100 Most Influential People in Healthcare - 2020

Rittenmeyer has been executive chairman and CEO at Tenet since 2017 and has served on the health system’s board since 2010. The pandemic has taken Tenet’s earnings on a roller-coaster ride in 2020. Thanks to cost-cutting, the company saw a resurgence in earnings year-over-year for the second quarter ended June 30 even with elective procedures almost completely shut down for much of the period. But a spike in COVID-19 cases proved more challenging in the third quarter.