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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.
Later that year, St. Joseph's Hospital in Bloomington, Illinois, was established, moving in 1968 to its present site today as OSF St. Joseph Medical Center. In 1884, five sisters were sent to Escanaba, Michigan, to begin working at Delta County Hospital. In 1915, the Sisters purchased that hospital and renamed it OSF St. Francis Hospital.
In 1877, the Sisters who had migrated to Peoria were granted permission to form an independent religious community and became "The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, Peoria, Illinois". In 2009 and 2010, the Medical Center built a new emergency room.
Eastlight Theatre will present its 31st annual performance of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1-2 and Dec. 6-9 and 2 p.m. Dec. 3 and Dec. 10, at East Peoria High ...
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria; OSF Saint James - John W. Albrecht Medical Center, Pontiac; OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, Bloomington; OSF Saint Luke Medical Center, Kewanee; OSF St. Mary Medical Center, Galesburg; OSF Saint Paul Medical Center, Mendota; OSF HealthCare Transitional Hospital, Peoria
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Pediatric specialization in Peoria dates back to 1934, when the new pediatrics floor at St. Francis opened with 35 beds. In 1952, construction started on the St. Francis Children's Hospital, which opened in 1954, and occupied two floors of the new three-story building. The new hospital had 114 pediatric beds. [6]
Peoria is the oldest European settlement in Illinois, as explorers first ventured up the Illinois River from the Mississippi. The lands that eventually would become Peoria were first settled by Europeans in 1680, when French explorers René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Henri de Tonti constructed Fort Crevecoeur. [7]