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Dr. Andrew Zasada talks with WAND-TV about staying healthy in smoky air.

Ari Lakritz, PsyD, talks with WBGZ radio in Alton, Illinois, about PTSD.

Becker's Hospital Review reporter Giles Bruce visited the OSF OnCall building to learn first-hand about our Digital Hospital at home program that is the largest in the state.

Nicole Gowan, a family nurse practitioner and her husband Walter, who also has emergency rescue training, were honored as Vermillion County heroes for using CPR on an 11-month-old infant who stopped breathing while in the stands at a hockey game. The baby suffered a seizure, but she was revived before paramedics arrived.

Heather Chambers, an OSF Mission Partner in Alton, Illinois, talks about her ministry in Uganda.

WBGZ talks with Jill Schreiber and Lea Ann Varble of OSF HealthCare psychological services at Saint Anthony's Health Center in Alton, Illinois.

Riverbender Radio talks with OSF and SSM about telestroke.

Les Mennenga with East Central Illinois EMS talks with WDAN radio in Danville, Illinois, about EMS Week.

Happiest Health talks skipping breakfast and heart health with Alaa Ujayli, MD, and Amber Kingery, APRN, of OSF HealthCare Cardiovascular Institute in Urbana, Illinois

OSF HealthCare radiologist Jason Davis, MD, talks with WCIA about new mammogram guidelines.

Dr. Raman Kumar, colorectal surgeon at OSF HealthCare in Alton, Illinois, talks with Riverbender about colon cancer prevention.

OSF HealthCare infection preventionist Tina Barton talks with WBGZ in Alton, Illinois, about avoid tick bites.

Bethany Huelskoetter, family medicine APRN at OSF HealthCare in Godfrey, Illinois, talks with the Illinois Farm Bureau about farm safety.

Health Leaders Media talks with Dr. Dennis Sands, chief medical officer at OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony's Health Center in Alton, Illinois, about stroke awareness.

The Alton (Illinois) Telegraph talks with Dr. Ameera Nauman, who has been named a woman of distinction by the YWCA of Alton.

Becker's Hospital Review, a leading industry publication, covered the 10-year anniversary of the OSF Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center and a news conference announcing preliminary results of a Bradley University study estimating the center has created $180 million in economic impact and more than 1,000 jobs.

WDAN talks with Kendra Thomas, retail pharmacy manager at OSF HealthCare in Danville, Illinois.

WCIA tells the story of Quintin Porter, who got a kidney transplant at OSF HealthCare.

WBGZ talks with Amber Blackorby of OSF HealthCare in Godfrey, Illinois.

Dr. Andrew Zasada, internal medicine physician at OSF HealthCare in Savoy, Illinois, talks with Southern Champaign County Today about summer heat safety.

The lack of nurse educators, the effect of the pandemic, an aging workforce and other issues have contributed to the shortage of nurses. In this WTVP (PBS Peoria) interview, OSF HealthCare Vice-president of Clinical Business Strategic Operations Kim Blakey and Illinois State University Mennonite College of Nursing Assistant Professor Theresa Adelman-Mullally discuss efforts to attract more individuals to a nursing career.

The state-of-the-art OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute set to open early next year in Peoria will include a Breakthrough Treatment Center, aimed at providing broader access to advanced care and innovative research. Through a collaboration with Origin, an organization aimed at broadening access to promising therapies, the Breakthrough Treatment Center intends to provide pathways to new technologies, groundbreaking developments, and world-class physicians.

WCIA talks with OSF volunteer Leon Lomax.

WAND-TV talks with Ali Ball, exercise physiologist at OSF HealthCare Heart of Mary Medical Center in Urbana, Illinois, about her ultrarunning career.