Pros
The CHS corporation provides the basis for Directors to gain some advantage by networking and purchasing. But this is driven by the individual and what they can do with these limited resources.
Cons
CHS in their style of management over the hospital brought out the worst features of corporate culture and administrators that resulted in a toxic workplace along with a migration of employees and physicians. The community of physicians have all come to understand the business model of CHS is not really about healthcare or patient outcomes. It is putting profit before patients and enforces this at each facility through the C-level folks that have been vetted for their compliance with the corporate dictates. CHS has brought out the very worst in managerial behavior in the administrators it controls. Through the salary bonuses or the threat of unemployment these hospital leaders will do whatever they are told and given free reign to use their positions of power to execute petty jealousy, or dispatch those who might know more or be more astute at running the organization. It doesn't matter the reason, the insecure leaders lash out at anyone they brand as a low performer, instigator, agitator--or the worst of all, a leader amongst the staff that instills real loyalty and teamwork. Real loyalty and staff support are things these corporate inflated egotistical administrators will never know. More importantly, those things are really not highly valued because the CHS system thinks it can buy them. Fear and power are the key words. It is sad to see the corruption of potentially good leaders take a hospital down to some factory mindset where staff become commodities and employee engagement is mandated under duress. Of course hospitals need to make money to stay in the business of healthcare--but CHS operates openly in the communities where they are located as a healthcare dollar extraction machine. Designed to get the most money it can from the community it "serves".