Skip to main content
AscensionExecutive hire

Ascension Alexian Brothers in Elk Grove Village names new hospital president

What happened

Ascension hired Ellis Hawkins as president on Feb 4th '26.

Source

Article excerpt

Highlighted: the sentence this signal was extracted from

Ascension Alexian Brothers in Elk Grove Village names new hospital president. Ellis Hawkins was named Wednesday as the new president of Ascension Alexian Brothers hospital in Elk Grove Village, officials announced. He replaces Dan Doherty, who left to become CEO of Northwest Health - Porter in Indiana last October. Hawkins was brought on by St. Louis-based Ascension to become president of St. Mary hospital in Chicago in early 2024 before the hospital was one of eight acquired by Ontario, California-based Prime Healthcare a year later. Five Ascension sites, including the hospital in Elk Grove, weren't included in the deal. "Following an extensive national search, we found exactly what we needed right here in Ellis," said Polly Davenport, senior vice president and ministry market CEO for Ascension Illinois, in a statement. "Ellis is a highly qualified leader with extensive knowledge of health care in general and Ascension in particular. I'm happy to welcome him back to lead our largest Chicagoland hospital." Hawkins has spent more than 30 years in the health care field, including a year as president of Touchette Regional Hospital in downstate Centreville, where he led the design and construction of a replacement hospital and oversaw the restructure of the hospital's behavioral health service line. He was president of SSM Health DePaul Hospital in St. Louis for nearly...

Keep reading with a free account

The rest of this article, and every signal for Ascension, is in your free account.

Extracted by Autobound

From the Signal API record
Event
Executive hire

What this signalsA new leader often reviews the tools the team uses.

Person
Ellis Hawkinspresident
Takes effect
Feb 4, 2026
Location
Elk Grove, California, United States

More executive hire signals at other companies

The full record

From the Signal API record

People

  • Ellis Hawkinspresident · Named in the story

Details

Category
Hires

Topics and mentions

Job title tags

  • directors

Extraction

Confidence
58%
Detected
Feb 5, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
hires

Use this data

Get every executive hire signal for Ascension and the companies you sell to, in the tools you already use.

  1. Ask Claude about it

    Connect Autobound to Claude, Claude Code or Cursor with MCP. Then ask: “What changed at Ascension this week?”

  2. Send it to your own tools

    The Signal API returns executive hire signals for any list of companies as JSON, for your CRM, warehouse or app.

  3. Try it free

    Sign up and spend your free credits on the companies you sell to.

    Start Free1,000 free credits

The API returns more than this page shows

This page shows a preview. The full news record in the Signal API and MCP can also have these 8 fields. Some fields are empty for some signals.

Company

  • linkedin_urlValue in the API
  • industriesValue in the API
  • employee_count_lowValue in the API
  • employee_count_highValue in the API
  • revenueValue in the API
  • descriptionValue in the API

Signal

  • signal_nameValue in the API
  • associationValue in the API
Show the full JSONThe record on this page and the API request

GET /v1/signals/4550bcc4-e253-44a5-88d2-a3fead5bccaf returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for ascension.org.

{
  "signal_id": "4550bcc4-e253-44a5-88d2-a3fead5bccaf",
  "signal_type": "news",
  "signal_subtype": "hires",
  "detected_at": "2026-02-05T21:06:51+00:00",
  "company": {
    "name": "Ascension",
    "domain": "ascension.org"
  },
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.dailyherald.com/20260205/health-care/ascension-alexian-brothers-in-elk-grove-village-names-news-hospital-president",
    "title": "Ascension Alexian Brothers in Elk Grove Village names new hospital president",
    "contact": "Ellis Hawkins",
    "excerpt": "Ascension Alexian Brothers in Elk Grove Village names new hospital president.\n\nEllis Hawkins was named Wednesday as the new president of Ascension Alexian Brothers hospital in Elk Grove Village, officials announced.\n\nHe replaces Dan Doherty, who left to become CEO of Northwest Health - Porter in Indiana last October.\n\nHawkins was brought on by St. Louis-based Ascension to become president of St. Mary hospital in Chicago in early 2024 before the hospital was one of eight acquired by Ontario, California-based Prime Healthcare a year later. Five Ascension sites, including the hospital in Elk Grove, weren't included in the deal.\n\n\"Following an extensive national search, we found exactly what we needed right here in Ellis,\" said Polly Davenport, senior vice president and ministry market CEO for Ascension Illinois, in a statement. \"Ellis is a highly qualified leader with extensive knowledge of health care in general and Ascension in particular. I'm happy to welcome him back to lead our largest Chicagoland hospital.\"\n\nHawkins has spent more than 30 years in the health care field, including a year as president of Touchette Regional Hospital in downstate Centreville, where he led the design and construction of a replacement hospital and oversaw the restructure of the hospital's behavioral health service line. He was president of SSM Health DePaul Hospital in St. Louis for nearly three...",
    "summary": "Ascension hired Ellis Hawkins as president on Feb 4th '26.",
    "category": "hires",
    "found_at": "2026-02-05T21:06:51Z",
    "location": "Elk Grove, California, United States",
    "planning": false,
    "image_url": "https://imengine.public.prod.pdh.navigacloud.com/?uuid=93fccd9d-45d7-55c1-ab70-f602b1d57f7e&function=fit&type=preview",
    "job_title": "president",
    "confidence": 0.5844,
    "published_at": "2026-02-05T21:06:51Z",
    "location_data": [
      {
        "city": "Elk Grove",
        "state": "California",
        "country": "United States",
        "fuzzy_match": false
      }
    ],
    "effective_date": "2026-02-04",
    "job_title_tags": [
      "directors"
    ],
    "article_sentence": "Ellis Hawkins was named Wednesday as the new president of Ascension Alexian Brothers hospital in Elk Grove Village, officials announced."
  }
}

Long text fields are shortened on this page.

Looking up one signal by its id is free. Enrich costs 2 credits per signal returned; a call with no results is free.