Gordon Carlisle, Vice President, Facilities Management

Gordon Carlisle serves as Vice President of Facility Management for Community Health Systems where he is responsible for the design and construction of existing and new facilities and the maintenance and engineering activities required to maintain those facilities. Prior to joining CHS in 1998, Carlisle was a principal at META Associates, a program management firm. He also served in the United States Marine Corp. Carlisle holds a bachelor’s degree in construction management from East Carolina University and a master’s degree in business administration from Indiana University.

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Chad Campbell, President, Region 2 Operations

Chad A. Campbell serves as the President of Region 2 Operations for Community Health Systems, overseeing the Company’s affiliated hospitals in Alaska, Arizona, Tennessee and Texas. Originally joining CHS in 2007, Campbell served in various hospital executive roles, including as chief executive officer at several of the Company’s affiliated hospitals in the western United States. He was chief executive officer at McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center, a former CHS affiliated hospital in Springfield, Oregon, when that hospital was included in the Company’s spin-off of Quorum Health Corporation in 2016. He continued in that role with Quorum until rejoining CHS in 2018 as a vice president of division operations. He was promoted to Regional President in 2019. He holds a master’s degree in health care administration from Trinity University and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Texas State University.

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Kevin Stockton, Executive Vice President, Operations and Development

Kevin A. Stockton serves as Executive Vice President of Operations and Development, overseeing the Company’s growth and business development, strategic partnerships, value-based care models, behavioral health, post-acute services, physician practice management, and other non-acute services. Stockton previously served as President of Region 2 Operations for Community Health Systems, overseeing the Company’s affiliated hospitals in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Missouri and New Mexico. He joined CHS in 2011 as chief executive officer of Northwest Medical Center, the Company’s affiliated hospital in Tucson, Arizona. He was promoted to market chief executive officer for Arizona in 2015 before being promoted to Regional President in 2017. Prior to joining CHS, Stockton served in hospital executive roles, including as chief executive officer and chief operating officer, for hospitals in the western United States. He holds both a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in public administration from the University of Arizona.

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Mark Medley, President, Region 3 Operations

Mark B. Medley serves as the President of Region 3 Operations for Community Health Systems, overseeing the Company’s affiliated hospitals in Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. Before joining CHS in 2019, he was the chief executive officer and owner of Alee Healthcare Advisory Services, and executive vice president and group president at RCCH Healthcare Partners. He also served in various executive roles with Capella Healthcare, Inc., including service on Capella’s board of directors, and in both corporate and hospital executive roles with other hospital operators primarily in the southeastern United States. He holds a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in healthcare management from Western Governors University, a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Tennessee Technological University and is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

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Brad Cash, Executive Vice President, Financial Operations

Brad Cash joined CHS in 1998 as a Chief Financial Officer Trainee/Finance Analyst. He held several hospital CFO roles before being promoted to Divisional Vice President of Finance in 2007 and Executive Vice President of Financial Operations in 2021. Cash oversees Regional Financial Operations, Supply Chain Operations, Revenue Cycle, Managed Care, Ambulatory Service Centers, Physician Practice Finance and Data Analytics. Cash holds a master’s degree in business with an emphasis in healthcare management from Regis University, and a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Transylvania University.

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Susan Schrupp, Senior Vice President and Chief Purchasing Officer

Susan Schrupp oversees the Supply Chain purchasing and procure-to-pay process for Community Health Systems and its affiliates. Additional areas of responsibility include oversight of Contract Administration, Travel, Clinical Equipment/Biomedical Function and the Laboratory and Imaging Services lines. Schrupp also represents CHS by serving on the Equity Board of HealthTrust Purchasing Group. She joined CHS in 2018 with more than 20 years of experience in healthcare supply chain and healthcare group purchasing organizations including Novant, Sentara Health, Catholic Health Initiatives, Premier, Consorta and HealthTrust. Schrupp holds a master’s degree in business and a bachelor’s degree in health services administration from Western Illinois University.

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James M. (Matt) Hayes, Interim President, Region 1 Operations

Matt Hayes is currently serving as Interim President of Region 1 Operations, which includes the Company’s affiliated hospitals in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Mississippi.

Before moving into this role on an interim basis, Hayes was responsible for the company’s human capital and services, including talent acquisition, leadership and organizational development, compensation benefits, labor and employee relations, diversity, equity and inclusion, and employee engagement. Hayes has more than two decades of hospital management experience, including work with hospitals, markets and divisions affiliated with CHS, Health Management Associates and Quorum Health Corporation. He earned a master’s degree in health care administration and policy from The Medical University of South Carolina, a master’s degree in business administration from The University of Alabama at Birmingham and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Auburn University. Hayes is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

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Justin Pitt, President and Chief Legal and Administrative Officer and Assistant Secretary

Justin D. Pitt serves as President and Chief Legal and Administrative Officer and Assistant Secretary. In this role, he has leadership responsibility for our legal function and services, strategy and operational alignment, government relations, risk management including enterprise risk management, human resources and governance. Mr. Pitt joined us in 2009 as Litigation Counsel after several years of private practice as a litigator and lobbyist to the Tennessee General Assembly. In 2017, he was promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Litigation Counsel. In that role, he served as our primary counsel for litigation, managed care, reimbursement and other legal matters and also oversaw the operations of the legal and government relations departments. He was promoted to Executive Vice President and General Counsel in 2022 and to President and Chief Legal and Administrative Officer in February 2025. Mr. Pitt serves as a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and as member of the board of governors of the Federation of American Hospitals. He is a fellow of the Nashville Health Care Council and a member of the Leaders Council of the Legal Services Corporation, the largest funder of civil legal aid for low income Americans in the United States. Mr. Pitt is also a member of the board of trustees of Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. He received his law degree, Order of the Coif, from Washington University School of Law, where he was a William Webster Fellow.

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Michael M. Lynd, Senior Vice President, Financial Services

Michael Lynd joined CHS in 2001 as Corporate Accounting Manager. He was promoted to Director of Corporate Accounting in 2004, Vice President of Internal Audit in 2007, Vice President of Financial Services in 2012 and Senior Vice President of Financial Services in 2015. Lynd oversees the Patient Financial Services group and internal collection agency. He has served as chairman of the Risk Committee, a member of the Disclosure Committee, and contributed to the development of the company-wide financial policies and procedures. With more than 15 years of accounting and audit experience, Lynd previously was a senior associate in the audit division at Deloitte & Touche, LLP, where he supervised audits of large, publicly traded companies and governmental agencies.

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