Company type | Nonprofit organization |
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Industry | Health care |
Founded | 1978 |
Founder | Hospital Sisters of Saint Francis |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Illinois, Wisconsin |
Key people | Damond Boatwright (President and CEO) Stephen J. Bochenek (Chairman) |
Number of employees | 14,626 [1] |
Website | hshs.org |
Hospital Sisters Health System, or HSHS, is a non-profit healthcare system headquartered in Springfield, Illinois. HSHS operates a network of 15 hospitals and other healthcare facilities throughout the midwestern U.S. states of Illinois, and Wisconsin. HSHS also operates St. John's College, the oldest Catholic hospital based nursing school in the United States. [2]
The Hospital Sisters of St. Francis was founded in Telgte, Germany in 1844, and came to Springfield, Illinois in 1875. [3] This same year, they founded their first hospital, St. John's Hospital. [4]
The Hospital Sisters Health System was created in 1978 by the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis to manage their network of hospitals in Illinois and Wisconsin. [4]
In 2008, HSHS created the HSHS Medical Group to help coordinate care between their hospitals. [3]
Type | Private medical school |
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Established | 1886, 138 years ago |
Affiliation | St. John's Hospital |
Chancellor | Charlene Aaron [23] |
Location | , , |
Website | sjcs.edu |
In 1886, the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis founded St. John's Hospital School of Nursing. [2]
At its inception, the college had a two-year diploma program for women in the religious order. [2] In 1912, the college began accepting laywomen. [2]
The college became accredited in 1952 by the National League for Nursing. [2]
In 1991, the college became St. John's College, and began offering a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master's of Science in Nursing. [2]
St. John's College is the oldest Catholic hospital based nursing school in the United States. [2]
In 2016, the college unveiled a new expansion, which included a new simulation lab. [24]
The Catholic University of Korea is a private Roman Catholic university in Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. It was established in 1855. The Catholic University of Korea operates campuses in Seoul and in the neighboring Bucheon City. The university's school of medicine operates eight affilated hospitals throughout the country.
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital is a non-profit 195-bed inpatient and outpatient pediatric medical center in St. Louis, Missouri. Since its founding in 1956, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon has provided care for children regardless of ability to pay. SSM Health Cardinal Glennon primarily serves children from eastern Missouri and southern Illinois, but also treats children across the United States and from countries around the world.
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OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, located in Peoria, Illinois, United States, is a teaching hospital for the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria and part of the OSF Healthcare System. The center, which is the largest hospital in the Peoria metropolitan area and in central Illinois, is designated by the state of Illinois as the Level I adult and pediatric regional trauma center for a 26-county region in mid-Illinois.
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