OSF St. Joseph Medical Center

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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."About Us". OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. Bloomington, Illinois: OSF Healthcare System. Archived from the original on September 24, 2011. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  2. 2.[2.2][2.3]"History". OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. Bloomington, Illinois: OSF Healthcare System. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  3. 3.[3.2]"Central Illinois "Firsts"". OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. Bloomington, Illinois: OSF Healthcare System. Archived from the original on January 19, 2012. Retrieved November 12, 2011.