OSF St. Joseph Medical Center

OSF St. Joseph Medical Center
OSF Healthcare System

A driveway with a covered pedestrian crossing leads to automatic sliding doors with a sign above reading "Center for Advanced Medicine"; behind the entranceway, a small cylindrical glass and steel atrium leading to a brick building.

Center for Advanced Medicine at OSF St. Joseph
Geography
Location 2200 E. Washington St., Bloomington, Illinois, United States
Coordinates 40°28′58″N 88°57′22″W / 40.4828°N 88.9561°W / 40.4828; -88.9561Coordinates: 40°28′58″N 88°57′22″W / 40.4828°N 88.9561°W / 40.4828; -88.9561
Organization
Funding Non-profit hospital
Hospital type General
Services
Standards Joint Commission (#7248)
Emergency department Level II trauma center
Beds 149[1]
History
Founded March 22, 1880 (1880-03-22)[2]
Links
Website http://www.osfstjoseph.org/
Lists Hospitals in Illinois

OSF St. Joseph Medical Center is a 149-bed Level II trauma center hospital complex in Bloomington, Illinois, USA, and is part of the OSF Healthcare System.[1]

St. Joseph Hospital accepted its first patient on 1880. The original hospital was a two-story brick mansion on Jackson Street. The current site on East Washington Street was opened in the 1960s.[2]

Among the hospital's claims of firsts in central Illinois were the first successful Caesarian section birth;[2] the 1929 first blood transfusion; first successful radiation therapy in the 1940s;[3] the 1990 first open heart surgery;[2] and first "beating heart surgery", in which the heart is not stopped, in 2000.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "About Us". OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. Bloomington, Illinois: OSF Healthcare System. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "History". OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. Bloomington, Illinois: OSF Healthcare System. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Central Illinois "Firsts"". OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. Bloomington, Illinois: OSF Healthcare System. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
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