Robert E. Farnham

Health Management Associates, Inc. through its subsidiaries owns and operates general acute care hospitals and other health care facilities in non-urban communities. The company provides various health services, such as general surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, emergency room care, radiology, oncology, diagnostic care, coronary care and pediatric services and also provides out patient services, such as one-day surgery, laboratory, x-ray, respiratory therapy, cardiology and physical therapy, cardiology, neuro-surgery, oncology, radiation therapy, computer-assisted tomography scanning, magnetic resonance imaging, lithotripsy and full-service obstetrics. The company was founded by Joseph Greene, Richard Schnatter, Jeff Jones and James Cheek in September 1977 and is headquartered in Naples, FL.

Southwest Physicians Risk Retention Group, Inc. (Invt Port) (Southwest-IP) is the investment portfolio division Southwest Physicians Risk Retention Group, Inc., an insurance company headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina. The firm is owned by Community Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CYH). Southwest-IP manages the client’s investment portfolio.