New Chief Administrative Officer for HSHS St. Anthony's Named

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Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) has announced that Anthony Powers, MBA, BSN, RN, has been named the new Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital in Effingham and HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital in Shelbyville. The CAO is a new role at HSHS that provides on-site, localized leadership overseeing nursing, operations and all other organizational functions of the hospital.

Powers will begin on Sept. 16, and reports to Chad Markham, who was recently promoted to Chief Operating Officer of the HSHS Central Illinois Market.

Powers is a health care executive with depth of experience on the clinical and executive sides. He joins HSHS from Baptist Health Corbin (BHC) in Corbin, Kentucky, a member of Baptist’s Health nine-hospital non-profit system based in Louisville, Kentucky. He most recently served as their Market President and Chief Executive Officer, but also served as Chief Operating Officer, Vice-President and Chief Nursing Officer, Nursing Unit Director and medical/surgical staff nurse.

He completed his Bachelor of Science in nursing at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky, and his Master of Business Administration in healthcare management at Baker College in Lansing, Michigan. He also has a Nurse Executive Certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

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