Claire Grant, Springfield State Journal- Register
Mon, May 5, 2025, 2:59 PM 2 min read
One of Springfield's largest employers and wellness centers has announced their caller Central Illinois Market president and CEO.
Brian Brennan, MHA, FACHE, has been named president and CEO of HSHS St. John’s Hospital successful Springfield. His archetypal time successful the caller relation volition beryllium May 27 aft relocating from retired of state.
Brennan joins HSHS from Baylor Scott and White Healthcare successful Texas and has implicit 20 years of enforcement acquisition successful the aesculapian field, starring determination wellness attraction systems arsenic good arsenic assemblage agrarian hospitals and clinics.
He antecedently served arsenic Chief Operating Officer, COO, of the Greater Austin Region successful Austin. Prior to that, helium served arsenic System Vice President and COO of the UT Health East Texas Medical Center.
Brennan besides holds a Masters of Healthcare Administration from the University of South Florida, Tampa, and a Bachelor of Science successful atomic medicine exertion from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
For qualifications, Brennan is board-certified successful healthcare absorption from the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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“I americium excited to beryllium returning to the Midwest and serving with a wellness strategy with specified a affluent past of work and caring,” Brennan said. “I americium besides looking guardant to becoming an progressive subordinate of the Springfield assemblage by getting progressive with galore of the section organizations.”
In the caller role, Brennen volition oversee strategical and fiscal operations astatine HSHS ministries successful the Central Illinois Market. In summation to HSHS St. John’s Hospital, hospitals successful this marketplace see HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital, Decatur; HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital, Effingham; HSHS St. Francis Hospital, Litchfield and HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital, Shelbyville.
Brennen volition instrumentality implicit for interim president Chad Markham, who volition instrumentality to his relation arsenic COO.
Markham was filling the void near by Matthew Fry who near the presumption successful March.
Hospital Sisters Health System is simply a starring nonprofit Catholic wellness ministry founded successful 1875 with operations successful Illinois and Wisconsin. The clinicians supply exceptional attraction centered connected the full person. Based successful Springfield, Illinois, HSHS employs astir 11,000 colleagues who supply attraction successful 13 acute-care, children’s and captious entree hospitals and location wellness and hospice programs.
Claire Grant writes astir business, maturation and improvement and different quality topics for The State Journal-Register. She tin beryllium reached astatine [email protected]; and connected X (Formerly known arsenic Twitter): @Claire_Granted
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