OSF Saint Francis Medical Center

OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, located in Peoria, Illinois, United States, is a teaching hospital[1] for the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria and part of the OSF Healthcare System.[2] 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.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

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
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
Opened	1876
Links
Website	http://www.osfsaintfrancis.org/
Lists	Hospitals in Illinois

It is the largest Level I trauma center for adults and children between the Chicago, Rockford and St. Louis metropolitan area. It is the fourth largest hospital in all of Illinois.[10]

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 & Education Center is used for bioengineering, biochemical research, research on new devices and tissues and grafts, and medical and nursing and bioengineering training.[11]

The hospital made national and international headlines in the health care field on April 9, 2013, when a toddler, Hannah Warren, about 3, from South Korea (born to a Canadian father and South Korean mother) who was born without a trachea (a windpipe) received an artificial trachea that incorporated, with the plastic, her own living stem cells (the adult type), in the first bio-engineered transplant on a child in the U.S. and the first bio-engineered trachea transplant in the world. It is the first stem cell procedure of any kind at the Catholic medical center. The major 11-hour surgical procedure was led by Dr. Paolo Macchiarini of Sweden's Karolinska Institute, along with top surgical and medical officials from OSF.[12] However, she died three months later from complications.[13][14]