What Salem Township Hospital does

Salem Township Hospital is a 25-bed community hospital located at 1201 Ricker Drive in Salem, Illinois, operating since 1958 as a government/township-owned facility serving the local population and surrounding rural areas. It delivers a comprehensive range of acute care, emergency, inpatient, outpatient, surgical, diagnostic, rehabilitation, and behavioral health services through its main campus and a network of Rural Health Clinics (Walk-In, Primary Care, Orthopedic, Surgical, Pulmonary, Behavioral) plus the Family Health Care Center. Revenue is generated through standard healthcare service billing to insurance providers, Medicare, Medicaid, and self-pay patients, with additional retail-style revenue from school and sports physicals priced at a flat $25.

The technology stack is built on standard third-party hospital IT infrastructure rather than proprietary platforms: the STH MyChart and Athenahealth patient portals for patient engagement, Baxter Cardio Server for cardiac diagnostics, and STH PACS for medical imaging. Patient acquisition is primarily community-driven via Facebook, a hospital website with news and event content, and free community education programs such as Nutrition Nights and Lunch & Learn sessions. The hospital also maintains an Auxiliary volunteer organization and a Foundation for scholarships, reinforcing its community-embedded operating model.

The hospital's go-to-market is a horizontal, single-geography community healthcare model rather than a scalable platform: it serves local residents across age segments (school-aged children via physicals, adults via primary and specialty care, seniors via behavioral health and swing bed services), with no enterprise customers, no multi-site expansion, and no disclosed revenue. Strategic activity in 2026 is limited to provider recruitment, continued operation of the dual portal systems, and incremental community engagement programming rather than material expansion or restructuring.

Name

Salem Township Hospital

Legal name

Salem Township Hospital

Website

https://sthcares.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1958

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Salem Township Hospital is a 25-bed government-owned community hospital in Salem, Illinois, providing emergency, inpatient, outpatient, surgical, diagnostic, rehabilitation, and behavioral health services to local residents through its main campus and a network of rural health specialty clinics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Salem

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

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Services Revenue: Salem Township Hospital generates revenue through providing healthcare services including emergency care, inpatient services, outpatient services, diagnostic imaging, laboratory services, surgical procedures, cardiopulmonary services, sleep diagnostics, therapy services, senior behavioral health, and swing bed services. Revenue is derived from patient services billed to insurance providers, government healthcare programs (Medicare, Medicaid), and self-pay patients.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Salem Township Hospital is a 25-bed acute care community hospital in Salem, Illinois that provides inpatient care, 24/7 emergency services, and outpatient diagnostics. Its offerings span surgical services, cardiopulmonary care, sleep diagnostics, therapy, senior behavioral health, and swing-bed recovery, supplemented by rural health clinics covering primary care, walk-in, orthopedic, surgical, pulmonary, and behavioral health visits.

Product overview

Salem Township Hospital is a community healthcare facility offering a unified set of medical services rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The hospital provides acute care through its Emergency Department and inpatient services, supported by diagnostic capabilities including Imaging, Laboratory, and Sleep Diagnostics Lab. Outpatient care is delivered through multiple Rural Health Clinics offering primary care, specialty services (orthopedics, pulmonary, surgical, behavioral), and walk-in availability. The Family Health Care Center provides team-based family medicine. Rehabilitation services include Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Therapy Services. Patient engagement is facilitated through dual portal systems: STH MyChart (hospital's primary portal) and Athena Patient Portal (via Athenahealth).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• STH MyChart: Patient portal for accessing medical records, test results, appointments, and billing
• STH Auxiliary
• STH Pacs

Products and services

• Emergency Department Services

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Carle Health: Large integrated health system based in Urbana, Illinois with a broad network of hospitals and clinics. Regional incumbent operating rural-affiliated facilities across Illinois that competes for rural referrals and provides tertiary backup services for community hospitals.
• OSF HealthCare: Large Illinois-based Catholic health system operating numerous hospitals and rural health clinics across the state. Broad incumbent that competes for rural patient volumes and provides regional specialty referral infrastructure relevant to Salem Township Hospital's market.
• HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Breese: Regional hospital in the Hospital Sisters Health System serving central/southern Illinois. Larger Catholic system-affiliated facility that competes for the same rural patient base and serves as a regional referral and post-acute discharge partner for smaller hospitals like Salem Township Hospital.

Direct peers

• Ferrell Hospital: Community hospital in Eldorado, Illinois delivering acute care, outpatient, and specialty services to a rural southern Illinois population. Directly comparable rural community-hospital peer in service area, scale, and clinical offering.
• Wabash General Hospital: Rural Illinois hospital in Mount Carmel providing a similar mix of emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and specialty clinic services. Comparable rural community-hospital peer with overlapping service lines and geographic profile.
• Hamilton Memorial Hospital: Rural Illinois hospital in McLeansboro offering acute care, emergency, and outpatient services to a small southern Illinois community. Directly comparable to Salem Township Hospital in bed count, rural setting, and service scope.
• Clay County Hospital: Small rural hospital in Flora, Illinois providing acute care, emergency, and outpatient services. Comparable in geographic profile (rural southern/central Illinois), scale, and community-hospital positioning to Salem Township Hospital.
• Marshall Browning Hospital: Small rural critical access hospital in Du Quoin, Illinois (approximately 25-bed), offering similar acute care, emergency, outpatient, and swing bed services to a comparable rural community. Closest like-for-like peer for Salem Township Hospital in scale, ownership type, and service mix.
• Fayette County Hospital: Small rural hospital in Vandalia, Illinois offering acute, emergency, and outpatient services to a comparable rural community. Like-for-like peer in scale, service mix, and rural Illinois setting.

Regional players

• SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital: Regional hospital in Mount Vernon, Illinois — geographically proximate to Salem and serving overlapping southern Illinois communities. Larger in scale and part of the SSM Health system, providing a regional competitor and potential referral/discharge partner for Salem Township Hospital.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/salemtownshiphospital
• Xx.com/salemmedcenter

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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