Lincoln Land Community College (LLCC) and Memorial Health System (MHS) have announced a nursing education partnership to address the regional nursing shortage. With support from MHS, LLCC will admit 90 additional students per year to the college’s associate degree nursing program, for a total of 215 new nursing students annually. MHS will provide approximately $6.1 [...]
Brad Reach is the new vice president and chief financial officer for Springfield Clinic. Reach most recently served as CFO of Arkansas Heart Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru, Illinois. Prior to that, Reach served in various finance roles at OSF St. Francis Medical Center and Heartland Regional Medical [...]
Jack O’Hara is the new vice president and chief information officer for Springfield Clinic. Most recently, O’Hara served as an IT site director for the Manhattan downtown campus of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. Previously, he held leadership positions at Allscripts Healthcare, NYU-Winthrop University Hospital and Siemens Healthcare. O’Hara received his [...]
Dr. Kemia Sarraf, CEO of Lodestar Physician and Professional Coaching. PHOTO COURTESY KEMIA SARRAF BY ASHLEY MEYER Over the last decade, many of America’s other first responders – doctors, teachers, nurses and social workers – have been slowly running out of oxygen. These dedicated individuals who have often sacrificed years of their lives, [...]
HSHS Medical Group plans to acquire the Vita Center for Women, effective Oct. 21. Vita has locations in Decatur, Pana, Sullivan and Shelbyville, Illinois, in addition to caring for patients full time at Crossing Healthcare in Decatur. Six physicians and eight advanced practice clinicians will transition to HSHS Medical Group, along with colleagues at Vita [...]
Peoria-based Advanced Medical Transport of Central Illinois (AMT) has announced plans to acquire Springfield-based Medics First Mobile Intensive Care and expects the transfer of ownership to occur later this summer. Medics First, headquartered at 1600 Taylor Ave. in Springfield, was founded in 2008 by Larry Daugherty, Tracy Daugherty, Mike Dozier and Mark Ballinger. The company [...]
Decatur Memorial Hospital will become the second largest hospital in the Springfield-based Memorial Health System, pending regulatory approval. The boards of both nonprofit healthcare organizations reached an affiliation agreement in late April, with full affiliation set to occur on Oct. 1, 2019. “Remaining on the leading edge of health and patient care is critical to [...]
HSHS Medical Group has opened a new facility at 1304 W. Burnett Dr. in Taylorville which will be home to HSHS Medical Group Multispecialty Care and Prairie Cardiovascular. Providers caring for patients at the new location include Richard Del Valle, MD, FACP, internal medicine; Wendi Campbell, APRN, internal medicine; and Madhu Dukkipati, MD, FACC, FSCAI, [...]
Dr. Scott Boston, the chief medical officer of Passavant Area Hospital and an emergency medicine physician, has been approved by the hospital’s board of directors to serve as the next president and CEO of Passavant Area Hospital. He will assume his new role on June 3. Boston succeeds Harry Schmidt, who has served as Passavant’s [...]
E.J. Kuiper has been selected as the next president and CEO of HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield. Kuiper has already been serving in the role in an interim capacity since November, after Dr. Charles Lucore stepped down from HSHS to take a position as president of St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, New York. Kuiper [...]