Team Health Holdings Inc. Announces Plan to Refinance Existing Credit Facility

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Team Health Holdings Inc. ("TeamHealth") (NYSE: TMH), one of the largest providers of outsourced healthcare professional staffing and administrative services to hospitals and other healthcare providers in the United States, today announced that it plans to refinance, subject to market conditions, its existing credit facility and replace it with a new $575 million senior credit facility.

The new senior credit facility is expected to include a five-year revolving line of credit of approximately $165 million, a five-year term loan of approximately $110 million and a seven-year term loan of approximately $300 million.  The company intends to use these new financing sources to repay $402.7 million of term loans outstanding and to replace and upsize the $125 million revolving line of credit provided under its existing senior credit facility for general corporate purposes.  

J.P. Morgan Securities, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are arranging the refinancing.

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About TeamHealth  

TeamHealth (Knoxville, Tenn.) (NYSE: TMH) was founded in 1979 and has become one of the largest suppliers of outsourced healthcare professional staffing and administrative services to hospitals and other healthcare providers in the United States. Through its six principal service lines located in 13 regional sites, TeamHealth's approximately 5,600 affiliated healthcare professionals provide emergency medicine, hospital medicine, anesthesia, and pediatric staffing and management services to more than 600 civilian and military hospitals, clinics, and physician groups in 45 states. For more information about TeamHealth, visit www.teamhealth.com.

Forward Looking Statements

Statements and information contained herein that are not historical facts and that reflect the current view of Team Health Holdings, Inc.  (the "Company") about future events and financial performance are hereby identified as "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  Some of these statements can be identified by terms and phrases such as "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "estimate," "expect," "continue," "could," "should," "may," "plan," "project," "predict" and similar expressions.  The Company cautions  that such "forward looking statements," including without limitation, those relating to the Company's future business prospects, revenue, working capital, professional liability expense, liquidity, capital needs, interest costs and income, wherever they occur in this or in other statements attributable to the Company, are necessarily estimates reflecting the judgment of the Company's senior management and involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the "forward looking statements."  Factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to current or future government regulation of the healthcare industry, exposure to professional liability lawsuits and governmental agency investigations, the adequacy of insurance coverage and insurance reserves, as well as those factors detailed under the caption "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and the most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  The Company's "forward looking statements" speak only as of the date hereof and the Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update "forward looking statements" herein to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or changes to future operating results over time.

SOURCE TeamHealth