Tenet to be majority owner of Carondelet Health Network

One of the country's largest health systems, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corporation, is officially moving into the Tucson market. The for-profit company has signed a "definitive agreement" to create a partnership where it will be majority owner and operator of the Tucson-based Catholic Carondelet Health Network, officials announced Wednesday. Missouri-based Ascension is the current owner of the non-profit network, which includes three Southern Arizona hospitals — Carondelet Holy Cross in Nogales, Arizona, and Carondelet St. Joseph's and Carondelet St. Mary's hospitals, both in Tucson. The health network in recent years had been struggling financially.