Desert Sun -- 9/23/03,Palm Springs

Tenet Healthcare grants CEO options for shares

WASHINGTON -- Tenet Healthcare Corp. granted newly appointed Chief Executive and President Trevor Fetter stock options to buy 350,000 shares, according to a filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Fetter was acting CEO of the Santa Barbara-based hospital chain from May, when then-CEO Jeffrey Barbakow resigned under pressure from the board.

Tenet announced Tuesday that Fetter had been hired to fill the post permanently.

Tenet has been the subject of several state and federal investigations since last fall, when charges surfaced about unnecessary heart surgeries performed at Tenet¹s Redding Medical Center in Redding.