title: Building a system, quietly. Community Health Systems takes advantage of private status to buy a cache of rural hospitals.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kirchheimer
mesh_terms: D006273:Health Facility Merger; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems; D013714:Tennessee; D014481:United States