Affiliated Hospitals

Memorial Medical Center

Edgar J. Curtis, President and Chief Executive Officer
Rajesh G. Govindaiah, M.D., Senior Vice President
and Chief Medical Officer

Number of beds: 507 licensed beds
Admissions: 24,910 (FY09) Emergency room visits: 65,747 (FY09)

Operating as a private, not-for-profit corporation, Memorial Medical Center (MMC), founded in 1897, offers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care to the residents of central and southern Illinois. At the core of Memorial Health System’s mission is the belief that access to primary care is a key component in providing a full continuum of care in support of community Health.

Tertiary care available at Memorial includes a variety of specialized services. The Regional Cancer Center provides comprehensive cancer care, including the latest research protocols available through the Community Clinical Oncology program of the National Cancer Institute. The Regional Kidney Center offers a full range of nephrology and urology services, including dialysis and the region’s only pancreas/kidney transplant program, a joint program with the medical school. MMC’s Regional Burn Center is equipped with the latest technologies and facilities for burn care. Other service line specialties include the Center for Neuromuscular Sciences and Family Maternity Suites. Memorial’s Heart and Vascular Services offer a full range of diagnostic treatment, rehabilitative and respiratory therapy services and includes two joint programs with SIU – hyperbaric medicine and a sleep disorders clinic. MMC also serves as a site for a Level I trauma center, a joint effort with SIU and St. John’s Hospital. The two hospitals alternate responsibility for the trauma center annually.

MMC is the flagship of Memorial Health System (MHS). Other MHS affiliates include Memorial Home Services, Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln, Taylorville Memorial Hospital, Mental Health Centers of Central Illinois and Memorial Physician Services, a network of primary care physicians with clinics in Springfield, Chatham, Jacksonville, Petersburg and Lincoln. The health system Web site is http://www.Choosememorial.org.

St. John's Hospital

St. John's Hospital

Robert Ritz, Chief Executive Officer
Craig Backs, M.D., Chief Medical Director

Number of beds: 539 licensed beds
Admissions: 21,940 (FY09)
Emergency department visits: 57,439 (FY09)

St. John’s Hospital was founded in 1875 by the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis and is an affiliate of the Hospital Sisters Health System. As a regional referral center, it provides tertiary care for the entire central and southern Illinois area.

St. John’s Children’s Hospital, a partnership with SIU School of Medicine, provides neonatal intensive care, a Level III Perinatal Center, and pediatric services including pediatric rehabilitation. The center includes an outpatient fetal evaluation laboratory coordinated by SIU and an antenatal unit. The Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit serves 35 counties in Illinois. Other special care areas include an adult intensive care unit, a bone and joint program, and comprehensive cancer care. St. John’s also offers adult day care, home health services, and inpatient and home hospice care. About 16,000 surgical procedures are performed each year in the hospital’s 25 surgical suites; more than 500 of these are open heart surgery procedures. St. John’s is recognized as a leader in cardiac services, with the largest heart program in Illinois that includes the Prairie Heart Institute. The cardiovascular department offers a range of sophisticated diagnostic services for adult and pediatric cardiology and vascular patients. Individualized rehabilitation services are available for intervention or post-operative fitness.

The Level 1 Southern Illinois Trauma Center is a partnership between Memorial Medical Center, St. John’s and SIU School of Medicine. The two hospitals alternate responsibility for the trauma center annually. St. John’s also has an air/ground transport system, including the Saints Flight Helicopter based at the hospital that is used for critically ill patients. As St. John’s Hospital grows and moves into the future, administration and employees remain committed to the Hospital Sisters’ philosophy — All people are created by God and have an intrinsic dignity and value. Its Web site is http://www.st-johns.org/.