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Dr. Andrew Zasada of OSF HealthCare Heart of Mary Medical Center in Urbana talks about the state of the pandemic

Dr. Jomel Labayog of OSF Hegeler Cancer Center in Danville, Illinois, talks with WDAN radio about breast cancer.

Dr. James Murphy of OSF HealthCare Heart of Mary Medical Center in Urbana, Illinois, talks about his work as an orthopedic surgeon with WDWS radio.

This story from Peoria's NPR radio station WCBU explains how a new alternative to hospital admission, available for select patients at OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, is allowing patients to enjoy the comforts of home while receiving hospital-level care.

Dr. Andrew Zasada of OSF HealthCare in Champaign County, Illinois, presents his weekly column in the Champaign County Today newspaper.

Heather Chambers of OSF Moeller Cancer Center in Alton talks about the Caring Circle support group.

Dr. Joseph Calvo, an emergency department physician at OSF Sacred Heart in Danville, Illinois, talks with FOX Illinois about COVID-19 and how individual risk has changed as the pandemic wears on.

Dr. Andrew Zasada, an internal medicine physician at OSF HealthCare in Champaign County, Illinois, has a weekly column in the Southern Champaign County Today newspaper on relevant health topics. Today, he talks about avoid football injuries.

President of OSF Saint Anthony's Health Center in Alton Jerry Rumph talks with WBGZ about an upcoming pediatric open house. Also joining the interview is Karen Boyd, patient navigator at OSF Moeller Cancer Center in Alton.

Riverbender.com covers the back to school event at OSF Saint Anthony's in Alton.

This story highlights a new integration of the Western Illinois Cancer Treatment Center in Galesburg, Illinois into OSF HealthCare to keep patient care local while enhancing the level of cancer care in the Western Region. One goal of this new partnership is to build a strong radiation therapy program that ties seamlessly to the new OSF Cancer Institute that will open next year in Peoria.

This story highlights the OSF HealthCare "Care-4-Kids" summer program that brings the mobile Care-A-Van to community sites and helps provide activities and education to children about healthy behaviors. The Care-A-Van program will expand in the future to bring more screenings and medical services out into the community.

Sara Overton, the chief nursing officer at OSF Medical Group and Home Care and Peoria City/County Health Department Administrator Monica Hendrickson and the update the treatment, precautions and changing symptoms for COVID-19 as the virus changes. They also discuss a local study on long COVID and explain monkeypox.

This story highlights all of the new features in a YMCA building in Bloomington, Illinois, including a therapy pool, that will be among options available to Easter Seals of Central Illinois on land located on the OSF HealthCare hospital and cancer center campus. OSF HealthCare donated the land as part of fundraising efforts that led to the project that was a decade-long effort.

Some patients need extra monitoring between office visits, especially those with conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, COPD, heart failure or asthma. This interview segment highlights the fact OSF HealthCare recently launched a remote patient monitoring program to assist Medicaid patients and some of its own Mission Partners and their family members (with an OSF HealthCare plan) – to monitor and care for them without the need for travel.

The Alton (Illinois) Telegraph talks with Mission Partners and a patient at Moeller Cancer Center.

The Riverbender talks to a patient at OSF Moeller Cancer Center who was honored at the Alton River Dragons game on July 27, 2022.

After Chris Manson of OSF HealthCare led an effort to get an Advanced Medical Transport ambulance to war-torn Ukraine in April, several more have been transported. This story highlights that by the end of the year, Manson expects to have supported efforts to ship about 20 such vehicles to that area.

Karen Boyd, Heather Chambers, and Dr. Alejandro Sanz of OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony's Health Center in Alton, Illinois, talk with WBGZ radio.

For the second time this year, a major national media outlet is recognizing Michelle Conger as one of the top chief strategy officers among the nation's health care systems. The publication recognized Conger's role in creating the OSF Innovation division and for also serving as CEO of OSF OnCall, the expanding Digital Health arm of OSF HealthCare.

WAND-TV talks with OSF infectious disease physician Dr. John Farrell on monkeypox.

WDAN radio in Danville, Illinois, talks with Dr. Jomel Labayog of Hegeler Cancer Center. The Danville Dans baseball team recently hosted OSF.

The program focuses on three medical innovations in use at OSF HealthCare and/or medical students in Peoria. One improves the infusion of resuscitative fluids or blood for ill patients; another offers training capabilities for doctors delivering high radioactive doses directly into cancer tumors; and a third uses artificial intelligence to better educate medical students.

The Commercial News in Danville, Illinois, profiles the Cares-4-Kids program, where OSF HealthCare teaches kids about healthy habits.