News

4/11/2019
Coloring Contest
There will be a special coloring contest for Nurses Week 2019. One winner will be chosen in each of three categories, Pre-K, Kindergarden-2nd grade and 3rd-4th grade. Entries due on or before May 3. Winners announced May 10, and each will receive a $25 gift card. Additional coloring pages available in the HSHS St. Francis Hospital main lobby. Return to: HSHS St. Francis Hospital, Coloring Contest, P.O. Box 1215, Litchfield, IL 62056. Click here for a copy.
4/8/2019
New Emergency Department in 2020
HSHS St. Francis Hospital has begun construction on a new emergency department in the hospital which will open in early 2020. “Our emergency department treated more than 11,000 patients last fiscal year. It is a vital part of the hospital services offered at HSHS St. Francis Hospital. This emergency department is an original part of the hospital which opened in 1971,” said Jim Timpe, president and CEO of the hospital. “Improvements have been made in the past several years to the ambulance garages and the emergency patient registration and waiting areas, but space restrictions did not allow for enlarging trauma or patient rooms. After several hospital construction projects the past few years, which included opening a new surgery center and bringing a new MRI in-house, we now have space formerly used for these areas that are available for this important project.”
12/12/2018
New President/CEO at HSHS St. Francis Hospital
Jim Timpe has been selected to serve as the new president and CEO at HSHS St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield. He started in this new role on Dec. 11, 2018. Timpe comes to St. Francis from HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield where he most recently served as the director of imaging services, rehabilitation services, sleep and neuro-diagnostics. He had been in that role since 2011.