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OSF HealthCare and Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers have entered into a period of exclusive negotiations, anticipating a full merger. The two organizations will spend the next several months finalizing agreements and seeking th...

OSF HealthCare Cardiovascular Institute is proud to welcome baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew to Peoria for an afternoon of family fun. The public is invited to this free event on Saturday, August 24 from 12:30-4:00 p.m. at the Louisville Slugger Spor...

OSF HealthCare Holy Family Medical Center has named Jackie Kernan, RN, MSN, as its next president. Kernan will also continue to serve as president of OSF HealthCare Saint Luke Medical Center in Kewanee. Kernan will be responsible for directing all...

Wednesday OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center held a blessing and groundbreaking ceremony for a new chapel at the hospital. The $1.2 million chapel project has been funded entirely by the generous donors within the Bloomington-Normal communit...

Kids in central Illinois will have a chance to show off their athletic prowess and raise money for multiple sclerosis research and outreach at the same time. Tri 2 Beat MS is a triathlon created specifically for children, to foster a healthy lifes...

Galesburg, IL (May 17, 2019)-For the second time this month, OSF HealthCare St. Mary Medical Center has received excellence in patient safety. The latest acknowledgement comes from Healthgrades, the leading online resource for information about physi...

New Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades have been announced by The Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization for patient safety. Hospitals are assigned A, B, C, D and F letter grades in order to provide a complete picture of patient safety.   ...

Becker’s Hospital Review, a respected national health care industry publication, has named four OSF HealthCare hospitals to its list of 67 Critical Access Hospitals to Know in 2019. Critical access hospitals are in rural areas but offer 24/7 emerg...

OSF HealthCare has achieved international recognition for its leadership development program. At this year’s global conference of the Association of Internal Management Consultants (AIMC), the executive leadership development and succession team from...

Substance use disorders affect every community, neighborhood and income level. Addiction is a widely spreading epidemic across the nation. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, more than 130 people in the United States die after overdosi...

Eleven research projects are sharing nearly $810,600 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 He...

OSF HealthCare Illinois Neurological Institute has been named a Huntington’s Disease Center of Excellence by the Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HSDA). The HSDA Centers of Excellence provide an elite team approach to Huntington’s disease car...

A selection committee is looking to purchase art to enhance the healing environment of the new Moeller Cancer Center at OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony’s Health Center in Alton, Illinois. The Center is expected to open this fall. There are criteria (...

Five rural hospitals within the OSF HealthCare Ministry have received national recognition for excellence among all rural hospitals in the nation. The Chartis Center of Rural Health and the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (N...

OSF HealthCare has officially welcomed Danville Polyclinic offices, providers and staff to the OSF HealthCare Ministry. Danville Polyclinic physician offices at 707 N. Logan Avenue in Danville are now part of the OSF HealthCare Ministry, and dozens o...

Sara Umphfleet, RD, LDN, Clinical Dietitian at OSF HealthCare Saint Luke Medical Center has been selected as the 2019 Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year by the Illinois Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The award was presented at the Illinois A...

In 2018, OSF HealthCare reached new levels of service, seeking new and different ways to meet the needs of the patients, families and communities who rely on us for care. The groundwork that was laid in 2018 is serving as a strong foundation for...

A new collaboration between Peoria, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare and Redox, based in Madison, Wisconsin, will allow the health system to effectively integrate pilot programs and deploy digital health solutions to improve health for OSF HealthCare co...

OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony’s Health Center is continuing to follow through on its promise to bring additional, high-quality care to more convenient locations in the RiverBend with an announcement of a new rehabilitation center in Alton Square Mall....

OSF HealthCare has marked another way it is investing in the communities it serves with the latest unveiling of signage on the main gallery at the Jacoby Arts Center in downtown Alton, Illinois which now bears the name of OSF Saint Anthony’s Gallery....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recognizing OSF HealthCare Holy Family Medical Center as meeting all requirements of its evidence-based Diabetes Prevention Program. The full recognition acknowledges OSF Holy Family is meeting the st...

OSF HealthCare Saint James – John W. Albrecht Medical Center in Pontiac announces it has been named one of the Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals in the United States by The Chartis Center for Rural Health. Regarded as one of the industry’s most sig...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois has recognized OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center with a Blue Distinction Centers for Cardiac Care designation, as part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program. Blue Distinction Centers are national...

As part of its commitment to social justice and to positively impact the experience and livelihood of its current and future workforce, OSF HealthCare is raising the minimum wage for its workers to $12 an hour, effective February 24, 2019. Appro...

Frank Abagnale, renowned cybersecurity and fraud prevention expert, bestselling author, and the subject of the Steven Spielberg movie “Catch Me If You Can” says his early life as a con artist began at age 16, when he was asked to pick which parent he...

Premier Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), a leading healthcare improvement company, today announced a company it has established to help ensure health systems have continuous and affordable access to shortage medications, as well as those in categories that lack ...

OSF HealthCare and CORE Construction have signed a Letter of Intent to formalize a partnership between the two that will help achieve new efficiencies benefitting communities served by OSF HealthCare. Pending state approval, the new joint venture,...

Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center (MVRBC) has been designated by OSF HealthCare to provide blood and blood components to 11 of the health system’s facilities. MVRBC is already the exclusive provider to five OSF HealthCare facilities. This chan...

Celebrities today are owning up to having some level of bladder control issues. Katy Perry, Kate Winslet, Tony Romo and Kris Kardashian are among the celebrities admitting to having mild to more serious forms of incontinence, a problem of accidental ...

Peoria, IL- An OSF HealthCare campaign among five hospitals to keep non-working Christmas lights out of the landfill was incredibly successful, resulting in diverting one-and-a-half tons from the waste stream. It is estimated household waste incre...