OSF St. Joseph Medical Center

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
Geography
Location	2200 E. Washington St., Bloomington, Illinois, United States
Coordinates	40.4828°N 88.9561°W / 40.4828; -88.9561
Organization
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	General
Services
Standards	Joint Commission (#7248)
Emergency department	Level II trauma center
Beds	149[1]
History
Opened	March 22, 1880 (1880-03-22)[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]