus or suspends the sale of the
    Securities in any jurisdiction referred to in Section 4(i) hereof; no
    injunction, restraining order, or order of any nature by any Federal or
    state court has been issued with respect to the Company or any of its
    subsidiaries which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities,
    suspend the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or prevent or
    suspend the use of any preliminary prospectus or Prospectus in any
    jurisdiction referred to in Section 4(i) hereof.

         (e) The capitalization table set forth in the Prospectus under the
    caption "Historical and Pro Forma Capitalization" identifies in reasonable
    detail all outstanding short-term and long-term indebtedness and
    shareholders' equity of the Company and its subsidiaries, prior to and
    after giving PRO FORMA effect to the consummation of the offering of the
    Securities and the application of the net proceeds therefrom and the
    consummation of the Merger and the related transactions on the terms
    described in the Prospectus.

         (f) The Indentures have been duly authorized by the Company and, when
    duly executed and delivered in accordance with their terms, will be valid
    and legally binding agreements of the Company, enforceable against the
    Company in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy,
    insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and similar
    laws affecting creditors' rights and remedies generally and to general
    principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a
    proceeding at law or in equity) and except to the extent that a waiver of
    rights under any usury laws may be unenforceable.

         (g) The Securities have been duly authorized by the Company and, when
    executed and delivered by the Company and authenticated by the applicable
    Trustee in accordance with the applicable Indenture and paid for in
    accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will constitute legal, valid
    and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company
    according to their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
    reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and similar laws affecting
    creditors' rights and remedies generally and to general principles of
    equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding at law
    or in equity) and except to the extent that a waiver of rights under any
    usury laws may be unenforceable, will be entitled to the benefits of the
    applicable Indenture and will conform in all material respects to the
    description thereof in the Prospectus.

         (h) This Agreement has been duly authorized and validly executed and
    delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding
    agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance
    with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
    reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and similar laws affecting
    creditors' rights and remedies generally and to general principles of
    equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding at law
    or in equity) and except to the extent that rights to indemnification and
    contribution with respect to liability in connection with Federal or state
    securities laws may be unenforceable under such laws or the policies
    underlying such laws and except to the extent that a waiver of rights under
    any usury laws may be unenforceable.

         (i) The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Indentures
    and issuance and sale of the Securities by the Company, the execution and
    delivery of each of the other Transaction Documents by each of the Company,
    Merger Sub and OrNda (each, a "Merger Party" and collectively, the "Merger
    Parties"), to the extent each is a party thereto, the performance by the
    Merger Parties, as applicable, of this Agreement, the Indentures and the
    other Transaction Documents and the consummation of the transactions
    contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents will not
    conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the respective
    charters or bylaws of the Company, OrNda or any of their respective
    subsidiaries (each, a "Subsidiary" and collectively, the "Subsidiaries") or
    any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default or cause an
    acceleration of any obligation under or result in the imposition or
    creation of (or the obligation to create or impose) any security interest,
    mortgage, pledge, claim, lien, encumbrance or adverse interest of any
    nature (each, a "Lien") with respect to, any of the Transaction Documents
    or any other obligation, bond, agreement, note, debenture, or other
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    indebtedness, or any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or other agreement,
    lease or instrument (collectively, "Agreements") to which the Company,
    OrNda or any of the Subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of them
    is bound, or to which any properties of the Company, OrNda or any of the
    Subsidiaries is or may be subject (other than pursuant to any Agreement
    that will terminate or be amended prior to the consummation of the Merger,
    including the existing credit facilities of each of the Company and OrNda),
    or any order of any court or governmental agency, body or official having
    jurisdiction over the Company, OrNda or any of the Subsidiaries or any of
    their properties, or violate or conflict with any statute, rule or
    regulation or administrative regulation or decree or court decree
    applicable to the Company, OrNda or any of the Subsidiaries, or any of
    their respective assets or properties, where, in any such instance, such
    conflict, breach, violation, default, acceleration of indebtedness or Lien
    would have, singly or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the
    business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects of the
    Company, OrNda and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole (a "Material Adverse
    Effect").

         (j) No authorization, approval, consent or order of, or filing with,
    any court or governmental body, agency or official is necessary in
    connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except
    such as may be required by the NASD or have been obtained and made under
    the Act, the Exchange Act, the TIA, state securities or Blue Sky laws or
    regulations and, in the case of the Merger, the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust
    Improvements of 1976, as amended, state antitrust laws or state healthcare
    licensure and regulation laws. Neither the Company nor, to the best of the
    Company's knowledge, any of its affiliates is presently doing business with
    the government of Cuba or with any person or affiliate located in Cuba.

         (k) The Securities have been approved for listing on the NYSE, subject
    to official notice of issuance.

         (l) The Company has been duly organized, is validly existing as a
    corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Nevada and has
    the requisite power and authority to carry on its business as it is
    currently being conducted, to own, lease and operate its properties and to
    authorize the offering of the Securities, to execute, deliver and perform
    this Agreement and to issue, sell and deliver the Securities, and is duly
    qualified and is in good standing as a foreign corporation authorized to do
    business in each jurisdiction where the operation, ownership or leasing of
    property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification and
    where failure to be so qualified or in good standing would have a Material
    Adverse Effect. OrNda and each of the Subsidiaries of the Company or of
    OrNda that (i) directly or indirectly own or lease any interest in any
    general hospitals or (ii) are otherwise material to the Company, OrNda and
    the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole (collectively, the "Significant
    Subsidiaries"), has been duly organized, is validly existing as a
    corporation in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of
    incorporation and has the requisite power and authority to carry on its
    business as it is currently being conducted and to own, lease and operate
    its properties and each is duly qualified and is in good standing as a
    foreign corporation authorized to do business in each jurisdiction where
    the operation, ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of its
    business requires such qualifications and where failure to be so qualified
    or in good standing would have a Material Adverse Effect.

         (m) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, all
    of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of, or other
    ownership interests in, each of the Significant Subsidiaries have been duly
    authorized and validly issued, and all of the shares of capital stock of,
    or other ownership interests in, each of the Significant Subsidiaries (over
    80% in the case of Healthcare Underwriting Group) are owned, directly or
    through subsidiaries, by the Company or OrNda, as the case may be. All such
    shares of capital stock are fully paid and nonassessable, and are owned
    free and clear of any Lien, and, except as disclosed in a certificate or
    opinion delivered to the Underwriters, there are no outstanding
    subscriptions, rights, warrants, options, calls, convertible or
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    related to or entitling any person to purchase or otherwise to acquire any
    shares of the capital stock of, or other ownership interest in, any of the
    Subsidiaries.

         (n) None of the Company, OrNda or the Significant Subsidiaries is in
    violation of its respective charter or bylaws and none of the Company,
    OrNda or the Subsidiaries is in default in the performance of any
    obligation, bond, agreement, debenture, note or any other evidence of
    indebtedness, or any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or other contract,
    lease or other instrument to which the Company, OrNda or any of the
    Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them is bound, or to which any
    of the property or assets of the Company, OrNda or any of the Subsidiaries
    is subject, except as would not have, singly or in the aggregate, a
    Material Adverse Effect.

         (o) Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement or the
    Prospectus, there is no action, suit, proceeding or investigation before or
    by any court, governmental agency or body, arbitration board or tribunal,
    or governmental or private accrediting body, domestic or foreign, pending
    against or affecting the Company, OrNda or any of the Subsidiaries, or any
    of their respective assets or properties, which is required to be disclosed
    in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in which there is a
    reasonable possibility of adverse decisions which in the aggregate could
    reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or which might
    materially and adversely affect the Company's or any of its Subsidiaries'
    performance of its obligations, as applicable, pursuant to this Agreement
    (including, without limitation, the issuance of the Securities), the
    Transaction Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby,
    and to the best of the Company's knowledge, after due inquiry, no such
    action, suit, or proceeding is contemplated or threatened.

                   Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement or the
    Prospectus, none of the Company, OrNda or the Subsidiaries is subject to
    any judgment, order or decree of any court, governmental authority or
    arbitration board or tribunal which has had or which can reasonably be
    expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.

         (p) The firms of accountants that have certified or shall certify the
    applicable consolidated financial statements and supporting schedules and
    the notes thereto of the Company and OrNda filed or to be filed with the
    Commission as part of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or
    incorporated therein by reference are, to the best of the Company's
    knowledge, independent public accountants with respect to the Company and
    its Subsidiaries and OrNda and its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, as
    required by the Act. The consolidated financial statements, together with
    related schedules and notes, set forth or incorporated by reference in the
    Prospectus and the Registration Statement, comply as to form in all
    material respects with the requirements of the Act and fairly present the
    consolidated financial position of the Company and its Subsidiaries and
    OrNda and its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, at the respective dates
    indicated and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the
    respective periods indicated, in accordance with generally accepted
    accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP") consistently
    applied throughout such periods and in accordance with Regulation S-X. The
    PRO FORMA financial statements contained in the Registration Statement have
    been prepared in conformity with the standards set forth in Rule 11-02 of
    Regulation S-X and on a basis consistent with such historical statements
    and give effect to assumptions made on a reasonable basis and present
    fairly the historical and proposed transactions contemplated by the
    Prospectus and this Agreement. The Company's ratio of earnings to fixed
    charges (actual and PRO FORMA) included in the Prospectus under the
    relevant captions "Prospectus Summary--Summary Unaudited Pro Forma
    Financial Information," "Pro Forma Financial Information" and in Exhibits
    12.1 and 12.2 to the Registration Statement have been calculated in
    compliance with Item 503(d) of the Commission's Regulation S-K. The other
    financial and statistical information and data of the Company included or
    incorporated by reference in the Prospectus and in the Registration
    Statement, historical and PRO FORMA, are in all material respects
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         (q) Except as contemplated by the Registration Statement and the
    Prospectus, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is
    presented in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and up to the
    Closing Date (i) none of the Company, OrNda or the Subsidiaries has
    incurred any liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered
    into any transaction not in the ordinary course of business, which could
    reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) there has
    been no decision or judgment in the nature of litigation or arbitration
    that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (iii)
    there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or
    made by the Company on any class of its capital stock and (iv) there has
    not been any material adverse change, or any development which could
    involve a material adverse change, in the business, financial condition,
    results of operations or prospects of the Company, OrNda and the
    Subsidiaries, taken as a whole (any of the items set forth in clauses (i),
    (ii), (iii) or (iv) above, a "Material Adverse Change").

         (r) (i)  Except as described in the Registration Statement or
    Prospectus or as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material
    Adverse Effect, each of the Company, OrNda and the Subsidiaries has all
    certificates, consents, exemptions, orders, permits, licenses,
    authorizations, accreditations or other approvals or rights (each, an
    "Authorization") of and from, and has made all declarations and filings
    with, all Federal, state, local and other governmental authorities, all
    self-regulatory organizations, all governmental and private accrediting
    bodies and all courts and other tribunals, necessary or required to own,
    lease, license, and use its properties and assets and to conduct its
    business in the manner described in the Prospectus, (ii) all such
    Authorizations are valid and in full force and effect, except as could not
    reasonably be expected to have, singly or in the aggregate, a Material
    Adverse Effect, (iii) the Company, OrNda and the Subsidiaries are in
    compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Authorizations and
    with the rules and regulations of the regulatory authorities and governing
    bodies having jurisdiction with respect thereto except as could not
    reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (iv) none of
    the Company, OrNda or the Subsidiaries has received any notice of
    proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such
    Authorization.

         (s) None of the Company, OrNda, Merger Sub or any agent acting on its
    behalf has taken or will take any action that is reasonably likely to cause
    the issuance or sale of the Securities or the incurrence of the
    indebtedness under the New Credit Facility to violate Regulation G, T, U,
    or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in each case
    as in effect, on the date hereof.

         (t) None of the Company, OrNda, or any of the Significant Subsidiaries
    is (i) an "investment company" or a company "controlled" by an investment
    company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
    amended, or (ii) a "holding company" or a "subsidiary company" of a holding
    company, or an "affiliate" thereof within the meaning of the Public Utility
    Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended.

         (u) Each certificate signed by any officer of the Company and
    delivered to the Underwriters or the Underwriters' Counsel shall be deemed
    to be a representation and warranty by the Company to each Underwriter as
    to the matters covered thereby.

         (v) The Merger has been duly authorized by the Merger Parties and the
    Merger has been approved by stockholders of OrNda and the Company holding
    the requisite number of shares required to approve the Merger.

         (w) Immediately after the consummation of the Merger and the
    transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the fair value and
    present fair saleable value of the assets of the Company will exceed the
    sum of its stated liabilities and identified contingent liabilities;
    neither the Company nor OrNda will be, after giving effect to the
    execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents, to the
    extent each is a party thereto, and the consummation of the transactions
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    with unreasonably small capital with which to carry on its business as it
    is proposed to be conducted or (ii) unable to pay its debts (contingent or
    otherwise) as they mature.

         (x) The Company has delivered to the Underwriters a true and correct
    copy of each of the Transaction Documents that have been executed and
    delivered prior to the date of this Agreement and each other Transaction
    Document in the form substantially as it will be executed and delivered on
    or prior to the Closing Date, together with all related agreements and all
    schedules and exhibits thereto, and there have been no amendments,
    alterations, modifications or waivers of any of the provisions of any of
    the Transaction Documents since their date of execution or from the form in
    which it has been delivered to the Underwriters; there exists as of the
    date hereof (after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by the
    Transaction Documents) no event or condition which would constitute a
    default or an event of default (in each case as defined in the New Credit
    Facility) under the New Credit Facility and no event or condition which
    would constitute a default or an event of default (in each case as defined
    in each of the Transaction Documents) under any of the Transaction
    Documents other than the New Credit Facility which would reasonably be
    expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or, as of the date hereof,
    materially adversely affect the ability of each of the Merger Parties to
    consummate the Merger and the transactions contemplated by the Merger
    Agreement.

         (y) Each of the representations and warranties of each party contained
    in the Merger Agreement and in the Credit Agreement, dated as of January
    __, 1997, among the Company, the Lenders party thereto, Morgan Guaranty
    Trust Company of New York, Bank of America NT&SA, The Bank of New York and
    the Bank of Nova Scotia, as Arranging Agents, and Morgan Guaranty, as
    Administrative Agent, entered into in connection with the New Credit
    Facility is true and correct on and as of the date hereof.

         6.   INDEMNIFICATION.

         (a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless (i) each of the
Underwriters and their respective affiliates, (ii) each person, if any, who
controls (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the
Exchange Act) any of the Underwriters or any of their respective affiliates (any
of the persons referred to in this clause (ii) being hereinafter referred to as
a "Controlling Person"), and (iii) each of the respective officers, directors,
partners, employees, representatives and agents of any of the Underwriters or
any Controlling Person, and each of their respective officers, directors,
partners, employees, representatives and agents (any person referred to in
clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of this Section 6(a) may hereinafter be referred to as
an "Indemnified Person") to the fullest extent lawful, from and against any and
all losses, claims, damages, judgments, actions, costs, assessments, expenses
and other liabilities (collectively, "Liabilities"), including without
limitation and as incurred, reimbursement of all reasonable costs of
investigating, preparing, pursuing or defending any claim or action, or any
investigation or proceeding by any foreign, Federal, state or local authority,
regulatory body, administrative agency, court or other governmental or
quasi-governmental body, commenced or threatened, including the reasonable fees
and expenses of counsel to any Indemnified Person, to the extent such
Liabilities are directly or indirectly caused by, related to, based upon or
arising out of, or in connection with, any untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or any
supplement or amendment thereto), or the Prospectus (including any amendment or
supplement thereto) or any preliminary prospectus, or any omission or alleged
omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of the Prospectus, in
light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, except
insofar as such Liabilities are caused by any such untrue statement or omission
or alleged untrue statement or omission that is (x) made in reliance upon and in
conformity with information relating to any of the Underwriters furnished in
writing to the Company by or on behalf of an Underwriter through DLJ expressly
for use in the Registration Statement (or any amendment or supplement thereto)
or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any preliminary
prospectus or (y) with respect to the Underwriter from whom the person asserting
the Liabilities purchased Securities, made in any preliminary prospectus if a
copy of the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented, if the Company shall have
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supplements thereto on a timely basis) was not delivered by or on behalf of such
Underwriter to the person asserting the Liabilities, if required by law to have
been so delivered by the Underwriter seeking indemnification, at or prior to the
written confirmation of the sale of the Securities, and it shall be determined
by a court of competent jurisdiction or binding mediation or arbitration
tribunal, in a judgment or determination not subject to appeal or review, that
the Prospectus (as so amended or supplemented) would have completely corrected
such untrue statement or omission. The foregoing indemnity shall be in addition
to any liability that the Company might otherwise have to any of the
Underwriters and such other Indemnified Persons. The Company shall notify you
promptly after becoming aware of the institution, threat or assertion of any
claim, proceeding (including any governmental investigation) or litigation in
connection with the matters addressed by this Agreement which involves the
Company or an Indemnified Person.

         (b) In case any action or proceeding (for all purposes of this Section
6, including any governmental or quasi-governmental investigation) shall be
brought or asserted against any of the Indemnified Persons with respect to which
indemnity under this Section 6 may be sought against the Company, such
Underwriter (or the Underwriter controlled by such Controlling Person) promptly
shall notify the Company in writing and the Company shall assume the defense
thereof, including the employment of counsel reasonably satisfactory to such
Underwriter and payment of all reasonable fees and expenses; PROVIDED, that the
delay or failure to give such notice shall not relieve the Company from any
liability that it may have on account of the indemnity under this Section 6,
except to the extent that such delay or omission materially adversely affects
the ability of the Company to defend or assume the defense of such action or
proceeding. Upon receiving such notice, the Company shall be entitled to
participate in any such action or proceeding and to assume, at its sole expense,
the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified
Person (who shall not, except with the consent of the Indemnified Person to be
represented, be counsel to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries) and, after
written notice from the Company to such Indemnified Person of its election so to
assume the defense thereof promptly after receipt of the notice from the
Indemnified Person of such action or proceeding, the Company shall not be liable
to such Indemnified Person hereunder for legal expenses of other counsel
subsequently incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with the defense
thereof, other than reasonable costs of investigation, unless (i) the Company
agrees in writing to pay such fees and expenses, or (ii) the Company fails
promptly to assume such defense or fails to employ counsel reasonably
satisfactory to such Indemnified Person, or (iii) the named parties to any such
action or proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both such
Indemnified Person and the Company or an affiliate of the Company, and that
Indemnified Person shall have been advised in writing by counsel, with a copy of
such writing to the Company, that either (x) there may be one or more legal
defenses available to such Indemnified Person that are different from or
additional to those available to the Company or such affiliate or (y) a conflict
may exist between such Indemnified Person and the Company or such affiliate. In
the event of any of clause (i), (ii) and (iii) of the immediately preceding
sentence, the Company shall not have the right to assume the defense thereof on
behalf of the Indemnified Person and such Indemnified Person shall have the
right to employ its own counsel in any such action and the reasonable fees and
expenses of such counsel shall be paid, as incurred, by the Company, subject to
repayment to the Company if it is ultimately determined that an Indemnified
Person is not entitled to indemnification hereunder, it being understood,
however, that the Company shall not, in connection with any one such action or
proceeding or separate but substantially similar or related actions in the same
jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be
liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys (in
addition to any local counsel) for all of the Indemnified Persons, which firm
shall be designated in writing by DLJ. The Company shall not be liable for any
settlement of any such action or proceeding effected without the Company's
written consent, which consent may not be unreasonably withheld, but if settled
with the written consent of the Company, the Company agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless any Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability
incurred in such settlement. The Company shall not, without the prior written
consent of each Indemnified Person, settle, compromise or consent to the entry
of any judgment in or otherwise seek to terminate any pending or threatened
action, claim, suit, investigation or other proceeding in respect of which any
Indemnified Person is or could have been a party and indemnification or
contribution could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless
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unconditional release of each Indemnified Person from all liability on claims
that are the subject matter of such proceeding.

         (c) Each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to
indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, its officers who sign
the Registration Statement, and any person controlling (within the meaning of
Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act) the Company, to the
same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to each of the
Indemnified Persons, but only with respect to claims and actions based on
information relating to such Underwriter furnished in writing by or on behalf of
such Underwriter through DLJ expressly for use in the Registration Statement,
Prospectus or preliminary prospectus, as applicable. In case any action shall be
brought against the Company, any of its directors, any such officer, or any such
controlling person based on the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any
preliminary prospectus in respect of which indemnity is sought against any
Underwriter pursuant to the foregoing sentence, the Underwriter shall have the
rights and duties given to the Company (except that if the Company shall have
assumed the defense thereof, such Underwriter shall not be required to do so,
but may employ separate counsel therein and participate in the defense thereof,
but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such
Underwriter), and the Company, its directors, any such officers, and each such
controlling person shall have the rights and duties given to the Indemnified
Person by Section 6(b) above.

         (d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 6 is finally
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unavailable to an
Indemnified Person in respect of any Liabilities referred to herein, then the
Company, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person, shall contribute to
the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a result of such
Liabilities:  (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative
benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Indemnified Person on
the other hand from the offering of the Securities, or (ii) if the allocation
provided by clause (i), above, is not permitted by applicable law, in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred
to in clause (i), above, but also the relative fault of the Company and the
Indemnified Person in connection with the actions, statements or omissions that
resulted in such Liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable
considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand,
and any of the Underwriters (and its related Indemnified Persons), on the other
hand, shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total proceeds from
the offering (net of underwriting discounts and commissions but before deducting
expenses) received by the Company bear to the total underwriting discounts and
commissions received by such Underwriter, in each case as set forth in the
Prospectus. The relative fault of the Company and the Underwriter shall be
determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged
untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state
a material fact related to information supplied by the Company or the
Underwriter and the parties' relative intent, knowledge, access to information
and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The indemnity
and contribution obligations of the Company set forth herein shall be in
addition to any liability or obligation the Company may otherwise have to any
Indemnified Person.

         The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and
equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 6(d) were determined by PRO
RATA allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such
purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the
equitable considerations referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph. The
amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the Liabilities
referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph shall be deemed to include,
subject to the limitations set forth above, any reasonable legal or other
expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with
investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this Section 6, none of the Underwriters (or any of their related
Indemnified Persons referred to in Section 6 above) shall be required to
contribute, in the aggregate, any amount in excess of the amount by which the
total underwriting discount applicable to the Securities purchased by such
underwriter exceeds the amount of any damages or liabilities which such
Underwriter (and its related Indemnified Persons referred to in Section 6 above)
has otherwise been required to pay or incur by reason of such untrue or alleged
untrue statement or omission or alleged omission or other indemnified action or
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herein, no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of
Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who
was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters'
obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 6(d) are several in
proportion to the respective aggregate principal amount of Securities purchased
by each of the underwriters hereunder and not joint.

         7.   CONDITIONS OF UNDERWRITERS' OBLIGATIONS.  The respective
obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase any Securities under this
Agreement are subject to the satisfaction or waiver by the several underwriters
of each of the following conditions on the Closing Date:

         (a) All the representations and warranties of the Company contained or
    incorporated by reference in this Agreement shall be true and correct on
    the Closing Date after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by
    the Transaction Documents, with the same force and effect as if made on and
    as of the Closing Date, unless another date is specified therein. The
    Company and its Subsidiaries shall have performed or complied with all of
    their obligations and agreements herein contained and required to be
    performed or complied with by them at or prior to the Closing Date.

         (b) (i)  The Registration Statement shall have become effective (or,
    if a post-effective amendment is required to be filed pursuant to Rule 430A
    of the Act, such post-effective amendment shall have become effective (or,
    if any Securities are sold in reliance upon Rule 430A of the Act and no
    post-effective amendment is so required to be filed, the Prospectus shall
    have been timely filed with the Commission in accordance with Section 4(a)
    hereof)) on or prior to the date of this Agreement or at such later date
    and time as you may approve in writing, (ii) at the Closing Date, no stop
    order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have
    been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been commenced
    or shall be pending before or contemplated by the Commission, (iii) no stop
    order suspending the sale of the Securities in any jurisdiction referred to
    in Section 4(i) shall have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose
    shall have been commenced or shall be pending or, to the knowledge of the
    Company, threatened, and (iv) since the effective date of the Registration
    Statement, there shall not have occurred any event required to be set forth
    in an amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus
    that has not been set forth, and there shall not have been any document
    required to be filed under the Exchange Act that upon such filing would be
    deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Prospectus that has not been
    so filed.

         (c) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation
    or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any governmental
    agency, body or official which would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the
    issuance of the Securities; and no injunction, restraining order or order
    of any nature by any Federal or state court shall have been issued as of
    the Closing Date which would prevent the issuance of the Securities.
    Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the
    Closing Date, there shall not have been any downgrading, nor shall any
    notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading or of any
    review for a possible change that does not indicate the direction of the
    possible change, in the rating accorded any of the Company's securities by
    any "nationally recognized statistical rating organization," as such term
    is defined for purposes of Rule 436 (g)(2) of the Act.

         (d) (i)  Since the earlier of the date hereof or the dates as of which
    information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus,
    there shall not have been any Material Adverse Change, (ii)  since the date
    of the latest balance sheet included in the Registration Statement and the
    Prospectus, there shall not have been any material adverse change, or
    development involving a prospective material adverse change, in the capital
    stock or debt, of the Company, OrNda and the Subsidiaries, taken as a
    whole, and (iii) none of the Company, OrNda or any of the Subsidiaries
    shall have any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, that is
    material to the Company, OrNda and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and
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         (e) You shall have received a certificate of the Company, dated the
    Closing Date, executed on behalf of the Company, by an executive officer
    and a financial officer of the Company satisfactory to you confirming, as
    of the Closing Date, the matters set forth in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d)
    and (k) of this Section 7.

         (f) On the Closing Date, you shall have received:

              (1) an opinion (satisfactory to you and your counsel), dated the
         Closing Date, of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, counsel for the
         Company ("Skadden, Arps"), to the effect that:

                   (i) the Registration Statement (other than the documents
              incorporated by reference therein described in clause (iii)
              below), at the time it became effective and on the Closing Date,
              complied as to form in all material respects with the applicable
              requirements of the Act and the TIA (except for financial
              statements, the notes thereto and related schedules and other
              financial data included therein and the Statements of Eligibility
              and Qualification of the Trustees on Forms T-1 (the "Forms T-1"),
              as to which no opinion need be expressed);

                   (ii) each document filed pursuant to the Exchange Act and
              incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, at the time it was
              filed or last amended, complied as to form in all material
              respects to the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act
              (except for financial statements, the notes thereto and related
              schedules and other financial data included or incorporated by
              reference therein or omitted therefrom, as to which no opinion
              need be expressed);

                   (iii) the Securities have been duly authorized and executed
              by the Company and, when authenticated in accordance with the
              terms of the Indentures and delivered to and paid for by the
              Underwriters in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will
              be valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable
              against the Company in accordance with their respective terms and
              entitled to the benefits of the respective Indenture under which
              they are being issued, except to the extent that the
              enforceability thereof may be limited by (a) bankruptcy,
              insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and
              other similar laws in effect as of the date of the opinion or
              thereafter relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally
              and (b) general principles of equity (regardless of whether
              enforcement is sought in a proceeding at law or in equity) and
              except that such counsel need express no opinion as to the
              enforceability or effect of the waiver of rights under any usury
              laws pursuant to each of the Indentures;

                   (iv) each of the Indentures has been duly authorized,
              executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due
              authorization, execution and delivery thereof by the applicable
              Trustee, is a valid and binding agreement of the Company,
              enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms,
              except to the extent that the enforceability thereof may be
              limited by (a) bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer,
              reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws in effect as of
              the date of the opinion or thereafter relating to or affecting
              creditors' rights generally and (b) general principles of equity
              (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding at
              law or in equity) and except that such counsel need express no
              opinion as to the enforceability or effect of the waiver of
              rights under any usury laws pursuant to each of the Indentures;

                   (v) the Securities and the Indentures conform in all
              material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the
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                   (vi) the Company and each of its Significant Subsidiaries
              (as identified by the Company on a schedule to such opinion) is a
              corporation existing and in good standing under the laws of its
              jurisdiction of organization;

                   (vii) neither the Company nor any of its Significant
              Subsidiaries is an "investment company" within the meaning of the
              Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;

                   (viii) no consent, approval, authorization or other order
              of, or filing with, any Federal, Delaware or New York executive,
              legislative, judicial, administrative or regulatory body,
              including, without limitation, the Commission (each, a
              "Governmental Authority"), is legally required under any laws,
              rules and regulations of the State of Delaware, the State of New
              York and the United States of America that, in the experience of
              such counsel, are normally applicable to transactions of the type
              contemplated by this Agreement and the Indentures (provided that
              no opinion need be expressed as to the "blue sky" or state
              securities laws of any jurisdiction) (collectively, the
              "Applicable Laws") for the issuance or sale to the Underwriters
              of the Securities as contemplated by this Agreement except such
              as may be required under the Act, the Exchange Act and the TIA;
              and

                   (ix) the execution and delivery by the Company of this
              Agreement and the Indentures and the issuance and sale of the
              Securities to you as contemplated thereby and the performance of
              its obligations pursuant to this Agreement and the Indentures
              (a) will not conflict with or result in a breach of violation of
              any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under
              the charter or bylaws of the Company; and (b) will not conflict
              with or violate any Applicable Law or any order or decree of
              Delaware, New York or federal Governmental Authorities by which
              the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound, the existence of
              which is actually known to such counsel or has been specifically
              disclosed to such counsel in writing by the Company.

                        Such counsel shall also state that the Staff of the
              Commission has orally advised such counsel that the Registration
              Statement was declared effective under the Act and the Indentures
              were qualified under the TIA, in each case, at _____ p.m.,
              Washington, D.C. time, on January __, 1997, and, to the best of
              such counsel's knowledge, no stop order suspending the
              effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the qualification
              of Indentures has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose
              are pending; and the Prospectus has been sent for filing with the
              Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the time period
              required by such Rule.

              (2) In giving their opinion required by subsection (f)(l) of this
         Section 7, such counsel may state that such opinions are limited to
         matters governed by the Federal laws of the United States of America,
         the laws of the State of New York and the laws of the State of
         Delaware.

              In addition, such counsel shall state that such counsel has
         participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of
         the Company and OrNda, representatives of the independent public
         accountants for the Company and OrNda, your representatives and your
         counsel at which the contents of the Registration Statement and the
         Prospectus and related matters were discussed and, although such
         counsel is not passing upon, and does not assume any responsibility
         for, the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements
         contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, on the
         basis of the foregoing, no fact has come to the attention of such
         counsel that leads it to believe that the Registration Statement, at
         the time it became effective, contained an untrue statement of a
         material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be
         stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
         misleading, or that the Prospectus, as of its date


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         and as of the Closing Date, contained an untrue statement of a
         material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be
         stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light
         of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading,
         except that such counsel need not express any opinion or belief with
         respect to the financial statements, schedules and other financial and
         statistical data included or incorporated by reference in or excluded
         from the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, the exhibits to the
         Registration Statement or the Forms T-1.

              In rendering the foregoing opinions, Skadden, Arps may rely as to
         matters of Nevada law on the opinion of Woodburn and Wedge, Nevada
         counsel to the Company, or such other counsel as is reasonably
         satisfactory to the Underwriters' Counsel.

              (3) an opinion (satisfactory to you and Underwriters' Counsel),
         dated the Closing Date, of Scott M. Brown, Esq., Senior Vice President
         and General Counsel of the Company, to the effect that:

                   (i) the descriptions in the Registration Statement and the
              Prospectus of statutes, legal and governmental proceedings,
              contracts and other documents and regulatory matters, including,
              without limitation, those described in the Prospectus under the
              captions "Risk Factors--Limits on Reimbursement," "--Extensive
              Regulation," "--Healthcare Reform Legislation" and in the
              Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
              May 31, 1996 under the captions "Medicare, Medicaid and Other
              Revenues" and "Healthcare Reform, Regulation and Licensing" and
              in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
              ended November 30, 1996 under the caption "Legal Proceedings"
              insofar as such statements constitute summaries of legal matters,
              documents or proceedings referred to therein are accurate in all
              material respects and such counsel does not know of any contracts
              or documents of a character required to be described in the
              Registration Statement or Prospectus (or required to be filed
              under the Exchange Act if upon such filing they would be
              incorporated by reference therein) or to be filed as exhibits to
              the Registration Statement which are not described and filed as
              required; it being understood that such counsel need express no
              opinion as to the financial statements, notes or schedules or
              other financial data included or incorporated by reference
              therein or those parts of the Registration Statement that
              constitute the Form T-1;

                   (ii) each of the Company and its Significant Subsidiaries
              (as defined under the Commission's Regulation S-X and identified
              on a schedule to such opinion) has such Authorizations from all
              regulatory or governmental officials, bodies and tribunals as are
              necessary to own, lease and operate its respective properties and
              to conduct its business in the manner described in the
              Prospectus, except as could not reasonably be expected to have,
              singly or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the
              business, financial condition or results of operations of the
              Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;

                   (iii) to the best of such counsel's knowledge, there is no
              current, pending or threatened action, suit or proceeding before
              any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any
              arbitrator involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or to
              which any of their respective property is subject of a character
              required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement which is
              not adequately disclosed in the Prospectus;

                   (iv) except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration
              Statement, all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital
              stock of, or other ownership interests in, each Significant
              Subsidiary of the Company have been duly and validly authorized
              and issued, and the shares of capital stock of, or other
              ownership interests in, each of its Significant


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              Subsidiaries (over 80% in the case of Healthcare Underwriting
              Group) are owned of record, directly or through subsidiaries, by
              the Company, are fully paid and nonassessable, and to the best
              knowledge of such counsel are owned free and clear of any
              material, consensual Lien;

                   (v) the Company and each of its Significant Subsidiaries is
              a duly organized corporation, has the requisite corporate power
              and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to
              conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement
              and the Prospectus, and, to the extent each is a party thereto,
              to execute, deliver and perform its obligations pursuant to the
              Indentures and this Agreement, and is duly qualified as a foreign
              corporation and in good standing in each jurisdiction where the
              ownership, leasing or operation of property or the conduct of its
              business requires such qualification, except where the failure so
              to be qualified could not reasonably be expected to have, singly
              or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; and

                   (vi) the execution and delivery by the Company of this
              Agreement and the Indentures and the issuance and sale of the
              Securities to you as contemplated thereby and the performance of
              its obligations pursuant to this Agreement and the Indentures
              will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any
              of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default (with the
              passage of time or otherwise) under, or result in the imposition
              of a Lien on any properties of the Company or any of its
              Subsidiaries or an acceleration of indebtedness pursuant to any
              of the agreements listed on a schedule attached to such counsel's
              opinion, where, in any such instance, such breach, default, Lien,
              acceleration of indebtedness or conflict could have, singly or in
              the aggregate, a material adverse effect or a prospective
              material adverse effect on the business, financial condition or
              results of operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken
              as a whole.

              (4) In giving their opinion required by subsection f(3) of this
         Section 7, such counsel shall state that no fact has come to the
         attention of such counsel that leads it to believe that the
         descriptions of statutes, legal and governmental proceedings,
         contracts and other documents and regulatory matters described in the
         Registration Statement and the Prospectus under the captions set forth
         in subsection (f)(3)(i) of this Section 7 contained an untrue
         statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact
         required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
         therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
         misleading.

              (5) an opinion (satisfactory to you and Underwriters  Counsel),
         dated the Closing Date, of Woodburn and Wedge, special Nevada counsel
         to the Company, to the effect that:

                   (i) the Company has the corporate power and authority to
              execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and the Company has
              the corporate power and authority to authorize, issue and sell
              the Securities as contemplated by this Agreement;

                   (ii) this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
              delivered by the Company, and the Securities and the Indentures
              have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;

                   (iii) the Company is a duly organized and validly existing
              corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of
              Nevada and has the requisite corporate power and authority to
              own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business
              as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus,
              and to execute and deliver, and perform its obligations pursuant
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                   (iv) no consent, approval, authorization, or order of any
              Nevada governmental agency or body is required, for the
              consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by
              this Agreement in connection with the issuance and sale of the
              Securities;

                   (v) the execution and delivery by the Company of this
              Agreement and the Indentures, the issuance and sale of the
              Securities to you as contemplated by this Agreement and the
              performance of its obligations pursuant to this Agreement, the
              Securities and the Indentures will not conflict with or result in
              a breach or violation of any of the terms or provision of, or
              constitute a default under, (a) any of the charter or bylaws of
              the Company, or (b) any existing applicable statute, rule or
              regulation or any order of any Nevada court or governmental
              agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its
              properties; provided that the opinion expressed in clause (b) is
              limited to those statutes, rules or regulations which, in the
              experience of such counsel, are normally applicable to
              transactions of the type contemplated by this Agreement in
              connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities; and

                   (vi) in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating
              to this Agreement or the Indentures in any court of the State of
              Nevada or in any federal court sitting in the state of Nevada,
              such court would recognize and give effect to the provisions of
              Section 10 of this Agreement and Section 9.10 of the Indentures
              wherein the parties thereto agreed, to the extent therein stated,
              that each such document shall be governed by and construed in
              accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.

         (g) You shall have received an opinion, dated the Closing Date, of
    Sullivan & Cromwell counsel for the Underwriters, in form and substance
    reasonably satisfactory to you.

         (h) You shall have received complete sets of all closing documents,
    including without limitation all opinions, required to be delivered under
    any of the other Transaction Documents, together, in the case of the
    opinions of Scott M. Brown and Woodburn and Wedge delivered pursuant to the
    Merger Agreement and Scott M. Brown delivered pursuant to the New Credit
    Facility, with appropriate reliance letters addressed to the Underwriters.

         (i) You shall have received letters on and as of the date hereof as
    well as on and as of the Closing Date, in the latter case constituting an
    affirmation of the statements set forth in the earlier letters, in form and
    substance satisfactory to you, from KPMG Peat Marwick LLP and Ernst & Young
    LLP, independent public accountants to the Company and OrNda, respectively,
    with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information
    contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and
    the Prospectus as you shall reasonably require.

         (j) All corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the
    authorization, form and validity of this Agreement, the Securities, the
    Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and all other legal matters
    relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall
    be reasonably satisfactory to Sullivan & Cromwell.

         (k) There shall have been no amendments, alterations, modifications,
    or waivers of any provisions of the Transaction Documents since the date of
    the execution and delivery thereof by the parties thereto other than those
    which are disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any
    supplement thereto or which under the Act are not required to be disclosed
    in the Prospectus or any supplement thereto and which have been disclosed
    to the Underwriters prior to the date hereof.



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         (l) The certificate of merger with respect to the Merger shall have
    been filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and shall
    have become effective, the Merger shall have become effective under
    Section 103(d) of the Delaware General Corporation Law and all other
    transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (other than the
    closing of the offering and sale of the Securities under this Agreement) to
    be consummated at or prior to the Effective Time of the Merger shall have
    been consummated prior to or simultaneously with the consummation of the
    purchase and sale of the Securities hereunder.

         (m) The New Credit Facility, providing for borrowings by the Company
    in an amount up to $2.5 billion, shall be in effect and the existing credit
    facilities of each of the Company and OrNda shall have been terminated.

         (n) On or before the Closing Date, the Underwriters and Sullivan &
    Cromwell, counsel for the Underwriters, shall have received such further
    documents, opinions, certificates and schedules or instruments relating to
    the business, corporate, legal and financial affairs of the Company, OrNda
    and the Subsidiaries as they shall have reasonably requested prior to the
    date of this Agreement.

         8.   EFFECTIVE DATE OF AGREEMENT, DEFAULT AND TERMINATION.  This
Agreement shall become effective upon the later of (i) the execution and
delivery of this Agreement by the parties hereto, (ii) the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement, and (iii) if a post-effective amendment is required to
be filed pursuant to Rule 430A under the Act, the effectiveness of such
post-effective amendment.

         This Agreement may be terminated at any time on or prior to the
Closing Date by you by notice to the Company if any of the following has
occurred:  (i) subsequent to the date the Registration Statement is declared
effective or the date of this Agreement, any Material Adverse Change which, in
your judgment, impairs the investment quality of the Securities, (ii) any
outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international
calamity or crisis or material adverse change in the financial markets of the
United States or elsewhere, or any other substantial national or international
calamity or emergency if the effect of such outbreak, escalation, calamity,
crisis or emergency would, in your judgment make it impracticable or inadvisable
to market the Securities or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Securities,
(iii) any suspension or limitation of trading generally in securities, or in any
securities of the Company on the New York, American or Pacific Stock Exchanges,
the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation National
Market, or the over-the-counter markets or any setting of minimum prices for
trading on such exchanges or markets, (iv) any declaration of a general banking
moratorium by either Federal or New York authorities, (v) the taking of any
action by any Federal, state or local government or agency in respect of its
monetary or fiscal affairs that in your judgment has a material adverse effect
on the financial markets in the United States, and would, in your judgment, make
it impracticable or inadvisable to market the Securities or to enforce contracts
for the sale of the Securities, (vi) any securities of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries shall have been downgraded or placed on any "watch list" for
possible downgrading or reviewed for a possible change that does not indicate
the direction of the possible change by any "nationally recognized statistical
rating organization," as such term is defined for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) of
the Act, or (vii) the enactment, publication, decree or other promulgation of
any Federal or state statute, regulation, or rule or order of any court or other
governmental authority which in your judgment could reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.

         If this Agreement shall be terminated by you pursuant to clause (i),
(vi) or, in the case of a statute, regulation, rule or order specifically
addressing the Company, and not affecting the general hospital industry
generally, (vii) of the second paragraph of this Section 8 or because of the
failure or refusal on the part of the Company to comply with the terms or to
fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement, the Company agrees to reimburse
you for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including the reasonable fees and
disbursements of counsel) incurred by you. Notwithstanding any termination of
this Agreement, the Company shall be liable for all expenses


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which it has agreed to pay pursuant to Section 4(f) hereof. If this Agreement is
terminated pursuant to this Section 8, such termination shall be without
liability of any Underwriter to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

         If on the Closing Date any Underwriter shall fail or refuse to
purchase the securities which it has agreed to purchase hereunder on such date,
and the aggregate principal amount of such Securities that such defaulting
Underwriter or Underwriters, as the case may be, agreed but failed or refused to
purchase does not exceed 20% of the total principal amount of such Securities to
be purchased on such date by all Underwriters, each non-defaulting Underwriter
shall be obligated severally, in the proportion which the amount of Securities
set forth opposite its name in Schedule I, Schedule II and Schedule III,
respectively, hereto bears to the aggregate principal amount of Securities which
all the non-defaulting Underwriters, as the case may be, have agreed to
purchase, or in such other proportion as you (at your option) may specify, to
purchase the Securities that such defaulting Underwriter or Underwrites, as the
case may be, agreed but failed or refused to purchase on such date; PROVIDED
that in no event shall the aggregate principal amount of Securities that any
Underwriter has agreed to purchase pursuant to Section 2 hereof be increased
pursuant to this Section 8 by an amount in excess of one-ninth of such principal
amount of Securities without the written consent of such Underwriter.  If, on
the Closing Date any of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase the
Securities, as the case may be, and the total principal amount of Securities
with respect to which such default occurs exceeds 20% of the total amount of
Securities to be purchased on such date by all Underwriters and arrangements
satisfactory to you and the Company for the purchase of such Securities are not
made within 48 hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate without
liability on the part of the non-defaulting Underwriter and the Company, except
as otherwise provided in this Section 8. In any such case that does not result
in termination of this Agreement, either the non-defaulting Underwriter or the
Company may postpone the Closing Date for not longer than seven (7) days, in
order that the required changes, if any, in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus or any other documents or arrangements may be effected. Any action
taken under this paragraph shall not relieve a defaulting Underwriter from
liability in respect of any default of any such Underwriter under this
Agreement.

         9.   NOTICES.  Notices given pursuant to any provision of this
Agreement shall be addressed as follows:  (a) if to the Company, to it at 3820
State Street, Santa Barbara, California 93105, Attention: Chief Financial
Officer, with copies to Attention: General Counsel and to Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom, 300 South Grand Avenue, Suite 3400, Los Angeles, California
90071, Attention: Brian J. McCarthy and (b) if to any Underwriter, to Donaldson,
Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation, 277 Park Avenue, New York, New York
10172, Attention: Syndicate Department, and, in each case, with a copy to
Sullivan & Cromwell, 444 South Flower Street, Suite 1200, Los Angeles,
California  90071, Attention: Alison S. Ressler, or in any case to such other
address as the person to be notified may have required in writing.

         10.  GOVERNING LAW.  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AS APPLIED TO
CONTRACTS MADE AND PERFORMED ENTIRELY WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT
REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW. THE COMPANY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS
TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE FEDERAL AND NEW YORK STATE COURTS LOCATED
IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING
RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE MATTERS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY, IRREVOCABLY
WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF LACK OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION AND IRREVOCABLY AGREES THAT
ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND
DETERMINED IN ANY SUCH COURT. THE COMPANY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT IT MAY EFFECTIVELY DO SO UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION WHICH IT MAY
NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR
PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT AND ANY CLAIM THAT ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR
PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.



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         11.  SEVERABILITY.  Any determination that any provision of this
Agreement may be, or is, unenforceable shall not affect the enforceability of
the remainder of this Agreement.

         12.  SUCCESSORS.  Except as otherwise provided, this Agreement has
been and is made solely for the benefit of and shall be binding upon the
Company, the Underwriters, any Indemnified Person referred to herein and their
respective successors and assigns, all as and to the extent provided in this
Agreement, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by
virtue of this Agreement. The terms "successors and assigns" shall not include a
purchaser of any of the Securities from any of the Underwriters merely because
of such purchase.

         13.  CERTAIN DEFINITIONS.  For purposes of this Agreement, (a)
"business day" means any day on which the NYSE is open for trading and (b)
"subsidiary" has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Act.

         14.  COUNTERPARTS.  This Agreement may be executed in one or more
counterparts and, if executed in one or more counterparts, the executed
counterparts shall each be deemed to be an original, not all such counterparts
shall together constitute one and the same instrument.

         15.  HEADINGS.  The headings herein are inserted for convenience of
reference only and are not intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or
interpretation of, this Agreement.

         16.  SURVIVAL.  The indemnities and contribution provisions and the
other agreements, representations and warranties of the Company, its officers
and directors and of the Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this
Agreement shall remain operative and in full force and effect, and will survive
delivery of and payment for the Securities, regardless of (i) any investigation,
or statement as to the results thereof, made by or on behalf of any of the
Underwriters or by or on behalf of the Company, the officers or directors of the
Company or any controlling person of the Company, (ii) acceptance of the
Securities and payment for them hereunder and (iii) termination of this
Agreement.



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         This Agreement may be signed in various counterparts which together
shall constitute one and the same instrument. Please confirm that the foregoing
correctly sets forth the agreement among the Company and you.


                                  Very truly yours,

                                  TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION



                                  By:________________________________
                                     Name:
                                     Title:


The foregoing Underwriting Agreement
is hereby confirmed and accepted as of
the date first above written.

DONALDSON, LUFKIN & JENRETTE
  SECURITIES CORPORATION
GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER
  & SMITH INCORPORATED
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.
SMITH BARNEY INC.

Acting on behalf of themselves


DONALDSON, LUFKIN & JENRETTE
  SECURITIES CORPORATION



By:________________________________
Name:     David L. Dennis
Title:   Managing Director




GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.



By:________________________________



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MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER
  & SMITH INCORPORATED



By:_________________________________



J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.



By:________________________________



SMITH BARNEY INC.



By:_________________________________


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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                                             SCHEDULE I



                                                                  PRINCIPAL          PERCENTAGE
UNDERWRITER                                                        AMOUNT             OF TOTAL
<S>                                                           <C>                <C>
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation  . . .    $                             %
Goldman, Sachs & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated . . . .
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Smith Barney Inc.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
                                                              ----------------   ----------------
  Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    $400,000,000               100%
                                                              ----------------   ----------------
                                                              ----------------   ----------------

</TABLE>

                                                I-1
<PAGE>

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                                             SCHEDULE II



                                                                  PRINCIPAL          PERCENTAGE
UNDERWRITER                                                        AMOUNT             OF TOTAL
<S>                                                           <C>                <C>
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation  . . .    $                             %
Goldman, Sachs & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated . . . .
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Smith Barney Inc.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
                                                              ----------------   ----------------
  Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    $900,000,000               100%
                                                              ----------------   ----------------
                                                              ----------------   ----------------

</TABLE>

                                               II-1
<PAGE>

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                                             SCHEDULE III



                                                                  PRINCIPAL          PERCENTAGE
UNDERWRITER                                                        AMOUNT             OF TOTAL
<S>                                                           <C>                <C>
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation  . . .    $                             %
Goldman, Sachs & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated . . . .
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Smith Barney Inc.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
                                                              ----------------   ----------------
  Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    $700,000,000               100%
                                                              ----------------   ----------------
                                                              ----------------   ----------------

</TABLE>

                                              III-1



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                                                                   EXHIBIT 12.2

                      TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATON AND SUBSIDIARIES
                      STATEMENT RE: COMPUTATION OF PRO FORMA RATIO
                              OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES
                                  (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                  FOR THE
                                                                         FOR THE              SIX MONTHS ENDED
                                                                     YEAR ENDED MAY 31,         NOVEMBER 30,
                                                                 ------------------------------------------ 
                                                                  1994     1995       1996      1995     1996
                                                                 ------   ------    -------    ------   ------ 
<S>                                                              <C>      <C>       <C>        <C>      <C>
Income from continuing operations before income taxes            $313.9   $416.5     $544.2    $266.6   $336.2
Less: Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates              27.4     42.4        3.4       1.7      1.3
                                                                                   
Add:                                                                               
    Cash dividends received from unconsolidated affiliates          0.2      8.3        6.3       2.2      2.0
    Portion of rents representative of interest                    41.6     54.3       79.0      38.8     36.8
    Interest, net of capitalized portion                          156.7    251.3      455.7     236.6    213.3
    Amortization of previously capitalized interest                 3.8      4.0        4.0       2.0      2.0
                                                                 ------   ------   --------    ------   ------
Income, as adjusted                                              $488.8   $692.0   $1,085.8    $544.5   $589.0
                                                                 ------   ------   --------    ------   ------ 
                                                                 ------   ------   --------    ------   ------ 
                                                                                   
Fixed charges:                                                                     
                                                                                   
Interest, net of capitalized portion                             $156.7   $251.3     $455.7    $236.6   $213.3
Capitalized interest                                                5.0      7.5       11.4       4.9      5.2
Portion of rents representative of interest                        41.6     54.3       79.0      38.8     36.8
                                                                 ------   ------   --------    ------   ------ 
                                                                                   
Total fixed charges                                              $203.3   $313.1     $546.1    $280.3   $255.3
                                                                 ------   ------   --------    ------   ------ 
                                                                 ------   ------   --------    ------   ------ 
                                                                                   
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges:                                 2.4x     2.2x       2.0x      1.9x     2.3x

</TABLE>

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                                                                    EXHIBIT 23.2
 
                               AUDITORS' CONSENT
 
The Board of Directors
Tenet Healthcare Corporation
 
    We consent to the use of our reports dated July 25, 1996 included and
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (no.
333-17907) of Tenet Healthcare Corporation, relating to the consolidated balance
sheets of Tenet Healthcare Corporation and subsidiaries as of May 31, 1996 and
1995, and the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders'
equity and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended May
31, 1996, and the related schedule, and to the reference to our firm under the
headings "Selected Historical Financial Information" and "Experts" in the
prospectus. Our report on the consolidated financial statements refers to a
change in the method of accounting for income taxes in 1994.
 
                                          KPMG PEAT MARWICK LLP
 
   
Los Angeles, California
January 24, 1997
    

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                                                                    EXHIBIT 23.3
 
                        CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
 
   
    We consent to the reference to our firm under the captions "Selected
Historical Financial Information of OrNda" and "Experts" and to the use of our
report dated October 25, 1996 with respect to the financial statements of OrNda
HealthCorp, in Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement (Form S-3, No.
333-17907) and related Prospectus of Tenet Healthcare Corporation for the
registration of $400,000,000 Senior Notes due 2003, $900,000,000 Senior Notes
due 2005 and $700,000,000 Senior Subordinated Notes due 2007.
    
 
                                          ERNST & YOUNG LLP
 
   
Nashville, Tennessee
January 24, 1997
    


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