** Mission statement **
Illinois Valley Community Hospital is dedicated to providing exceptional care through a commitment to clinical excellence and compassion for every patient, every day.
** Vision statement **
By constantly exceeding expectations, Illinois Valley Community Hospital will be known as the place where patients want to receive care, physicians want to practice, and employees want to work.
History Of Illinois Valley Comm Hospital
** Our history **
Illinois Valley Community Hospital and its predecessors—St. Mary’s Hospital and Peoples Hospital—have a history of caring for the people of the Illinois Valley that goes back more than 100 years. Here’s a look at the IVCH timeline.
* 1887—St. Mary’s Hospital in LaSalle founded by the Sisters of the Franciscan
Order of the Sacred Heart.
* 1914—Peoples Hospital opens in Peru. F. W. Matthiessen opens the Hygienic
Institute in LaSalle.
* 1940—Construction of northeast wing to Peoples Hospital, adding 12 rooms.
* 1957—Northeast addition, new entrance, lobby and reception area added to
Peoples Hospital.
* 1975—Merger of St. Mary’s Hospital and Peoples Hospital announced as
Illinois Valley Community Hospital is formed.
* 1979—New 80-bed wing is dedicated in Peru. The St. Mary’s building in
LaSalle is closed.
* 1986—IVCH medical office building opens across West Street from the hospital.
* 1992—Illinois Valley Adult Day Center, an IVCH affiliate, opens in LaSalle.
* 1994-95—Second story added to medical building, parking garage constructed,
and skybridge erected connecting the garage/office complex to IVCH.
* 1996—Hygienic Institute enters into an affiliation agreement with IVCH.
* 1998—Hygienic Institute moves from the LaSalle building it had occupied
since 1914 into a new structure on North Chartres Street.
* 2000—Women’s Health Care Center added to IVCH campus.
* 2003—East Addition project completed and opened, adding a new emergency
department, surgery area and admitting area to IVCH.
* 2004—Special procedures unit opens.
* 2006—IVCH Center for Physical Rehabilitation and Aquatics opens in the
Miller Building at the Illinois Valley YMCA in Peru.
