Who is javon bea hospital named after

Javon R. Bea is President/CEO of Mercyhealth, a vertically integrated, multiregional system with seven hospitals, 700-plus employed physician partners and 7,000-plus employee/partners, 85 primary and specialty care locations, a home health and hospice division, and a wholly owned and operated insurance company.

Mercyhealth offers services across 15 northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin counties.

Javon's experience implementing the effective culture of excellence programs and innovative physician compensation models to foster system turnaround is unparalleled. He pioneered a "partnership model" of compensation and designed a custom culture of excellence program that promotes both clinical and service quality initiatives.

Over the last 30 years, Javon transformed Mercy Hospital from a single, standalone hospital into a large, vertically integrated health system.

When he began in 1989, Mercy Hospital was a struggling community hospital with no integra