SPRINGFIELD, IL – Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) today announced that Catherine M. Bukowski has accepted an invitation to serve as their vice president of revenue cycle. Bukowski will begin at HSHS on Monday, February 15, 2016. 

SPRINGFIELD, IL – Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) today announced that Beth Govero, RN, MSN, CMSRN, has accepted an invitation to serve as the interim president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital in Highland, Illinois. Govero will begin her new role on Mon., Jan. 18, 2016.

SPRINGFIELD – HSHS ACO L.L.C. was selected as one of 100 new Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), providing Medicare beneficiaries with access to high-quality, coordinated care across the United States, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today.

BELLEVILLE, IL – Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) today announced that Peggy A. Sebastian, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital in Highland, has accepted an invitation to serve as President and CEO of HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Belleville. Sebastian will begin at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital on January 18, 2016.

SPRINGFIELD, IL – Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) today announced that David Beach accepted an invitation to serve as HSHS Chief People Officer. Beach will start at HSHS on November 30, 2015.

SPRINGFIELD, IL – Doctors of Prairie at the Prairie Heart Institute at HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, IL have become the first in the United States and the seventh in the world to successfully complete a procedure to implant a medical device, known as a Lotus™ valve, in a patient with an existing artificial heart valve.