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OSF HealthCare Chief Financial Officer Michael Allen is named among Becker's Hospital Review's CFOs to Know for 2019.

OSF HealthCare Chief Financial Officer Michael Allen is named among Becker's Hospital Review's CFOs to Know for 2019.

Enduvo is the early commercial product to come out of Jump ARCHES, a part of OSF Innovation that supports collaboration between engineers from the University of Illinois College of Engineering and health care providers at OSF HealthCare and University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria. This story explains how the company has raised additional revenue to further expand industries using the platform for their training and education purposes.

This is a letter to the editor of the Riverbender in Alton, Illinois in which OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony's Medical Center President Ajay Pathak joins with American Cancer Society regional leaders to recruit volunteers to drive cancer patients to appointments and treatment. Even though OSF Saint Anthony's provides comprehensive services right there in Alton, still some patients are challenged by having no way to get to the critical services they need.

This story highlights how OSF HealthCare Saint Luke Medical Center Community Relations Coordinator Carrie Boelens served with the greatest care and love, using her keen detective skills to dig into a letter that was sent to a patient 50 years ago but only arrived recently -- and from California no less. Boelens was able to track down the children who wrote the Get Well card to a patient so long ago that the hospital underwent two name changes as well as a complete new construction.

In this Q and A for Becker's Healthcare, OSF HeatlhCare Chief Strategy Officer, Michelle Conger discusses the journey towards using digital technology to become more patient-centric and to expand the experience of healthcare delivery.

A longtime OSF partner, Health Catalyst, is one of the first digital health care start-ups to go public, helping show the long-term belief in digital transformation to improve health care. Learn more in this Wall Street Journal story showing how improved data management is helping OSF and others.

Dr. Asif Quyyum, colorectal surgeon, appeared on the WMBD-TV (Peoria, IL) morning show to discuss colorectal cancer, the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in men and women combined in the United States.

Michelle Conger, the Chief Strategy Officer for OSF HealthCare, joins the Oliver Wyman Health Podcast to talk innovation. In this episode Sam Glick, Partner in the Health & Life Sciences practice at Oliver Wyman, chats with Conger about how a dual focus on virtual reality and medical training is shaping the future state of innovation.

This story from a professional journal outlines how OSF HealthCare has partnered with Cancer IQ, a company that offers user-friendly cancer screening tools to replace long paper forms and quickly identify patients eligible for genetic counseling or additional imaging or testing. This information came from a presentation at a recent annual meeting of Community Cancer Centers.

WHOI-TV (Peoria) special report about Remi, a micro-preemie who was born at OSF Children's Hospital and has spent the majority of his life there fighting to overcome chronic lung disease and how doctors were willing to work with another hospital to drastically improve - perhaps save - Remi's life.

Peoria Journal Star story about the interactive coloring book developed for patients at OSF Children's Hospital through Jump Simulation, thanks to a grant from PNC.

WMBD-TV story about the Trost family and how having Almost Home Kids respite program available allowed them to leave their 5-year-old son with multiple, complex medical needs in the care of the AHK staff, which allowed the parents to focus solely their other children for a long weekend, something they never get to do.

Dr. Barry Clemson, OSF HealthCare Ministry Heart Failure Medical Director, appeared on WMBD This Morning to discuss the expansion of the heart failure program, and relaunch of doing heart transplants, at OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill.

This PRISM takes a look at the design - and importance of that design - of the new Almost Home Kids at OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois.

OSF HealthCare has been recognized by Becker's Healthcare as a health system with a leading innovation program. Only 66 hospitals and health systems make up this list, all of which have committed to staying on the forefront of change in healthcare.

This WHOI-TV spot shows how two-year-old Adalie is already beating the odds, despite being born without a leg and part of her pelvis. Her OSF Children's Hospital of Illinois therapists play a big role in that.

Article in Healthcare Purchasing News ranks OSF HealthCare as one of the Supply Chain’s Elite 8.

OSF HealthCare St. Mary Medical Center is marking October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month by hosting a “Pink Party” next week (RSVP’s are requested by Friday). Connie Wessels and Carrie McCance talk about breast cancer, and the upcoming Pink Party, with Will Stevenson on Galesburg’s Evening News.

The Monmouth-based newspaper, Daily Review Atlas, profiles OSF HealthCare Orthopedic Physician Dr. Peter Mulhern who sees patients in Galesburg, Monmouth and Kewanee. Mulhern also serves as the team doctor for the Monmouth College Football team.

OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony’s Health Center and its leaders are being recognized for offering exceptional, patient-centered healthcare services and for significantly contributing to the quality of life within the Riverbend region.

OSF HealthCare and United Methodist Village retirement community announce a partnership that has been two years in the making to bring primary care, education and other health services close to home for residents of the independent and assisted living facility in Godfrey, IL.

Dr. Dronacharya Lamichhane, neurologist with OSF Illinois Neurological Institute, appeared on WMBD-TV (Peoria, IL CBS affiliate) to talk about an upcoming symposium focusing on Huntington's.

OSF HealthCare Medical Group will host a ribbon cutting later this week to celebrate a partnership that will provide on-site care for residents of United Methodist Village which provides assisted and independent living options in Godfrey.