Community Health Systems Inc. added Elizabeth Hirsch to its board.

The company said Hirsch's term will expire at the 2019 annual meeting of stockholders.

Hirsch was the vice president of Praxair Inc., a Danbury, Conn.-based supplier of industrial gases and coatings and related healthcare services and technologies, from 2010 until her retirement in August 2016.

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems owns and operates general acute care hospitals in the U.S.