OSF Saint Francis Medical Center

OSF Saint Francis Medical Center
OSF Healthcare System
2006 expansion (The Milestone Project), looking northwest (new ER and children's hospital completed 2010)
Geography
Location	Peoria, Illinois, United States
Coordinates	40°42′10″N 89°35′28″W / 40.70278°N 89.59111°W / 40.70278; -89.59111Coordinates: 40°42′10″N 89°35′28″W / 40.70278°N 89.59111°W / 40.70278; -89.59111
Organization
Care system	Charity (extensive source of area discounted or pro-bono care)
Affiliated university	Saint Francis College of Nursing, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Services
Emergency department	Level I trauma center (adult and pediatric)
Beds	616
History
Founded	1876
Links
Website	http://www.osfsaintfrancis.org/
Lists	Hospitals in Illinois

OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, located in Peoria, Illinois, United States, is a teaching hospital for the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria and part of the OSF Healthcare System. The Center, which is the largest hospital in the Peoria metropolitan area and in central Illinois, is designated by the state of Illinois as the Level I adult and pediatric regional trauma center for a 26-county region in mid-Illinois. OSF Saint Francis owns the Children's Hospital of Illinois (though the Hospital has its own President), the OSF Saint Francis Heart Hospital, the Illinois Neurological Institute, and the OSF Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing, which are all located either in or near the Medical Center. The hospital is a clinical training hospital for many medical students, interns, residents, and fellows of the Peoria campus of the University of Illinois College of Medicine.

It is the largest Level I trauma center for adults and children between the Chicago and Rockford metropolitan areas and the St. Louis metropolitan area. It is the fourth largest hospital in all of Illinois.

The hospital offers adult and pediatric renal transplantation and adult pancreatic transplantation; most of the time, adult, and especially, pediatric, cardiac transplantation cases are referred to tertiary care academic medical transplantation centers in Chicago or St. Louis, though there are facilities and surgeons and physicians available for cardiac transplantation at the Center's Heart Institute and at the Children's Hospital, and they have been performed there repeatedly. The hospital offers advanced burn care, hyperbaric, and debridement and grafting services for both children and adults, and sometimes, if need be, can transfer very severe cases to the certified state burn units in Springfield, Chicago or St. Louis.

The Center's new Jump Trading Simulation Institute is used for bioengineering, biochemical research, research on new devices and tissues and grafts, and medical and nursing and bioengineering training.