HSHS Announces Market Chief Financial Officer
December 30, 2025
Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), a leading Catholic health ministry with operations in Illinois and Wisconsin, announced today that Divya Matai, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, MBA, MHA, has been named Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for HSHS Central Illinois Market and Illinois Physician Enterprise. She begins her role Jan. 4, 2026.
In this role, Matai is responsible for monitoring financial performance and maintaining appropriate financial plans and forecasts, serving as key financial liaisons to market executives and supporting operational leaders at the Central Illinois Market ministries and Physician Enterprise. HSHS’ Central Illinois Market includes HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield; HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital in Effingham; HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital in Decatur; HSHS St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield and HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital in Shelbyville. HSHS’ Illinois Physician Enterprise includes HSHS Medical Group, Prairie Cardiovascular, Physician Clinical Integration Network, HSHS ACO, and Prairie Education & Research Cooperative.
Matai has been serving as interim CFO for the Central Illinois Market and Physician Enterprise since fall 2025. She is an accomplished senior executive with a history of success in strategic planning, program development, financial analysis, forecasting and negotiations. She joins HSHS after having served at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia as Vice President and CFO at various divisions of the organization. Prior to that, she served as Market CFO for Northwest Texas Healthcare System in Amarillo, Texas, after serving as CFO at medical institutes in Houston, Texas and Eugene, Oregon.
She holds a Master of Business and Healthcare Administration from the University of Houston in Texas and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from Mahatma Gandhi Medical College in Navi Mumbai, India.
In this role, Matai is responsible for monitoring financial performance and maintaining appropriate financial plans and forecasts, serving as key financial liaisons to market executives and supporting operational leaders at the Central Illinois Market ministries and Physician Enterprise. HSHS’ Central Illinois Market includes HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield; HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital in Effingham; HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital in Decatur; HSHS St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield and HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital in Shelbyville. HSHS’ Illinois Physician Enterprise includes HSHS Medical Group, Prairie Cardiovascular, Physician Clinical Integration Network, HSHS ACO, and Prairie Education & Research Cooperative.
Matai has been serving as interim CFO for the Central Illinois Market and Physician Enterprise since fall 2025. She is an accomplished senior executive with a history of success in strategic planning, program development, financial analysis, forecasting and negotiations. She joins HSHS after having served at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia as Vice President and CFO at various divisions of the organization. Prior to that, she served as Market CFO for Northwest Texas Healthcare System in Amarillo, Texas, after serving as CFO at medical institutes in Houston, Texas and Eugene, Oregon.
She holds a Master of Business and Healthcare Administration from the University of Houston in Texas and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from Mahatma Gandhi Medical College in Navi Mumbai, India.
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