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Les Mennenga of East Central Illinois EMS talks with Fox Illinois about having vital information handy in case of an emergency.

Ari Lakritz, PsyD, talks with WBGZ radio about SAD and PTSD.

Dr. Andrew Zasada, internal medicine physician at OSF HealthCare Primary Care in Savoy, Illinois, talks with the Southern Champaign County Today newspaper about improving sleep, diet and exercise.

OSF HealthCare orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Murphy talks with WCIA about snow shoveling safety

Fox Illinois TV covers the rollout of a cutting edge diabetic retinopathy screening at OSF HealthCare.

Jerry Rumph, president of OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony's Health Center in Alton, Illinois, talks with WBGZ radio about Catholic health care and how OSF Saint Anthony's is meeting the challenges of a rural hospital.

American Idol Season 20 finalist Leah Marlene made a surprise visit to OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois in Peoria earlier this week. Marlene performed her song “Flowers” which raises awareness about mental health challenges and offers hope for anyone going through a difficult struggle.

Dr. Kurt Bloomstrand of OSF HealthCare in Urbana, Illinois, talks with the Illinois Farm Bureau on CPR and taking an ambulance

Dr. Aminat Ogun talks with WCIA about weight loss drugs.

OSF HealthCare Vice President of Government Relations talks with WILL radio on the U.S. ambulances to Ukraine effort

Rita Manning from OSF HealthCare pastoral care talks with WDAN radio in Danville, Illinois, about coping with loss

Dr. Michael Broman with OSF HealthCare Cardiovascular Institute in Urbana, Illinois, talks with Happiest Health on how coffee interacts with the heart.

Following two separate shootings in the Peoria area, local psychological experts emphasize the importance of addressing community violence with children and young adults. Sam Schubach, manager for OSF Trauma Recovery program Strive, says the program has provided help to more than 200 individuals in the past year and that therapists with the program are embedded in two Peoria High Schools and do community outreach as well as home and hospital visits. Schubach says some teens don't realize they have been traumatized by violence and services are available for up to 10 years following a violent incident.

Dr. Adam Cross of OSF HealthCare and the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria is developing a new technique that may detect concussions on location in just two minutes. It’s called Flight Path and uses mixed reality on a tablet. This effort was featured on WTVP TV, Peoria's PBS TV affiliate.

Dr. Nadeem Ahmed, pulmonologist at OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony's Health Center in Alton, Illinois, talks about sleep alliance as a possible cure to nighttime issues.

WDAN radio talks with Judi Miles of OSF Hegeler Cancer Center in Danville, Illinois

The Commercial News in Danville, Illinois, covers the renovation of the chapel at OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center.

Fox Illinois TV talks with a social worker at OSF HealthCare Heart of Mary Medical Center in Urbana, Illinois, about how the hospital serves behavioral health patients.

WAND TV talks to OSF physician Dr. Andrew Zasada about staying safe and healthy in 2023.

Dr. Andrew Zasada, internal medicine physician at OSF Primary Care in Savoy, Illinois, talks with Southern Champaign County Today about new year's resolution.

OSF OnCall, the digital arm of OSF HealthCare, has built remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs for Medicaid patients with chronic conditions and for pregnancy and post partum. This story from WCBU, which also appeared on other NPR stations in Illinois, is now using the same technology to help caregivers who have children 5 and under at home with RSV, a common respiratory virus that arrived earlier and is harsher this season. It is also the number one reason kids are hospitalized in the U.S. every year.

This story from an industry publication reveals how OSF HealthCare is now one of the few health systems directly in the business of personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturing. Early nationwide shortages led Pinak Shah, senior vice president and chief supply chain officer of OSF HealthCare, to bring production in-house while also offering jobs to the health system's local community. "With Peoria being an engineering town, with Caterpillar and others, we saw an opportunity for manufacturing," Shah says.

OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Hospital President Lynn Fulton is quotes in this story explaining the Bloomington hospital had to transfer patients to other hospitals during the recent surge. Fulton said cases are generally less severe than during the worst of the pandemic, but the high volume of viral illnesses is concerning.

WCIA talks with OSF HealthCare physician Dr. Jason Kole about preparing for bitter cold weather