SAMH New Year Baby for 2024 Born

HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital welcomed Rey Bertha Walk as the first baby born at the hospital in 2024 to Mary Jo and Nick Walk of Effingham.

She was born at 7:56 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, at St. Anthony’s, weighing 6 pounds, 13 ounces and was 18 inches long. Rey joins proud brother Brooks.

HSHS St. Anthony’s Women and Infants Center staff presented Rey’s parents with a basket of gifts in celebration of her birth for being St. Anthony’s 2024 New Year’s Baby.

For more information about HSHS St. Anthony’s Women and Infants Center, visit St. Anthony’s web site at stanthonyshospital.org/baby.