Saint Anthony Medical Center

Name :

Saint Anthony Medical Center

Address  :

5666 East State Street

Town  :

Rockford

State  :

Illinois

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

61108

Phone  :

815 226 2000

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

info@osfhealth.com

Description

About OSF Saint Anthony
OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center is a 254bed tertiary care facility located on a 100acre campus near Interstate 90 and US Business 20 in Rockford Illinois We are a regional medical center known for providing pioneering care in our Level I Trauma Center Cardiovascular Services Center for Cancer Care Illinois Neurological Institute and Womens Center

History

History
In 1899 six Sisters of The Third Order of Saint Francis arrived in Rockford with little more than their deep faith and a desire to serve Called to the growing city by community leaders to start a hospital the Sisters were aided by real estate agent William Crotty who raised a public subscription of 12000 to purchase the Schmauss home at the corner of East State and Summit streets Crotty persuaded local merchants and civic leaders to donate furniture and supplies for the new hospital The hospital officially opened its doors August 18 1899

It quickly grew with the first of many expansions occurring in 1902 To help meet the medical needs of the community the Sisters opened the Saint Anthony School of Nursing in 1915 Since then more than 2700 of its students have graduated and joined the nursing profession Now the Saint Anthony College of Nursing offers a communitybased baccalaureate program with clinically intensive hospital ambulatory home health and other clinical specialty experiences

OSF Saint Anthony is a 254bed tertiary care facility on a 100acre campus on the east side of Rockford Patients from a 10county area come to us for services including the Level I Trauma Center Regional Heart Institute Illinois Neurosciences Institute Center for Cancer Care the OSF Diabetes Center Center for Sports Medicine and Health Fitness and leading edge orthopedic services

OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center is a member of OSF HealthCare an affiliate corporation of The Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis From 2002 to 2005 consumers in Winnebago Boone and Ogle counties selected OSF Saint Anthony as their preferred hospital in a survey conducted by National Research Corporation

OSF Saint Anthony currently has more than 2000 employees more than 200 active and associate medical staff and more than 200 physicians with courtesy admitting privileges Everyone who is part of the OSF Saint Anthony family is dedicated to provide healthcare with love compassion and respect Those who work at OSF Saint Anthony are the best people in healthcare in the region because of their commitment to serving those in need

OSF Saint Anthony also reaches out to serve those who cannot visit our campus Our offcampus services include the Center for Home Care which serves people in nine northern Illinois counties The OSF Saint Anthony Parish Nurse program brings counsel health education and consultation to medically underserved residents in the Rockford and Belvidere communities Three Parish Nurses based at seven churches of various denominations offer a variety of free services to people who live in underserved areas

In 1981 OSF Saint Anthony established the Lifeline Emergency Helicopter Service the first hospitalbased emergency helicopter service in the region and one of the first 20 established in the United States Lifeline is a vital service assisting emergency personnel in the region with transporting patients from accident scenes and serving smaller community hospitals with transfers to tertiary centers In 2005 Lifeline logged 654 transports

Innovative firsts for the Rockford area performed by the physicians affiliated with OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center include openheart and beating heart bypass surgeries innovative valvereplacement cardiac surgery implantable cardiac defibrillators total hip replacement surgeries brachytherapy radiation therapy for prostate and lung cancer implantable painrelief devices and the use of Integra artificial skin for burn patients

Recent medical firsts at OSF Saint Anthony include artificial spine disc replacement MicroMaze cardiac surgery transmyocardial laser revascularization TMR intraoperative cerebral angiograms MammoSite breast cancer treatment balloon kyphoplasty to treat spinal fractures 3dimensional CT scans that provide fast diagnosis of cardiovascular and neurological diseases and new technology that improves total knee replacement surgery

In December 2004 OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center became the first medical center in Rockford and the 90th in the nation to achieve accreditation as a Chest Pain Center This elite threeyear accreditation is given by the Society of Chest Pain Centers Accreditation is earned by medical centers with emergency departments that are able to provide a fullspectrum of emergency cardiac care rapid diagnosis and fast track treatment

In January 2005 OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvements 100000 Lives Campaign the firstever national campaign to save 100000 lives by implementing proven healthcare improvement techniques The campaign has been endorsed by such distinguished healthcare organizations as the American Medical Association the American Nurses Association the Centers for Medicare amp Medicaid Services and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

In May 2005 OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center became the first medical center in Rockford to earn the prestigious Magnet designation Magnet status is the highest recognition for nursing excellence available in the United States Magnet designation is awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center ANCC a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association Of more than 6400 hospitals in the United States fewer than 150 elite medical centers have earned Magnet status

For more than 100 years we have remained true to the Mission of the Sisters quotIn the Spirit of Christ and the example of Francis of Assisi the Mission of OSF HealthCare is to serve persons with the greatest care and love in a community that celebrates lifequot