---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-353989"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CYH"
cik: "0001108109"
company_name: "COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2021-12-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T01:59:03.402833+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Community Health Systems Lead Director Julia B. North passes away at age [not specified]

## Summary
- Julia B. North, Lead Director and board member since 2004, died on December 9, 2021.
- She served as a guiding force on the board for 17 years, according to Executive Chairman Wayne T. Smith.
- No immediate replacement announced; company expresses gratitude for her service.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-353989
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CYH
- cik: 0001108109
- company_name: COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2021-12-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312521353989/0001193125-21-353989-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312521353989/d226936d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-353989
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-353989.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-353989.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Julia B. North departed as Lead Director at COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: passed away
  - Role: Lead Director
  source text: On December 10, 2021, Community Health Systems, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that Julia B. North, a member of the Company’s Board of Directors and its Lead Director, passed away on December 9, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312521353989/0001193125-21-353989-index.htm

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