Hospital Sisters Health System

Hospital Sisters Health System
Company typeNonprofit organization
IndustryHealth care
Founded1978
FounderHospital Sisters of Saint Francis
Headquarters
Springfield, Illinois
,
United States
Area served
Illinois, Wisconsin
Key people
Damond Boatwright
(President and CEO)
Stephen J. Bochenek
(Chairman)
Number of employees
14,626[1]
Websitehshs.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]

HSHS generated significant controversy in 2024 when it abruptly closed two major hospitals in Northwestern Wisconsin, disrupting care for thousands of patients in the region, including hundreds of pregnant women who were left with no place to give birth.[3] CEO Damond Boatwright attracted attention for making misleading claims about the closures, suggesting that state and local government officials had been promptly notified about the closures when neither local officials nor the Wisconsin governor had received such notice.[4]

  1. ^ "Quick Facts". Hospital Sisters Health System. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference college was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Kirwan, Hope (23 January 2024). "Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls leaders say news of hospital closures shocked communities". WPR. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Why Sacred Heart and St. Joseph's Closed, According to the CEO". WQOW. 2024-07-26. Retrieved 2024-08-02.