Comprehensive Income (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Stockholders' Equity & Comprehensive Income [Abstract]

Components of comprehensive income, net of related taxes


	Three Months Ended						Six Months Ended
	June 30,						June 30,
	2011			2010			2011		2010
Net income	$	53,547		$	86,342		$	131,872	$	171,338
Net change in fair value of interest rate swaps		(8,969	)		(33,694	)		27,477		(45,051	)
Net change in fair value of available-for-sale securities		268			476			1,338		630
Amortization and recognition of unrecognized pension cost components		807			758			1,579		5,233

Comprehensive income		45,653			53,882			162,266		132,150
Less: Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests		18,158			16,277			35,159		31,266

Comprehensive income attributable to Community Health Systems, Inc.	$	27,495		$	37,605		$	127,107	$	100,884

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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