Stephen L. Newman, M.D., chief operating officer and interim chief medical officer of Tenet Healthcare Corporation, is responsible for operational oversight of Tenet’s 52 acute care hospitals in 12 states, including ambulatory surgery centers and diagnostic imaging centers. Dr. Newman serves on the company’s executive management team and reports directly to Trevor Fetter, Tenet’s president and chief executive officer.
From March 2003 until his promotion to COO in January 2007, Dr. Newman served as senior vice president of Tenet’s California operations, building a successful, profitable core of hospitals in a highly competitive market. Tenet’s California hospitals were the first to implement the company’s Targeted Growth Initiative (TGI), in which a hospital’s service offerings and growth plans are matched against anticipated future changes in the health care needs of its community. Based on its early success in California, the TGI has been rolled out to Tenet hospitals nationwide.
Dr. Newman joined Tenet in February 1999 as vice president of operations for Tenet’s former Gulf States Region managing 12 hospitals in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. In June 2000, he was promoted to senior vice president of operations.
Prior to joining Tenet, Dr. Newman served as president of Columbia/HCA’s Omega Division, a 14-hospital group in four states, and simultaneously served as CEO at Audubon Hospital, a 680-bed hospital in the Louisville system. Beginning in April 1997, he served as president and CEO of Columbia/HCA’s Louisville Healthcare Network, a three-hospital, 1,200-bed system in Louisville, Kentucky.
From 1990 to 1997, Dr. Newman served as senior vice president and chief medical officer at Touro Infirmary, a 350-bed medical center in New Orleans.
Before becoming a hospital administrator in 1990, Dr. Newman was a pediatric gastroenterologist, teaching and practicing medicine for 12 years. He began his medical career in Dayton, Ohio as an associate professor of pediatrics and medicine at Wright State University School of Medicine, and as director of gastroenterology and nutrition support at Children’s Medical Center, a 155-bed children’s hospital.
Dr. Newman earned his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University, his master’s degree in business administration from Tulane University and his medical degree from the University of Tennessee. He completed his internship, residency and fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine. In 2001, he completed the Advanced Management program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Newman serves on the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Hospitals.