---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-314292"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CYH"
cik: "0001108109"
company_name: "COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:37:13.275000+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CHS appoints Kevin Hammons as CEO and Jason Johnson as CFO, effective immediately

## Summary
- Kevin Hammons appointed CEO and board member; previously interim CEO and CFO since Jan 2020.
- Jason Johnson appointed Executive VP and CFO; previously interim CFO and Chief Accounting Officer.
- Phillip Posey named Senior VP and Chief Accounting Officer effective Jan 1, 2026, replacing Johnson.
- All appointments effective Dec 10, 2025; Hammons and Johnson served in interim roles since Oct 1.
- Chairman Wayne Smith expresses confidence in the leadership team.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-314292
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CYH
- cik: 0001108109
- company_name: COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312525314292/0001193125-25-314292-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312525314292/cyh-20251210.htm

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