| OSF St. Joseph Medical Center | |
|---|---|
| OSF Healthcare System | |
 Center for Advanced Medicine at OSF St. Joseph | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 2200 E. Washington St., Bloomington, Illinois, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°28′58″N88°57′22″W / 40.4828°N 88.9561°W |
| Organization | |
| Funding | Non-profit hospital |
| Type | General |
| Services | |
| Standards | Joint Commission (#7248) |
| Emergency department | Level II trauma center |
| Beds | 149 [1] |
| Public transit access |  Connect Transit |
| History | |
| Opened | March 22, 1880 [2] |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.osfstjoseph.org/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in Illinois |
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; [3] the 1990 first open heart surgery; [2] and first "beating heart surgery", in which the heart is not stopped, in 2000. [3]