Community Hospital Corporation founding CEO Michael Williams has announced that he will retire once a new chief is named by the board.

The Plano-based hospital system and consulting group launched under Williams’ leadership in 1996. Then a conglomerate of 13 nonprofit and for-profit community owned systems, CHC now has relationships with close to 30 hospitals throughout the country that serve smaller cities and rural areas. It offers help managing hospitals, navigating group contracts, and is noted for walking rural hospitals away from the edge.

Read the full Dallas/Fort Worth D Healthcare Daily article (July 7, 2016).