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OSF St. Joseph Medical Center is one of six acute care hospitals in Illinois and Michigan. OSF HealthCare is owned and operated by the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, based in Peoria, Il. OSF St. Joseph Medical Center has provided a wide range of health care services to the Bloomington-Normal area since 1880, including outpatient and rehabilitative services, occupational medicine and health services, cardiac surgery, and prevention and diagnostic services. This facility also has a Level II trauma center and PromptCare, a clinic for minor illnesses and injuries with no appointment needed. This hospital has 144 beds, all of which are Adult and/or Pediatric care.

The first superior of St. Joseph's Hospital was Sister M. Augustine Krasse, when she arrived with two others in 1880. They opened the hospital and had their first patient a month later. After 88 years, this medical center opened at its current location.

St. Joseph's hospital had the area's first successful birth by cesarean section, nuclear medicine, hospital laser surgery, coil embolization, and anterior hip surgery.