Community Health Systems Announces That Rachel A. Seifert, Executive Vice President, Secretary & General Counsel, Will Retire...
January 18 2017 - 4:30PM
Business Wire
Community Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CYH) announced today that
Rachel A. Seifert, Executive Vice President, Secretary and General
Counsel, will retire at the end of March 2017. Seifert has served
as the Company’s General Counsel since joining the organization in
1998. Seifert oversees the Company’s legal department and serves as
Secretary to the Company’s Board of Directors.
Ben Fordham, who currently serves as Senior Vice President and
Chief Litigation Counsel at Community Health Systems, will be
appointed Interim General Counsel upon Seifert’s retirement.
Commenting on the announcement, Wayne T. Smith, chairman and
chief executive officer of Community Health Systems, Inc., said,
“Through nearly two decades of leadership, Rachel Seifert’s range
of responsibility has been broad and dynamic. She has provided
sharp counsel and management for all of the Company’s legal
matters, legal direction in support of all of our major
transactions and corporate financing, oversight for SEC compliance,
expertise on regulatory matters, and corporate governance support
for our Board of Directors. I am deeply grateful to Rachel for her
many contributions to our success.”
Seifert is a 19-year veteran of Community Health Systems and has
more than 35 years of legal experience. She joined Community Health
Systems as the first and only member of the Legal Department and
steadily assembled a strong team of attorneys. Prior to joining
Community Health Systems, Seifert worked for Columbia/HCA where she
served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel after
spending seven years in private law practice. She received her law
degree and bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland.
Fordham joined Community Health Systems in 2007 with 29-years of
private practice experience in litigation, mergers and
acquisitions, general business and health law. Fordham received his
undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Duke University and his
law degree from Vanderbilt University.
About Community Health Systems, Inc.
Community Health Systems, Inc. is one of the largest publicly
traded hospital companies in the United States and a leading
operator of general acute care hospitals in communities across the
country. The Company, through its subsidiaries, owns, leases or
operates 158 affiliated hospitals in 22 states with an aggregate of
nearly 27,000 licensed beds. The Company’s headquarters are located
in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb south of Nashville. Shares in
Community Health Systems, Inc. are traded on the New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol “CYH.” More information about the Company
can be found on its website at www.chs.net.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this news release regarding potential
transactions, operating results, and other events are
forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties.
Actual future events or results may differ materially from these
statements. Readers are referred to the documents filed
by Community Health Systems, Inc. with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the
Company’s annual report on Form 10-K, current reports on Form 8-K
and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. These filings identify
important risk factors and other uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ from those contained in the
forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to
revise or update any forward-looking statements, or to make any
other forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.
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