OSF St. Joseph Medical Center
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OSF St. Joseph Medical Center | |
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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
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Geography | |
Location | Bloomington, Illinois, United States |
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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[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, 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]