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Description

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About Us
Anderson Hospital is a notforprofit 151 bed acute care medical facility Established in 1977 Anderson Hospital offers a full range of advanced health care services from a stateoftheart obstetrics unit the Pavilion for Women to emergency services that treated over 33000 people last year

Over 200 physicians work with Anderson Hospital to meet the medical needs of our communities These talented physicians constitute Andersons medical staff a staff that covers nearly 40 medical specialties

Mission Statement
To be the Leader in providing and promoting excellence in healthcare and wellness services in partnership with the communities we serve

Vision Statement
Anderson Hospital will continue as an independent locally controlled and governed community hospital serving area residents We will strive to

Expand services that best reflect area needs resource availability and the role of a community hospital providing primary amp secondary levels of care

Grow with our service area continue to match service development with growing service needs

Be the provider of choice for the communities we serve

Influence positive change in the health status of area residents

Strengthen collaborative efforts with physicians to recruit and retain medical staff members

Position Anderson Hospital as a referral site for hospitals in surrounding communities

Develop collaborative relationships with educational and training programs that provide opportunities for nursing technical and other medical personnel

Promote community education of health issues affecting area residents

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History

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Our History
With over 90000 patients annually relying on Anderson Hospital for their health care it is hard to imagine our community being without an area hospital Anderson Hospital is quotmaking a differencequot today thanks to the work of many dedicated people spanning many decades

The need for an area hospital was first voiced as far back as 1920 when Anna Forberg Cook offered to give Collinsville a site on St Clair Avenue on which to build a hospital But with the city unable to finance the project the idea was withdrawn At almost the same time the neighboring city of Edwardsville was also trying for a hospital only to find no available financial support

The idea was revived in the 1940s in both towns again In Collinsville a proposal for a township hospital requiring taxes to build and support the facility lost 7 to 1 In Edwardsville a nonprofit corporation was formed and a 10acre site donated A 300000 fund drive was launched in 1945 but by 1948 only a quarter of the goal had been collected so the idea was abandoned

Edwardsville leaders resurrected the idea once more in the early 1960s with a referendum for a taxsupported hospital but the idea never passed At the same time leaders in Collinsville were talking about the possibility of building JFK Hospital a satellite hospital of St Marys in East St Louis Funds were raised and a site was purchased only to have the idea once again fold due to the lack of support The idea was dropped in 1967 with the land eventually becoming the site of the Unit 10s Greenwood Collinsville High School campus Most money was received back by donors while others quotlet it ridequot for a new effort

Those donors would finally support a successful campaign in 1968 when Collinsville and Edwardsville joined forces by incorporating a steering committee the Central Madison County Hospital Association CMCHA The CMCHA was comprised of people from Collinsville Edwardsville Maryville Troy Hamel Glen Carbon and Caseyville At that time Aden Klump of the State Department of Public Health advised the group to seek a hospital management organization After meetings with many hospital operating agencies the CMCHA unanimously voted to merge with the St Clair Hospital Association under the name of Southwestern Illinois Health Facilities Inc in 1969 The proposed hospital would be an affiliate of Christian Welfare Hospital in East St Louis which was also operated by the St Clair Hospital Association

A major fundraising campaign was then conducted by Haney Associates Inc an area firm hired by Southwestern Illinois Health Facilities Inc in 1971 Paid professionals and hundreds of volunteers spent thousands of hours raising funds to meet their goal of 1 million Some of the key volunteers who headed up the campaign were Frank L Flanigan of Edwardsville who served as campaign chairman for Edwardsville Glen Carbon Hamel Marine and Troy William G Jokerst of Collinsville who served as campaign chairman for Collinsville Caseyville and Maryville Earl E Jukes of Collinsville who served as vice chairman of the Collinsville area campaign and Vivian Kraft of Collinsville who served as general drive chairman The work of these and hundreds of other dedicated volunteers paid off in March of 1972 when a total of 177443615 had been raised surpassing the goal by almost threequarters of a million dollars

On April 21 1974 the work of many years came one step closer to reality as ground was broken for the construction of the hospital And almost two and a half years later the hospital opened its doors to patients on January 5 1977 quotThe hospital has become a realityquot said William Jokerst back in 1976 quotbecause of the efforts of so many people who have worked together for a common goalquot Jokerst went on to say quotSelling the idea of a hospital was never difficult because the people knew the need existed And the men women and organizations who made pledges have kept their word in fulfilling a moral obligationquot