| OSF St. Joseph Medical Center | |
| Org/Group: | OSF Healthcare System |
| Image Alt: | 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. |
| Map Type: | Illinois |
| Coordinates: | 40.4828°N -88.9561°W |
| State: | Illinois |
| Country: | US |
| Address: | 2200 E. Washington St. |
| Funding: | Non-profit |
| Type: | General |
| Standards: | Joint Commission (
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| Emergency: | II |
| Beds: | 149 |
| Publictransit: | Connect Transit |
| Website: | http://www.osfstjoseph.org/ |
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; the 1990 first open heart surgery;[2] and first "beating heart surgery", in which the heart is not stopped, in 2000.[3]