SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) is pleased to announce that Chad Markham, MBA, President and CEO of HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital and HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital, has been promoted to HSHS Central Illinois Market Chief Operating Officer.
In this role, Markham is responsible for operations at HSHS ministries in the Central Illinois Market, which includes St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital in Effingham, Good Shepherd Hospital in Shelbyville, St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, St. Mary’s Hospital in Decatur and St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield.
Markham joined HSHS as a ministry CEO in Septemb.er 2021 and has served in health care executive leadership roles since 2005 including most recently 12 years at Unity Point Health’s St. Luke’s Hospital in Sioux City, Iowa, where he was Senior Vice President for Clinics and Network Development and then Chief Operating Officer.
With Markham moving into a market leadership role, Danny Hardman, RN, BSN, MBA, will serve as Interim Chief Administrative Officer at St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital and Good Shepherd Hospital.
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About Hospital Sisters Health System
HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital, Effingham is part of Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), a Catholic health care ministry founded in 1875. Dedicated to our Mission to reveal and embody Christ’s healing love for all people through high-quality Franciscan health care, HSHS clinicians provide exceptional care centered on the whole person. Based in Springfield, Illinois, HSHS employs more than 11,000 colleagues who provide care in 13 acute-care, children’s and critical-access hospitals and home health and hospice programs in Central and Southern Illinois and Eastern Wisconsin. HSHS is aligned with more than 1,000 primary and specialty physicians and advanced practitioners through its owned affiliates HSHS Medical Group and Prairie Cardiovascular and its partnership with Prevea Health. For more information about HSHS, visit hshs.org.