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Extraordinary Nurse Recognized at Deaconess Illinois Crossroads Hospital
Laynee Timmons of Deaconess Illinois Crossroads was recently honored with The DAISY Award® For Extraordinary Nurses.
Extraordinary Nurse Recognized at Crossroads
MOUNT VERNON, IL –Crossroads Community Hospital nurse Becky Clinton-Harmon was recently honored with The DAISY Award® For Extraordinary Nurses. The award is part of the DAISY Foundation's programs to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform every day. Harmon’s...
Deaconess Names Illinois Region President
MARION, IL (Dec. 7, 2023) — Crossroads Community Hospital CAO and Heartland Regional Medical Center COO Will Davis named Illinois Region President for Deaconess Illinois. In this new role, Davis will oversee operations in the Illinois market and organizational...
Deaconess to Purchase Four Southern Illinois Hospitals
MARION, IL (Oct. 5, 2022) — Deaconess Health System, Inc. and Deaconess Regional Healthcare Services Illinois, Inc. have signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire Crossroads Community Hospital in Mt. Vernon, IL, Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion, IL, Red...
Crossroads Community Hospital Achieves Five-Star Rating from CMS
(Mount Vernon, IL) July 28, 2022 – Crossroads Community Hospital has received a Five-Star overall hospital quality rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the highest possible rating a hospital can achieve. CMS recently updated its Overall...
Crossroads Receives the 2022 Women’s Choice Award® as one of America’s Best Hospitals for Orthopedics and Emergency Care
Orthopedic Care Women have higher rates of arthritis than men, some 60% of joint replacement surgeries are performed on women. “Women have different orthopedic needs, particularly as they grow older and become more at risk for osteoporosis and fractures. They are also...
Sepsis: An Unrecognized Risk
Sepsis affects 1.7 million people in the U.S. annually, but Americans still know less about this potentially life-threatening illness than they do about rare diseases, such as Ebola and malaria. Sepsis occurs when an overwhelming response to an infection triggers...