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
OSF St. Joseph Medical Center is located in Illinois
OSF St. Joseph Medical Center
Geography
Location2200 E. Washington St., Bloomington, Illinois, United States
Coordinates40°28′58″N 88°57′22″W / 40.4828°N 88.9561°W / 40.4828; -88.9561
Organization
FundingNon-profit hospital
TypeGeneral
Services
StandardsJoint Commission (#7248)
Emergency departmentLevel II trauma center
Beds149[1]
Public transit accessBus transport Connect Transit
History
OpenedMarch 22, 1880 (1880-03-22)[2]
Links
Websitehttp://www.osfstjoseph.org/
ListsHospitals 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. ^ a b "About Us". OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. Bloomington, Illinois: OSF Healthcare System. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d "History". OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. Bloomington, Illinois: OSF Healthcare System. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Central Illinois "Firsts"". OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. Bloomington, Illinois: OSF Healthcare System. Retrieved November 12, 2011.