---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-088004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CYH"
cik: "0001108109"
company_name: "COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2024-07-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T14:52:29.017749+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Community Health Systems agrees to sell three Pennsylvania hospitals for $120M

## Summary
- Acute care hospitals sold: Regional Hospital of Scranton (186 beds), Moses Taylor Hospital (122 beds), Wilkes-Barre General Hospital (369 beds).
- Purchase price $120M includes a $10M prepayment for IT transition services; subject to working capital and lease adjustments.
- Transaction expected to close in Q4 2024, pending customary regulatory approvals and closing conditions.
- Hospitals were among the additional potential divestitures highlighted on the Q2 2024 earnings call.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-088004
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CYH
- cik: 0001108109
- company_name: COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2024-07-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000095017024088004/0000950170-24-088004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000095017024088004/cyh-20240730.htm

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