Plano, Texas-based Community Hospital Corp. owns, manages and consults with smaller market hospitals.
Here are 10 things to know about CHC:
1. Community Hospital Corp. dates back to 1996, when a group of nonprofit and community-owned health systems established the organization to preserve the nonprofit status of community-based hospitals and protect community hospitals from being acquired.
2. The organization's mission is to guide, support and enhance the mission of community hospitals and healthcare providers.
3. Community Hospital Corp. includes three distinct organizations. CHC Hospitals includes owned and leased hospitals where CHC serves as the corporate member. CHC Consulting, which was added in 2006, offers management services, as well as board advisory and operational and financial consulting. Finally, CHC ContinueCARE focuses on management and ownership of long-term acute-care hospitals as well as post-acute care management and consulting.
4. The nonprofit company owns or leases 10 acute and long-term acute-care hospitals in four states: Texas, New Mexico, Kentucky and North Carolina.
5. At the beginning of 2013, CHC had 67 corporate employees, and its employee satisfaction rating is high: it was in the 99th percentile for like companies in 2011 and 2012.
6. Mike Williams became CHC's founding executive when he joined the organization as president and CEO in 1997. He has more than 30 years of executive and board relationship management experience. Prior to 1997, Mr. Williams held leadership positions at various hospitals in the U.S., having served as president of Baptist Hospital in Knoxville, Tenn., and executive vice president and COO of The Children's Medical Center in Dallas, for example. He is a fellow and past regent with the American College of Healthcare Executives.
7. In 2007, CHC began offering supply chain management services. In 2013, its owned facilities and consulting clients had a combined annual supply spend of $165 million. Tony Ybarra serves as senior vice president of supply chain for CHC, a position he has held since 2007.
8. A magazine ad campaign for CHC won the Merit Award from the 11th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards. The campaign theme supports CHC's mission to guide, support and enhance community hospitals. "We are honored by this award. A team effort between our employees and our agency produced this success," said Cindy Matthews, executive vice president of CHC. "Most importantly, our work is focused on helping hospitals where they need it most." The campaign was designed by Dallas-based Vivanti Group.
9. Through May, CHC Consulting has struck up relationships with two new hospitals this year: Bowie (Texas) Memorial Hospital and Monroe County Hospital in Forsyth, Ga. The two hospitals are now among CHC Consulting's 12 hospitals it manages or strategically supports on a year-round basis. CHC’s work for hospitals spans more than 25 U.S. states
10. CHC's leadership team has grown leaps and bounds in the last year due to a growing client base. The organization recently added five new executives in various areas, including post-acute services and supply chain. "We are fortunate to have such a wealth of talent join our CHC family," Mr. Williams said. "We added to our team to better serve our clients and meet the needs of community hospitals and healthcare providers across the country."