Wayne Smith news and information

Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn., announced its third acquisition in Pennsylvania in a little more than a year. The for-profit hospital operator closed on a deal to acquire Memorial Health Systems, York, Pa.
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The healthcare reform law created a flurry of activity among hospitals and systems laying the groundwork to get in on Medicare's new incentive programs for accountable care organizations.
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The unsuccessful takeover attempt Community Health Systems waged to acquire Tenet Healthcare Corp. became one of the uglier hostile merger bids in the hospital space.
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LONGVIEW, Texas—Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn., has completed its acquisition of Diagnostic Clinic of Longview. The multispecialty clinic, which serves the East Texas city and surrounding areas, will merge with a CHS subsidiary, 112-bed Longview Regional Medical Center,...
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Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn., has completed its acquisition of Diagnostic Clinic of Longview (Texas).
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The Federation of American Hospitals elected Wayne Smith, president and CEO of Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn., as its new chairman of the board, effective Monday.
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Community Health Systems has completed its acquisition of MetroSouth Medical Center, a suburban Chicago hospital once destined for closure.
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Community Health Systems said it reached a definitive agreement to acquire Memorial Hospital in York, Pa., which would be the hospital chain's 17th hospital in Pennsylvania.
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SCRANTON, Pa.—Community Health Systems has completed its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Moses Taylor Health Care System, a two-hospital system in northeast Pennsylvania.
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CEOs at publicly traded healthcare providers have a big personal incentive to try to engineer a rebound in their companies' share prices: CEO personal holdings at their respective companies are down more than $180 million in value this year.
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