Southern Illinois Medical Services (SIMS)

Southern Illinois Medical Services, NFP (sims) operates community physician practices to provide care and treatment of the medically sick, injured or afflicted on a not-for profit basis. These practices are located in various communities in our central service area. Both primary care and specialized Medical care are provided including family medicine, general surgery, breast surgery, pulmonologist, bariatric, oncology, and neurology. These practices provide the only access to several of these specialties within our service area. These community physician practices provide quality health Services to people throughout Southern Illinois regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, age or ability to pay. During this reporting period, the community physician practices of sims recorded 192,814 encounters in treating this population. (continued in schedule o)

Southern Illinois Medical Services, NFP (sims) operates hospital physician practices to provide care and treatment of the medically sick, injured or afflicted on a not-for profit basis at the three hospitals operated by our sole member Southern Illinois hospital Services (sihs). These hospital physicians provide two distinct Services. One Group staffs the emergency rooms at each of the three hospitals and the second Group provides care during a hospital stay at these same hospitals. Both groups of physicians are vital to providing healthcare to the population of our service areas, as many of the residents do not have a primary care physician. The hospital physicians provide quality health Services to people throughout Southern Illinois regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, age or ability to pay. During this reporting period, the hospital physicians of sims recorded 149,646 encounters in treating this population. (continued in schedule o)

Southern Illinois Medical Services, NFP (sims) operates the following physician clinics: the center for Medical arts (cma) in carbondale, il logan primary care (lpc) in herrin, il and west frankfort, il primary care Group (pcg) in harrisburg, il hmc clinics and urgent care center in marion, il. These physician clinics provide care and treatment of the medically sick, injured or afflicted on a not-for profit basis. Quality health Services are provided to people throughout Southern Illinois regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, age or ability to pay. During this reporting period, the practices of the physician clinics recorded a combined total of 271,848 encounters treating this population. (continued in schedule o).

Southern Illinois Medical Services, NFP (sims) also provides other administrative Services and leases space to its related organizations.