A. The board of supervisors of a county with a population of more than one million five hundred thousand persons according to the most recent United States decennial census may enter into an operating agreement as provided by this chapter with a nonprofit corporation for purposes of:

1. 1. Acting as a provider of health care services for compensation.
2. 2. To assume the responsibility for managing, maintaining and operating a community health system, including health system assets that are transferred to the corporation pursuant to a lease agreement.