Marshall Browning Hospital Signs Affiliation Agreement with Southern Illinois Healthcare
Du Quoin, Illinois - September 27, 2011 - Marshall Browning Hospital (MBH) in Du Quoin and Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) in Carbondale today announced a formal affiliation between the two facilities.
Under the affiliation, patients of Marshall Browning Hospital will continue to receive high-quality care from the providers they know and trust at the hospital they have long relied upon. MBH will remain as a separate entity with its own Board of Directors, identity and endowment.
"Marshall Browning Hospital is pleased to partner with a highly regarded organization such as SIH to enhance services for the residents of Perry County through outreach, development and clinical integration," says William Huff, CEO, Marshall Browning Hospital. Huff emphasized that "this is not a merger or acquisition and that Marshall Browning Hospital would retain its own identity. The affiliation will provide a rich spectrum of educational, administrative, and clinical opportunities in the healthcare professions, meet community needs for high quality, cost-effective healthcare and develop new regional linkages among healthcare providers."
A significant benefit of the affiliation is for patients with complex medical needs who require tertiary care or specialty services unavailable at MBH. The affiliation will offer better coordination of care and services through such means as an expanded pool of consulting subspecialists. In addition, SIH will work closely with the hospital to identify opportunities to enhance the services available at MBH.
"The Marshall Browning Hospital Board took extensive steps to consider the affiliation prior to formal adoption and feels confident that the alignment is proper and in the best interest of the hospital and the patients it serves," stated Harold Rice, President of the Marshall Browning Hospital Board. William Huff, CEO, added that a key benefit of the affiliation is allowing the hospital to remain a local facility with "local citizens serving on the Board to work to provide services for the citizens in its service area."
The affiliation builds on and expands the various collaborations that already exist between SIH and MBH such as its partnership with SIH and Prairie Cardiovascular through its Prairie STATHeart program. STATHeart identifies, treats, and transfers acute heart attack patients to a cardiac cath lab within 90 minutes of arriving in Marshall Browning Hospital's emergency room. The STATHeart program melds cooperation and collaboration between the community hospital emergency department, EMS ground and air transport, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale and cardiologists of Prairie Cardiovascular.
In addition, SIH physicians have long consulted at MBH, seeing patients in such specialties as cardiology, oncology/hematology, and pulmonology. "The affiliation is not meant to be disruptive of pre-existing clinical relationships or referral patterns. Rather we want to work closely with the hospital to identify gaps in care and determine how SIH can help fill in those gaps as well as reinforce or add services that will be helpful to Perry County" said SIH President and CEO Rex Budde.
Marshall Browning Hospital is a not-for-profit Critical Access Hospital providing a broad range of services to citizens of Perry County and the surrounding communities. Founded in 1919, the 25-bed hospital maintains a deep tradition of providing high-quality care to a service area of over 20,000. The hospital also includes Marshall Browning Therapy Center, located on the hospital campus. Services offered at the center include Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Athletic Training, ImPACT Concussion Testing, Aquatic Therapy, Lymphedema Therapy, Vestibular Therapy, Hand Therapy, Pediatrics and Hippotherapy. Marshall Browning Therapy Center also has become the only facility in southern Illinois to have certified instructors to offer the highly acclaimed Sportsmetrics™ Training Program, effective in reducing the risk of knee injuries in female athletes. The campus also includes a 22-unit Independent Living Center and Marshall Browning Medical Clinic that includes the practices of Dr. Gladstone Tucker, Dr. Terrence Hall, Dr. Beth Bigham, and Family Nurse Practitioner, Felicia Kimbrough. Marshall Browning Hospital is fully accredited by The Joint Commission. The hospital has in excess of 43,000 patient visits which include inpatient, outpatient and ER visits per year.
Southern Illinois Healthcare includes Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, Herrin Hospital, St. Joseph Memorial Hospital, the SIH Cancer Institute and Miners Memorial Health Center.
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