Tennessee

I can say, CHS bought up a bunch of struggling hospitals and did little in the way of turning them around. Ironically, some of these hospitals are relatively new, like less than ten years old, but they were poorly thought out. For example, one CHS hospital is Baptist in Knoxville. The current hospital was built when the Baptist East Tn hospital system was still a thing in 2006. They built a huge new hospital in an area of town that was expanding, but there was already an established hospital in that area. The new Baptist never took off and ultimately ended up resulting in the closure of the downtown Baptist flagship and the demise of the Baptist system. When CHS took over, they did little to nothing to turn around the hospital and every time I pass by there, the parking lot is basically empty.

My impression is that CHS wanted to compete with HCA without the planning or business sense.