About the Illinois Hospital Association
The Illinois Hospital Association, with offices in Naperville and
Springfield, represents approximately 200 hospitals and health systems and the
patients and communities they serve. Our members range from the teaching
hospitals that train tomorrow’s doctors and nurses, to community hospitals that
transform advances in medicine and technology into better lives for patients, to
rural facilities that bring high-quality patient care to the less populated
regions of our state, to specialty institutions that care for patients in need
of behavioral health, long-term care, or rehabilitation services.
Since IHA was formed in 1923, its mission has been to strengthen and unite
hospitals and make high-quality, affordable health care available to all
Illinoisans. To make this possible, we work to ensure that adequate resources
are available for our state’s health care delivery system. With health care
delivery going through radical changes, that mission is more important than
ever.
Mission Statement:
To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve their
patients and communities.
Vision Statement:
Illinois hospitals and health systems consider IHA membership essential to
their ability to fulfill their missions.
Meet the Family
The IHA "family" includes several owned and managed companies that
provide a full line of management, operational, and insurance services.
Association Venture Corporation (AVC), a holding company, provides leadership,
coordination, and direction to all of IHA’s for-profit subsidiaries and managed
companies, including:
Association Management Resources (AMR), which provides cost-effective,
high-quality service programs to Illinois hospitals, including benefit and
insurance brokerage, and the Illinois Purchasing Collaborative, a program to
help members reduce health care supply chain costs.
Illinois Risk Management Services (IRMS), which provides claims
management, risk management, and actuarial consulting services to the Illinois
Compensation Trust, the Illinois Provider Trust, and self-insured health care
clients.
Medical Alliance Insurance Company (MAIC), which provides professional
liability coverage to physicians on staff at self-insured hospitals being
served by Illinois Risk Management Services (IRMS) and members of the Illinois
Provider Trust (IPT).
Illinois Compensation Trust (ICT), a risk pooling program for workers’
compensation. ICT is owned and governed by its member hospitals.
Illinois Provider Trust (IPT), a risk pooling program for professional and
general liability. IPT is owned and governed by its member hospitals.
The IHA family also includes:
HealthCare Associates Credit Union (HACU), a not-for-profit, full service
financial cooperative begun by the Association in 1980 but now fully owned by
its members.
Illinois Hospital Research and Educational Foundation (IHREF), which
houses IHA’s education programs, such as the
Health E-Gateway (HEG), a program that provides a web-based
solution for the secure exchange of information including protected health
information.
How We’re Governed
IHA operations are directed by President Kenneth C. Robbins and a
29-member Board of Trustees. Constituency sections for disproportionate-share
hospitals, small and rural hospitals, behavioral health, investor-owned
hospitals, post-acute care, and
volunteers, as well as councils and task forces, provide members with
opportunities to participate in the Association’s policy development process.
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