2021
January
14,
2021
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10:03 AM
America/Chicago
Implementing safe, secure and easy-to-use telehealth solutions is becoming increasingly important, especially as rural hospitals strive to provide expert care with limited resources. Hospitals face challenges to adopting new technology, but recent co...
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2020
November
17,
2020
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16:10 PM
America/Chicago
Even before the first cases of COVID-19 hit the United States, leaders in medical education at the Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria (UICOMP) and at OSF HealthCare’s Jump Education and Simulation Center in Peoria were preparing better ways to te...
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September
24,
2020
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14:58 PM
America/Chicago
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...
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September
15,
2020
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12:32 PM
America/Chicago
Middle ear infections are the leading cause of hearing loss, surgery and antibiotic use, especially in children who are misdiagnosed up to half of the time using the current technology. Knowing there is a need for better tools to diagnose and treat e...
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August
31,
2020
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15:24 PM
America/Chicago
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...
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August
12,
2020
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20:20 PM
America/Chicago
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...
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August
04,
2020
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15:33 PM
America/Chicago
(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...
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July
30,
2020
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12:23 PM
America/Chicago
Sometimes seeing is believing. That’s what Shannon Egli hopes when it comes to how contaminating a cough can be.
“It’s just people learning about the bacteria that’s in their environment and how it can affect them. And even though you can’t see it...
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July
10,
2020
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10:02 AM
America/Chicago
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,...
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June
09,
2020
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16:26 PM
America/Chicago
OSF HealthCare announces the opening of its newest OSF Urgo location at 853 W. Jackson Plaza in Morton, Illinois. This is the 14th urgent care clinic operated by OSF HealthCare, and the fifth in the Peoria area, with other clinics in Peoria, East Peo...
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June
08,
2020
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16:38 PM
America/Chicago
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...
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May
14,
2020
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13:28 PM
America/Chicago
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...
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April
28,
2020
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13:19 PM
America/Chicago
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...
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April
21,
2020
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18:03 PM
America/Chicago
First-Light USA, manufacturer of portable, tactical lighting solutions, is excited to announce the delivery of thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer to OSF HealthCare. In response to immediate needs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the First-Li...
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April
11,
2020
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14:45 PM
America/Chicago
OSF HealthCare is launching a Pandemic Health Worker Program (PHWP) that will serve individuals with COVID-19 symptoms. Through a contract with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the PHWP is designed to protect the well-being ...
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April
10,
2020
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12:02 PM
America/Chicago
OSF Ventures, the corporate investment arm of OSF HealthCare, joined in a $16 million Series B funding round in SilverCloud Health, provider of accessible, scalable, digital behavioral health care solutions. Funding will be used to expand the Ireland...
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March
27,
2020
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13:52 PM
America/Chicago
OSF HealthCare has launched a Pandemic Response Fundraising campaign to ensure it is successful in the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. OSF has taken unprecedented measures to respond to the outbreak, including the launch of d...
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February
25,
2020
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16:01 PM
America/Chicago
Governor J.B. Pritzker lauded OSF HealthCare for leading the way in digital health care transformation through its telehealth program that has delivered care to 70,000 patients in just the last three months of 2019. Pritzker visited OSF HealthCare’s ...
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February
13,
2020
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09:57 AM
America/Chicago
Third year medical student Caroline Lewis still remembers what it felt like when she suffered what she thought was a life-changing injury at age 15 while playing basketball in high school. The University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria (UICOM...
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February
12,
2020
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15:05 PM
America/Chicago
Technology hub will support 48,000 new economy jobs, with $19 billion economic impact over the next 10 years
University of Illinois Board of Trustees Chairman Edwards and his wife also give $10 Million to University,
half of which will go to IIN ...
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January
23,
2020
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09:32 AM
America/Chicago
Fourteen research projects are sharing $1.9 million in funding through the Jump ARCHES research and development program. The Jump Applied Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulation (Jump ARCHES), is a partnership between OSF Hea...
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2019
December
09,
2019
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13:52 PM
America/Chicago
A pilot program using the LifeFlow® device to rapidly infuse septic pediatric patients with fluids is showing promising results and OSF HealthCare will likely expand use to include children who are experiencing low blood pressure because of trauma, s...
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November
20,
2019
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16:59 PM
America/Chicago
When a patient recently came into an OSF HealthCare rural health care clinic with stomach issues, it turns out, there was a lot more going on than just a simple stomach ache.
Physician Assistant Mandy Robinson learned from a new screening tool tha...
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November
19,
2019
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11:04 AM
America/Chicago
OSF HealthCare Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of The Charles and Sue Thomas Autism Endowment for Innovative Solutions, made possible through a $1 million gift from Charles and Sue Thomas, from Rockford, Ill.
The gift will enable gr...
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November
04,
2019
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17:21 PM
America/Chicago
Governor J.B. Pritzker today joined leaders from around Greater Peoria to celebrate the Peoria Innovation Hub, a world-class innovation facility coming to downtown Peoria. The Peoria Innovation Hub, funded through a $10 million grant that is part of ...
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October
30,
2019
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11:36 AM
America/Chicago
Companies such as 23andme and Ancestory.com are becoming more popular as people begin to consider how genetics can influence their health. But providers, including OSF HealthCare, are paying much more attention to a patient’s zip code these days.
...
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October
28,
2019
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12:06 PM
America/Chicago
OSF Ventures has joined four other organizations this week in supporting Series ‘A’ funding of $7.3 million for Washington, DC-based health care technology start-up Socially Determined which offers data analytics to identify patients who face barrier...
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September
18,
2019
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14:25 PM
America/Chicago
BrightWater Medical, Inc. (BrightWater), the manufacturer of a groundbreaking stent, announced that it has successfully completed the sale of the organization to Utahbased Merit Medical Systems, Inc. OSF Ventures has been at the forefront with Bright...
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September
18,
2019
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10:02 AM
America/Chicago
Dr. Bob Smouse, an interventional radiologist from Dunlap, Illinois turned medical start-up CEO, says partnering with OSF Ventures helped him take an idea scrawled on a napkin to development of a device that will help patients across the globe with t...
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August
16,
2019
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11:30 AM
America/Chicago
Students hand-selected from across the curriculum at the University of Illinois in Chicago are advancing innovative solutions to solve the loneliness epidemic, particularly for older rural residents and they’ve come up with a solution for bringing th...
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