Four of the five major for-profit hospital operators saw their stock prices increase last week.
Shares of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare were up 1.74 percent last week, the most of any of the for-profit hospital operators.
Shares of Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America were down last week.
- Community Health Systems (Franklin, Tenn.): $53.27 per share (up 1.12 percent)
- Hospital Corporation of America (Nashville, Tenn.): $78.04 per share (down 0.03 percent)
- LifePoint Hospitals (Brentwood, Tenn.): $75.56 per share (up 0.89 percent)
- Tenet Healthcare Corp. (Dallas): $51.38 per share (up 1.74 percent)
- Universal Health Services (King of Prussia, Pa.): $119.76 per share (up 1.18 percent)
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