Articles tagged with 'COVID19' | OSF HealthCare

Most of us are keeping homes, apartments or condos a little cleaner these days to prevent spreading COVID-19, but more cleaning does not always result in smart practices. In fact, a study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found t...

A 67 year-old man shows up at his local hospital’s emergency department and he’s in a bad way. He has end stage kidney disease and his potassium levels are out of control. In many rural communities, the local hospital doesn’t have a dialysis machine....

You might have seen the hundreds of Tik Tok social media videos featuring alcohol and funny lip synced monologues about drinking but a new study finds a sobering reality about a massive uptick in alcohol consumption. Results of new research publis...

In mid-September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) caused a bit of a hubbub when it posted new guidance on how the COVID-19 virus is transmitted, only to abruptly pull it back a couple of days later. The questionable guidance s...

“It is very scary and it is very real.”  That’s how recovering COVID-19 patient Steve Looney of Kewanee reflects on his journey when he was diagnosed just three days after his wife tested positive. The 57 year-old Looney is a healthy, active gu...

Nationwide, the number of new daily COVID-19 infections continues to rise, spanning every region of the country. It has even reached the highest levels of government with the announcement that the president and first lady have contracted the virus. ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread around the globe, researchers have been hot on its heels, seeing what makes it tick. Among the things they are on the lookout for are any mutations in the genetic make-up of the virus. One mutation that recently re...

If you believe the old adage ‘the way to someone’s heart is through their stomach,’ you might consider this –the stomach also provides a direct route to their brain, or more specifically their mood.  Comfort foods might make us feel good for a mom...

What started as an at-home option to keep kids learning the arts and sciences over the summer has expanded into an on-demand option as students return to school either virtually or in-person. A new series of STEAM at Home programs from Jump Tradin...

As we continue to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s almost time for flu season, which typically runs from October through March. Every year in the United States, upwards of 10-percent of the population gets influenza. That’s roughly 30 million peo...

Every spring, Laura Corpuz and her husband, Rick, return to the Philippines for a month to spend time with family. This year the COVID-19 pandemic, which was just taking hold around the world, stopped their planned March 1 departure. It’s something h...

OSF HealthCare is leveraging what it has learned during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve breast cancer screening among minority and low-income patients. The Health Equity Action Lab (HEAL) and Saint Gabriel Digital Health (SGDH) at the Jump Trading S...

Coming to the hospital for regular lab work can be difficult for some patients. But it can be especially tough during a pandemic. That was certainly the case at the OSF HealthCare Cardiovascular Institute Anticoagulation Clinics, which is a simple, c...

What health care providers know about the COVID-19 virus now compared to when it first hit the US shores 9 months ago is significant. That includes how to treat it. Since the beginning of the pandemic, OSF HealthCare has become more successful at ...

There’s a lot of time, energy and money going into developing a vaccine against COVID-19. Until that happens, health leaders say it’s even more important, particularly for older adults, to get the vaccines that are available.  Approximately 40,000...

OSF HealthCare has expanded its partnership with the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) by providing faculty, staff and students access to personalized support for COVID-19 symptom checking, monitoring and care where they live and when t...

(Editor's note: This story has been updated 8/18/2020 to include a new travel map from the Illinois Department of Public Health to show states and countries that have a higher risk for travel because of COVID-19 case rates). Many airlines are offe...

(Peoria, IL) July 31, 2020 —In the early days of the pandemic, hospitals faced a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), especially N95 respirator masks. As COVID-19 cases rebound across the nation and we face another potential shortage, the...

While interviewing for a job, Jeff Deaver of Pekin, Illinois saw a flyer for one of the STEAM courses offered through OSF Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center even before he was hired as a performance improvement specialist there. He thought,...

If you’re used to blasting away on the treadmill at a 5.0 speed and at least that much of an incline, you might need to re-think your work-out when you return to the gym. For now, gyms in Michigan remain closed due to an appeals court ruling but p...

It’s classified as an elective surgery but anyone impacted by a cataract knows it can have a big impact on daily life. A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of your eye that develops slowly over time and most are age-related. It can affect a person...

Illinois has now passed 6,000 deaths related to COVID-19 and there have been nearly that many in Michigan. Even though some businesses are re-opening, many attractions that would draw crowds remain closed and with good reason, according to OSF Hea...

Seventeen research projects are sharing nearly $800,000 in funding through the Jump ARCHES research and development program. The Jump Applied Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulation (Jump ARCHES) program is a partnership betw...

Medical professionals and public health leaders are frustrated with the debunked conspiracy theories, discredited YouTube clips, and the social sharing of misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. OSF HealthCare Director of Infection Preven...

Editor's note: This story has been updated (7/30/2020) and adds a list of frequently asked questions. Expectant mothers, especially those who’ll be delivering their first baby, already have plenty of questions and fears. Now, the reality they’ll b...

For the past few months, Americans have been using their homes for workspace and classrooms for their children, in an effort to help stop the spread of COVID-19. While there are advantages to being tucked away at home, stay-at-home also has its pi...

Learning at home has become the new norm and as the end of the school year approaches, OSF HealthCare and its partners have created a new Jump STEAM at Home curriculum that will allow for more offerings and expansion of learning for kids beyond Centr...

OSF HealthCare has always made safety job #1 but leaders working on gradually resuming what were deemed non-essential services are re-doubling efforts to keep patients and Mission Partners (employees) safe from infection. The Illinois Department of P...

Mickey Lower of Bloomington is known as “The Zoo Lady,” which is also the name of her face painting business that has been on hold temporarily since Illinois Governor Pritzker issued his “stay-at-home” order March 21. Lower said she went from bein...

While many of us are working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Shannon Egli’s (pronounced EGG-lee) office is his car. Egli is an OSF HealthCare pandemic health worker (PHW). He and his PHW counterparts hit the road every morning to deliver care...