AUDITORS' CONSENT


The Board of Directors
Tenet Healthcare Corporation:

     We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration 
Statement on Form S-3 of Tenet Healthcare Corporation of our report dated 
February 1, 1997, with respect to the supplemental consolidated balance 
sheets of Tenet Healthcare Corporation and subsidiaries as of May 31, 1996 
and 1995, and the related supplemental consolidated statements of operations, 
changes in shareholders' equity and cash flows for each of the years in the 
three-year period ended May 31, 1996 and to the incorporation by reference in 
the Registration Statement on Form S-3 of Tenet Healthcare Corporation of our 
report dated July 25, 1996, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets 
of Tenet Healthcare Corporation and subsidiaries as of May 31, 1996 and 1995, 
and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in 
shareholders' equity and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year 
period ended May 31, 1996, and the related schedule, and to the reference to 
our firm under the heading "Experts" in the prospectus.  Our reports on the 
supplemental consolidated financial statements and on the consolidated 
financial statements refer to a change in the method of accounting for income 
taxes in 1994.


                                       KPMG PEAT MARWICK LLP



Los Angeles, California
May 6, 1997








                                 EXHIBIT 23 (a)