Vanguard Health Systems

Infobox Company
name = Vanguard Health Systems

type = Private
genre =
foundation = 1997
founder =
location_city = Nashville, Tennessee
location_country = United States
locations = 15
area_served =
key_people = Charles N. Martin (CEO)
Kent H. Wallace (COO)
industry = Hospitals
products =
services =
market c

revenue = increase $2.790 billion
operating_income =
net_income =
assets = increase $2.582 billion
equity =
owner =
num_employees = 18,000 (2007)
parent =
divisions =
subsid =
homepage = [http://www.vanguardhealth.com vanguardhealth.com]
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Vanguard Health Systems is an operator of hospitals and other medical facilities in four U.S. states: Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Texas. [cite web
url = http://www.vanguardhealth.com/hospitals.html
title = Hospitals
publisher = Vanguard Health Systems
accessdate = 2007-05-12] The company's headquarters are located in Nashville, Tennessee. Vanguard owns twelve hospitals outright, including five in San Antonio, Texas and four in the Phoenix, Arizona area, and controls an additional three hospitals through joint ventures, for a total of 4,096 licensed beds (as of 2006). [cite web
url = http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045829/000104582906000026/june302006_10k.htm
title = Annual Report on SEC form 10-K
date = June 30, 2006
accessdate = 2007-05-12 Figures adjusted to account for three hospitals sold later in 2006.] The company was number 747 on the 2006 Fortune 1000 ranking of the largest U.S. companies.

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