Mr. Hammons was appointed CEO of Community Health Systems in December 2025, culminating nearly 30 years of leadership roles at the company. He now holds responsibility for strategic and operational priorities across more than 60 acute-care hospitals and hundreds of additional sites of patient care, including physician practices, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers and freestanding emergency rooms. Immediately upon assuming the role, he designed and deployed an organizationwide emphasis on advancing clinical quality, patient experience, and physician and employee engagement, while continuing to strengthen the company’s financial position. Prior to becoming CEO, Mr. Hammons served as the company’s CFO, overseeing corporate finance, treasury management, accounting and financial reporting, capital market transactions and investor relations. In that role, he led a multiyear implementation of a shared business operations center and an enterprise resource planning platform that has modernized key business processes and generated data-rich insights into efficiency opportunities. He also directed a divestiture program that has repositioned and strengthened both the company’s balance sheet and its hospital portfolio. He was recognized as theNashville Business Journal‘s “CFO of the Year” in 2021.
