Six Reasons to Choose Carle and Get Healthcare at its Best.

An exceptional way to provide health care is to combine world-class medicine with local convenience. Carle Foundation Hospital was built around this philosophy. Bringing you the most advanced medicine and making it available in your backyard takes a unique combination of compassion, drive and leadership. It also takes a lot more. Here are six good reasons to choose Carle.

1. Local Strength

We are a locally owned and managed hospital, governed solely by our board of community members. We do not answer to a distant corporation. This keeps us focused on our community and you.

2. Exceptional Care

We constantly recruit and work to retain the most remarkable nurses we can find. Nurses are the foundation of truly compassionate care. Ours work wonders every day.

3. Healthy Relationships

We enjoy a very healthy relationship with Carle Clinic Association and its 300 physicians practicing in 30 specialties. As one of the state’s largest group practices, Carle Clinic Association attracts exceptional physicians and world-renowned specialists. Best of all, Carle physicians live and practice medicine in the communities they serve – making health care convenient for you.

4. Advanced Medicine

Thanks to our medical staff, we are able to offer an impressive and unmatched number of services. The Carle Heart Center, Carle Cancer Center, Level III Perinatal Center and the region’s only Level I Trauma Center attest to the depth and breadth of our services.

5. Medical Leadership

Carle Foundation Hospital has grown to become not just a regional leader, but also a medical leader, attracting some of the best and brightest minds in health care.

6. Community Service

As a not-for-profit healthcare organization, we provide more than $2.3 million in charity care to members of our community. We contribute more than $3.9 million to community health education and programs that benefit all of us. Our charitable status allows us to provide our community with the latest technology, modern facilities, valuable services that operate at a loss and much more. All this contributes to the strength of our community and the stability of healthcare.

We are proud to have a history of bringing excellent health care to the people of east central Illinois and we are committed to meeting the future healthcare needs of our community. Knowing you can trust Carle to provide advanced medicine and local convenience makes choosing Carle the right decision.