---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-241133"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "THC"
cik: "0000070318"
company_name: "TENET HEALTHCARE CORP"
filed_at: "2021-08-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T17:30:13.887497+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tenet CEO transition: Rittenmeyer to Executive Chairman, Sutaria named CEO effective Sept 1

## Summary
- Ron Rittenmeyer steps down as CEO, remains Executive Chairman through 2022.
- Saum Sutaria (formerly President/COO) becomes CEO effective September 1, 2021.
- Sutaria joined Tenet in January 2019 as COO, promoted to President later that year.
- Transition approved by Board on August 5, 2021, announced August 9.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-241133
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: THC
- cik: 0000070318
- company_name: TENET HEALTHCARE CORP
- filed_at: 2021-08-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70318/000119312521241133/0001193125-21-241133-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70318/000119312521241133/d180706d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-241133
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-241133.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-241133.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Saumya Sutaria changed role as Chief Executive Officer at TENET HEALTHCARE CORP.
  - Action: promoted
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Ronald A. Rittenmeyer will transition from Chief Executive Officer of the Company and continue as the Executive Chairman of the Company and the Board of Directors of the Company through 2022, and Saumya Sutaria, M.D., will be promoted from President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, in each case effective as of September 1, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70318/000119312521241133/0001193125-21-241133-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ronald A. Rittenmeyer changed role as Executive Chairman at TENET HEALTHCARE CORP.
  - Action: transitioned
  - Role: Executive Chairman
  source text: Ronald A. Rittenmeyer will transition from Chief Executive Officer of the Company and continue as the Executive Chairman of the Company and the Board of Directors of the Company through 2022, and Saumya Sutaria, M.D., will be promoted from President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, in each case effective as of September 1, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70318/000119312521241133/0001193125-21-241133-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.