---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-022328"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CYH"
cik: "0001108109"
company_name: "COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T13:57:19.889537+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Community Health Systems Q4 net loss $70M; adjusted EBITDA up to $428M; same-store admissions +3.4%

## Summary
- Net loss $(70)M ($0.53 diluted); adjusted EPS $(0.42) vs $(0.41) prior year.
- Adjusted EBITDA $428M vs $386M Q4 2023, driven by volume and reimbursement gains.
- Same-store admissions +3.4%, adjusted admissions +3.1%; net revenues $3.265B (+2.6%).
- FY 2024 net loss $(516)M ($3.90 diluted); adjusted EBITDA $1.54B vs $1.45B.
- Provided 2025 annual guidance (details in press release pages 16-20).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-022328
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CYH
- cik: 0001108109
- company_name: COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000095017025022328/0000950170-25-022328-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000095017025022328/cyh-20250218.htm

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