Company Profile
Southern Illinois Healthcare
Company Overview
The people of Southern Illinois Healthcare, a not-for-profit health care system, are dedicated to promoting the health and well being of all of the people in the communities we serve. Our mission is guided by our values: compassion, collaboration, quality, stewardship, integrity, accountability and respect.
Over 3,700 employees, along with physicians and volunteers, work together to achieve our mission and ensure that the health care needs of those we serve are met. We make this a reality by treating patients in SIH facilities, offering services in rural clinics, collaborating with some of America’s best hospitals and improving our communities through our charitable community benefits programs.
Memorial Hospital of Carbondale is the flagship hospital for SIH and regional referral center for the 16 county southern Illinois region. Memorial paves the way to bring big city medicine home. Physicians in over 45 different specialties practice here, bringing expertise and new procedures, but successfully tailoring them to the particular needs of a rural setting.
Herrin Hospital’s reputation for high quality care and attention to detail is proof that a rural facility can have huge achievements in quality. The longest-serving SIH hospital, Herrin is well known for both rehabilitation and emergency services, including recognition for outstanding work responding to heart attack patients.
St. Joseph Memorial Hospital has been a fixture in the Murphysboro community for over half a century. It is a full-service, critical access hospital. Purchased from the Sisters of the ASC Health System, St. Joseph is the only SIH facility with a Catholic affiliation. The staff takes pride in the hospital’s spiritual roots, which is evident in their daily approach to patient care. Employee and physician satisfaction consistently ranks in the 99th percentile. St. Joseph is an integral part of the SIH system, having evolved over time to become regional provider of specialized outpatient services.
We know that going through cancer treatment is a physically and emotionally draining process. If you or a loved one has been affected by cancer, SIH offers many resources to help you during any stage of treatment — whether it’s diagnosis, therapy, remission or loss. Not only do we focus on innovative treatments, but we also offer support groups, prevention and screenings.
Recently, we were the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award by the Commission on Cancer from the American College of Surgeons. Our program is one of a select group of U.S. healthcare facilities with accredited cancer programs to receive this national honor.
SIH Cancer Institute is proud to be the region’s first dedicated cancer treatment center and Siteman Cancer Institute Affiliate.
Company History
In 1938, local physicians Dr. J.W. Barrow and Dr. Leo J. Brown formed a partnership to practice medicine in Carbondale, Illinois. Two years later, they were joined by Dr. John Lewis and Dr. John Taylor, eventually calling their group the Carbondale Clinic. The physicians practiced together until World War II intervened, leaving only one of them behind to treat patients. When the group reassembled after the war, their increasing knowledge of medicine made it obvious to them that new medical specialties would be needed in the region. To carry out their plans they needed their own hospital but, under Illinois law, would also need their own corporation for ownership.
About that time, Dr. Brown made a trip to nearby Herrin Hospital to promote his radiology services. Herrin Hospital had been built in 1914 as a center for black lung disease and other coal mine-related injuries; ten dollars was taken out of each miner’s paycheck to fund the hospital. By the end of the war, the town was economically depressed and it was doubtful the hospital could remain open. Upon Dr. Brown’s visit to Herrin in 1946, he learned the hospital was for sale for the asking price of $105,000. Two days later, the four physicians of the Carbondale Clinic formed the not-for-profit Southern Illinois Hospital Corporation in order to purchase Herrin Hospital.
Shortly thereafter, the doctors decided to move ahead with plans to also construct their own hospital, and by 1950 Doctors Hospital had opened in Carbondale. In 1961, they also purchased nearby Holden Hospital, which was subsequently torn down to expand Doctors Hospital, rather than attempt to renovate the facility originally built in 1875 as a drug treatment center.
The two remaining hospitals in Herrin and Carbondale existed as Southern Illinois Healthcare until 1995, when it was agreed they would purchase St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in nearby Murphysboro, Illinois. St. Joseph had begun as a makeshift emergency center after a railroad accident in 1895. The Franciscan Sisters, who spearheaded the permanent facility originally called St. Andrews, ran the hospital for 58 years before handing it over to the Sisters Adorers of the Most Precious Blood. When the current facility was built in 1960, the name was changed to St. Joseph from St. Andrew to avoid confusion with a local public home for aged men.
Today, Southern Illinois Healthcare remains a not-for-profit integrated health system and employs nearly 3,400 people. It is now comprised of over thirty facilities, including three inpatient hospitals, three clinics, numerous physician offices, three walk-in clinics and dedicated centers that include neurology, cancer, heart, sleep and rehabilitation.
Although the three hospitals retain strong individual cultures from their very diverse beginnings, the corporation as a whole is still guided by the values of its founding physicians: respect, integrity, compassion, collaboration, stewardship, accountability and quality. They remain as committed to quality health services today as when the first hospital opened, and strive to treat every patient as if that patient is the person most cared about in the world, and treat them like that person every single time.
Benefits
SIH offers a rich total rewards package to its employees, allowing choice of options within each of the coverage areas. Such freedom of choice grants employees the ability to design a benefit plan best suited to his or her unique needs.
Highlights of the SIH benefit plan:
Medical, which includes prescription drug coverage – company and employee paid.
Dental - employee- paid.
Vision – employee-paid.
Basic Life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) – company paid; this coverage is automatically enrolled for full-time employees.
Supplemental employee and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance – employee paid.
Dependent life insurance – employee paid.
Short-term disability insurance offered after one year of full-time service – company-paid; this coverage is automatically enrolled.
Long-term disability insurance offered after one year of full-time service – company-paid; this coverage is automatically enrolled.
Long-term disability buy up – an additional 10% of long-term disability coverage – employee paid.
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) – healthcare FSA or dependent care FSA – employee-paid.
Voluntary plans including Group Critical Illness, Group Hospital Indemnity, Group Accident, and Group Term to Age 100 Life Insurance coverage – employee-paid.
A combination of vacation, holiday, personal and some sick time. Full time employees accrue 23 days of ETO their first year. The ETO accrual amount is 28 days per year for employees with tenure between 6-10 years. After 10 years, an additional ½ day a year is accrued until 33 days is reached. Eligible part-time employees earn ETO on a prorated schedule based on the number of hours worked per day.
SIH Retirement Savings Plan is a retirement savings plan designed to allow eligible employees to save and invest through a voluntary salary contribution. Employees are eligible to participate in the SIH Retirement Savings Plan on the first day of the month coinciding with or following the date of employment. Employees are eligible to contribute if full-time, part-time, per diem or temporary. Employees may designate a pretax 401k contribution, Roth or a combination of the two. Currently, SIH matches 50% of an employee’s pre-tax contribution up to the first 5% of eligible compensation. Employees are eligible for this Employer Match contribution the first of the month following completion of 1,000 hours of service within 12 consecutive months commencing with the hire date and during any subsequent Plan Year.