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Community Health Systems Inc. is a Fortune 500 company based in Franklin, Tennessee. It is one of the largest providers of general hospital healthcare services in the United States in terms of number of acute care facilities. As of August 2015, it owns, leases or operates 198 hospitals in 29 states. In August 2015, the company announced plans to spin off 38 hospitals and its management and consulting subsidiary, Quorum Health Resources, into a new publicly traded company called Quorum Health Corporation. The company operates 25 of the fifty hospitals in the United States that charge uninsured patients the most - all charge such patients more than ten times the actual cost of care. ==History== E. Thomas Chaney, former executive of Hospital Affiliates, Inc. and David Steffy and Richard Ragsdale, former executives at Hospital Corporation of America spinoff Republic Health Corporation, formed Community Health Systems in 1985. The company made its initial public offering in 1991. In 1996, the company was purchased by private equity firm Forstmann Little & Company. Community Health Systems went public again in 2000. In August 2003, the company acquires Southside Regional Medical Center.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Community Health Systems Acquires Southside Regional Medical Center in Petersburg, Virginia )〕 The company's flagship, and largest hospital by number of beds is Trinity Medical Center located in Birmingham, Alabama with 534 beds. Trinity is due to be replaced by its new 13 story Grandview Medical Center hospital, the former HealthSouth Medical Center in 2015. In 2007, Community Health Systems purchased McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Springfield, Oregon.〔http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2003/01/27/daily43.html?jst=s_cn_hl〕 In 2010, the hospital's healthcare workers' union, SEIU, Local 49, claimed that workload increases, slashed benefits, and staff reductions had lowered the quality of both patient care and quality of life for employees.〔http://special.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/24964207-35/hospital-mckenzie-willamette-health-hagins.csp〕 The union, in its "Profits Before Community" campaign against the hospital, continues to highlight that profits have tripled while charitable care and employee benefits have steadily decreased since the hospital moved from a non-profit to a for-profit enterprise under CHS.〔http://www.seiu49.org/2013/12/11/mckenzie-willamette-profits-before-community/〕 After the latest round of negotiations with this Fortune 500's Oregon holding, another round of cuts means that "30 workers are aware that they will no longer have a job with benefits after the new year."〔http://www.registerguard.com/rg/news/local/30885915-75/hospital-workers-union-care-willamette.html.csp〕 In 2011, it was accused by Tenet Healthcare of overbilling Medicare in its aggressive admissions policy compared to its peers. It was subpoenaed by Medicare on its aggressive billing to the Medicare systems. In 2013, Community Health Systems entered into an agreement with Health Management Associates to purchase HMA for about $3.6 billion in cash and stock. The merger was completed in January 2014 and made Community Health Systems the largest for-profit hospital operator at the time, with 206 hospitals in 29 states. It was reported on August 18, 2014 that hackers broke into Community Health System's records system and stole data on 4.5 million patients. This data included names, Social Security numbers, physical addresses, birthdays and telephone numbers. CHS provided all patients whose records were impacted with free identity theft protection. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Community Health Systems」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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