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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-135399"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CYH"
cik: "0001108109"
company_name: "COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2024-12-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T04:35:19.919949+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Community Health Systems agrees to sell Lake Norman Regional Medical Center to Duke Health for $280M

## Summary
- Asset sale price of approximately $280 million, subject to net working capital and lease adjustments.
- 123-bed Lake Norman Regional Medical Center in Mooresville, NC, and related businesses included.
- Transaction expected to close in Q1 2025, pending HSR antitrust clearance and other conditions.
- Hospital was among previously disclosed potential divestitures from Q3 2024 earnings call.
- CHS will provide transition services to Duke Health post-closing via ancillary agreements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-135399
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CYH
- cik: 0001108109
- company_name: COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2024-12-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000095017024135399/0000950170-24-135399-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000095017024135399/cyh-20241211.htm

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