Hardin County General Hospital

What Hardin County General Hospital does

Hardin County General Hospital (HCGH) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Critical Access Hospital located at 6 Ferrell Road, Rosiclare, Illinois, serving Hardin County and surrounding rural communities in the Shawnee National Forest region of Southern Illinois. Founded in 1958 with funding from local mining companies (Aluminum Company of America, Ozark Mahoning Mining, Fluorspar Division of Minerva Oil), the Ford Foundation, federal grants, and public donations, the hospital is overseen by a volunteer Board and operates 24/7 emergency care, inpatient, outpatient, swing-bed, and observation services alongside a Monday–Friday primary care clinic staffed by three physicians and three nurse practitioners. Specialty services include interventional cardiology (Dr. Sanjay Bose, NP Courtney Spivey), rehabilitation (physical, occupational, speech therapy plus ASTYM), respiratory therapy, and social services; the affiliated laboratory is CLIA certified, performs over 16,000 blood tests monthly with 95% in-house completion, and earned a 'perfect' COLA inspection in April 2010, while the mammography department is ACR accredited and all imaging is interpreted by Board Certified Radiologists. Mobile MRI and bone density services are delivered via partnerships with Alliance Imaging and Imaging Resource Centers respectively, and the radiology platform runs on CR and PACS digital systems (implemented June 2008) with protected-internet transmission for remote reads.

The hospital generates revenue through direct patient care services billed to Medicare, Medicaid, third-party insurance, and self-pay patients, supplemented by a Financial Assistance Program for income-qualified patients and price transparency disclosures (CSV/XLS downloads) in compliance with the No Surprises Act. Out-of-pocket services include a $79 calcium scoring screening. Go-to-market is direct-to-consumer across a single rural catchment area with no commercial enterprise customers; the hospital's Social Services department conducts community health education at local schools and events as a grassroots outreach channel. The operation is supported by approximately 11–50 employees organized under a Hospital Administrator (CEO Roby Williams) and six Directors (CNO Andrea Bebout, CQO Todd Carr, CIO Liz Lane, CFO/HR Susie Degrave, CCO Haley Duke, plus others), with regulatory oversight spanning HIPAA, EMTALA, OSHA, Anti-kickback, Illinois Department of Public Health, Medicare, and Medicaid requirements.

The fundamental business model is that of a sole-provider Critical Access Hospital: cost-based Medicare reimbursement, regulated payer mix, and a captive rural catchment area that would otherwise require patients to travel long distances for acute care. The defensibility rests on the Critical Access designation, a dense compliance stack, 50+ years of community presence, and capital-light service extensions through vendor partnerships, rather than on scale, technology differentiation, or premium pricing power.

Name

Hardin County General Hospital

Legal name

Hardin County General Hospital and Clinic

Website

https://ilhcgh.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1958

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hardin County General Hospital is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Critical Access Hospital in Rosiclare, Illinois, providing 24/7 emergency, inpatient, outpatient, laboratory, radiology, rehabilitation, and specialty cardiology services to rural Hardin County residents and surrounding Southern Illinois communities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Rural Hospital Services

NAICS

Ambulatory Health Care Services (621), Other Outpatient Care Centers (62149), Other Ambulatory Health Care Services (6219)

SIC

Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062), Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Critical Access & Rural Hospitals (HLAFAAAG)

Keywords

• Critical access hospital
• Rural healthcare services
• Emergency medical care
• Diagnostic imaging services
• Inpatient outpatient care

Headquarters

HQ city

Rosiclare

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Patient Care Services: Direct healthcare services including emergency care, in-patient care, out-patient services, laboratory, radiology, rehabilitation, clinic services, and specialty cardiology services. Revenue generated through Medicare, Medicaid, third-party insurances, and self-pay patients.
2. Financial Assistance Program: The hospital provides a Financial Assistance Program based on family size and income for patients unable to pay, operating as a charitable 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Hardin County General Hospital is a 501(c)3 non-profit Critical Access Hospital providing comprehensive inpatient, outpatient, and emergency medical services to the rural community of Hardin County and surrounding Southern Illinois. Core offerings include 24/7 emergency care, a CLIA certified laboratory performing over 16,000 blood tests per month, full-service radiology and imaging (CT, mammography, ultrasound, mobile MRI, mobile bone density), rehabilitation services, respiratory therapy, cardiology specialty services, and a primary care clinic staffed by physicians and nurse practitioners.

Product overview

Hardin County General Hospital and Clinic is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Critical Access Hospital offering a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient medical services. The hospital provides emergency care, laboratory diagnostics (16,000+ blood tests/month), radiology/imaging (X-ray, CT, MRI, mammography, ultrasound), rehabilitation (physical, occupational, speech therapy), respiratory therapy, cardiopulmonary/cardiology services, and social services. The affiliated outpatient clinic offers family practice, physicals, immunizations, and specialist referrals. Services are delivered through qualified nursing staff, physicians, and nurse practitioners, with partnerships for specialized imaging services including mobile MRI and bone density testing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Emergency Care 24/7 emergency department staffed with Registered Nurses trained in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Burn Care Certification, and Trauma Nurse Certification. Operates as a Critical Access Facility with on-call physician available at all times.
• Laboratory Services Comprehensive diagnostic and treatment-related testing laboratory performing over 16,000 blood tests monthly. Services include arterial blood gases, blood bank, cardiac assays, chemistry, coagulation, cultures, drug screening, glucose monitoring, hematology, therapeutic phlebotomy, urinalysis, and viral screening. CLIA certified with 95% of tests performed in-house.
• Radiology and Imaging Services

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Alliance Imaging, Inc.coreTechnology or IntegrationAlliance Imaging, Inc. provides MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) service to Hardin County General Hospital. A large truck with MRI equipment permanently on board comes on Saturday of every week. Qualified technologists employed by Alliance Imaging perform the exams. Referring physicians can schedule MRI exams through the Radiology Department.
• Imaging Resource Centers, LTD.coreTechnology or IntegrationImaging Resource Centers, LTD. from Dayton, Ohio provides bone density (DEXA scan) service to HCGH. A large van with the equipment comes once a month on a Wednesday. A qualified technologist employed by Imaging Resource Centers performs the exams.
• Joyner Therapy ServicesminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerThe Rehabilitation department offers Augmented Soft Tissue Manipulation (ASTYM) provided by the certified staff of Joyner Therapy Services.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Wabash General Hospital: District hospital in Mount Carmel, Illinois (Wabash County) providing emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and specialty services to a rural Southern Illinois community with similar demographics.
• Massac Memorial Hospital: Critical Access Hospital in Metropolis, Illinois (Massac County), operating as a small rural community hospital offering emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and primary care services comparable to HCGH's mix.
• Marshall Browning Hospital: Independent non-profit Critical Access Hospital in Du Quoin, Illinois providing emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and specialty clinic services in rural Perry County.
• Crawford Memorial Hospital: Independent community hospital in Robinson, Illinois (Crawford County) offering a comparable range of acute care, outpatient, diagnostic, and rehabilitation services to a rural Eastern Illinois community.
• Hamilton Memorial Hospital: Small rural hospital in McLeansboro, Illinois (Hamilton County) providing emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and clinic services to a similarly small Southern Illinois county population.
• Pinckneyville Community Hospital: Small rural community hospital in Pinckneyville, Illinois offering emergency, diagnostic imaging, laboratory, and primary care services to a comparably sized rural county population.
• Fairfield Memorial Hospital: 501(c)(3) non-profit community hospital in Fairfield, Illinois (Wayne County) offering a comparable scope of emergency, diagnostic, rehabilitation, and primary care services to a rural Southern Illinois population.

Broad incumbents

• Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH): Regional health system serving Southern Illinois with multiple hospitals and clinics; HCGH's patient portal is hosted by SIH (mychart.sih.net), indicating a referral/affiliation relationship typical of small rural hospitals in the SIH network.
• Deaconess Illinois Specialty Clinic: Large regional health system with Southern Illinois presence providing tertiary specialty services that complement or compete for referrals from rural Critical Access Hospitals like HCGH.

Regional players

• Baptist Health Hardin (Kentucky): Regional hospital serving Hardin County, Kentucky (the namesake county across the Ohio River); operates as a critical access-adjacent community hospital with overlapping patient demographics and comparable service mix.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/HardinCountyGeneralHospital
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hardin-county-general-hospital

Compliance9 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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