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Health System Services company history timeline

1996

June 1996: An affiliate of Forstmann Little & Co. acquires the company in a $1.1 billion leveraged buyout.

In 1996, Clinton signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which established privacy standards for individuals.

1999

1999 The Martin Memorial Cancer Center, now the Robert and Carol Weissman Cancer Center, opens.

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.

By the year 2000, NHE accounted for 13.3 percent of GDP — just a 1.2 percent increase over the past decade.

2006

2006 The Frances Langford Heart Center opens its doors bringing open-heart surgery and interventional cardiology to Martin County.

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.

2011

2011 Martin Memorial Health Systems changes name to Martin Health System.

2013

2013 HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital at Martin Health opens on the Salerno Road campus in Stuart.

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.

Nevertheless, 8 million people signed up for insurance through the ACA Marketplace during the first open enrollment season, with enrollment peaking in 2016 at 12.2 million (with 10 million of those receiving subsidies to help pay for insurance).

2017

Since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017, many have questioned what would happen with our healthcare system — specifically, what would happen to the ACA, since Donald Trump ran on a platform of “repealing and replacing” the bill.

Lastly, in August of 2017, the Trump administration significantly cut federal spending on advertising promoting awareness of the ACA exchanges, as well cut spending on ACA "navigators" who served to guide people through the enrollment process.

2018

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the ACA has covered an average of 11.3 million annually since its inception, though 8.5% of the United States population (roughly 27.5 million Americans) remain uninsured, as reported by the KKF in 2018.

2019

2019 Martin Health System becomes part of Cleveland Clinic, a health system that is consistently ranked among the nation's best.

2020

Hungry to notch a win on healthcare prior to the 2020 election, the Trump administration continues to push ahead on initiatives designed to reign-in healthcare costs.

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1996
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John Rittenour
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