EXHIBIT 99.1

                              STATEMENT UNDER OATH
                                       OF
                           PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                                       OF
                              TRIAD HOSPITALS, INC.
                        REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES
                        RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, JAMES D. SHELTON, state and attest that:

     1)   To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered
          reports of TRIAD HOSPITALS, INC., and, except as corrected or
          supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

          o    no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material
               fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in
               the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials,
               as of the date on which it was filed); and

          o    no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to
               make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
               circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
               the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a
               report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date
               on which it was filed).

     2)   I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's
          audit committee.

     3)   In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
          before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

          o    2001 Annual Report on Form 10-K of TRIAD HOSPITALS, INC., filed
               with the Commission on March 29, 2002;

          o    all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all
               definitive proxy materials of TRIAD HOSPITALS, INC., filed with
               the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K
               identified above; and

          o    any amendments to any of the foregoing.


Date:  August 12, 2002.                            /s/ James D. Shelton
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                                                     James D. Shelton


SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 12th day of August, 2002.

                                                   /s/
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                                                       Notary Public