By Cynthia Grau/WJEZ News

Kevin Schoeplein, OSF Healthcare System CEO, has been elected to the newly integrated Illinois Health and Hospital Association’s (IHA) Board of Trustees.

Schoeplein began his career with The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis as an Assistant Administrator at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria in 1978, and has served in a variety of positions at OSF facilities and Ministry headquarters before being named CEO in February 2011. He was first appointed to the IHA Board in 2014 and serves on the Executive Committee.

The Board of Trustees is the policymaking body for the Association, which represents more than 200 hospitals and nearly 50 health systems across Illinois.