The Workforce AI Index · Healthcare
Community Health Systems, Inc. (CYH)
Hospital operator, one pattern with physician practices. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-19. Ranked 9 of the 27 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states approximately 57,000 employees with 13,000 part-time and about 3,100 employed clinicians, so the hospital pattern carries most of the workforce (c) with the practices by count (a).
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 28% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 38% at the end of 2028, 39% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 39% desk work, 25% people work and 36% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 60% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 33% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
57,000 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). The filing describes U.S. hospitals and gives no count by country.
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, we had approximately 57,000 employees, including approximately 13,000 part-time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| General Medical and Surgical Hospitals | 90% | By description (c): acute care hospitals and their outpatient facilities, the industry its SIC code names, with no count by facility type. |
| Offices of Physicians | 10% | By stated counts (a): approximately 1,700 employed physicians and 1,400 licensed practitioners in its practices, with the clinic staff around them by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 57,000 employees including 13,000 part-time, down from 60,000; about 1,700 employed physicians and 1,400 licensed practitioners; unions at three hospitals; a centralized clinical recruiting function and hospital-based nursing programs the filing describes against nurse shortages.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also General Medical and Surgical Hospitals, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- HCA Healthcare (HCA, 320,000 employees)27% now, 37% by 2028
- Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS, 101,500 employees)25% now, 35% by 2028
- Tenet Healthcare Corporation (THC, 99,000 employees)28% now, 38% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
19 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 19 sentences: AI and machine learning in maternal and fetal monitoring and remote monitoring programs, AI in Medicare's review model, and AI among its regulatory and risk matters.
- “We are also deploying innovative programs to deliver better outcomes including, for example, remote monitoring for patients with certain chronic conditions, maternal/fetal monitoring using artificial intelligence, or AI, and machine learning, or ML, as well as tele-sitting technology.”
- “These legal and regulatory standards address, among other issues, licensure, certification, and enrollment with government programs; the necessity and adequacy of medical care; quality of medical equipment and services; qualifications and supervision of medical and support personnel; the provision of services via telehealth; operating policies and procedures; screening, stabilization and transf...”
- “Under the WISeR model, CMS will contract with technology vendors tasked with using enhanced technologies, including AI, to streamline medical necessity review for selected items and services under traditional fee-for-service Medicare.”
- “These laws and regulations include requirements related to licensure, certification, and enrollment with government programs; the necessity and adequacy of medical care; quality of medical equipment and services; qualifications and supervision of medical and support personnel; the provision of services via telehealth; operating policies and procedures; screening, stabilization and transfer of i...”
- “Current and future initiatives related to healthcare technology (including AI/ML), data sharing, and interoperability may require changes to our operations, impose new and complex obligations on us, affect our relationships with providers, vendors, healthcare information exchanges and other third parties and require investments in infrastructure.”
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 57,000 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 60,000 | 2025-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 61,000 | 2024-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 66,000 | 2023-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 66,000 | 2022-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 70,000 | 2021-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 80,000 | 2020-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 87,000 | 2019-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 95,000 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 120,000 | 2017-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 137,000 | 2016-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 135,000 | 2015-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 69,000 | 2014-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 72,000 | 2013-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 66,000 | 2012-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 64,000 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 58,555 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 55,579 | 2009-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 59,000 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 27,000 | 2007-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 21,600 | 2006-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 20,900 | 2005-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 20,200 | 2004-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 14,900 | 2003-03-27 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 13,200 | 2002-03-27 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 14,073 | 2001-03-29 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts physicians and practitioners but no other group; the hospital pattern rests on its description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-059509, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of Community Health Systems, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 28% now and 38% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Community Health Systems, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Community Health Systems, Inc. employ?
- 57,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Community Health Systems, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest General Medical and Surgical Hospitals; by those patterns the work is about 39% desk work, 25% people work and 36% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Community Health Systems, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 19 sentences in the filing name AI. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 1, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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