Community Health Systems (CYH)

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Exchange: NYSE       Sector: Healthcare       Industry: Hospitals

Community Health Systems, Inc. is publicly-traded operator of hospitals. It is the largest non-urban provider of general hospital healthcare services in the United States in terms of number of acute care facilities. It provides healthcare services through the hospitals that it owns and operates in non-urban and selected urban markets throughout the United States. The company provides services through its hospitals include general acute care, emergency room, general and specialty surgery, critical care, internal medicine, obstetrics, diagnostic, psychiatric and rehabilitation services. It owns physician practices, imaging centers and ambulatory surgery centers. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Quorum Health Resources, LLC, it provides management and consulting services to nonaffiliated general acute care hospitals located throughout the United States. The company operates in three distinct operating segments, represented by the hospital operations which includes the company's acute care hospitals and related healthcare entities that provide inpatient and outpatient healthcare services, the home care agencies operations which provide in-home outpatient care and the hospital management services business which provides executive management and consulting services to non-affiliated general acute care hospitals. After purchasing Triad, Inc., it divested itself of its interest in a facility in Ireland. The company was founded on March 1985 and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.