- OSF St. Joseph Medical Center
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OSF St. Joseph Medical Center OSF Healthcare System 
Center for Advanced Medicine at OSF St. Joseph 
Geography Location Bloomington, Illinois, United States Coordinates 40°28′58″N 88°57′22″W / 40.4828°N 88.9561°WCoordinates: 40°28′58″N 88°57′22″W / 40.4828°N 88.9561°W 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]
References
- ^ a b "About Us". OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. Bloomington, Illinois: OSF Healthcare System. http://www.osfstjoseph.org/about/index.html. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
- ^ a b c d "History". OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. Bloomington, Illinois: OSF Healthcare System. http://www.osfstjoseph.org/about/history.html. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
- ^ a b "Central Illinois "Firsts"". OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. Bloomington, Illinois: OSF Healthcare System. http://www.osfstjoseph.org/about/central-illinois-firsts.html. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
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Categories:- Hospitals established in 1880
- 1880 establishments in the United States
- Bloomington, Illinois
- Hospitals in Illinois
- OSF Healthcare
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