Note 2. – Business Operations

Business Operations

SunLink Health Systems, Inc. subsidiaries provide healthcare services in certain rural and exurban markets in the United States. SunLink’s business is composed of the ownership of subsidiaries which operate two business segments:

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Healthcare Facilities, which consist of

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Our four community hospitals which have a total of 232 licensed beds;

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Our two nursing homes, which have a total of 166 licensed beds, each of which is located adjacent to a corresponding SunLink community hospital; and

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One hospital facility and related equipment formerly leased to a third party hospital operator.

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Specialty Pharmacy, which consists of

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Specialty pharmacy services;

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Durable medical equipment;

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Institutional pharmacy services; and

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Retail pharmacy products and services, all of which are conducted in rural markets.

SunLink subsidiaries have conducted the healthcare facilities business since 2001 and the specialty pharmacy business since April 2008. The Specialty Pharmacy Segment currently is operated through Carmichael’s Cashway Pharmacy, Inc. (“Carmichael”), a subsidiary of SunLink ScriptsRx, LLC subsidiary, and is composed of a specialty pharmacy business acquired in April 2008 with four service lines.

SunLink’s Board and management have determined to focus the Company’s strategic investments on enhancing the existing hospital portfolio, including the selective disposal of underperforming and non-strategic subsidiaries. The Company believes certain of its four remaining hospital facilities (exclusive of its specialty pharmacy business) are presently underperforming and currently is evaluating the possible sale of one or more of these hospital facilities. There is no assurance any sale will occur or that, if a sale occurs, it will be at a price that results in a gain or net proceeds after transaction costs, taxes and outstanding debt. The Company expects to use a portion of the net proceeds, if any, from future asset sales to fund its working capital needs and for other corporate purposes.

On February 5, 2013, the Company announced the commencement of a tender offer to purchase at the price of $1.50 per share in cash all of its common shares held by holders of 99 or fewer shares (“odd lots”) who owned such shares as of the close of business on January 31, 2013 (“Odd Lot Tender Offer”). In addition to the $1.50 per share price, the Company offered each eligible tendering holder a bonus of $100 upon completion of the Odd Lot Tender Offer for the tender of all shares beneficially owned by such holder which were received and not withdrawn prior to the date of expiration of the Odd Lot Tender Offer, which was March 26, 2013. In accordance with the terms and conditions of the Offer, SunLink accepted for purchase a total of 2,631 common shares of SunLink tendered by 68 holders pursuant to the Offer. As a result of the completion of the Offer, immediately following payment for the tendered shares, the Company has approximately 9,443,334 common shares issued and outstanding and held by approximately 480 stockholders of record. The shares repurchased were retired immediately. The aggregate cash cost of the Odd Lot Tender Offer was $195 and was recorded in equity. Included in the cash cost are purchase price for the odd lot shares of $4, aggregate bonus payments of $7 and fees and expenses of $184.

The primary purpose of the Odd Lot Tender Offer was to reduce the number of holders of record of the Company’s common shares in order to permit the Company to deregister the common shares with the SEC. The Company’s Board and management each believes that deregistering the Company’s common shares will result in significant cost savings. Since the Offer failed to accomplish the objective of reducing the number of record holders to fewer than 300, SunLink anticipates that it will take further actions to reduce the number of holders of record of the Company’s common shares in order to permit the Company to deregister the common shares with the SEC. As previously disclosed in the Company’s offer to purchase, the Board will likely consider other alternatives to achieve that result, including a further tender offer, a reverse stock split or cash out merger (in which a new corporation is formed to merge with the Company and holders of a limited number of Company shares are cashed out), so long as the Board continues to believe that deregistration remains in the Company’s best interests.