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OSF SAINT
FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, with 710 licensed
beds and 550 staffed beds, is the primary teaching
hospital for the University of Illinois College of
Medicine at Peoria. It is the major referral center for
a 23-county region in north-central Illinois. OSF Saint
Francis serves as both a primary care community hospital
for metropolitan Peoria as well as a tertiary care
center complete with Level I trauma services and Level
Ill intensive care units. OSF Saint Francis is the 3rd
largest Medical Center in Illinois with 5,000 employees
and supports 9 residency programs.
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THE ILLINOIS NEUROLOGICAL
INSTITUTE
The
Illinois Neurological Institute is organized as a
hospital within a hospital at the major teaching
hospital of the University of Illinois at Peoria, Saint
Francis Medical Center. In this role it is the major
clinical facility for the residencies in neurology,
neurosurgery, and the fellowships in vascular neurology,
neuroradiology, and spinal neurosurgery.
The
Institute has 75 adult beds including a 22 bed intensive
care and step down unit and all pediatric patients are
cared for in the Children’s Hospital of Illinois,
included in the Saint Francis Campus. The service has
two dedicated newly constructed operating rooms and two
interventional biplane neuro-interventional suites. The
Radiosurgery service has a Gamma Knife, a Varian
Trilogy, and access to a CyberKnife for a full
complement of Radiosurgery of brain and spine.
The
Institute is staffed by 15 neurologists, 8 neurology
residents, a stroke fellow, 7 neurosurgeons, 6
neurosurgery residents, five neuroradiologists, two of
whom are interventionalists, a neuroradiology fellow,
three physiatrists, two radiation oncologists, three
physists, a neuropathologist, and there is an active
group of seven associated PhD scientists in the brain
tumor biology section at the College of Medicine. There
are over 50 faculty and residents, an approximately 400
staff in the INI.
Construction is beginning on a 120,000 sq ft INI
outpatient care center on campus that will provide a
very effective integrated patient care center for the
neurosurgery, neurology, neuroradiology, and physiatry
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