Articles tagged with 'innovate' | OSF HealthCare

OSF Innovation and its partners at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria (UICOMP) and Illinois State University (ISU) in Normal, Illinois, have received a federal Human Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) grant of $10,000 to co...

The Illinois Department of Health and Family Services (HFS) has announced that $750 million in funding is being made available over a five year period to focus on community needs, with an emphasis on addressing social and structural determinants of h...

OSF Ventures joined a $43 million Series B investment in Current Health, provider of a remote care management platform that can empower health systems to monitor and manage patient care at home – thereby shortening patient hospital stays, reducing re...

Seven research projects are sharing slightly more than $400,000 in funding through the Jump ARCHES research and development program to address challenges and expand on lessons learned about COVID-19 vaccinations and testing.The Jump ARCHES program is...

Despite the availability of free routine immunizations for low-income families through a federal program, many children are not vaccinated, vaccinated late for their age, or don’t complete the course of the immunization schedule. OSF HealthCare wants...

Thirteen research projects are sharing nearly $970,000 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 betwe...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 (HEAL) Lab and OSF Digital Health (SGDH) at the Jump Trading Simulation ...

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...

(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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...