OSF St. Joseph Medical Center
Hospital in Illinois, United States
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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]
| OSF St. Joseph Medical Center | |
|---|---|
| OSF Healthcare System | |
Center for Advanced Medicine at OSF St. Joseph | |
  Location within Illinois | |
| Geography | |
| Location | 2200 E. Washington St., Bloomington, Illinois, United States |
| Coordinates | 40.4828°N 88.9561°W |
| Organization | |
| Type | General |
| Services | |
| Standards | Joint Commission (#7248) |
| Level II trauma center | |
| Beds | 149[1] |
| History | |
| Founded | March 22, 1880[2] |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.osfstjoseph.org/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in Illinois |
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]