360 Anesthesia

360 Anesthesia, PLLC was founded upon an ambitious vision to enhance community health through innovative deployment of evidence-based anesthersia services. The company is in its second decade of service, having achieved regional growth through an intense focus on perioperative safety, quality, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. This focus, coupled with expertise in clinical informatics, leadership development, and implementation science, gives 360 the knowledge, talent, and tools necessary to offer excellence in perioperative anesthesia services.

Adkisson Consultants

With more than 23 years of experience, Adkisson Search is recognized as a leading executive and provider recruitment firm serving critical access hospitals nationwide. The firm brings deep expertise in understanding the operational and workforce challenges facing rural healthcare. We consistently place leaders and providers who align with each community’s mission, culture, and long-term goals. Adkisson Search’s approach goes far beyond the traditional vetting of qualifications. We ensure that every leader or provider we place complements your culture and strengthens your rural health system. As we often say, “We never walk away from a client. We are always successful in meeting or exceeding expectations, and we stand firmly behind what we say we will do.”

Ameren Illinois Energy Efficiency Program

Healthcare facilities who are Ameren Illinois customers are eligible to receive financial incentives to reduce or eliminate the cost of energy-saving equipment upgrades. We offer incentives for LED lighting and controls, HVAC equipment, building automation, new construction projects and more. The Ameren Illinois Energy Efficiency Program has helped Illinois businesses save over $1.5 billion in energy costs since 2008. Get a free consultation to identify energy-saving projects in your facility and start saving energy today. 

Avel eCare

Avel delivers telemedicine solutions to meet the needs of hospitals, care centers, health systems and other ambulatory care providers. Working together, we provide expanded access to care, improve patient outcomes, solve staffing and burnout challenges and improve financial performance. ** Mission Statement: Every person and every community deserve access to high quality care. Avel’s experts collaborate with local clinicians through telemedicine to deliver high quality care when and where it’s needed. ** Vision Statement: Avel eCare serves as a catalyst for change. We are creating a future of health care without boundaries through Service, Quality, Collaboration, and Innovation.

Beam Healthcare

Healthcare Reimagined. We provide comprehensive and cost effective tele-specialty and hospitalist services to critical access hospitals, micro-hospitals, clinics, and post-acute organizations.

Blue & Co., LLC

Blue & Co., LLC is an independent accounting and advisory firm with more than 600 associates in 17 offices across Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas. Blue has over 200 associates exclusively serving the healthcare industry and specializing in audit & assurance, business valuation & physician services, chargemaster, cost reports, long-term care, managed care consulting, pharmacy & 340B, reimbursement, revenue cycle, and tax. Blue works with over 1,500 healthcare providers, including more than 500 hospitals throughout the U.S.

Breez Health

Breez Health empowers hospitals to offer patients a seamless online platform for determining eligibility for financial assistance and exploring available options, ultimately helping them gain access to affordable care. With a thorough understanding of the complexities in today's financial assistance programs, we are committed to developing more efficient processes and procedures for the future. Our team of seasoned experts in hospital billing, finance, and revenue cycle management works diligently to resolve inefficiencies and identify revenue opportunities.

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

CLA is a top 10 professional services firm with over 130 locations and more than 9,000 professionals. We serve over 500 hospitals and health systems, including approximately 80 Critical Access Hospitals across the United States. CLA's team of knowledgeable, accessible, and responsive individuals are devoted to understanding the specific financial, strategic, and operational issues faced by hospitals and health systems. They provide a range of services, including audit, cost report, tax, and advisory services, specifically tailored to Critical Access Hospitals in Illinois.

Compeer Financial

Compeer Financial provides financing for the replacement, expansion, or renovation of essential community facilities in rural America, including critical access and other small, rural hospitals. The majority of projects include partnerships with USDA Rural Development’s Community Facilities program as well as community banks. Eligible facilities must be located in rural communities with significant ties to agricultural activity.

Diversified Instrument Services

Diversified Instrument Services provides reliable, flexible access to highly trained biomedical and clinical engineering technicians. From supplemental support for in-house teams to fully managed service programs, our goal is to deliver quality-driven maintenance, repair, and refurbishment services. Backed by ISO 9001:2015 certification and decades of industry experience, our team helps healthcare facilities eliminate repair backlogs, maximize uptime of patient-ready equipment, and reduce overall maintenance costs.

Eide Bailly LLP

Eide Bailly LLP is a CPA and Business Advisory firm with a national health care practice. Its services go beyond cost reports, audit and tax, to help you drive results and plan for a strong future. From finance to patient access, strategy to implementation, business offices to HIM, Eide Bailly approaches health care with real-world experience. Its professionals specialize in revenue cycle, strategic financing, information technology, operational process improvement, organizational consulting, and health care payment strategies. Learn more at www.eidebailly.com/cah.

Farnsworth Group

Farnsworth Group’s mission: For our team of experts to champion our clients’ successes, advance our communities, and embrace the challenges of a changing world. We are oriented towards our clients at all times and work to make them successful. We are a 135-year-old, Illinois-based, multi-discipline firm, and have been providing healthcare design services since the late 1990s, serving many critical access hospitals in Illinois. We have a deep bench of healthcare expertise, spanning 55 engineers and architects across multiple services – architecture, mechanical / electrical / plumbing / fire protection engineering, civil engineering, commissioning, transportation and roadways, land surveying, and various services to help our clients reduce operational expenses (energy assessments, retro-commissioning, facility condition assessments, capital planning, test & balance, and reliability-centered maintenance). Farnsworth Group maintains locations in Bloomington, Peoria, Champaign, Springfield, Effingham, Lisle, Chicago, Tinley Park, and Belleville, Ilinois.

Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars helps healthcare organizations unlock their full potential and supports their pursuit of achieving health for their enterprises and those they serve. We provide holistic and tailored assurance, tax, and consulting services designed to help you develop and hone the core capabilities necessary to navigate the dynamic healthcare landscape and drive value, quality, and results.

HealthTech

Since 1970, HealthTech has worked with community hospitals across the United States to help them improve financial strength, build professional excellence, and grow to meet the needs of their communities. HealthTech provides hospital consulting, turnaround, supply chain management, management support, executive and physician recruitment services to more than 50 hospitals and health systems nationwide, including some ICAHN hospitals. Our mission is to provide effective solutions, strategy and support for our client hospitals and systems.

Henry Schein Medical

For 90 years, Henry Schein Medical customers have relied on us for medical supplies, equipment, and services including integrated technology solutions, unsurpassed supplychain and e-commerce systems, electronic health records, practice management software, and a broad range of financial services and other business solutions.

Heyl Royster

Heyl Royster leads in healthcare law, providing tailored legal strategies for today's evolving healthcare environment. Our Healthcare Practice Group brings decades of experience and partners with attorneys from other practice areas to support transactions, workforce issues, real estate, regulatory compliance, risk management, litigation, and medical malpractice defense. We serve providers in property acquisitions and sales, physician contracts, bond financing, audits, fraud defense, EMTALA and HIPAA compliance, policy development, licensing, settlement negotiations, mental health law, and Stark/Anti-Kickback analysis. Through industry knowledge and a focus on results, we enable clients to navigate healthcare challenges with confidence.

InnoVative Capital, LLC

A Financial Advisor Focused on Rural Health. For over 25 years, InnoVative Capital has been a trusted USDA financial advisor, FHA mortgage bank, and municipal advisor. We have successfully financed over $1 billion of renovation and replacement projects nationwide, focusing on rural, CAH, and community hospitals. Financing Growth. Dedicated to Communities. Committed to Success.

Integritas Providers

We provide long-term staffing solutions. Integritas is a physician-owned staffing company based in the central U.S. that brings physicians and hospitals together to provide efficient, effective, and compassionate care to the communities we serve. We tailor our services to client needs, and are currently providing the following staffing services to hospitals throughout the Midwest: Emergency Medicine and Hospitalist Medicine

KEDBluestone MEP Engineering

At KEDbluestone, we are an innovative team of MEP engineers who provide extraordinary client experiences. Our job is to simplify the complex, and to deliver seamless solutions for our healthcare clients. With a history of collaboration that goes beyond decades, we are known for our unwavering commitment to client success; for delivering the highest standards of quality in MEP engineering design; and for providing an enjoyable and personal client experience. Clients across the Midwest and beyond choose KEDbluestone for our proven track record of delivering more than just on time and on budget. Working in tandem with your staff, your architects and contractors to design the best systems for you.

Masco Packaging & Industrial Supply

Masco Packaging Industrial and Janitorial Supply has been serving the needs of buisnesses in central Illinois since 1997. We are a BEP certified female-owned business and registered with the State of Illinois and the SBA. Masco is a local wholesale distributor of packaging and janitorial supplies located in Springfield, Illinois. We are a distributor and manufacturer of liquid ice melt, and we stock a full line of paper products, packaging material, boxes, tapes, cleaning chemicals and equipment, fine paper and other industrial and commercial products. We have the largest distribution supply warehouse in central Illinois. We are dedicated to creating a healthier, safer and more effective way to operate and clean our offices, hospitals, schools and home by using environmentally safe, green-certified cleaners. With a team of energetic, trained and dependable professionals, we are ready to be of service to our customers. We service several healthcare providers with a complete hand hygiene program.

Medefis, Inc.

Medefis helps you overcome staffing challenges with a supplier‑funded, no‑cost Open Talent Marketplace that brings the largest pool of vendors and clinicians into one platform. Standardized rates and competitive bidding drive meaningful cost savings, while a single contract consolidates your vendor panel to simplify operations. Built‑in compliance and reporting streamline credentialing, surface fill‑rate performance, and deliver real‑time visibility across your program. With expanded, pre‑vetted supplier access, you fill roles faster and secure priority fulfillment—gaining the transparency, control, and speed needed to streamline staffing end‑to‑end.

Murray Company

Murray Company provides program management, design-build, master planning and construction management services to healthcare organizations throughout the Midwest. Their portfolio is focused 100% on healthcare, making every Murray Company employee a healthcare expert. Murray Company serves regional and critical access hospitals through the construction of new buildings, additions, and remodeling existing facilities.

O'Shea Builders

O'Shea Builders is a leading healthcare construction provider in Illinois that provides general contracting, construction management, design-build, and master planning services. The O’Shea team is committed to helping ICAHN hospital leaders make informed decisions that drive best value.

P.J. Hoerr, Inc.

PJ Hoerr was established in 1914 and has been a leader in healthcare construction for over 40 years.  Their resume of past and current healthcare projects numbers well into the thousands.  PJ Hoerr has partnered with dozens of healthcare organizations, including 13  hospitals that are a part of the Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network (ICAHN), to provide planning, design, and construction services.  Along the way, they have built a track record of trust, value, service, and quality workmanship that is unmatched in the industry.

Quarles & Brady LLP

Shared Purpose, meaningful results. Since 1892, Quarles has provided legal solutions to a wide range of clients on a national stage. Led today by a dynamic and diverse team of lawyers and business professionals, Quarles is a multidisciplinary Am Law 200 firm with approximately 550 attorneys practicing at the top of the profession in Chicago, Denver, Indianapolis, Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Naples, Phoenix, St. Louis, San Diego, Tampa, Tucson and Washington D.C. Our clients include major national and multinational corporations, emerging companies, educational and research institutions, municipalities and government agencies, charitable organizations, industry executives and high-net-worth individuals. They are industry leaders in technology, energy, financial services, health care, insurance, pharmaceuticals, real estate and manufacturing, to name just a few. The way we work together, guided by our core values and service principles, aims to make a tangible difference in your world.

Relias

Trusted by over 12,000 healthcare organizations, Relias helps solve workforce challenges in learning, compliance, performance, quality, and recruiting. Our comprehensive platform delivers award-winning education, automated regulatory workflows, and real-time analytics—empowering caregivers to build skills faster, easing administrative pressures, and driving data-informed decisions. Customers report 94%+ training completion rates, 25% higher retention, and millions in cost savings tied to reduced turnover and fines. Recognized for its measurable impact, Relias supports over 4.5 million caregivers and helps organizations reduce risk, streamline operations, and improve care outcomes—all supported by an adaptable, results-driven solution tailored for the complexities of healthcare.

Roshal Health

Roshal Health has developed EchosNOW and UltrasoundsNOW, innovative platforms that deliver remote echocardiography and ultrasound imaging through a triad team approach: * Local Patient * Local Operator (non-sonographer) * Roshal Health Remote Expert Guide This breakthrough model allows high-quality diagnostic imaging to be performed anywhere—even in facilities without on-site sonographers—dramatically increasing access for underserved and frontier communities.

STATUS Health Partners

STATUS Health Partners is a physician-owned healthcare staffing partner dedicated to supporting hospitals and communities across the country. For more than 35 years, we have partnered with rural hospitals to strengthen clinical services, connect talented providers, and ensure patients have access to high-quality care close to home. Whether providing long-term clinical partnership or flexible locum tenens coverage, STATUS works closely with each partner to develop solutions that align with their goals and the needs of their communities.

TAG Communications, Inc.

Our mission - to be recognized as the most valued business partner by our clients, to be an engaged corporate citizen of our community and to be an innovative leader within our industry. We will provide a workplace environment that fosters personal growth and creates a confident, motivated and creative team of professionals. We will do this with *Unified Commitment *Uncommon Energy *Adventurous Spirit

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