---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-256098"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "THC"
cik: "0000070318"
company_name: "TENET HEALTHCARE CORP"
filed_at: "2022-10-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T06:09:19.077606+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Executive Chairman Rittenmeyer resigns due to health; J. Robert Kerrey appointed Chairman

## Summary
- Ronald A. Rittenmeyer resigned as Executive Chairman and Board member effective Oct 1, 2022 due to personal health reasons.
- Board appointed J. Robert Kerrey, former Lead Director, as Chairman; Board reduced to ten directors.
- Letter agreement treats resignation as disability termination under Rittenmeyer's employment agreement.
- Senator Kerrey has served on Board since 2001, currently Managing Director at Allen & Company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-256098
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: THC
- cik: 0000070318
- company_name: TENET HEALTHCARE CORP
- filed_at: 2022-10-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70318/000119312522256098/0001193125-22-256098-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70318/000119312522256098/d403443d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-256098
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-256098.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-256098.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  J. Robert Kerrey was appointed as Chairman of the Board at TENET HEALTHCARE CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chairman of the Board
  source text: The Board appointed J. Robert Kerrey as Chairman of the Board effective as of October 1, 2022, and reduced the number of authorized directors on the Board to ten.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70318/000119312522256098/0001193125-22-256098-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ronald A. Rittenmeyer resigned as Executive Chairman at TENET HEALTHCARE CORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Executive Chairman
  source text: Ronald A. Rittenmeyer, who had served as the Executive Chairman of Tenet Healthcare Corporation (the “Company”) and as a member of the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”), resigned due to personal health reasons effective as of October 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70318/000119312522256098/0001193125-22-256098-index.htm

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