OSF Healthcare System

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As the complexity of health care continues to rise and care models transition from a hospital-​centric focus to population health, OSF HealthCare is making great strides in the successful transformation.

It is our belief that aligned cultures and a shared understanding of the future of health care will enable organizations to bridge this transition successfully and ultimately provide better care to the communities we serve.

History

Established in 1880.

The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis were founded in Peoria on July 16, 1877, by Mother M. Frances Krasse, O.S.F., and Bishop John Lancaster Spalding.

Property was obtained in 1877 for St. Francis Hospital, which is the present day site of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. On January 2, 1880, the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis not-​for-​profit corporation was incorporated.

Later that year, St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bloomington, Illinois, was established, moving in 1968 to its present site today as OSF St. Joseph Medical Center.

In 1884, five sisters were sent to Escanaba, Michigan, to begin working at Delta County Hospital. In 1915, the Sisters purchased that hospital and renamed it OSF St. Francis Hospital.

By then, the Sisters were already operating St. Anthony Hospital, which they established in Rockford, Illinois, in 1899. The hospital in Rockford moved in 1963 to a new facility as present day OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center.