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Community Health Care, Inc. company history timeline

1985

When Community Health began operating in 1985, Ragsdales served as the company's chairman and Chaney served as its chief executive officer.

1986

The second hospital purchase took place soon thereafter in January 1986.

The hospital, acquired in January 1986, contained 34 licensed beds, the fewest number of beds acquired by the company during its first 20 years in business.

1990

In 1990, for instance, the company paid $850 million for Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. and sold the company six years later for $4 billion.

1993

Smith rose through the executive ranks at Humana, becoming its president and chief operating officer in 1993.

1994

In 1994, Forstmann Little paid $1.4 billion for Ziff-Davis Publishing and sold it the following year for $2.1 billion.

1994: The acquisition of Hallmark Healthcare nearly doubles the size of Community Health.

1995

1995: E. Thomas Chaney announces his intention to resign as chief executive officer.

1996

In March 1996, the New York-based investment banking firm Merrill Lynch was hired to solicit interest in the company.

That dream became a reality on May 1, 1996, when the largest not-for-profit hospice in the state was formed as Community Hospice of Texas in the DFW area and Providence Hospice in the Waco region.

In 1996 leaders from Harris Hospital, St Joseph Hospital (now Ascension Providence), and Huguley Hospital (now a Texas Health Resource partner) all had a vision.

1997

1997: Wayne T. Smith is named president and chief executive officer of Community Health.

1998

Revenue in 1998 exceeded $850 million, eclipsing the $1 billion mark the following year.

1999

By mid-1999, the company had acquired two more hospitals, giving it a total of 45 hospitals, and had signed letters of intent to acquire five more hospitals.

2000

June 2000: Community Health Systems, Inc. is taken public for the second time on the New York Stock Exchange trading under the symbol CYH with an initial offering price of $13 per share.

In June 2000, the company completed its IPO, raising $245 million from the offering and gaining another $269 million through a secondary offering of stock completed before the end of the year.

2002

Community Health adhered to a disciplined acquisition strategy, selecting hospitals that were ailing for reasons that were not related to the market they served. "You can fix bad hospitals; you can't fix bad markets," an analyst noted in the June 24, 2002 issue of Investor's Business Daily.

2004

2004: Forstmann Little divests its remaining stake in Community Health.

2007

July 2007: Community Health Systems, Inc. completes the acquisition of Triad Hospitals, Inc. adding more than 50 hospitals and nearly doubling the size of the organization.

2014

January 2014: Community Health Systems, Inc. completes the acquisition of Health Management Associates, Inc., adding approximately 70 hospitals to the organization.

2016

April 2016: On April 29, 2016, the organization formed a new, independent, publicly traded hospital company by spinning off a group of 38 hospitals and Quorum Health Resources, LLC, a leading hospital management and consulting firm.

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