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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-273982"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CYH"
cik: "0001108109"
company_name: "COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2021-09-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T03:25:13.003970+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Community Health Systems appoints Joseph A. Hastings to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Joseph A. Hastings, D.M.D., age 67, elected as director effective September 15, 2021.
- Term expires at 2022 Annual Meeting; board expanded from 11 to 12 directors.
- Hastings is a private practice orthodontist with 37+ years experience, formerly on Quorum Health board.
- Receives standard non-employee director compensation per 2021 proxy.
- No arrangements or related party transactions disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-273982
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CYH
- cik: 0001108109
- company_name: COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2021-09-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312521273982/0001193125-21-273982-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312521273982/d191236d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-273982
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-273982.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-273982.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joseph A. Hastings was elected as Director at COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On September 15 2021, Joseph A. Hastings, D.M.D. was elected as a director to the board of directors of Community Health Systems, Inc.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312521273982/0001193125-21-273982-index.htm

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