Community Health Systems

Match made in medicine! Congratulations to Carinne Cheney, for matching with the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Tennova Healthcare- North Knoxville Medical Center. Match Day 2025 was a resounding success, and we are proud to welcome 186 graduating medical students into our residency programs, sponsored by Health Education Services, CHS's ACGME-accredited Graduate Medical Education sponsoring institution. To Carinne, and all of our incoming residents, welcome to the CHS team. And to all of the thousands of future physicians, congratulations! The future of medicine looks bright! #MatchDay | #MatchDay2025

Our hearts go out to everyone affected by the devastating storms and tornadoes that swept across the U.S. this past week. An EF-3 tornado came within a mile of Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, impacting more than 500 homes and businesses. The Poplar Bluff team quickly stepped up to take care of their community, treating dozens of neighbors needing emergency care and participating in local search and rescue efforts. The CHS Cares Fund—a 501(c)(3) charity that helps our employees impacted by natural disasters, personal tragedies and other difficult experiences—is supporting Poplar Bluff employees as they recover and start to rebuild. If you’re interested in donating to the fund, learn more at cfmt.org/chs #PBStrong | #PoplarBluffStrong

It's crunch time! Our CEO Tim Hingtgen is pitching in as we make a last call for peanut butter. Everyone, we need your contributions to help fight hunger right now. Our third annual Jars of Love Peanut Butter Drive is ending soon so we're asking employees, business partners, and friends to help us hit our goal of 100,000 jars to donate to food banks in the communities we serve. You can help hungry families by donating at your CHS health system or shipping peanut butter directly to our office (address in comments below). Every jar counts, so we're counting on YOU. And, thanks to everyone who has contributed so far!

We’re calling on our LinkedIn community to help us spread the word and spread the love as we work to collect 100,000 jars of peanut butter during our third annual Jars of Love Peanut Butter Drive. If you work in the CHS organization or are a business partner, will you consider helping us fill our bins with enough peanut butter to make more than a million sandwiches? You'll be helping us fill up and fuel families experiencing hunger. Shipping address in the comment section below.

We believe zero events of preventable harm is truly possible—and the only acceptable target that aligns with safety as a core value. And that's why we're so proud of our progress in this area. By the end of 2024, we had achieved our best-ever reduction in our serious safety event rate, down 90% since 2013. This #PatientSafetyWeek, we want to say thank you, to everyone across the CHS organization, for making patient safety the number one priority, and treating every week like it's Patient Safety Awareness Week.

It's time to spread the love again! Our third annual Jars of Love Peanut Butter Drive starts now! And we're calling on our colleagues, friends and business partners to help us collect as many jars of peanut butter as possible. Last year, we collected enough peanut butter to make over 1.4 million sandwiches. This year, let's stick together and top that number to alleviate hunger pangs in every community we serve! Spread the word. Spread the love. And help us spread some peanut butter where it's needed.

Congratulations to the Woodland Heights Medical Center team for completing their emergency department expansion, more than doubling the number of treatment rooms and ensuring critical care is available when needed. $13.5 million has recently been invested in the Lufkin, Texas, health system as patient encounters continue to increase. In fact, they saw 30,000 patients in their ED last year and consistently met their pledge to have all patients seen in 30 minutes or less. Across CHS, investments like these are expanding access to healthcare services for our communities and providing life-saving care when minutes matter.   

GraceWorks Ministries recognizes that when people are in need, their circumstances are often unique. That's why GraceWorks offers personalized support to address the many social determinants of health and well-being. From housing, to food and clothing, to financial assistance and counseling, GraceWorks provides a comprehensive safety net for low-income individuals. Last year, GraceWorks offered wraparound services to more than 13,500 residents in Williamson County. We're proud to be part of GraceWorks' mission of "Neighbor serving Neighbor," and we encourage others to lend a hand, too: GraceWorksTN.org #CommunityImpact | #SDoH

The CHS Cares Fund is a 501(c)(3) charity that helps our employees impacted by natural disasters, personal tragedies and other difficult experiences. Since its inception in 2017, the CHS Cares Fund awarded over $7 million in grants to help nearly 4,000 colleagues in need. Grants through the CHS Cares Fund help pay for essential living expenses, like housing, food, clothing and other basic necessities, giving employees a pathway back to stability. Anyone can donate to the fund at CFMT.org/CHS #CommunityImpact | #DisasterRelief

Safe Haven Family Shelter has supported Middle Tennesseans experiencing homelessness for more than four decades, and strives to create an equitable future where family homelessness is rare, brief, and non-recurring. Last year, Safe Haven made 100 housing placements and served 259 families in our community. Right now, there are more than 500 families across the Greater Nashville Area waiting for housing support. Safe Haven's goal is to house 50 of those families in the first half of 2025. YOU can help make an impact at SafeHaven.org #CommunityImpact | #EndFamilyHomelessness