POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all by these presents, that the undersigned officer and/or director
(herein, the Filer) of COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC., (the Company) hereby
constitutes and appoints each of RACHEL A. SEIFERT, W. LARRY CASH, GREGORY L.
GRISSOM and CHRISTOPHER G. COBB, signing singly, the Filers true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to: 1. execute for and on behalf of the Filer, a FORM ID (or
any such form as may be adopted) for the purpose of obtaining on behalf of
Filer, a CIK, CCC and other filing codes and related items from the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the SEC) as necessary to permit each such Filer to make
filings on the SECs Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system,
and to perform all acts necessary in order to obtain such codes and related
items as he or she shall deem appropriate; 2. execute for and on behalf of the
Filer, in the Filers capacity as an officer and/or director of the Company,
Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder; 3. do and
perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the Filer which may be necessary
or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and
execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or
similar authority; and 4. take any other action of any type whatsoever in
connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact,
may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by the Filer
in his or her capacity as an officer and/or director of the Company, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
Filer pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain
such terms and conditions as
such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion. The
Filer hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do
and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or
proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein
granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could
do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or
substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of
attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The Filer acknowledges that
the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of
the Filer, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the Filers
responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the Filer is
no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the Filer's
holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier
revoked by the Filer in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Filer has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed
as of this 18th day of January, 2014.
/s/ Martin Bonick
Martin Bonick