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SCHEDULE
14A
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Community
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In its Proxy Statement for the Annual
Meeting of Stockholders of Community Health Systems, Inc. (the “Company”) to be
held on May 19, 2009, the Company described Change in Control Severance
Agreements that it had entered into with its officers. Management of
the Company intends to recommend to the Compensation Committee of the Board of
Directors that future change in control severance agreements not contain tax
gross-up provisions, and that in the event the existing agreements are
materially modified or amended, the tax gross-up provisions will be
deleted. The Company expects the Compensation Committee to consider
these recommendations in conjunction with the Board of Directors meeting to be
held on May 19, 2009.