---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-134188"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CYH"
cik: "0001108109"
company_name: "COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2024-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T08:42:26.061924+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Community Health Systems elects Fawn Lopez as new independent director

## Summary
- Fawn Lopez, publisher emeritus of Modern Healthcare, joined the Board effective May 7, 2024.
- Lopez previously served as publisher of Modern Healthcare and VP at Crain Communications from 2005 to 2022.
- All 14 director nominees elected at annual meeting; say-on-pay and Deloitte ratification approved.
- Board now has 15 members including Chairman Wayne T. Smith, CEO Tim L. Hingtgen, and others.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-134188
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CYH
- cik: 0001108109
- company_name: COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2024-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312524134188/0001193125-24-134188-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312524134188/d784800d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-134188.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC shareholders approved Ratification of Deloitte & Touche LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 at the 2024-05-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-07
  source text: (3) The stockholders ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 104,149,732 2,671,709 1,362,802 n/a
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312524134188/0001193125-24-134188-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC shareholders approved Advisory resolution regarding the Company's executive compensation at the 2024-05-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-07
  source text: (2) The stockholders approved the advisory resolution regarding the Company’s executive compensation: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 85,372,087 2,764,296 167,284 19,880,576
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312524134188/0001193125-24-134188-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC shareholders approved Election of 14 directors at the 2024-05-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-07
  source text: (1) The stockholders elected each of the following persons as directors of the Company for terms that expire at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders of the Company and until their respective successors have been elected and have qualified: Name For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes (a) Susan W. Brooks 82,623,811 5,344,738 335,118 19,880,576
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312524134188/0001193125-24-134188-index.htm

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