Anniversary activities planned throughout 2025
EFFINGHAM, Ill. — HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital has been dedicated to providing compassionate health care and serving the community since its founding by three Hospital Sisters of St. Francis in Effingham on November 15, 1875. Today this commitment continues 150 years later through the dedicated efforts of hospital colleagues and medical staff.
Throughout this year, St. Anthony’s is marking certain milestones to celebrate caring for their community for 150 years. On Thursday, March 20, the hospital’s Women and Infants Center proudly welcomed the 150th baby born at the hospital in 2025. Lucy Ann Feldhake was born to Kallee and Nick Feldhake of Dieterich, Illinois weighing 6 pounds, 2 ounces and was 20 inches long.
HSHS St. Anthony’s Women and Infants Center staff presented the Feldhakes with a basket of gifts in celebration of Lucy being St. Anthony’s 150th baby in the hospital’s 150th Anniversary year. One of the gifts included a special 150th onesie that is given to all babies born at St. Anthony’s in 2025.
2025 Events
HSHS St. Anthony’s invites the community to join them at a number of public events they are hosting this year, highlighting this unique 150th Anniversary:
- Saturday, May 3: Annual Walk to End Parkinson’s
- Tuesday, May 6: Wound Healing Center Open House
- Fall: Downtown Mural Unveiling
- Saturday, Sept. 13: “Meet Me to the Finish Line” Youth Adaptive Try-Athlon
- Friday, Sept. 26: Annual Foundation Golf Benefit
- Thursday, Oct. 16: Women’s Health Showcase
- Fall: Center for Pediatric Therapy Open House
- Thursday, Dec. 11: Business After Hours with the Effingham County Chamber
Visit St. Anthony’s website event page, stanthonyshospital.org/events, for details on these events throughout the year.
Additionally, St. Anthony’s is weaving their anniversary celebration into several community events that colleagues support in Effingham and surrounding communities:
- Monday, May 26: Altamont Memorial Day Parade
- Friday, July 4: Dieterich Fourth of July Parade
- Friday and Saturday, July 11-12: Effingham Artisan Fair
- Saturday, July 19: EffingHAM-JAM
- Sunday, Oct. 26: Effingham Sunrise Rotary Halloween Parade
- Wednesday, Nov. 19: Downtown Effingham Hometown Christmas Lighted Parade
For more information about HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital, visit stanthonyshospital.org.
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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.