Citizensvoice.com
3/12/2010
The nurses, represented by the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, allege officials from the hospital owned by Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems are bargaining in bad faith and have made "illegal, unilateral" changes to their employment terms.
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Nashville Post Business
4/6/09
"CHS came to bargaining with proposals to slash our benefits and reduce our pay," said Teri Nicholson, RN at Valley Hospital and Medical Center (in Spokane, Washington) "After all the promises we had heard, we were just shocked. CHS is a very profitable company. We don't have much choice but to picket and let our community know what is happening."
Fierce Healthcare.com
2/25/2008
The U.S. Department of Justice already had let the world know that hospitals run by Community Health Systems had submitted improper claims. Now, the government has attached a number to CHS's alleged indiscretions...
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Forbes.com
Compensation in 2008 for Wayne Smith, CEO of CHS, was in excess of $16.9 million.
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I do NOT support the sale of MHHS to CHS/Lakeway Hospital or any other for profit corporation.
In recent weeks, Morristown Hamblen Healthcare System (MHHS) has become the target of a campaign by Lakeway Regional Hospital and its for-profit parent corporation, Community Health Systems, to take over our hospital, ending our 50-year mission to provide quality not-for-profit community and charity care for our area.
Lakeway Regional/Community Health's intentions are simply to leave only a for-profit health care option here that they can control from their corporate offices located hundreds of miles away.
For more than 18 months, MHHS has been working on a plan to expand its services by aligning with another not-for-profit health care system that shares its mission. For the past few months, the Board of MHHS has been in negotiations with Covenant Health about merging, which would allow MHHS to pay off its county debt and offer more services locally.
The Board of MHHS cannot, because of legal restrictions, discuss terms of the proposed merger still being negotiated with Covenant Health. The leadership of Lakeway Regional/Community Health knows about these legal restrictions and has decided to take advantage of the situation by suggesting publicly that the MHHS Board is not being transparent about the process.
Lakeway Regional/Community Health's recent actions are intended to disrupt these negotiations so that they can pursue their plans to have only a for-profit health care option in Morristown.
It's disappointing that a corporation located hundreds of miles from our community is questioning our local board's integrity. We are also disappointed with Lakeway Regional/CHS's statements and paid advertising that the Board and leadership of MHHS does not have the best interests of our community in mind. MHHS Board members and Trustees represent all areas of the community. They all live and work in this community and have devoted their time and energy, without compensation, toward finding ways to improve the quality of health care for the people of Morristown and the Lakeway area.
If you share our concern and want to keep MHHS a strong health care option for our community, please sign up today.